It's now race to the finish, ok, so maybe not race! We had an awesome productive weekend even with all the rain. My garage sale started out with a bang friday morning, and then moved on to please, come in, out of the rain! Even with the nearly 2 inches of rain in 2 days we managed to get rid of almost everything! We started with 10 totes, a few LARGE boxes, and miscellaneous stuff strewn about the house and garage. I began setting tables up a week in advance to try and squeeze everything in the garage, made a last minute trip to the store with grandma for one more table, and magically almost everything fit. I had a 2 car garage plum FULL of stuff to get rid of. Final tally on what's left....3 totes....yes THREE!!! And a couple of the big things that didn't sell really don't bother me, I can store them for a year, or use them in other ways for a year and try again! SO that leaves me with enough stuff gone and enough cash to do what you say? Well....buy baby stuff and a new lawnmower! I couldn't wait any longer for the mower, so we brought one home saturday night when I was sick of sitting in the garage and shut the door....Welcome new friend! We looked at sears, they no longer carry what hubby wanted....looked at runnings, I didn't want to pay the price....went back to runnings saturday, met the nicest guy in the store who convinced me I'd be able to operate the new honda mower no problem. I was even the first to start it....no more pulling on the cord 10 times before takeoff....first pull, and it's self propelled, a little too self propelled....if you aren't careful you could easily go on a jog while mowing!
Oh, and hubby decided that the front yard looked awful and borrowed a tiller from the neighbor....he was only supposed to be tilling up flower beds to make our yard look less new house and more someone lives here....apparently the front yard needs a lived in look as well, it's now pure mud! Morale of the story, be careful what you ask for! I do have a place for flowers now though, unfortunately it's going to be a while before I dare walk out front to plant any! The pickup was stuck in the front yard after all the rain, and miracuously only one person was dumb enough to go past the dead end sign and get stuck during the garage sale!
I promise I'll get pictures done up here shortly, no rest for the wary, still LOTS of stuff to do!
So here are a few of the finished product. LOVE LOVE LOVE the ones that show of his red hair! I would kill for his haircolor, there's just something about red hair! I have no idea which of the photos they will choose, but everyone has orders to pick them out then get them back to me so I can hurry up and wait for them....(aka, order them) As bad as the light was the day we took the photos most of them were salvageable, including the first in which poor baby brother looked like an alien. Ok, so maybe I shouldn't call him baby brother anymore, I have to look up to the little fart! Like a foot up, ok, so maybe it's not that far, but I still feel short next to him and I'm really not that short! How sad it's going to be to see him walk across the same stage I walked across....MANY years ago (ahem...10...ahem) Super proud of him, even though I'll miss him dearly when he takes off to Wyo Tech in September. YES...WYO TECH!!!...another thing I couldn't be prouder of!
I promise I'll post some of our recent pictures soon, I just have a list of stuff to do that trumps pictures!
Things officially checked off the to do list...clean garage, finish Cole's Senior Pictures, Haircuts for 3 of the 5 in the house, Price Garage Sale Stuff....next up...a little paintin' and a garage sale, then to work on a new "buffet" style entertainment center to get the buttons out of Syd's reach as well as a few other ideas I have...oh, and a new lawnmower! Here's me on Saturday....I hate the yard Syd, can mommy mow? "mommy.....mowder!" I finished half the yard no problem, decided I needed a break and was going to let daddy finish...Moving on a few hours...."I can't stand having the back yard half mowed!" Syd, find your chair to watch again....and it went downhill from there! In my opinion I wasn't overworking the mower, I wasn't even breaking a sweat, however the mower had a different idea! Chris was laughing at me, I was so ticked off I was ready to drive to Mitchell at 7pm and break into Sears to get a new mower, and Syd was watching in awe. I seriously could have chewed the grass off faster with my teeth! Our awesome neighbor (same one with the big snowblower) was kind enough to laugh and add his 2 cents also...."Wanna borrow a mower"..."no thanks, I'm going inside to have a discussion about this damn thing with Chris" So....to make a long story shorter....I spent almost 2 hours doing a job that had it gone as well as the first half should take no more than 45 minutes! And that's with a Marci powered push mower! Unfortunately, it'll probably have to get used again before the next appointment in Mitchell, so plug your ears if you hear me screaming! At least I wasn't the only one fuming though, you should have seen the smoke from little orange! Man, am I glad hubby decided to drown the yard in fertilizer too....aiyiyi!
Things officially checked off the to do list...clean garage, finish Cole's Senior Pictures, Haircuts for 3 of the 5 in the house, Price Garage Sale Stuff....next up...a little paintin' and a garage sale, then to work on a new "buffet" style entertainment center to get the buttons out of Syd's reach as well as a few other ideas I have...oh, and a new lawnmower! Here's me on Saturday....I hate the yard Syd, can mommy mow? "mommy.....mowder!" I finished half the yard no problem, decided I needed a break and was going to let daddy finish...Moving on a few hours...."I can't stand having the back yard half mowed!" Syd, find your chair to watch again....and it went downhill from there! In my opinion I wasn't overworking the mower, I wasn't even breaking a sweat, however the mower had a different idea! Chris was laughing at me, I was so ticked off I was ready to drive to Mitchell at 7pm and break into Sears to get a new mower, and Syd was watching in awe. I seriously could have chewed the grass off faster with my teeth! Our awesome neighbor (same one with the big snowblower) was kind enough to laugh and add his 2 cents also...."Wanna borrow a mower"..."no thanks, I'm going inside to have a discussion about this damn thing with Chris" So....to make a long story shorter....I spent almost 2 hours doing a job that had it gone as well as the first half should take no more than 45 minutes! And that's with a Marci powered push mower! Unfortunately, it'll probably have to get used again before the next appointment in Mitchell, so plug your ears if you hear me screaming! At least I wasn't the only one fuming though, you should have seen the smoke from little orange! Man, am I glad hubby decided to drown the yard in fertilizer too....aiyiyi!
Tah-Dah...
Meet the little alien. I'm still disturbed by the lack of ears/eyes/mouth....features in general. I was reassured that it's normal at this point....either that or the baby is going to look like it's father! As cool as the 4D pictures are, I was less disturbed by the 2D photos that go along with them, at least in those the baby looks like it has normal features! And the survey says, you're still not going to know what it is...Grandma was here this weekend, and saw the pictures of the legs, but even the ultrasound tech had to pull out all his tricks to get him/her to show us what we wanted to know. This one is a little spitfire, just like big sis Syd. Enjoy my little space creature!