We’re In
We are now in the new house! Yesterday a bunch of the men from our church came to help us and in two hours the moving was done. It was so nice to get it done quickly, especially since it was so hot yesterday. Thank you to everyone who came out to help!
Now we just have to get things finished inside and put everything away!! That is going to be a big job. Our kitchen floor was supposed to be here Friday, but it still isn’t here. Hopefully it will be on Monday since Kody has a couple of days off and was planning to do that. It was nice to spend the night here last night…not strange like I kind of thought it would be. It already feels like home. We still have to go back today and get a few things that weren’t brought over yesterday, but at least moving isn’t a big looming chore anymore.
All my links are fixed now – I guess Kody did that last night. Thanks!
I hope you all have a wonderful Sunday!
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*ETA* 7/15/08 – Kody fixed my sidebar! Unfortunately, now all the other links on my sidebar and top aren’t working. Thanks for your patience:)
Hey Everybody!
Kody upgraded wordpress last night for me and now the theme I have been wanting to use actually works! But some of the things looked a little wierd, so I started trying to adjust the headers by myself – I know not a good idea – but what I did worked. I am not so good with the sidebar though and I can’t figure out how to have it seperate my links into the categories, so they’re just listed 3 times for right now. I’m working on it though – thanks for understanding! Hope you like the new theme:)
Tabitha
Filed under News | Comment (0)Monkeys on the Brain
Lately I’ve wanted everything to do with monkeys…I don’t know why. A lot of the clothes that I got from ebay for Kameron have monkeys on them, even a cute little pair of shoes. I also added a few things to the baby registry with monkeys: This cute rug, and this blanket and little pillow. They are adorable!
I also just finished (about 10 minutes ago) a pair of Monkey socks. They don’t actually have monkeys on them, but the name of the pattern is Monkey and it is a free pattern from Knitty a few issues ago. I think I’m about the last knitter to make these socks, but now that I have I don’t know why I waited. They are super easy and very comfortable! I love the pattern and the yarn that I used, which is Rio de la Plata sock yarn in the Periwinkle Lime colorway. I purchased it at the Loopy Ewe and they are out of this color right now, but have lots of others. Purchasing this yarn helps women in Uruguay to stay home with their families while making money to help support them:)
There has been some more progress on the house…mostly small things. I need to take some more pictures the next time I’m out there and then I’ll share. I bought some paint yesterday and the rest of the curtains for the living room. It is starting to look like a place to live, even though it isn’t finished:) It will be fine for a few months anyway! I just can’t wait to get moved now. I’m getting really frustrated with the way things are right now – having to drive back and forth and feeling like nothing is being accomplished because we aren’t there enough. But that will all end soon, because we’ll be there!
Have a great day everybody!
Filed under Knitting | Comment (0)fresh from the farm
We have been getting half a share of food from Beans to Blossoms in Murray for the last two summers. It’s so nice to have fresh organic produce every week and not have to do much to get it! Next year we will probably have to grow our own, since we’ll be farther away from them and we’ll have the room on our own land, but for these two summers it’s been great!
So, each week we go and pick up our bags or boxes of food and it tastes so much better than store bought. This week we got corn, summer squash, zucchinni, tomatoes, green beans, garlic, eggs and blackberries. In the spring we got lots of different lettuce and greens and brocooli and onions, but those are over for now. So, we are going to have a vegetable dinner tonight – my favorite in the summer. I am making green beans with cabbage (also from Beans to Blossoms), Stewed and fresh tomatoes, corn on the cobb, sauteed mushrooms and possibly some potatoes or squash:) I just love veggies! Anyway, the green beans were so pretty after I snapped them this morning, so here is a picture.
I also made some zucchinni banana bread this morning. I don’t eat the zucchinni any other way, but bread is so good. I use the recipe that my mom did only I add slightly less zucchini and throw a banana and 1/2 cup more flower in. I really like adding the banana to it. If anyone wants the recipe just ask!
I’m probably going to freeze some of the squash if I can figure out how to not ruin it. I boiled eggs too so that I could make egg salad today, but I haven’t had time with all the packing we’ve been doing.
They finished getting the floor out of the kitchen on Sunday and then on Tuesday (Monday is my in town day) I cleaned it up and took these pictures. I can’t wait until the floor gets here! We are going to be moving any day now – REALLY! Our phone is going to be switched over on Tuesday, so we’ll have to be there around that time. We would go crazy without the phone and internet! Kody has been off the last two days and we have been trying to get more done over there and today have been packing lots.
Here’s a picture taken last weekend while we were working at the house. Taylor was so tired that she slept laying across two camping chairs while everybody was hammering and banging around right there. I thought she was very cute, but forgot to take the picture until she rolled over and was waking up.
I hope you are all having a great week – time for me to get back to packing and get over to the house!
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Well, we didn’t move this weekend as planned. We did (and by we I mean Kody and his Dad) tear up the kitchen and get a few other things done so that the house would be in better condition before moving. We also ordered our kitchen floor on Friday, so as soon as it gets here it can be put in.
The first project was putting in a new front door. The old one was wooden and ugly and someone had painted it red, which we didn’t like. Plus when we tried to put our new locks on it, they wouldn’t fit, so we just bought a new one. We put the old storm door back on since nothing is wrong with it.
After that Kody dug a hole and put in our huge mailbox! So now we can get mail even if we aren’t there:) I think the post looks great – it was Kody’s idea to do it like that.
Then they moved inside to the kitchen. The floor that was there had been vinyl with 2 layers of plywood (3/4 inch thick) under it. We decided that we didn’t want to keep that plywood for many reasons. First it made the kitchen floor a lot higher than the living room and hallway next to it. It also smelled terrible, so it needed to come out. In order to do it right all the cabinets had to be taken out of the kitchen since they too were on top of the plywood and flooring. We ordered laminate tile from Lowe’s, which you can see here. They are having a 20% sale on all special order flooring through Monday, so we took advantage of that and our total came out to $50 less than we had to spend on the floor! It is a textured floor and will be going into the kitchen and sunroom.
Anyway, most of the cabinets were out by Friday night when we came home and the floor under the refrigerator had been torn up to see what the damage was. By the time Taylor and I made it out to the house on Saturday the subfloor was repaired and the plywood was totally off the preparation side of the kitchen, so the cabinets could be moved back! We are not putting the cabinets on top of laminate, so they are already bolted back down. The dining side still needs to have the plywood removed – it is hard work, I even pulled up a little (using a flat bar and hammer).
The kitchen is well on it’s way to actually becoming what we want though, so we are excited! The walls will still need to be painted and the cabinets really need some touching up too. The fan in the pictures doesn’t work and we have a new light fixture to replace it with as soon as we get around to it and a new flourescent light fixture to go over the sink.
Then they moved into the room we are going to use as our offices. This room had one electrical outlet which was placed higher than we wanted. That just won’t do for a room with lots of computers and sewing machine! So they started making holes for more outlets and then went beneath to thread some wires through. Here are the first 2 ready:
After that, Kody and I spent a little time cleaning up the huge mess that had been made all over. We swept up and got rid of some trash. I went into the laundry room/closet and took everything off the shelves and cleaned and organized and put our things up there. The last people to live in the house left all kinds of things behind*, most of the cleaning things I don’t really want though. The shelves look much neater and now I can find things when I want to clean.
I’m a little sad that we didn’t move yesterday, but at the same time maybe it’s better if we get more of the things done before we live there. Our phone and internet still hasn’t been switched, but is supposed to be any day. I still need to contact a couple more places to get other services set up, so this will give me the time to do that before being there. And to be truthful, we still aren’t finished packing our things…so this will be fine.
I went to the doctor on Wednesday and everything was perfect with baby Kameron. I did the glucose and iron tests and they were normal. His heartbeat was great and my blood pressure was perfect. I scheduled my c-section, so unless he comes a few days early like the other two have, he will be here September 17 – very early in the morning! Unfortunately that makes it so that I will be going home either the day before or the day of Taylor’s birthday. That was the earliest date they would let me pick though and the doctor that I wanted was there that day. For anyone who is interested in seeing it or if you need any ideas or even want to get us anything, I have added our baby registry link to the sidebar. It is at amazon, but most of the items can be found other places if you prefer to shop somewhere else! Even though we have had two babies, we still don’t have have all the things we need.
I have to go get ready for church now! Hope you all had a Happy Independence Day and have a wonderful day today:)
*There were gas cans, an air conditioning unit, boat motor, weed eater cord, and canned food left in the garage. Upstairs they left an old sewing desk (the kind your machine fits into) and a nice looking chair (that would need to be re-upholstered). And there is a clue game and lots of cleaning supplies: chemicals, brooms, mops, dusting things all over the house. We have already used some of the things and some of them are headed for the trash pile.
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