Housing update

So I have been taking some heat because I have not updated this much lately. I have material, but no patients to post it.

We are scheduled to close on this house on Friday. It is a 2 story home with a basement and a two car garage in the back. The lot is small, so we are thinking that the kids may feel a little cramped, but it is 2 blocks from the park so that will help. The school is also just a few blocks away. We have a few repairs and some updating to get done, but we plan to be all moved in by Memorial Day. We have found some used kitchen cabinets that we plan on using in our kitchen remodel, and there are enough to put some in the utility room and probably even in the garage. There is a neat outdoor fireplace in the back yard as well. AND......the most exciting part (especially after the scuffle this morning) is that there are 3 count them 3 bathrooms. (No need to try to push your brother off of the throne anymore!) We are going to have high speed Internet once we get moved, so maybe posting pictures to this blog will not be so tedious!

A place to call home

We have found a house in Grant that we like and we think is big enough for our family. We have turned in our loan application and it all looks promising. Hopefully we will have a place to call home in the next 30 days or so.

We are moving!

We have been renting a house that is for sale, and the owners officially have a contract on it, so we have until May 18 to find a new place to live. We have found a house in town that we think will work for us to buy. We are now praying that we get the financing that we need to make it happen. The boys like the house which is a plus, we have lived in enough places they judge "creepy" almost immediately. The back yard is very small, so we are a little concerned about them being content to play there without roaming. We proabably won't be able to close on it before we have to move, so we may stay with Josh's parents while we are in limbo. God will provide!

Gross!

I got a text from daycare today with the following picture. Do you know what it is?

I didn't either. Vicki found it in Ryan's poop today! It is some sort of battery. He puts everything in his mouth right now and apparently this one went clear through and came back out. She said her first thought was Eew! What did you have for supper last night, but then realized that it was not food. So, another disgusting blog, but I had to share!

Ryan

I did some cleaning and rearranging after I woke up from a nap in the chair to find that Ryan had destroyed a flower arrangement from our wedding and ate a flower pettal that had been spray painted! I tried to fish it out of his mouth, but I wasn't fast enough. The bench in the pictures below is one that my brother Nathan made. It replaces the flower arrangement. Ryan was very excited to see a little bench his size and was laughing and squealing. He crawled right up on it and stood straight up. (This is not really what I had in mind when I put it there.)

My camera wasn't fast enough to catch him completely upright.

He was trying to sit down, but he can't quite get it yet.

This is how Mommy wants him to sit on the bench, but he can only do it with help so far.

He was playing with his bear from "Grandpa Clyde" this afternoon.

More Sock Monkeys

I never posted pictures of the sock monkeys that I made for my kids for Christmas. Cliff really wasn't wanting his picture taken when we did this, so you can only see his monkey and not his cranky face.

Nate and Ryan were a little more cooperative. Nate is holding his favorite monkey. It was my test monkey and then I made him a different one for Christmas, but he likes the striped one the best.

My old apron

My mom has been doing some reducing in her closets and found an apron that was mine when I was a kid. It says "CARLA little kitchen helper." Cliff and Josh both had to try it on. Aren't they cute?