Updates

New carpet is in. It looks great. I'm getting my old shelves from school next weekend to put down there to help organize. The carpet is gone in the dining room. The hardwood still needs work, but it's livable the way it is. And, I'M COMING TO KY IN JULY! The boys and I will be making the trip on the 2nd or 3rd and we'll leave the 10th. Mike Chapman is preaching at Salem the 4th and Holden's B-day party is the 9th! Woo hoo!

So Excited!

So here's what gets me excited... apparently it's floors! We had water damage MONTHS ago in the basement and we're finally getting the new carpet laid. Johnny and I spent all of last Saturday trying to reorganize and clean the garage, finished basement, and unfinished basement. Anyway, tomorrow's the day for that. Also, we have realized that we have hardwood floors in the dining room under the carpet. So that carpet is getting taken up... hopefully today. I don't know what kind of shape it's in, but I would rather live with rough looking hardwood than carpet in my dining room. For the life of me I will never understand putting carpet in dining rooms. The last thing I'm excited about is that Johnny is out buying a dehumidifier right now. Our basement is so very damp that I can't leave my clothes in the washer or dryer AT ALL after they're finished. I've been having to set the alarm on my phone to remind me to deal with laundry b/c if I don't everything comes out soured and I have to rewash everything. I hardly have time to do our laundry once, much less twice!

Yesterday we took the kids to the zoo. Both boys were so good! It was such a perfect morning and I realized how blessed I am watching those two. Corban has been something of a different child since he hit 3. Not that he doesn't have his moments, but for the most part he is just much better behaved. Caden's still a little wild man. He has pooped on the potty twice though! He's so interested in it b/c of Corban that I doubt I'll have to wait as long to potty train him as I did Corban. Won't that be awesome when I can put away the diapers! I'm not rushing him though, just waiting to see how interested he is.

We also celebrated our anniversary yesterday. Carolyn watched the boys while Johnny and I went to Mitchell's Fish Market. It's the best seafood around. Oh I can not wait to get to the beach this fall for vacation so that I can have some good seafood! Well, I'm going to get a Mt. Dew and swiss cake roll (I've just found the Great Value version at Wal-Mart for cheap!) before Caden wakes up. He's not been taking great naps lately :(

Pics

I put two of the pics from the Aquarium on the side, then realized they're tiny, so I'm going to put the on here too. The others are of Grace and Holden at Leono's - the second time I got to eat there that week!

Vacation

Wow, it's been a long time since my last post! We went to KY for Marilou's wedding and had a good time. Johnny took the week off, so it was kind of "vacation." We went to the Newport Aquarium one day. Corban liked it a lot, Caden could have cared less I think - glad we didn't have to pay for him! We had dinner at Larry and Lynn's with them and Sherry, Patrick, Carter, Max, and Kerry. Max is as cute as all his pictures - sad to say I didn't get a single one for myself - my camera was dead during most of our trip. We went to Flemingsburg to visit some friends from the church Johnny preached at there. We hadn't been back since we moved here (4 years ago yesterday!). The rest of the time we played in the creek at Mom and Dad's and at the strawberry patches and did lots of eating. I always get my Leono's fix while I'm in and Johnny always has to go to the mexican restaurant b/c we don't have any authentic mexican places here. I also worked hard to have my fill of strawberries - I think I ate shortcake about 8 times and rhubard dessert a few times as well! The boys were both so good on the trip, we were so proud of them!

We got stuck in traffic on the way to KY. It was about noon and we were debating when to stop for lunch when the traffic slowed down and stopped. After a few minutes we turned off the car and a few minutes later we got out. We ended up being there for over two hours! There had been a double fatality accident, so those understandbly take a long time to clear. We just walked up and down the interstate for 2 hours visiting and trying to keep the kids occupied. They were covered with road dust and hot and cranky the entire time, but did really well considering.

We had a hectic weekend when we got back with all of the stuff that had to get done around here for Sunday. Yesterday we got our vegetables planted and took the boys fishing in the afternoon. When we got back to the truck afterward we were talking about what to do for dinner and Corban said he wanted a hamburger. We asked him if he wanted chickie instead and he said, "No, I want a hambur... do you have chickie in this truck?" It was so funny how he switched mid sentence wondering if we had chickie in this truck! We were also watching the He-Man and She-Ra movie the other night and he was wanting to "get" the bad guys. He turned around and saw his wooden pop-gun and said, "Oh, that'll help!" Oh, these kids are the best! It's killing me seeing him not be my little baby anymore, but I'm loving watching him grow up and be able to put his shoes on himself and all the other things that "big boys" do! Well, Caden is getting really fussy - not a fun stage for him! I'm going to try to put the few pics I have up soon!