new floor

Neil requested that I share this with our blog friends! We just finished putting new flooring down in our kitchen. It is a peel and stick vinyl tile that looks like stone tile. I was very skeptical of putting huge stickers on our floor. Mostly I did not care because we are putting the house on the market a week from today so, if we messed it up or did not like it, it would only be our floor for a few more months! It actually looks pretty good! Now we wonder why we didn't do it earlier so we could enjoy it longer! Neil is so proud and protective of it that he picks up any speck he sees on the floor. Maybe it is good we will only have it for a short time, he would probably drive me crazy!

We started the process on Sunday night at 10:00 pm after the babies were sleeping! I thought, "You crazy man, what are you getting us into?" We ran out of tiles at about 1:00 am so we were able to get some sleep. Tuesday night I finished up the wall edging by myself while Neil was working, then on Wednesday night we stayed up together and finished the pantry floor and under the refrigerator! It was actually kind of fun working together on a home project. We have not done any improvement projects together since we finished up the "moving- in" updates when we bought the house 3 years ago! Even though we had to stay up until 2 am a few nights it was nice spending time together working and talking!

Pray for us! We are starting the moving process! We will be leaving Alabama on Sunday and heading to Oklahoma for an entire month! Neil will be doing an externship at Baptist Hospital. While in OK our house will be on the market here and we will be looking for a new one there. We have been very busy getting our house ready to sell. We have been sorting our junk and packing up the closets and trying to fix a few things. This week we have to do finishing touches, pack for our month long "vacation", and leave the house in "viewing" condition so someone will hopefully want to buy it! AAAhhh! I should not really be on the computer, I should be vacuuming the house to prepare for the carpet cleaners tomorrow! I am not sure I want to risk waking up the kids since it is 11:00 pm. Well, that is the reason you have not heard from us in a while!

paper airplanes

Mitchell was sitting in the floor the other night coloring in a notepad and tearing out each page he colored on. I sat down with him and thought, "What can we do with all of this paper on the floor?" Hoping for a cool mom moment I quietly made a paper airplane. I said, "Look Mitchell, watch this airplane." I threw the airplane. He glanced up, but was not really impressed. He colored a little more. I tried a second prototype, "Watch this one." The second airplane took an immediate nose dive. He grabbed a piece of paper and said, "Mommy watch this airplane." I watched with anticipation as he stood up, waded the paper, and dropped it on the floor. Huh, not what I was expecting!

He threw a few more paper ball planes. I threw a few more folded paper planes. He was still not getting it. Mark joined us and helped make my airplanes look more like Mitchell's. Mitchell disappeared into his room for a moment and came back with a small model space shuttle. "Watch this one Mommy!" as he dropped and it crashed to the floor! OH! - my cool mom moment crashed with it! Actually it was probably a good little science experiment, but it had to be cut short because the small metal space shuttle's flight plan kept inching dangerously close to Mark's head!

Mitchell's Valentines Day party

Just some pics of the party! They decorated sugar cookies as the activity! That's about it! Mark had fun playing with the toys.

candy night!

Aunt Shell came to visit this weekend and we partied "heart"-y! On Saturday night we watched the new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. You can't watch it with out eating candy, so we made marshmello "things" with toothpics and ate valentine chocolate! Mitchell was in a daze and kept laying on us saying, "I'm not sick, Mommy". We started the movie during dinner but it got interrupted by baths and Mark's bed time, so it was about 10:30 by the time we got finished watching it!

My list of 4's

I am excited to be "tagged"! Thanks Dustin! I am a little late in responding but here goes!

Four Jobs I've had (I've really only had these four jobs!)
High School English teacher
Cracker Barrel Waitress
Let's Start Talking office lackey (and personal laundry ironer for Sherrylee Woodward)
Tour guide at Enterprise Square (Dustin, I was sad this didn't make your list!)

Four Places I've lived
Edmond, OK
Birmingham, AL
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Lisbon, Portugal
(ok, the last two were only for 2 months each, but it was a short list without them!)

Four Movies I Like
Love Actually
Bridget Jones
Adventures in Babysitting
Wedding Planner

Four Books I could read over and over
The Hiding Place
A Wrinkle in Time
The Thief of Always
Riders of the Purple Sage

Four TV Shows I Watch
Medium
Scrubs
Jay Leno
Days of our Lives

Four Places I've Been on Vacation (my favorites)
Paris, France
Colorado (Leadville, Aspen, Siloam Springs, Crested Butte)
Seaside, FL
New Port, RI

Four Websites I Check Daily
Yahoo, for e-mail
Walmart, to order pictures
My blog
Friend's Blogs

Four Things I'm going to do today (did today, since it is midnight!)
made a blog for our core group at church
watched American Idol
cut out curtains for a new puppet stage at church
spent too much time on the computer

Four things I should have done today (I added this one because of my guilty conscious)
washed the dishes
sewn and finished the curtains
folded the laundry
given Mitchell a bath after he colored on his legs with marker

Four People I'm tagging
Niki Correa
Andrea Noe
Gina Blankinship
Rachelle Taylor

Happy listing!!