House for Rent

1234 sq. ft. 3bd 2 ba, $750 a month.



So we have our fingers crossed that someone will want to rent our old house,(or buy.) After lots of hard work and a few relator hassels we have it listed and are praying daily that it gets picked up quickly. Besides the obvious terrors of paying two mortgages, I am sick and tired of driving over there to water my garden (which looks fantastic!) and mow the lawn. Anyone want to move to Arkansas?

Save the Date

All scheduled now, Mae will be here on the 22nd of September! The doctor and I have decided to go ahead and have a c-section instead of the normal vaginal delivery. Max was so big and did so much tearing that even though I healed well, I may not heal so well again. I figure the extra cost of the surgery will be cheaper then the cost of the adult diapers for the rest of my life. I will probably not have any more kids so I am not worried about future complication with multiple c-sections. I am okay with this decision, I kinda feel like I am cheating a bit, but hey, the last one was a lot of hard work. It is nice to know exactly when it is going to happen, no worrying about going over again. Reading up on recovery though I am a bit worried about how we are going to manage. Last time was so hard, and we didn't have another child to worry about. Luckily, Jeff gets two weeks maternity leave so that will help bundles, but who will he take care of Me, Max or Mae? Poor guy, I keep telling him to rest now, (So easy to do with a new house and an old one to fix and rent.) I am also blessed to be in the same excellent ward that I was in when I had Max. So many people helped us get through that first little bit, and we have even more friends then we did three years ago. (Hooray for Walmart's heavy Utah recruiting.) And now I am babbling. To end on a happy note, I just received a huge box of baby clothes and stuff (hooray for maternity garments,) from my mother and sister Krista. It was so fun to see my own baby clothes, the dress from my Aunt Valine's wedding, my blessing dress, even my baptism dress made it in. I also got a really good hall of Liesl's old clothes and a few new items. I never thought I would enjoy pink so much!

Turn the Rain Off!

For the past few weeks we have been taking Jeff to work because our Sable is dying, (we bought a new house instead of the new car.) This has gotten us out of the house really early, which with the hot weather has been a good thing because we could go to the park before it got too hot. Today we went to the park and it started to rain about a half hour after we got there. I told Max we had to leave because it was raining and we would get wet. To which he replied, "Turn the Rain Off Please." Oh if only I could.

Things That Must Go VI

Has it really been since last March that I have listed my minor vents, ahh progress.

1. Target Blowers: There are so many things about our new Target store that I could complain about but I am going to pick the worst offender, the blowers in the ladies bathroom. I have always hated blowers, I don't know if it is because I am too lazy to wait for my hands to properly dry, or too lazy to rub them together, or if I just like the secure feeling of knowing that the paper towel will get my hands completely dry, but I just all around hate them. The ones at our new Target are the worst! They are industrial strength, which you think I would like, less time/more dry. But they are so strong they blow my hand fat around! I realized a few years ago that my hands had put on a bit of weight, but I really hate this new visual reminder.

2. Fast Food Overcompensation: I am a bit of a picky eater, always have been. It took me over 15 years to let them put sauce on my Taco Bell Bean Burritos. I am getting so much better, (I think I almost gave my dad a heart attack when I told him I now eat Supreme Pizza,) but I still don't like Mustard, pickles, and many other things. So when I order a hamburger from any fast food joint and ask for my custom requirements, Ketchup, lettuce, and onions- NO Mustard, Pickles, Mayonnaise, or Cheese, the people seem to think in their heads, "No Mustard? Well surely they must want three extra helping of Ketchup!" No I do not. It sometimes drives me back to my original childhood order of a plain hamburger.

3. Max and Ruby's Parents: I love the Max and Ruby books by Rosemary Wells. In fact that is how Max got his name, I thought the Max bunny was so cute. The cartoon on Nickelodeon I am not so fond of. The voices are annoying and it tends to suffer from the too much of a good thing syndrome. Unfortunately Max has become obsessed with them. He wants to watch it all the time. Okay, fine we have gone through so many phases with Max and this one will pass too, its not too bad. My only seriously grip is that the two bunnies never have parents, poor Ruby is constantly taking care of Max. No child should have that much responsibility. I have to say that for the most part she takes it really well, but it sometimes really bothers me.

4. "You look pregnant.": There are a lot of annoying things that people say to pregnant women, and almost all of them I let slide off my back, but I really hate this one, and have been getting it a lot lately. "REALLY, I DO! Hmmm, I better have that looked at. It could be serious." There is now no denying I am pregnant. I look it, but really, I am aware of it so you don't need to let me know. We are paying a lot of money to make sure that someone trained will be there to catch the baby in September, but thanks for the concern.

LAZY BOYZ

Jeff doesn't feel well today, and frankly who would after being assulted by Max at 5:45 in the Morning, so he is with us today. Luckily for all of us I also found my camera today. And here are the results.

Top Three

There is so much to say about my new house and the whole experience that I am afraid I am not up to the task, so I have decided I Will at least share my top three favorite things about my new house.

#3 The space, from 1200 to 2700 square feet. Yeah you can feel the difference. I just sit in my bed and stare at all the empty space in my room. (Empty except for all the unpacked boxes of course.)

#2 The Dining Room, I always said I never needed a dining room, but it sure is nice to have one. I use it so much more then I ever thought I would. We have even pulled the leaves out of the table, and there is still plenty of room to spare.

#1 The view. We don't exactly have the most windows in the living room, but looking out them you feel like you are in Swiss Family Robinson. The angle of our lot and the layout of the living room kinda juts the room out into the tree tops. Our last house had fantastic views, (it is pretty hard to live in Bella Vista and not,) but our trees were further away and smaller. Here we have big trees right in your face.

I could go on and on about more, perhaps I will update this every few months as I fall in love with more stuff. As soon as I find my camera and unpack a bit more I will add new pictures. The above picture is of the dining room before we moved in, the wall paper is still up but hopefully not for long.

Spick and Span

Humph I am exhausted. I dropped Max off at his girlfriends today so I could clean my old house for a few hours. There is something disheartening about knowing that I am cleaning not to live in, not to get a deposit back, and not to sell my house. I'll probably have to do it again a year from now when we try to sell. Luckily I was raised in a family where I am pretty sure the motto is, "We always get our deposit back," The place is really coming together, I will probably only need to invest a few more hours and that is mostly for the outside. I was very blessed to have the Beehive class come over last week and help clean, They took off a few layers of dirt for which I am super grateful. The annoying thing about cleaning is that no one really notices if a house is clean, only if it is dirty. (This is especially true of house guests.) It was also irritating cause the house I moved into was not clean and I could have been using my strength to clean it. Oh Well. To end on a happy note I would like to thank the inventor of the magic eraser! I hope where ever you are it is on a beach, your purse overflowing with money, (for surely only a women could come up with something that good,) and you are sipping fruit drinks while some one else is cleaning your house with magic erasers.

Sleeper

So we decided to finally move Max out of his crib. Yes he is Two years and Ten months old and just now moving out of the crib. He tried climbing out around 18 months, but Jeff and I were diligent about popping him right back in and after a few days he gave up. All things considered I think he is doing well. He sleeps at night and even takes naps, but there is one big reason why, we have to lie down with him in his bed until he falls asleep. Yup, we are cursed. It is really quite cute, and I don't even mind the naps cause it forces me to slow down and rest. I hate the evening though cause I don't want to take a breather two hours before I go to bed. Jeff is tougher on Max than I am, he only stays for a few minuets, this has led Max to say last night, "Momma stay, dada go," my boys' no fool.

Yes, the picture is a bit old, I have no idea where my camera ended up.

Thanks

Yes, we have finally moved. We are beyond delighted with our new house. Jeff and I often giggle to each other about how blessed we are to have found such a screaming deal. I really need to start out with a big list of thanks:

Thanks to Kendra, Lara, Abi, Morgan and Carrie for watching Max so I could pack and get the new house ready.

Thanks to the Elder's Quorum of our ward, the McMurrins, and the Deacons for helping us actually move the furniture and boxes.

Thanks to the Beehives and their leaders for helping to clean our old house to get it ready to rent.

Thanks to Tanya for cleaning my carpets!

Thanks to the Millers and the Sperrys for lending us their coolers to move the food

Thanks to James Miller for all the electrical advice.

Thanks to all my friends who have stopped by to wish me well and share in my happiness.

We are so blessed to have so many wonderful friends in our lives. (Am making and delivering Peanut Butter Fudge this week as a more physical thanks)