My son.....

Tommy just "passed gas" and said "Oh a butt burp!"HAHAHHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! That one is going in the baby book for sure!!

almost

I am almost ready for the "after" pictures of our living room. We are finishing getting everything moved back in. We are now on the hunt for a new entertainment center and possibly a new tv. Definitely a new entertainment center tho. We bought the one we have when we moved into this house. We both really liked it and were happy with it....for about the first 6 months. After that the vainer started peeling away and now 4 years and 2 kids later, it really looks bad. We want REAL wood. So I am off to search craigslist for a new one. :)

I'll admit it.......

I used to (and still do) love Hootie and the Blowfish. Ok. There, I said it. It's ok, I will wait while you make fun.... :P Now Darius Rucker (aka - Hootie) has gone solo and I LOVE HIM! I think he has one of the best underrated voices ever. He is a bit cheesy, but I like cheese! :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etr7UtnUflM


And, into the way back machine...my favorie Hootie song....

Back Online

Whew! The past several days have been busy! Our living room is almost done. I have taken pictures of the progress, but I will have to post them later when I have a all done picture. We still need to finish the trim so we can move all of our furniture back in here. I can't wait for it to all be finished! The stairs still need to be done, but at least the living room part is done. YAY!

Do you have a bed time?

I don't. I should, but I don't. I usually end up staying up WAY too late. If I am in bed by 11pm, that is rare. I have always been a night person. Even when I was in school, I was always tired during the day because I would stay up so late.

One of my *many* goals as a wife and mom, is to get up before everyone else and make a hot breakfast. I want to do this because 1) I would love time in the morning to just sit in silence and maybe read my bible and drink some coffee or something and 2) I just think a hot breakfast everyday is something that my family would greatly appreciate.

So far, that hasn't really happened. Hubby leaves for work at 7am. So I would have to get up around 6am to really have time to cook something so that he would have time to eat before he leaves. UHG, that is early for me. During the summer, I usually stay in bed until Tommy gets up. Trent has always been a early riser, and he just watches TV until I get up no problem. I just need to go to bed earlier. My goal is have kids to bed by 9pm, spend and hour with Hubby watching the news or whatever, then shower at 10pm and be asleep by 11pm. Usually I end up showering at 11 and in bed by 12, then laying awake forever. I don't ever feel like I get enough sleep, so maybe actually getting to bed at a decent time would help that.

My Menu

Monday ~ Hot dogs, baked beans, corn on the cob
Tuesday ~ Shrimp Alfredo (I didn't make this last week because we ended up having dinner at a friend's house), green beans, garlic bread
Wednesday ~ Beef Gyros
Thursday ~ Chicken Enchiladas, refried beans
Friday ~ Pizza on the grill

I'm not sure what is happening this weekend. Hopefully we will be working on our house so I don't know how much cooking will be done.


Check out more yummy menus at Orgjunkie.com

Progress perhaps??

OK. We finally might be making some progress. Finally......

A floor guy came and measured for carpet to get a quote. We asked him to also give us a quote for the laminate flooring. We want laminate and were planning on just paying the difference. Well he called back and said there was a $1400 difference! The majority of that is for labor. We decided not to do it. We could swing the difference, but didn't want to. So we told him we would just go with carpet. Neither of us want carpet and we were disappointed....

Well then Hubby had an idea. We are getting a check from the insurance for the work that needs to be done on the floor/wall, and also for carpet including labor. Well......why not just have the contractor fix the floor/wall, then we could buy the laminate and put it in ourselves. Yes, that is going to be time consuming and all of that, BUT it's what we want. So I think that is what we are going to do. My parents have offered (well I begged a little) to help us. They did most of their house themselves, so they know what they are doing. I am very excited to see the finished room! I am sooooo over my living room looking like a remodeling project!

This week's menu

I haven't cooked since Wednesday! YIKES!! With the holiday parties, and me being soo sick, I'm ready to get back in the kitchen!


MONDAY ~ Tacos
TUESDAY ~ Shrimp Alfredo
WEDNESDAY ~ Tater tot Casserole
THURSDAY ~ Biscuits & Gravy
FRIDAY ~ out
SATURDAY ~ BBQ Fajitas
SUNDAY ~ Buffalo Chicken Sandwiches

For more dinner ideas, head on over to orgjunkie.com

Question

How do you make your car and home smell pretty WITHOUT the use of any kind of air fresheners/oils/candles (they all bug Trent and my sinuses really bad)? I just want a fresh smell.

JUST FIX IT ALREADY!!!!

For real, how long have we sat with big hole in our floor?? We are STILL waiting. It took forever for the insurance adjuster guy (we call him "gun show" LOL) to do the paper work and get it sent in. Then there was a discrepancy with the carpet. Basically the builder guy quoted a higher price than "gun show" did. So they had to keep playing phone tag with each other to work out the difference, or whatever. Seriously the hold up is the stupid carpet?!?! Let's fix the hole while we are waiting, shall we??? Anyhoo, a carpet guy is coming over here today to assess the carpet and see what the actual quote will be. I hate dealing with insurance! I just want my living room back!