Tuesday, November 25, 2008
IT'S A GIRL....and a boy!
My oldest sister, Amie, is expecting her first child next May, and we found out today that is it a girl!! I am so glad she is having a girl...she would probably raise a very sissy little boy, no offense, sis! Also, one of my younger sisters, Tara Gail, got engaged last weekend, and she is getting married to Daniel in April. In between those, my baby sister, Beth, will be graduating from MSU. Next spring promises to be a very very busy time for the Phillips family. I will keep you posted!
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Under Construction
Well, any of you who know us well, know that we love home improvement projects. Let me rephrase that...we love the IDEA of home improvement projects. When it comes to the actual project, we tend to start strong, stall out somewhere mid-way, and then wait on word of a visit from friends or family to kick us into hyper drive to finish.
We recently put in new granite counter tops, which went pretty quickly, mainly because we hired someone to do it. I was blissfully ignorant to the whole process, and expected to walk in the day the counter tops were installed and immediately begin enjoying my new kitchen. Instead, I walked in to see my kitchen torn apart (literally) and 2 strange men and Josh standing over a whole in my new granite, discussing the fact that our cooktop probably wouldn't go into the hole that was cut for it. Long story short, the cooktop did fit-barely. The installers finally left us the survey the situation. Rather than the beautiful new kitchen I had imagined, I was left with a layer of sawdust covering my kitchen and my gorgeous new counter tops, as well as everything inside my lower cabinets, and a dishwasher that was no longer attached to anything. Slowly, my kitchen was put back together, and finally my dishwasher no longer falls into the kitchen floor when I open it.
Shortly after the kitchen project was complete, we decided to replace the doors in the house. Since Josh works for a mill works shop, he took down the doors, and took them to work to use as templates for our new doors. The plan was for the doors to be taken down one night, go to work the next day, and the new doors be here that night. The reality was that the doors in our house were a slightly different size than the slabs that Josh's shop keeps, so they had to be ordered. While we waited, our doors sat at the mill works shop. Yep, that's right- No doors! No bedroom door, no bathroom door....it was great! Josh finally got the slabs in, made the doors, brought them home, and eventually got them hung. Next came painting them. We also decided that we should paint the trim throughout the house to match. We began painting, and finished the trim in the main living area, and exactly one door. That is where we hit a road block. I dislike painting, but Josh HATES it! We kept coming up with really great reasons not to paint the doors on weeknights (we need to go to the grocery store, we need to walk the dogs, we need a night to rest from going to the grocery store and walking the dogs) and we hated to waste our weekends on something as mundane as painting doors. That is until we found out that my grandparents were coming to town this weekend for a visit...So now we are 3 days away from my grandparents' arrival, and again, I have no doors (well, to be accurate, I do have doors, they are just sitting in the living room floor still waiting to be painted), there is an air compressor in the kitchen, my bedroom curtains are draped over my fitness equipment waiting to be ironed (because Josh thought he was doing me a favor and decided to wash them) and all of my bedroom furniture is pushed into the middle of the room, surrounding the bed, leaving only a small path for getting in or out of bed. Gotta love home improvement projects!
We recently put in new granite counter tops, which went pretty quickly, mainly because we hired someone to do it. I was blissfully ignorant to the whole process, and expected to walk in the day the counter tops were installed and immediately begin enjoying my new kitchen. Instead, I walked in to see my kitchen torn apart (literally) and 2 strange men and Josh standing over a whole in my new granite, discussing the fact that our cooktop probably wouldn't go into the hole that was cut for it. Long story short, the cooktop did fit-barely. The installers finally left us the survey the situation. Rather than the beautiful new kitchen I had imagined, I was left with a layer of sawdust covering my kitchen and my gorgeous new counter tops, as well as everything inside my lower cabinets, and a dishwasher that was no longer attached to anything. Slowly, my kitchen was put back together, and finally my dishwasher no longer falls into the kitchen floor when I open it.
Shortly after the kitchen project was complete, we decided to replace the doors in the house. Since Josh works for a mill works shop, he took down the doors, and took them to work to use as templates for our new doors. The plan was for the doors to be taken down one night, go to work the next day, and the new doors be here that night. The reality was that the doors in our house were a slightly different size than the slabs that Josh's shop keeps, so they had to be ordered. While we waited, our doors sat at the mill works shop. Yep, that's right- No doors! No bedroom door, no bathroom door....it was great! Josh finally got the slabs in, made the doors, brought them home, and eventually got them hung. Next came painting them. We also decided that we should paint the trim throughout the house to match. We began painting, and finished the trim in the main living area, and exactly one door. That is where we hit a road block. I dislike painting, but Josh HATES it! We kept coming up with really great reasons not to paint the doors on weeknights (we need to go to the grocery store, we need to walk the dogs, we need a night to rest from going to the grocery store and walking the dogs) and we hated to waste our weekends on something as mundane as painting doors. That is until we found out that my grandparents were coming to town this weekend for a visit...So now we are 3 days away from my grandparents' arrival, and again, I have no doors (well, to be accurate, I do have doors, they are just sitting in the living room floor still waiting to be painted), there is an air compressor in the kitchen, my bedroom curtains are draped over my fitness equipment waiting to be ironed (because Josh thought he was doing me a favor and decided to wash them) and all of my bedroom furniture is pushed into the middle of the room, surrounding the bed, leaving only a small path for getting in or out of bed. Gotta love home improvement projects!
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Happy Howl-o-ween!
Yep, I hate to admit it, but I have become one of those people. I dress up my dog! This year, Sam had his first Halloween costume. And rather than trying to help me come to my senses when I presented the idea to Josh, he voiced his opinion of what the costume should be. After some discussion, we chose a little devil costume, complete with horns. He was a very cute little devil, and he wore his costume so well! He helped me pass out candy to all of the trick or treaters. And if that isn't bad enough, we got out the camera and tripod, and sat it up to take pictures of us and Sam in his costume. We need help!!
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