look what we bought!

Yep, a recliner! Jared went to sit in our recliner Sunday night after our nap and somehow it had gotten broken? not quite sure what happened, but it did! Jared was ready to go LAST.NIGHT to get one picked out. I wanted a little color and he wanted heat.... so we both got what we wanted plus a little extra.... a massager:)

All that hard work has paid off

last year jared and i worked our little buttocks' off working on our landscaping. we planted 6 bushes and 3 flowering plants, put in i don't know how many stones, black paper and loads and loads and loads of river rock. it looked so nice when we got done. in the fall i planted some seeds. i can't for the life of me remember what i planted, but they are coming up now. i was so excited to see the green poking through the ground awhile back. then last night i noticed a bud on one of them and then at 6:00 this morning look what i saw, A YELLOW LILY BLOOMED OUT!!! if you know me well enough, you know i can't keep anything alive so as long as it can come and go by its self every year and not require me to take care of it, then it will live!


these are the flowering plants that i planted last year. they have been green all along and very small and then KABAM! they got HUGE and sprouted lots of color, and purple color i may add.

aren't they beautiful?!

can you tell the picture is kind of foggy? that is b/c this morning it was terribly foggy when i took that picture. i think it adds a little bit of character to the picture, don't you?

let me tell you...............

how much i love to weed eat!

since jared is gone braxton and i are taking care of the yard. jared didn't get the yard weedeated before he left so it has been 2 weeks since it has been done and it has been driving me CrAzY!

so wednesday night i decided i would try to do it.

mind you i have never done this before.

first, i couldn't even get the stupid think started and braxton had to stop mowing to get it started for me.
yes my 10 year old is better at this than i am.

second, once i got it started it ran out of string.

i got new string in it after about 10 minutes b/c i didn't know what the heck i was doing.

THEN, i got the dumb thing started again and THEN i ran out of gas! do i know for sure what gas to put in it? nope!

so as the thunder rolls and it starts sprinkling, i decide to wait to do it.

so last night i go home and am determined to get it done!

mind you, i am lookin good in my bright pink rubber boots and my jeans that have a hole from the back pocket down to the bottom of my butt:)

i get it filled up with gas AFTER i spill half of it on my hand!

fresh string in the weed eater

extra string in my pocket for when it runs out again!

and i am off!

don't ask me how many things i hit, b/c it was too many to count.

after weed eating EVERYTHING, i have grass in my hair, on my sunglasses and all over me. my arm won't quit twitching or shaking b/c it had been vibrating for 30 minutes. AND i smell like gas!

did i love doing it?

NO!

would i do it again?

if i had to....

why didn't i just have braxton do it?

because i want to say I DID IT!

so today as i did several things i wondered why my arms were sore.

hmmmm, let me think.....

isn't that just weediciulous?

our new purchase

last year jared and i talked about getting a new tv. but then kept putting it off. well when we seen how awesome vance and andrea's was, it made us want to go ahead and do it. we were going to get one, we weren't, were, weren't.... but now we have it! our old tv wasn't going to make the dtv transition and one speaker was completley blown, so here is our new purchase! we are still waiting on our surround sound, which should be in by thursday or friday! i am super excited about it:) the tv has an awesome picture and i can't believe the huge difference between HD and Normal! we still have a lot of learning to do before we ever master it. so andrea, you will be getting lots of questions about the DVR and stuff. i am excited to be able to pause shows and tape shows when we are not home.

Carpenter Jared

and a carpenter he is not! and i don't mean that in a bad way. he did a good job, for what i know about sheetrock and mudding, but he HATES doing the work. he gets mad, cuss's and it takes him a little longer than it should. i am really glad he is trying and actually getting something done though. so as you can see he got sheetrock and mud on the wall to the basement. the sheetrock is compliments from the frederick's, thanks guys! and vance.... i think you need to come over some night and get him moving so we can get a lot more done and personally, you are a lot better at it than he is. don't tell him i said that though!

i LOVE my new colors in the bedroom

Whew! what an expierence! i couldn't sleep saturday morning so i got my butt out of bed at 6:15 and thought i would get started painting. i got a lot done before andrea got there at 9:30. i primed the red wall, i spilled primer all over the carpet, scrubbed it out (what i could), trimmed all of the bottom in the bedroom, broke a roller, spilled water all over the floor and i think that was about it! once andrea got there i straightened up! i thought i was just going to have to go back to bed and paint another day. we got everything done by 2. the kids were very good!

andrea getting up close and personal with my shower:)

don't you just love it? I DO!

thanks andrea for your hard work.

coming soon..... pictures of jared's hard work!

Weekend Madness

everyone keeps saying how happy they are that it is friday! i normally am super excited about fridays! but today i just don't feel very good.

i have lots to do this weekend! we weren't going to do anything tonight but tiffany texted me last night and wants to go to bogies! well i can't pass up a dinner at bogies. so we are going with them. i think once i get home i am gonna prime the one wall in our bedroom that needs it. then tomorrow we are painting! i am really excited to see the colors i have picked out. andrea is helping me. she says she is returning the favor:) braxton has ball practice and some friends invited us over for supper. so another crazy weekend! church and a foundations class on sunday. hopefully we will get all the painting done tomorrow so i won't have to do any on sunday!!! wish me luck.

hope everyone has a nice peaceful weekend. and if you are bored and want to paint.... let me know:) i can always use help.

LOVES!

Painting

I decided to paint my laundry room several months ago. But with baseball and all I kept putting it off until Sat:) I got my paint on Friday and started painting on Sat. The color I picked out was a tanish color. Once I got it on the wall it kind of had a pinkish tint to it. I am not sure why but I am thinking it is because I have a burgundy shelf in there and it is what is bringing out that hue. Anyhow, I like it but I don't love it. Jared doesn't really like it either. It will have to do for now b/c I am not going to redo it. Paint is too stinking high!

While I was painting Braxton painted in his little shack. He picked out a green color. Him and Bronson painted, jumped, painted, relaxed, painted, played, played, etc..... They finally got it done on Sunday.

Jared and I played cards on Friday night with Jim and Amee. We hadn't done that in forever. It was really nice to relax and not have to be somewhere at a certain time.

Saturday after we all got done painting we took a little drive to go see all the flood areas around Greentop and Novinger. It was really neat to see.

Sunday I cleaned house, majorly! and took a nap. Jared got called out in the middle of the day and then got home and then called back out at 8:45. He did not get home until 6:30 this morning. There were several of them out all day and night. Those men need to be commended for all their hard work. I know someone called in about their power being out last night and they were not happy. I don't understand how some people can be mad at Tri County when they can't help the weather. I don't see those people out risking their lives to get someone else's power back on. It is just so aggravating. Ok, I will get off of my soap box now:)

I have a public meeting tonight at the school. Wish me luck:) I hope at least someone shows up to this one.

I ate lunch with Andrea, Vance, Jared and the boys today. Andrea needed to get out of the house. I hadn't ate at Buddy's in forever so it was nice for a change.

Have a great Monday!!