Last night I came home pretty late after painting more at the Orem house. I normally set out breakfast, water bottles, and clean underwear on the table for the kids, but was just too tired to do it. I got up this morning when I heard Will and had to explain why I hadn't remembered to put the stuff out. So, tonight I, once again, had to go paint for a few hours and got back after 9. I looked on the table and saw his and Maddy's water bottles with pop tarts next to them and a pair of clean underwear. I guessed Will had done it and Dave confirmed and told me Will did it so "mommy doesn't have to worry about it". He is such a sweetie. Most of the painting is done except for some white trim in some areas and the one room that is purple. I should finish all that tomorrow and then we are having the carpet replaced next week. After everything is said and done, the house should look pretty nice. We also put new blinds up and closet doors in. The only thing really left to do is replace the carport, but I am having a very difficult time finding a contractor who wants to do a small job like that. I have left several messages and had zero call backs. Then one guy said,"I guess we could do that." and never called back. The only people left to do jobs like this are the people who post their skills in the classifieds and none of them have any reviews. I just don't know what to do now.

a few recent pics

So, Joshua is mobile. He rolls all over and scoots forwards. I'm hoping the crawling holds off, but we'll see. The sad pic of Will and the gingerbread house was when he was about to throw it away. It was a couple of months old and dusty and breaking-and every time Hannah would come over she'd try to eat it. lol Things are going well. The van is finally in the shop and we have a bright red mini van as a rental. ha.

This week has been so busy, I don't even know where to start. I'm just glad it's over and our house is finally listed! I've read the most traffic comes through the first 2-3 weeks of listing, so I really hope we get some interest in it soon. We've don't a lot of work on it and it's pretty clean. I haven't read the whole book of eat to live, but would like to try it at some point since everyone keeps telling me how awesome it is. I want to wait until we're in our next house though; it's not fun to prepare anything in this "kitchen" and our fridge has hardly any space. In the meantime, I've gone back to weight watchers. No meetings, just on my own, so that should get me started on the downward spiral I hope. I love my meat, so the eat to live thing kinda makes me raise an eyebrow. I tend to agree with Dave that meat is good for you, and I don't really feel like a meal is complete without some kind of meat protein. I am willing to give it up temporarily though to see big results, but I could never commit to that sort of a lifestyle change. I guess I'll just wait and see how I feel on it though. I did go a month without meat and dairy and felt pretty good, but was happy to go back to meat. Me and the kids were watching this discovery thing about Australia's deadliest animals. It was a little scary for Maddy. She covered her ears the whole time and told me she didn't want to watch it, but she didn't want to leave. lol Will was entranced. He did tell me we are never going to Australia though. haha. Afterward, I showed the kids a map of the world and hoped to put Maddy at ease by showing how far away we were from Australia. Never mind that we have our own deadly animals... After that, Will was just looking at the map and in an amused tone said, "Hey look at that. There's a state called Turkey. hahahahaha." Major laughing went on after that. They also thought Chile was funny. I love my goofy kids.