Can I tell you what I just did?
My mother in law asked me to make pie crusts. NO big deal, I've made them before and am ususally pretty good in the kitchen anyway. But when I went to check on them a few seconds ago, they had shrunk. Not just a little bit. A whole bit. Like the sides that I scrunched with my fingers were down on the base of the pie pan. HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN??? Wow. Anyway- that isn't really why I am blogging, I just thought it was a great opener.
Life has been, well, busy. The holidays were fun. Hans got the days after Christmas and New Years off, so we had some even longer weekends to spend together as a family. We spent lots of time sledding, laughing and building snowmen. I hope I don't teach our kids bad habits, but I throw snowballs at them and laugh my head off when I actually get them. It doens't happen too often. We were able to spend Christmas with all of Hans' family(with the exception of a brother-in-law who is over, er, under sea right now with the NAvy) We had a lot of fun with a Fiesta themed Christmas Eve party which included the selling and bartering of Mexican souvinors from my in-laws trip to Puetro Villarta. We all laughed and ate and opened WAAYY too many presents. It is always fun to spend the holidays with family. For New Years, we went to a party with friends and laughed some more. We are so thankful for the friends that we have and that they still include us even though we are gone and soon to be goner.(I know that isn't a word- more gone, is that right?)
I would get more pictures on here but I am pretty hopeless with this computer so I leave the pictures up to Hans. You can get mad at him all you want. I better get my shrunken pies out of the oven and try to fill them, with something!
WELCOME to our new home
We got moved in settled a few weeks ago, but it has taken me longer than I thought to get back into my groove. I hadn't realized that I HAD a groove, maybe it was more like a rut, but anyway, I am comfortably back into it and that is that. So, I am sure that you are all curious to see what exactly we moved into. You have to promise to not be jealous!!! Really.... everybody seems to think that I mind terribly our new home, but I don't mind it that much. I am with Hans, the boys have their dad and unlimited roaming space and so much more family close by, I would make the trade again anyday. Not to mention the projects that I am planning that will keep me busy for quite some time. Ready?
Well, the power plant pays for all of their employees to move within 40 miles of the plant so they packed us up and shipped us off. This is the truck arriving. It was huge! Our stuff only took up about 1/3 of the truck!
Hans and I are still in debate about what is happening with the exterior of the house. I want to get some paint and paint it, then get a good color match and do the shutters differently. The porch will be fixed- it sags in the middle and threatens to collapse whenever you step on it. I want to put a little roof over it, a simple little peak that stretches back to the trailer, that would hopefully break up the ugliness a little bit. we will probably be here for 21/2 to 3 years so I want to make it look like a home for us.
OK- let me explain that roof looking thing. Nevermind- can't explain it. But I am going to try to put little support strut things off from it to support a new piece of wood that will make it look like a beam instead of a chintzy shingled roof inside of a house. And that is faux brick paneling. he he he. I have never seen it before. I giggle when I see it. The next pic is the kitchen dining combo. The floor is newish lineolium, so that is good to stay. But the wallpaper is falling off and so I am going to practice my tiling and do a medium dark greyish tile and then strip the cupboards and paint them a white. The door knobs will be replaced too. Hopefully this will work with the mustard yellow stove- this trailer is 30 years old, so it is very 70's with the wood paneling EVERYWHERE!!
UNGH. The paneling is sooo dark! This hallway could use a coat of paint. Hans' grandma is skeptical of us painting the paneling, truthfully I am too, but this is so drab I have got to do something! The light fixture is going to be replaced so my dad doesn't hit his head everytime he comes over. Well, for that matter, most of the light fixtures will get to be replaced soon.
I saved the best for last!!! Our bathroom is horrid! Seriously- I don't mind it, it just makes me laugh it is that ugly. The floral nasty green print coordinates with the yellos tub, toilet and sink. The linoleum is the same shades and that crazy design you could sit and stare at for hours trying to figure out the pattern. A new sink is already in the works. A new shower curtain already bought, and so many plans floating in my head. Wall paper off, new linoleum, tiling another backspash, paint the walls, build a frame around the mirror to make it the focal point. So much to do. Will I get it done in my 3 year time limit?? Oh and the kicker, the washer and dryer are in the bathroom! Convienent!!!
We had such a fun Halloween! It got kicked off with an adult( that sounds naughty!) Halloween Party which was fun as it always is to get together with all of everybody. I love seeing all the costumes and wish I knew which file Hans put them uner so I could post them. Beau and Bonnie won my prize for best dressed- Beau looked hot in that eyeliner and black nail polish. Anyway, then on Halloween we had a bunch of the kids over for a little party and had a great time- I did anyway, I hope the kids did too. We went trick or treating in the "old ward" just to say hi to some folks we hadn't seen in a while. The boys had a great time. Tait slept through it all in his comfy bear outfit and Hiett only fell down two sets of stairs with his AWESOME hoomemade batman mask. I don't know how much longer I will get away with homemade costumes but until then- $6 always beats out $20-40 in my opinion, and I think the kids have more fun being "creative". HA ha. We had a great time and the candy is almost gone already- I swear I haven't helped too much!
5 comments:
Oh Shell being even "goner" makes it sound like you are leaving the world! HA! I was secretly hoping Honts would change his mind, hate his job, and you two would stay here! HA! OK j/k, as much as I would like you to stay here for my selfish reasons, I am praying that things will work out for you guys! SNIFF! I miss ya! Good luck with the pie crusts, at least you know how to make them!
Shellie! You make me laugh.
Ya know, when I made pies for Christmas day dinner...my crusts did the SAME thing!!!! I have no idea why! If you figure it out let me know.
So glad you all had happy holidays!
Hope you can make it to temple night.
Sounds like you had fun during the holidays. Too bad we didn't get to see each other. I bet your pies are not as bad as you make them sound. And I'm sure they'll taste just fabulous.
The pies were wonderful, shrunken crusts anad all!!! I loved them. It was fun spending time with you all this past weekend, it is always so much fun! Love you bunches and bunches and oodles of noodles!! MOM
At least you try to make pies, I'm all about the frozen ones! I saw Hans at Wal-mart, I had no clue you were pregnant! Congrats!
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