My Life In Pictures

I guess I forgot to post about Easters.  We went to my mom's for dinner.  Katie and Dave filled eggs and we hid them around the family room for the kids to find.  It was pretty cute.

Dying Easter eggs the night before

Found all the candy the Easter bunny hid around the house

 The home improvement project from hell finally wrapped up.  We pulled all the vinyl flooring and subfloor, removed all the baseboards on the main level, pulled up all of the carpet, painted Josh's room downstairs, painted the main bath, painted the master bedroom and bathroom, did some touch-up painting on other rooms, and had new flooring put into every room on the main floor and the stairs.  Which necessitated moving every bit of furniture and appliance.  I'm very happy with the results and happy we did it.  Now that it's done and I'm not living like a hobo anymore, having to sleep on the couch and use the bathroom downstairs.  My friend Jennifer just did a similar project, and she said that she felt like she was camping.  Yeah, I get that.

Sean and I went to the Bon Jovi concert.  It was way fun.  I loved it.  We had nosebleed seats, but we were dead center.  I think Jon was looking right at me.  I'm sure of it.  I'm glad Sean likes to go to concerts with me.  It's so fun being in a packed stadium with everyone singing along to "Living On a Prayer."  My only complaint is that I read they did 6 more songs in Denver the night before and 2 encores.  Boo.  

Brittney went to Prom Saturday night.  Her friends did her hair.  It turned out really pretty, although in this pic it looks like it's in her eyes.  

 Courtney and I went to a bridal shower for one of her friends on Saturday and then out to her wedding venue to check out a few things.  Still lots of things to do, decisions to make.

We went today and bought potatoes, peas, carrots, beets, radishes, turnips, and parsnips.  Going to plant them tomorrow.

That's about it.  Things have been a little crazy, and I'm looking forward to trying to slow down for a few days.

Things I Have Learned

Things I have learned this week:

• Spring Break is for going to Las Vegas or St. George or somewhere else warm.  That's it.  That is the only acceptable activity.  
• Never do major home remodeling over Spring Break.  If I had it to do over again, I would wait for summer of 2014.  
• If you think your kids will help you with major home remodeling, think again.  Because they will not.  
• I am a laid back person.  I am more much more productive if I have a schedule, but I usually love to just kick back and go with the flow.  Not when my house is torn apart.  I'm anxious and on-edge.  I can't just sit down and read a book or watch a movie or read the newspaper and write scathing letters to the editor in my head.  I can't get any other sort of project done, like go dig in the flower beds or organize the junk drawer, when I have down time.  I can't do anything when I have workers in my house.  Waiting for them to come this morning, I just couldn't do anything but wander around and wait for them to come.  
• I can do hard things, like pull up subfloor, but I don't want to anymore.  I have bruises and cuts all over my body.  I am hoping I regain all of the sensation in my pinky at some point. 
• Flooring guys have a great schedule.  At least mine do.  I called yesterday to ask when I could expect them to show up, and the receptionist said, "He starts his jobs between 9:30 and 12:00."   Why can't my job be like that?  "Mrs. Chamberlain usually teaches sophomore English between 9:30 and noon.  So, you can just be hanging around until she decides to show up."  
• Eating out is fun, unless you are eating out because your kitchen doesn't exist, and you need something quick so you can get back to the job you are doing, and you look like a dusty, filthy hobo so you don't want to go anywhere good. Then eating out is yuck.