Saturday, April 30, 2011
shower tile
Monday, April 25, 2011
Easter
For Easter this year, we celebrated at home. (We weren't able to go to the Jenks family party on Friday night because we went to the baptism of one of Seila's friends. It was a great baptism and we were so happy to be able to support her in her decision.)
Saturday was spent at Seila's softball games. They were home games so we packed our lunch and headed over. They lost both games but Seila played 2nd base and did a great job. We were very proud of her. After the ball games, Justin and I left a to-do list for the kids and we headed into Moses Lake for more supplies. We didn't like the paint color we had purchased. Well, we liked the color, just not the shade. I wanted it to be darker but not as dark as the next color on the color card. Anyway, we had to go figure that out and a few other things. When we got home, we discovered that the kids had done a great job of completing the list!
Sunday morning we hid eggs and baskets. Then we worked on dinner prep and headed off to church. After dinner we sat down with the kids and read from the Bible about the last week of the Savior's life. It was a great day of meetings and a great Easter Sunday. To top it off, the weather was beautiful too!
Today when I got home from the school, Justin and I started painting the new color on. We weren't sure if we liked it at first but after it dried, we decided that it is just perfect! I had a few piano lessons this afternoon and after dinner we had family home evening. Then Justin and I layed the flooring in the bathroom. We had one little mistake but we are confident that we can cover it. I think it looks great and now we are ready for tile in the shower and the bathtub install! Yipee! The end is in sight, for this bathroom anyway. Then we'll have to begin the downstairs bathroom. Don't ask what the color is, it doesn't have a name. We made it up. That's called custom, right?
Saturday was spent at Seila's softball games. They were home games so we packed our lunch and headed over. They lost both games but Seila played 2nd base and did a great job. We were very proud of her. After the ball games, Justin and I left a to-do list for the kids and we headed into Moses Lake for more supplies. We didn't like the paint color we had purchased. Well, we liked the color, just not the shade. I wanted it to be darker but not as dark as the next color on the color card. Anyway, we had to go figure that out and a few other things. When we got home, we discovered that the kids had done a great job of completing the list!
Sunday morning we hid eggs and baskets. Then we worked on dinner prep and headed off to church. After dinner we sat down with the kids and read from the Bible about the last week of the Savior's life. It was a great day of meetings and a great Easter Sunday. To top it off, the weather was beautiful too!
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Well, I haven't posted anything in a while so that must mean one thing: we are busy!! Every week I think about posting things that happened but never seem to get the time to sit down and actually do it.
The bathroom is coming along slowly, but coming. I can't believe how well Justin has learned how to do everything. He already had a pretty good idea but needed some expert advice. Brandon is a wealth of information and so willing to share with us. Our friend Keith has offered morsels of info also. There is really nothing to take a picture of. The last couple of weeks have just been mudding and sanding, a few hours here and a few hours there. Tomorrow night the walls will get texture and then paint (hopefully by Saturday). Next comes tile in the shower and then the flooring. Install the tub, toilet, and cabinets and then we're done. Okay, trim somewhere down the road. Sounds simple huh? I'm hoping for 2 more weeks. What a dreamer!
For spring break Seila stayed home with Justin because she had softball and the rest of the kids and I drove to Sparks to visit my parents for a few days. I was sick while we were there but Mom picked up the slack. Seila really wanted to make a quilt to donate to charity for the recent Japan earthquake so we made one for her and took it to Salt Lake to the Humaitarian Center. After a few days in Sparks, Mom and I with the kids jumped on the Amtrak and rode it to Salt Lake. That was a new experience for the kids and I. We enjoyed ourselves and created a few memories. I don't think that I'd want to travel by train all the time because of the weird scheduling and the length of time the trip takes but it sure was nice not to have to worry about potty breaks or staying awake while driving.
In Salt Lake, we had a baby shower for my sister-in-law Heidi. I was glad so many of the cousins were able to make it. It was fun to see them all! We were glad to be able to go to my sister's kids soccer games. We listened to General Conference on my iPhone in the car on the way home.
Conference was so awesome! I always learn so much and feel so inspired to be a better person. Sunday night I even watched some of them again. I have gained much strength in the last couple of weeks by listening again and reading the talks. What a true blessing it is to have a living prophet and apostles on the earth today!
I'm still subbing at the Elementary school in the mornings every day. The novelty has worn off some so in the mornings it is hard to get myself out the door. Once I'm there I enjoy it (mostly). I am also running out of patience. Today I totally blew up at one of the 5th grade classes. They just don't have any respect for others. They talk whenever they feel like it and don't pay attention. We spend so much time waiting for everyone to get on task! Today several of them felt like arguing with me about everything, trying to convince me that their suggestions were better than what I was telling them. I lost it. I haven't yelled at a class yet but I did today. There were still kids that thought they should talk amongst themselves so they ended up with their heads down on their desks. Maybe its me. I just don't think I should spend all my time disciplining. Ugh! Even when I was young, I knew I wasn't cut out to be a teacher. 8 weeks left of school! I better listen to some Conference talks again. Need more strength. . . .
The bathroom is coming along slowly, but coming. I can't believe how well Justin has learned how to do everything. He already had a pretty good idea but needed some expert advice. Brandon is a wealth of information and so willing to share with us. Our friend Keith has offered morsels of info also. There is really nothing to take a picture of. The last couple of weeks have just been mudding and sanding, a few hours here and a few hours there. Tomorrow night the walls will get texture and then paint (hopefully by Saturday). Next comes tile in the shower and then the flooring. Install the tub, toilet, and cabinets and then we're done. Okay, trim somewhere down the road. Sounds simple huh? I'm hoping for 2 more weeks. What a dreamer!
For spring break Seila stayed home with Justin because she had softball and the rest of the kids and I drove to Sparks to visit my parents for a few days. I was sick while we were there but Mom picked up the slack. Seila really wanted to make a quilt to donate to charity for the recent Japan earthquake so we made one for her and took it to Salt Lake to the Humaitarian Center. After a few days in Sparks, Mom and I with the kids jumped on the Amtrak and rode it to Salt Lake. That was a new experience for the kids and I. We enjoyed ourselves and created a few memories. I don't think that I'd want to travel by train all the time because of the weird scheduling and the length of time the trip takes but it sure was nice not to have to worry about potty breaks or staying awake while driving.
In Salt Lake, we had a baby shower for my sister-in-law Heidi. I was glad so many of the cousins were able to make it. It was fun to see them all! We were glad to be able to go to my sister's kids soccer games. We listened to General Conference on my iPhone in the car on the way home.
Conference was so awesome! I always learn so much and feel so inspired to be a better person. Sunday night I even watched some of them again. I have gained much strength in the last couple of weeks by listening again and reading the talks. What a true blessing it is to have a living prophet and apostles on the earth today!
I'm still subbing at the Elementary school in the mornings every day. The novelty has worn off some so in the mornings it is hard to get myself out the door. Once I'm there I enjoy it (mostly). I am also running out of patience. Today I totally blew up at one of the 5th grade classes. They just don't have any respect for others. They talk whenever they feel like it and don't pay attention. We spend so much time waiting for everyone to get on task! Today several of them felt like arguing with me about everything, trying to convince me that their suggestions were better than what I was telling them. I lost it. I haven't yelled at a class yet but I did today. There were still kids that thought they should talk amongst themselves so they ended up with their heads down on their desks. Maybe its me. I just don't think I should spend all my time disciplining. Ugh! Even when I was young, I knew I wasn't cut out to be a teacher. 8 weeks left of school! I better listen to some Conference talks again. Need more strength. . . .
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Update:
The electrician was at our house on Saturday. He and Justin worked for 7 hours on our tiny little 12' x 9' bathroom! They pulled old wires and ran new ones to the new bathroom upstairs. Next Saturday he'll come back and run wires downstairs to the new bathroom and then hook them up to the electricity and we'll have light! Justin is trading him for some fishing. The plumber is scheduled to come on Friday and hopefully he'll be able to get the old out and the new in or whatever he is going to do. Of course, when those things are finished, we'll be ready to get going on the stuff we can do ourselves! I am scheduled to pick out the cabinets tomorrow and they should be ready in a couple of weeks. Justin has started patching the sheet rock on the ceiling.
The electrician was at our house on Saturday. He and Justin worked for 7 hours on our tiny little 12' x 9' bathroom! They pulled old wires and ran new ones to the new bathroom upstairs. Next Saturday he'll come back and run wires downstairs to the new bathroom and then hook them up to the electricity and we'll have light! Justin is trading him for some fishing. The plumber is scheduled to come on Friday and hopefully he'll be able to get the old out and the new in or whatever he is going to do. Of course, when those things are finished, we'll be ready to get going on the stuff we can do ourselves! I am scheduled to pick out the cabinets tomorrow and they should be ready in a couple of weeks. Justin has started patching the sheet rock on the ceiling.
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