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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

what a girl

Seriously. Where does she get it from?


I got Reagan up from her nap yesterday and while I was walking around picking stuff up around the house she came out of the bathroom and into the bedroom where I was looking like this. She had gotten into my drawers in my bathroom and decked herself all out. She's so funny. Later on she grabbed a "phone" (an air conditioning remote) and walked around talking on it while holding her blanket. She usually uses my sponge curlers for her bracelets but today here she opted for the rubberband look. What a fashionista.












So last night I finally got her some real dress up bracelets and necklace. She's so cute.


And yes i need a new camera. I take all my pictures on my phone and when the blasted thing finally focuses (which is not always) she has looked away. Thus none of her pictures are her smiling or really looking happy. Sigh. Someday.

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Nursery

So Reagan isn't yet 18 months (will be August 12th) but because i'm due on the 22nd I didn't want to deal with the nursery transition with a newborn if it was going to be bad. So i talked to the Primary Pres and asked if i could give it a trial run to see how Reagan does. She said that would be great. She also asked Reagan if she wanted to just go to primary and skip nursery because as we were speaking Reagan went, found a chair and sat down next to some "friends". Reagan said yes, but i figured we should still start with nursery anyway.
On to nursery we went and when i stepped in the door to talk to the nursery leader and ask her, Reagan went straight for the toys and didn't look back. I told the nursery lady that i could help out in nursery or even just come back in, like 10-20 minutes and she said if she needed me she'd come get me, but to leave Reagan there. Reagan did great! I spied through the window and she was playing with toys and the kids without any problems. I came back to see if i needed to get her after Sunday school and she didn't even look up at me. She was too busy playing and having a good ol time. So, i left her. When it was time to go home she didn't want to leave. How awesome is that!! Hopefully it stays that way.
Here are some pictures from when we got home. The only way i could get her to stay still was with a dounut hole and Shawn the Sheep, thus she's not really looking at the camera.




Look what she colored in nursery! Can you believe it? ... me neither. But it sure looks like she wrote her name. Ha.





Cheese! Show me your teeth!

Friday, July 1, 2011

ok. so it's been a while since i last posted anything and just thinking of all the things to update is making me a bit overwhelmed. so...i won't think about it and i'll do it later.

but to tackle one item of buisness...or information...or whatever you want to call it.

so, our home has been up on the market since, i believe, last september. not so many bites. we currently have a 2 bedroom 1 bath with no storage, pretty small bedrooms and a floating foundation. what? what do you mean by a floatin foundation? well, the original house that is made out of railroad ties has had an addition put on by the same man that built a boat in his basement, couldn't figure out how to get it out,and so just left it there for a long time. i'm not judging or saying anything negative. i just thought it was funny. anyway, the corner of our bedroom, which is the addition part, doesn't have a foundation...for like 2 feet. to get it fixed will cost quite a bit of money. and larry and i don't feel comfortable selling our house in that condition since it's kinda hidden. making any sense? sorry if its not. i don't know how else to explain it. ANYWAY.
larry and i were talking over our options and we've decided, with a lot of prayer and research, that we're going to tear down the current addition (the bedrooms) and put in our own; now making it a 3 bedroom 2 bath with a basement under the addition to be finished later when finances allow it. larry and his family are very talented and very experienced at building so we're doing it ourselves. this now, also, allows us to refinance and get a better interest rate keeping our payment close to where it is now - but with more house - more LEVEL house (for those of you who understad our slanting floors, wall, toilet...ect).
Now to the point of the post. I'm already starting to look for deals on bathroom stuff to keep our cost low. I'm thinking about putting vessel sinks in the master bathroom. I don't want something too modern that'll go out of date in a year but there are some pretty cool things out there. So,anyone want to give their option???? I would love to hear from ya. So, let's see how to do this. I'll post some pictures of the good deals that i found and then let me know which ones you would choose, if any. if there are ones that you like but i didn't post, let me know. ok... so here we go.

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