been busy...

sorry it's been so long. I've been keeping pretty busy. Doing what????

* Christmas preparations. (kind of goes without saying eh?)

* major de-junking project. This would be FANTASTIC - if it were my OWN house, but it's not. My neighbor moved back east, and she is a total HOARDER pack-rat. Her health is not good, and the move got the best of her. they had some trouble with scheduling, and the moving company ended up scheduled to come AFTER the date when they had purchased tickets to fly out. She asked if I would be in charge of letting the movers in. Sounds simple enough right? Ended up being much more than that. We are going to try to get financing to purchase her home (better floor plan than our current home) She agreed to a lower sale price of the home in exchange for us doing the directing of the move, and sorting through TONS AND TONS of stuff to either take ourselves, throw away, or donate to DI. It has been really crazy. Tim and I spent about 4 hour over there on Saturday and finally finished sorting out the garage. Have lots to take to DI, which I hope to do on Tuesday or Wednesday. Now we are starting on the CLEANING part of the job. My mom and dad came over Saturday and helped for about 3 hours. The house looks tons better all ready. coming soon we'll call in someone to clean the carpets, and have most, if not all, the walls painted. I don't think I'll be doing a lot there this week. I'm going to try to focus on Christmas instead. (easier said than done. I really have an inner drive to get it DONE so it isn't hanging over my head. If anyone knows anyone who wants to buy or rent a home in my area - let me know... if we are able to get finacing for this new house, then come January I'll start moving my stuff over there, and we'll list this one for rent and for sale - and just see what come of it... Right now the market just isn't really great for selling. People are startign to buy homes again, but they are all looking for the "short-sale" or "super deal" - so who knows how it will all play out.

* regular day to day stuff.


Not an excitiin post I know, but it is what it is. If I don't get back here before Christmas, hope ya'll have a super good one!

The "Bubble Machine"

On Saturday we went with our friends, Aaron and Holly, to the Festival of Trees. In the kids area, they had a super cool Bubble maker thing. (don't really know what else to call it) Tim got videos of each child's turn. Pretty cool stuff. (I'd love to make one for a primary activity or a birthday party, but truth be told, it will probably never happen...)

So here you go... Enjoy!

In the presence of ROYALTY...

A funny thing happened at Family Home Evening tonight. 4 year old Bryan was teaching the lesson (which is always an adventure in and of itself) and when the "lesson" was over, he was calling on people who wanted to share their testimonies or say anything else. Katrina was raising her hand, and he called on her.

(Katrina) "Bryan, may I bear my testimony?"

(Bryan) "Yes, you may, but you can call me KING Bryan."

I think giving the lesson and being in charge of calling on people went to his head. What do you think?