I'm Back!!! (But only for a bit)

Hey!!!!!! Oh my goodness! It feels so great to get to blog again! I volunteered today to work the slushy machine at Ashlyn's school, and it is raining way to hard for me to drive all the way home to Little Rock, just to turn around and come back to pick Ashlyn up from school at 3. So, I decided to visit my husband at work and take over his computer!!! Well, the house is coming along nicely! We are hopefully going to Memphis this weekend to get the rest of our furniture then we will oficially be through moving!! YAY!! I have so many pictures to share.... but they can't be uploaded on Daniel's heavily monitored government computer :(  So, I'm gonna have to ask you to be patient with me a while longer..  Here's the problem- we live in the middle of nowhere. The only internet service our phone company can offer us is dial up. (No thank you.) So, we are looking into getting a service from Best Buy or something like that that is high speed.  The only problem is, the high speed stuff isn't compatable with my old lap top.  So we have to get a new computer. And I want a brand new awesome one!  So, I've gotta save some money!!! I should give the computer back now.. I will update some more soon!! (If not I will hijack Daniel's computer again)  Have a great Tuesday!!!

Almost There!!

O.k.  So, we've got a ton of stuff moved already!!  And I already have that "Where the heck is all this stuff gonna fit!?" feeling.  Plus, we don't even have all of Daniel's furniture yet, and I still have a few things in storage left in Greenwood.  At least we will definitely have a full house in the next month or so I hope!  Poor Ashlyn is already sick of moving.  I just picked her up from school and told her we were coming by the house to get another load, and I don;t think I have ever heard that child sigh so loud before in her life.  We don't have the internet/ phone hooked up at the new house yet, so it'll be next week before I can upload some more pics on our progress so far  I'm off to move the last of the stuff! ( I really wish I could leave the rest of it behind!)  Wish us luck, and see you guys next week!!

My First "Traffic Jam"

Decatur is definitely a quiet little town.  Unlike greenwood, you never see a cop riding around looking for someone to harass.  I started to think there weren't any police officers around anywhere! I have, on occasion seen a sheriff car out on the highway, but that's about it.  I did find out, though, there is at least police officer around here because he directs traffic in and out of Ashlyn's school every morning. The highway her school is on stays pretty busy in the a.m.'s.  And all the parents and bus drivers who drop their kids off really do appreciate this police guy.  Today, however, is when we all found out just how important this guy really is!!  As I turned onto the highway this morning taking Ashlyn to schhol, I heard sirens- this a first for me!  Then, I noticed the guy driving the cop car was the traffic guy.. Can he really just leave us all hanging like that? There really must be only one police officer in Decatur!!  Why did someone have to go have a wreck and take the directer of traffic and NCES?! (I hope whomever involved in the wreck is o.k.!)  And much to my horror, when I got to the turn at Ashlyn's school, traffic was majorly backed up!!! It took almost 10 minutes to get out of there after I dropped Ashlyn off! (And that is a long time for such a small town!)  Ashlyn even noticed the traffic and said, "Wow, mom. Glad I don;t have to wait in the traffic to get out of here!" Thanks for the support, honey!  So, people of Decatur, let's practice extreme safety while driving in the mornings so that our school can keep its traffic cop on patrol. Because I don't do good in "traffic jams".  Thanks!

Say a little prayer....

Say a little prayer for me!! If everything works out I wanna be completely moved by Thursday at precisely 12:00 noon.  But you know my luck... so we will see. I'm off to pack! 

Anyone Wanna Pack For Me?!?

I can definitely say I feel a sense of accomplishment from the weekend. Don't get me wrong- I wanted to throw my paint brush across the room several times and throw a hissy fit- but I held my composure and finished the majority of the painting today.  We haven't started on the living room yet, though... and that camouflage gets worse and worse every day! But, the living room will serve as out storage area until we get unpacked, so no need to start on that just yet.

First up, here's the inside of our cabinets before we painted them.  Let me point out that I could have gone with regular ol' shelf paper, but no.  Daniel wanted them painted.  And let me tell this was not a fun task.  Half way through the painting process, Daniel asked why we decided to paint the cabinets... Your idea honey!!! Not mine!!!

And then the finished product...

And we also finished our bedroom!! Just waiting for the Fed Ex man to bring us our new comforter and curtains... Thanks Mom!!

I don't think I have ever seen a brown room before. But I really wanted one. And I am really happy with how the guest room turned out. I may sleep in there a lot... Especially because it's at the front of the house with a nice view over looking the pasture- very nice to wake up to!

I think I love Ashlyn's room more and more every day!! ( Don't mind the furniture, it's not all together yet!!)

My hallway- I love how this color brightens it up!

And the dining room...

And let me throw in this brag pic- yep, this is what we get to look out the front of the house and see. I know, we are looking for someone with a tractor to clean it up a bit... but we have deer run through our pasture!! I love fall!

Here's our "miller lite" blue kitchen!!

And the mud room and laundry rooms in the same blue..

Abel is the first one in the family to move out to the new house.. he seems to be enjoying it!

Ashlyn "worked hard" helping Daniel put our house number up by the front gate!!

I feel great about how the house is coming together, but will feel even better once we get the outside of the cabinets in the kitchen painted!!

P.S.- Ashlyn's team won at soccer tonight!! Not to brag, but the other team's coach said to just call the game in the middle of the 4th quarter because there was no way they could catch up... Go Brazil!!

Happy Color!!!

I couldnt' sleep last night because I was so happy about how our dining room and hallway turned out yesterday!! I picked a pretty good color spontaneously!!!!! But I left the camera at the new house. Hopefully I will remember to bring it home tonight so I can show off some pictures!!

Still Going, and Going, and Going

I've always thought of myself as being a little redneck, every time I see Ashlyn's b.b.gun propped up by the back door.  Plus I never thought it would ever get used.  However, Daniel and I were on the couch recuperating from a long day of painting when we were heard my cat Sophie start screaming. (To be honest, we, shamelessly,were watching Jersey Shore, and I thought the cat fight noise was a sound effect on the show at first. Because, let's face it, the girls always fight. And I guess this means that I've admitted to viewing more than one episode since I know all about the girl's fighting habits.)  Daniel and I jumped up and ran outside, me screaming,"Get the b.b. gun!!!!!" We found my poor Sophie in the bushes and another mean cat was running off- just wanted to make sure there weren't any raccoons harassing my cat!!!  See? When would I have ever been concerned about raccoons? And chase after animals with a b.b.gun? Yep, the hills will do that to you.

Daniel and I went to Lowe's again yesterday and bought more paint!! (I held on to my notebook this time!) And I completely all at once changed my dining room/ hallway paint color. Daniel seems more pleased with the new color rather than my original one anyways, so I guess I did a good thing!

I've never had good luck. In fact I've usually just had bad luck.  I did win a Viking grill in a raffle once a long time ago, but my dad bought the ticket so that was all his luck. Apparently, my husband has the same luck, if not worse, than I do. For example- We found the perfect kitchen faucet yesterday and- lucky for us- it was on sale! It had the pull out faucet that turns into a sprayer and was the perfect brushed finish color I had been searching for.  Only when we got ready to pay, we had the wrong one. The one we picked up was not on sale, and they were out of the one that was on sale. But they looked exactly alike!! Dude at Lowe's could have helped us out a little...

We put the finishing touches on the bedrooms, and started painting the inside of the cabinets, which I found to be a very big pain.  Luckily, I got to take a break and go pick up Ashlyn and her friends from school. I took the kids to Newton to McDonald's to meet their mom when she got off work. O.k., so I have three kids who are hungry and wanna play, so I took their happy meal orders and went to go get them, only to find out that Mcdonald's system had been down and hasn't rebooted yet. So they can't take a credit card. Really? I have no cash. Well then lady, why don't you go tell the kids they don't get a happy meal because your McDonald's stinks! Fix it!! Ash, GG, and B let me know how disappointed they were in me that I didn't have any cash. Well, not Georgia cause she's too sweet. But Ashlyn and B threw fits.

After that I took Ashlyn to her dad. On the way back to Little Rock to do some more work, I stopped in Newton and got a case of beer and a bucket of chicken. My husband loves me. :)

So ready for our first family cookout next weekend!! I think that's the motivation for me and Daniel this weekend and week- we want as much done as possible before the family comes!

And Happy Wedding Day to Lindsay and Matthew!! Wish we could be in Florida with you guys!!

Heading back to the house- will post some more pics soon!!

I LOVE YOU KIKI!!!!