Tagged again and again!

Okay, so I have officially been tagged three times... thanks Becky, Kristen and DeAnn. So I'm breaking down and finally doing this. I'm supposed to tell you six things about myself that you may or may not know. So here it goes...

1. I enjoy scrapbooking, fourwheeling, sewing, most kinds of crafts, and the Biggest Loser.

2. I do not like mice and my house seems to attract them... why???? I am thinking that our house is actually colder than outside, so maybe the mice will run away from our house to find a warmer place!

3. One of my pet peeves is eating with your mouth open, making a smacking sound.

4. I worked at a daycare for 5 years and I really miss the toddlers!

5. My favorite doll when I was a kid was my Cabbage Patch named Greta Olive.

6. My favorite tv shows are the Biggest Loser, John & Kate Plus 8, Extreme Home Makeover and the Office. I also love Lifetime and Hallmark movies!


Now I get to tag someone... I tag Molly, Amanda, and Lynda.

Fun Times

So, we had a great weekend with Sara & Jason. They drove to KS Thursday after work and got here early Friday morning. Janet & I both took off work on Friday to have a Girls' Day, shopping in Wichita. I debated and debated about taking off and knew that if I didn't I'd be really disappointed while they were shopping on Friday. Afterall, it is one of my favorite hobbies! I really didn't buy much on Friday, but it was good to get out and have a good time with my S-I-L, M-I-L, and G-I-L (sister, mother, and grandma in-laws). Friday night, we were over at Dale & Janet's with some family friends and had a good time chatting and playing the Wii. Saturday we went four-wheeling out at Alice's and the dogs ran for the full 8 miles. We had dinner over at Grandma Ortman's with some of the family. Sara and Jason left early this morning and we headed off to church. I enjoyed cuddling with baby Grant and listening to Andrew make tractor noises during church :).

Other things that have been going on...

• Shaun bought a new-used diesel truck last week
• I survived my first parent-teacher conferences and get the pleasure of doing them again on Monday
• I'm really enjoying our Ladies' Bible Study on Sunday afternoons on the book of Daniel (if you haven't participated in any of Beth Moore's bible studies, I highly encourage you to)
• I'm hoping that it stays dry this week and the guys can get in the fields, so we can go to jeeping in Cassville at the end of the week. Rain, Rain, STAY AWAY!!!!

Hope you all have a GREAT week!

Why we live at Lowe's...

Well, we don't actually live at Lowe's, it just seems like it. With their name plastered all over the second story of our house, what do you expect? As mentioned in my previous post, we got new windows last weekend. My dad came down and helped Shaun put in 6 new windows and we still have one left. We had 10 windows in the upstairs, and Shaun decided to block off one in each room. So we made a deal, if I lost windows, I was getting sheetrock in ALL of the bedrooms! Each room has paneling and I seriously dislike the whole paneling era! Shaun's idea is to just buy a big piece of artwork at a garage sale and cover the old hole... I think not. We also blew in some more insulation into the walls and wrapped the house (hince living in Lowe's), so we are hoping that this will help warm the house up this winter. We are putting new siding on the second story and are planning on re-shingling the roof next month. Hopefully it will all get done.

Picture of our house, minus the old siding
Out come the windows and wasp nests!

I'll post more pictures once the windows are finished and I have my sheetrock :). What else is new? Shaun and Dale are still working in the fields, sowing wheat and getting ready to cut some more fall crops. It's been raining for the last two days and is still raining, so the fields will have to dry out before they can get back out there. I'm working on grade cards and assessing my students this week, as it is the end of the first 9 weeks.

Well that's enough rambling, so hope you have a great week!

Same Old Stuff

Well, there's not really anything "note-worthy" that has happened in the last week. Shaun has been so busy in the fields and fixing his farm-jeep that he hasn't been getting home until 10 p.m. And I go to work, come home, sleep... go to work, come home, sleep... go to work, come home, sleep, etc. I did however finally start scrapbooking my Colorado pictures last week and have it just about finished. Friday night, Janet and I went to Moundridge's Homecoming (which I have to say was the second football game I've ever been to- can you tell it's not my favorite sport?). On Saturday, Janet and I went to DeAnn's intro into the Bethel Sports Hall of Fame. Congratulations, DeAnn! And on Sunday, we went to church, ate at D'Angelo's, went to Lowes and Target in Hutch, and came home to do a little work around the farm. So there's our boring recap of the weekend... hopefully I'll have something better to write about next time (like new windows in the upstairs bedrooms!!!).