hallelujah!

the day is almost over.

wow! long day here.
i am pretty fried.
lets see. shall i list it? i know it exhausts you to read it. but i have to, i can't resist.

the 4 big kids up dressed and out the door. including hair curled with hot rollers. and ON TIME to school
today was the standardized testing at school. can't be late.

TONY GOT HERE(by 8:30) for another week of work. and today's project? the dining room. and let me tell you. nightmarish. early on. talk about demolition. i'll do pictures don't worry it's too much to explain.


so the rest of the day went like this....

got hope's hair done, dressed and off on the bus.

Pierce dressed for the day.

going to Melanie's to make JAM with her and Jenny. gathering my stuff together.

and as we are leaving my sister stopping by to see the dressing room.
we visited for a few minutes.
and off to Melanie's

where we made strawberry freezer Jam. and hello Jenny has it down to a science. she is a jam making queen! (thanks girls for letting me come too!)
and i discovered why my freezer Jam never really set up last year, apparently you have to leave it out for 24 hours before freezing it. DUH! that would explain the soupyness. it still tasted good, and was extra easy to spread. but not really jammy.

while we were there pierce got a fat lip and even jammed his tooth into his top lip,it was deep! really sad guy.

get home and grabbed Hope

and proceed to eat lunch in the car,

and drive around killing time. while Pierce napped, in the car.

i came home to the door off the wall, and I'm talking the whole door Jamb , not just off the hinges, and the window in the dining room, torn out.and made into a door way, it's just lacking a door. the carpet was pulled up, the wallpaper stripped off the ceiling. and a giant gaping WHOLE where a door will go. STILL NO DOOR! and yeah the dogs have free reign to wander in and out. but they prefer in and one keeps farting. hello dog farts reek! and of course I've never experienced one since we have outside dogs but man, outside dogs require a door to keep them out. ARGH! oh but the gaping whole, has a live wire through the middle of it, since, um yeah it was a window area. they have to move that wire around to actually install a door, to the outside dog room. I'll take pictures you haven't lived until you've seen the horror. and just after you were coveting the family closet, you won't be coveting me now. i swear.

this is looking into the kitchen towards my front door. see the table in the walk way, and the filthy floor? the drywall? not textured. the lack of arch in two doorways. and what about the nasty vinyl flooring that was under the filthy carpet? yeah CLASSY! it's a little yellow brick road! More of the vinyl! OH YEAH BABY!
this is looking into the dining room. more drywall, ripped wallpaper waiting to be stripped. and yeah that is a door laying sideways.
the door that is going here but isn't yet because of the wire . see the live electrical wire? and that fab compressor. sitting in the new door way. there used to be a window, you know the one i killed the blinds in last month, when the birds were pooping on me. yeah that window, is gone baby gone. OH and see into the dog room? FABULOUS! this is the inner sanctum where we celebrate our white trashedness. the harvest gold outside fridge. unfinished walls, and i think there is a shot of our dogs A$$. NICE!
more of the dog room.
oh and here is where the pass through used to be. that i had assorted crap piled on until a month ago, and then i was clean and decorated but it was in the way of the new door so they tore it out bright and shiny early today. and i put the water sprayer up on it. so pierce wouldn't play with it.
Oh and here you see the arch, it is staying , so nice huh? and the ceiling, that is bare drywall sheets now, and Lance is hanging out in the fridge, AND YEAH notice the two tone wallpaper.
and here is the wall where the boys practiced their demolition skills , it was patched with patching compound a couple years ago but never patched with wallpaper, which turns out is great, or we'd be stripping it off. and you can see a little of the new door way.


see i told you you wouldn't covet me now. it is nasty. and the yellow brick road has the sickest texture ever on bare feet. EWWW. Lance blocked the door way and made the dogs go out finally, they'd been farting again. SICK! i could die from the fumes.



lets see, so i killed an hour, driving around, with napping kids,

then i stopped at my mom's she was napping,

and i stopped at my brothers house, and he was on a conference call. and his wife was gone but came home before i left.

and then , i went and picked up the big kids,

we hit sonic for drinks ,

and while at sonic in the drive through, we saw my mom,and she said come over, so we did.

then my brother invited us to come to Barro's with his family, and my mom came too.

while Lance took Peyton to my sisters house to work on pine wood derby cars. and hello, the weigh in is tomorrow. yeah. a tad late starting this year. so it's 10:30 and Lance and Peyton are still gone making the car. so much for getting to bed early for testing tomorrow. RAD!


after Barro's my brother's family stopped by to see the work getting done. and then i let the kids get homework done. and eat Oreo's before bedtime. I put them to bed later than 8:30 bedtime. and now i have caught up on blogging. sorry but i finally just marked all as read, and I'll start over from here. some were a whole week old. holy crap has it been that long?

and huh, I'm tired. oh the people watching? yeah the fabulous handy uncle tony can see me wasting alot of time blogging, while i could totally be cleaning the basement, OR scrubbing toilets. SO yeah LANCE IS GETTING MAD AT ME FOR GIVING AN ACCURATE DEPICTION OF WHAT I DO OR DON'T DO whatever the case may be. and in this case i don't do housework all day. i ignore reality and blog. like that is news or something? totally not new information, AND
LANCE TOLD ME TO PRETEND I ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING, and after they are done working here i can go back to doing nothing. NICE! thanks for that.
AND keeping the kids out of the house, and out of the way is kind of expensive. now i remember why blogging saves me so much money, it keeps me home and occupied instead of out spending money. and out eating out, and out wasting gas. and can i just say it is dang hot these days. MAN is it summer time already?

oh and some people got their pay it forward prizes today. yay! if you didn't get yours yet, stop reading here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

hairdo Jenn made this up and i stole it. hee hee! evil! yeah earrings. sterling silver wire earrings. some looked like this, some, were zig zagg-ie, and some had twisted wire. but all were one of a kind. and mostly matched each other. glad that is over. and bonus they were easy to ship! hello fabulous! if you won some take a picture of them on, and email me. so fun to see how great they look on everyone, i won't post them , i just wanna see. unless you want me to post it! that would be a fun feature.

so what kind of Monday did you have?