Our Housing Update

Well, as some of you might know...we ended up paying someone else to finish. Actually we just wanted him/them to put the colored coat on so it would look right. So Noel came by and informed us that what we'd done wasn't right, and we were done with all 3 sides (except the color coat). UGH. So, he said he can fix it by putting a whole new coat on top of what we'd done to smooth it out and make it even....for $1400. We don't have a money tree, but I think my Mom does, I hope she does...because she saved us and was brave enough to lend us the money!
THANKS MOM!!!

So, they started working on Monday and finished today around 3. It looks amazing. These pics don't show it very well, but it really looks so awesome! They did in 3 days what its taked us 3 months to do! And they did it right!

Cohen had to be in the pictures too...

And Cohen/ the Stinger's had their first Tball game yesterday (we missed it) but they won!!! Woo Hoo. Our next game is on Saturday at 10am. And this team has been practicing since January, twice a week! I know one of the players and his Mom...They mean business!!!!

And Corbin building fire stations and houses for his cars and dinosaurs!

T-Ball'in with Daddy

Randy and the boys playing catch...not very good pictures b/c I was hiding by the back door so they wouldn't see me! They played for several hours! Most things go for a few minutes,

20-30 at most before they are bored with it, but not today!! I was amazed! Maybe they'll go to bed and to sleep fast tonight...they are in the bath right now! I know, as long as I can hear them...they aren't drowning, OK!!

Yes, Randy was playing with the legos, he hates for toys to be in the livingroom unless he gets to play!!! What-a-baby!

Shoes and Hard Hat Required!

For starters, the wind isn't blowing today, and I hope it stays this way. Not sure about the rest of the world, but it has been SO WINDY here!

Leslie and Lesa came down for a few days and we got a lot done on the house. When I saw 'we', I mean Randy and Leslie. I hammered in some nails, but thats about it.

Anyway, I have to go put sheets on Corbins bed, we're trying to transition from pullups at night to big boy undies and washing sheets everyday is a pain in my...you know what. When he wears a pullup, he wakes up dry...when he wears undies, he pees...I'm not sure whats going on!!

Thowing on some base coat, I'll stand around and take some pictures...I'm not much help when I'm "not in the mood"....hahaha

And our lovely garden is surviving the wind!

White Trash Living - Part 2

Well, its been a few weeks since this project got started...Its starting to look really amazing! It makes the house look so different with the white shingles gone. Well, they aren't all gone but one wall is well under way and we started the back side today. Randy has to go back to work tomorrow and then our next days off we'll be in Lubbock, so it'll look like yuck for a while before we can get back to it. Oh well...And we got our rocks delivered so with the trailor piled with sand and the 10 boxes of fake rocks in my driveway, I park across the street... = The motorcycle is parked on the walk way...its pretty crazy!

TODAY'S WORK:

White Trash Livin'

We better not live like this for long! The ugly white shingle things look better than this! hahaha Randy got off early yesterday and decided to get started...and I picked up as much as I could, but the pickup got full before it all got picked up! :( So it looks even worse when driving by! But, it will look a million times better when it all gets done! And I can't wait!!!

The chimny bricks are not coming down, we are going to put rocks on it as well. And the this side here, the back and the other side will be done in the elastomeric stucco stuff that expands and recoils with the weather. And its not supposed to crack! So...its a work in progress and there ain't no turnin' back!

The front of the house will be rocked, "Country Rubble".

<----This is the style of the rock, but I can't remember what colors are in the boxes...we got it from a guy that sells it, but the people that ordered it never came to pick it up so we got it half off!!! But its the color they picked...and I'm not real sure what that is! I hope its not white!! I want SOME color!!! Yes, we were able to see the rocks, but I honestly can't remember the colors, I was just happy because there were enough boxes and we were able to get it half off!!! What I didn't know until we were looking at them, they are individual rocks, not sheets...so each and every rock will be laid with love and touched by some ones hand...I hope not all of them have my finger prints...

So, whose coming to visit?!?! (we need some cheap workers!)

Well, I really should be studying for my exams this weekend, but I thought I'd post some pictures and give a Reed update before we start a new month! Cohen's TBall practices start next week...he's been ready to start for the past 2 weeks! Corbin sneezes about 3 times throughout the morning and eact time green snot blows out down to his knees! Really, its bad! Randy is barely getting by taking so many hard classes and having to type so many papers. He has a 6 pager due Wednesday for one class and several more due for other classes...I've actually tried to write them, but I have no idea what his reading material is about! I've tried reading it, but its so boring!! And for me, this new month that is about to begin will be a good one...NO MORE PHYSICS! Ya, I dropped the class. I wasn't passing and I made a whoppin 17 on an exam and I need my GPA to go UP not down!!! So, I'm going to stick to the Radiology program and should get in this fall!! Should does not mean I will, there are alot of applicants and only about 20 get in! Enjoy the pictures and I'll try to keep this updated a little more since I don't have physics on the brain!

T-Ball Time =)

Coach Matt/Joseph called tonight and asked if Cohen wanted to play this year, so of course I said yes! So, he will be on the Stingers team again and he will actually get to play! I just hope he doesn't clam up and get shy in the hot seat! I hope that since he'll actually get to practice and participate it'll be more fun and he'll open up!

And since he'll already know his team-mates he will be a little more at ease...I hope! I'm excited!