Promised Pictures

Feeding the goats at Deanna Rose.

Playing with the new slide grandpa and grandma bought him!

Playing in his pool.

Going out to eat.

"Hmmm. What's good here?!"

Messy mouth from the cookies grandpa and grandma brought.

I'm No Pioneer Woman

We have air conditioning people!!! Woohoo!

This morning as I was using hot water to wash sheets and towels in my washer and dryer without any air conditioning I thought about how blessed I am to live in these times. I've always been fascinated by the pioneering time in history - but I'm sure glad I don't live in a time without air conditioning, running water, electricity, etc.

Today was rather uneventful. Just trying to put the house back together after our painting "party."

I was going to post cute pictures of Munchkin that his grandma took while she and Hubby's dad were here this weekend, but blogger is having issues and won't let me do it. So I guess you'll have to wait til tomorrow.

Sorry for the boring post today. Pictures will be coming tomorrow!

Busy Busy Busy

Wow! I haven't posted in a long time. Just so you know, we're fine. We've just been super busy. Here's a brief summary of the past few days.

Thursday Munchkin and I went out to lunch with my sister-in-law. She and my brother have moved much closer to us and we were planning on seeing them for at least a day this weekend at their new house. It was so much fun being able to go to lunch with her as before we rarely got to see each other.

After lunch, Munchkin and I came home to a broken air conditioner. The house was quickly getting warm, so I put on hold all the cleaning I was planning on doing. No, the air conditioner still isn't fixed. But it is supposed to be tomorrow. The guy should be here between 1 and 3. Please say a quick prayer if you get the chance.

Thursday night Hubby, Munchkin and I went to Lowe's tp buy paint as we painted our kitchen and dining room Friday and Saturday. We got home later than expected from that and did as much prep work as we could on those two rooms until 1:30 a.m.

Friday we finished prep work and got the first coat of paint on by the bedtime. Hubby's parents came to take care of Munchkin while we worked. It was even more tiring since we were working in the heat all day. This was the day we learned we wouldn't have air until Tuesday.

Saturday we finished painting, but because it was so humid in our house, it took longer than usual for the paint to dry. Therefore, while taking the tape off, some paint started peeling off the wall because it was still too wet. We did the best job that we could, but rushed a bit to go to my brother's new house. We decided to stay there for the rest of the weekend because they had air conditioning.

So the past two days we've been helping them get settled (and Hubby got to play some golf). We are back home tonight and I'm going crazy trying to get the house put back together. Thankfully it is cool here tonight so it is comfortable inside.

I feel like it has been a whirlwind of a weekend. The paint looks great and we couldn't have done it without Hubby's parents' help. I'm waiting to post before and after pictures once I get my new drapes up, so you'll have to wait awhile longer.

I'll try to be more diligent about posting this week. I'll definitely have to let you know if we get air conditioning back up and running tomorrow!

Ode to Summer

Auntie D. (my sister) came over early to get some play time in before she and I went out for the evening. We got some play time in the sprinkler - Munchkin's first outdoor water experience this summer! I think it will only be a matter of time before I get him a pool.

Here he is with Auntie D.

While I was out tonight with Auntie D., Munchkin played outside with Hubby. You can see they had good times with the wagon and if you look closely you can see some sidewalk chalk art on our patio!

Don't you just love how green the grass is! Munchkin just LOVES being outside. He'd probably live out there if we let him. I'm hoping to actually get a tan this year because I'll be outside with him so much. He is already starting to get a little bit of a farmer's tan.

Tonight I had lots of fun with my sister buying fabric for new curtains for our dining room and kitchen. We also looked at paint colors for both rooms. I may post a picture of some "teasers" in the next couple of days so you can get an idea of what the rooms will look like.

Birthday

Today is my birthday! And what a wonderful day it was.

This morning before Hubby went to work we had some family play time after Munchkin woke up. This morning Munchkin played while I got work done in the kitchen.

After lunch we both took a nap and then spent the rest of the afternoon outside. We were still outside when Hubby got home from work. Then, the three of us went out to dinner and stopped by Sheridan's for some frozen custard.

Tonight we had more play time and Hubby did some measuring in our dining room and kitchen. We are hopefully going to be doing some painting this weekend and I'm buying fabric for some curtains. My sister agreed to make me new curtains for my birthday. I am meeting her tomorrow night to have some sister bonding! We haven't had a lot of that since Munchkin was born. Just me and sissie are going out to dinner and then she is going to help me pick out a color to paint our kitchen.

We didn't do any painting when we moved into our house for a couple of reasons: when we moved in we didn't know what we wanted because it was our first house, and I was finishing my Master's degree when we moved in so I didn't have time to pick out paint colors.

I'll hopefully post before and after pictures once painting is done.

Thank you to everyone who mailed me cards, called, emailed and texted me birthday wishes. I am so blessed to have each of you in my life. It has been an absolutely wonderful day.

My Own Personal Rain Cloud

Remember how I mentioned I have a history with stormy weather? I thought I would write a post about it. I won't go into every detail because I could go on and on.

It all started in high school. Our town has a fair every August. One night it was storming, so my sister and I came home. Our parents were supposed to be home soon, but my sister and I were a little worried because the storm was so bad. From the bathroom window you can see the road so my sister was looking out the window watching for them. Also out that window you could see our pool. My sister yelled at me saying our pool was gone! Gone?! Yep, that's right. A pool full of water just disappeared! We found bits and pieces of it around our yard the next day - but that was quite the storm.

Next, the Sunday before finals week my sophomore year of college I was in my dorm room playing games on the computer procrastinating and not writing a final paper for one of my classes. My roommate was somewhere else on campus, so I had the music blaring. Thankfully I heard a knock on the door and it was another person in our dorm knocking on doors making sure people knew the tornado sirens were going off and we needed to go to the basement. I made my way to the basement, and it is a good thing I did. A tornado ended up hitting our campus. It landed right on top of my dorm and blew the roof off. It did a lot of damage on our campus and finals were canceled!

Our wedding day was also a stormy one. The place where we had our reception wasn't safe to be in during a tornado, so the fire department ended up coming and telling us we had to go to the local high school because of a tornado warning. I even have proof that our reception was evacuated!

Here is my dad telling us we have to evacuate. I love our facial expressions...don't you? Ha!

Here is hubby's brother and sister next to a fire truck walking into the high school.

And this ended up being where I did most of my socializing during our reception - a high school.

Here is hubby's family checking out the radar at the high school.

And here we are leaving the school to go back to the reception.

Although I didn't have the reception I was wanting, all in all it was a successful day. We are married, aren't we?

Uh oh!

Munchkin's newest phrase this week is "uh oh." At the beginning of the week it sounded more like "ha ha" but is slowly progressing.

Today we went to my sister's house to drop off items we didn't sell at our garage sale. Her subdivision is having garage sales this weekend. It got really stormy when we were there, but if you know anything about my past and my frequent run-ins with bad weather, it was nothing I was worried about.

What's that? Not everyone knows about all my run-ins with bad weather? Hmm...I think I see another post forming. Stay tuned! (But I may not get it written tomorrow. I'll be at the garage sale during the day and out to dinner with the in-laws tomorrow night. But I promise that post will be coming soon!