A Sassy New Purse

For my birthday (which was in September) my Dad and Mom came down and she fixed me dinner. They also brought me some lovely gifts including my favorite hand soap and some minty lip balm, however the highlight was this lovely green handbag. It is big enough to carry all of my junk, but very stylish and hip. I love it.

I know you are looking at the handbag, but can you also find Waldo??

As for other birthday gifts. I need to mention that strangely, almost all my gifts had something to do with the color green. My friend Rachel made me a bag (I'm using it to carry my bible) out of a place mat (but you would never know it) and it has a very sassy green satin ribbon on it. Love it. Curt bought me the novel Wicked (you know the wicked witch is green) and also the movie Finding Neverland (which is the story of the man who wrote Peter Pan, who happened to wear a lot of green). Isn't that just funny. Anyway, it was a great birthday. I got some other great gifts including a gift card to Panera Bread (Hello Bread bowl) and an extension for a scrapbook magazine that I love. I was really quite spoiled and I loved every minute of it. Thank you everyone. I really, truly felt loved.

Little Racers

Isn't Tony Stewart a cute little thing??

And Jimmie Johnson too??

Here are both of our little racers.

Thank you Grandma and Grandpa Ford for these great dress-up clothes. The boys have been wearing them off and on since Saturday afternoon.

Time for Change

Well, I can't let Yellow House have all the fun can I??

Here is me before

Here is me after

I really like having short hair. It is way more me. It makes me feel spunkier!!

The Roof is Finished!!

Oh, what a week. You saw the pictures of our old roof being torn off, what you didn't see was pictures of the 10+ inches of rain that we had that weekend. Our roofer guys (or contractors - if you are into the technical terms) covered our roof with the layer of stuff that goes on before the shingles (I'm not even going to try to come up with the name for that one), but didn't get to the shingling. Yeah, I had buckets to catch water all over the house. I was ready to sell it (or burn it) so we could just get out of it. Anyway, the rain finally left and left us with a few repairs to make, but now we have a beautiful and leak-free roof (of course, it hasn't been put to the test yet... ).

Isn't yellow house beautiful??

So, it was all finished on Wednesday or something, Thursday was rather uneventful, but Friday....well, it was a great morning. I was very productive, I got all my morning chores done, all the little things that need to be done and then I was getting ready to go to work (You know, my 6 hour a week job at our church) and what did I find when I went to the basement to get a bottle of water? More water, coming from our hot water heater. Oh, I started to panic. I decided in that moment that although I had always thought of water as fun and good, it was really bad and not so fun. I was ready to move to the desert. Well, since Curt works here and all, I guess we are staying but, it was really close. A big shout out to my friends (Rachel and Brad and Rachel and Chad) who so wonderfully calmed me down and helped to get us a new water heater installed on Saturday. You guys are fabulous and I love you all.

A couple of things...

to share with you today. First, I have some roof progress pictures. Some of them (of the back of the house) were taken yesterday. The ones of the front are what is going on today. It is threatening to rain some more, but these guys are awesome and just keep pounding away.

This is yellow house before its makeover.

This is the roof over our sunroom on the backside of the house (yes, I had to climb up on the ladder. Ethan said "Momma, I don't think this is a good idea." Smart little man he is!)

The outer edge of the sunroom with new shingles (aren't they beautiful?)

Tearing off the front of the roof

Movin' right along!!

Hopefully I will have finished yellow house pictures soon. It is supposed to rain all weekend, so I don't expect them back until next week. Oooo, it's going to be pretty!!

Second order of business is a little video I took last night of Ethan. He was watching Jungle Book with Jacob while they were eating a "picnic" in the living room. Apparently, he thought Mowgli and Baloo were funny.

He was actually laughing harder a few minutes before but, of course, I didn't have the camera in hand.

Happy 8th Second Birthday!!

Dear Curtis,

Today is the 8th anniversary of your accident. Sometimes it seems like it was a whole lifetime ago that I got the phone call to get to the hospital, and sometimes it feels like it happened yesterday. I try not to dwell on the what ifs (what if it happens again, what if next time it is worse) because I know that God has it all under control. But, sometimes I wonder. I am so glad that you are still with me. I appreciate you and love you and I even like you. Thank you for making me laugh (all the time) and for holding my hand when I need that. You are the very best husband that this girl could have asked for and I'm glad that we have been blessed with our life, even when the unexpected happens.

Enjoy today.

K.

It's Happening

We are finally getting a new roof put on our house. Last winter our roof started leaking into the sunroom. Drip, drip, drip, became run, run, run. Anyway, the work crew (thanks David!) are here today starting it. They have already ripped off the roof over the leaky area (it's getting fixed first) and most of the back side of the house. I am so excited that this project is getting done. I will post some pictures of the before, during and after soon.