I know, I know...it's been too long!

For the last week we've been crazy busy working on our house. Towards the end of last week Jacob broke one of our upstairs windows (I'm not even sure what he was doing but it broke.. at least it was an old window that needed to be replaced.) so lucky Daniel got to replace a window after he had already had a long day at work. Maybe I should rewind a little...we bought replacement windows for our entire house (not counting the sun room) last November......................and most of them have been sitting in a cute pile in the corner of our garage. Daniel did put 2 of them in our living room right after we bought them and one in our room; when it was pretty chilly out in either late November or early December we decided to replace 2 of the 3 windows in the boys' room. Not only did we replace them but we knocked the opening out a little bigger so there'd be even more light. The window Jacob broke last week was in our room so after that one was taken care of we only had 3 left upstairs to replace. Daniel got up early Saturday morning and started working right away..

 (window opening and useless closet)

I had checked the weather forecast on Friday and we were supposed to have nice weather on Saturday and a lot of rain on Sunday. He got the window out of the boys' room and the other 2 (one from the bathroom and one from the old kitchenette that will eventually be our master bath) also. We found some mold and A LOT of rotten wood that had to come out and be replaced.

We needed to make a supply run to Home Depot so just before lunch we left and of course had to stop for lunch somewhere and where better to go with 2 kids than Friendly's. It also helped that it's right where Home Depot is! While in Friendly's Daniel checked the radar map and got a little worried about the big storm that was headed right for us. We didn't have any food yet and had 3 big holes in our house from the windows. As you can figure, it poured. It rained and rained and rained. We got everything we needed except the sheet of drywall (that would've been a total disaster in the rain!) and drove home in the pouring down rain.  

(POURING outside...big hole in the boys room...not to mention the 2 on the back of the house)

We wanted to knock out the stinky closet in their room that we don't use (there's 2) and give them a little more room......I took it upon myself to get all the sheetrock off of it and when I was ready I said to Daniel "So, I just take the saw and cut this 2x4, right?" He looked at it and said "woah! I don't think we can do that. It looks like a load bearing wall." Of course I called my daddy and sent him a picture to look at of it and they determined that it was in fact load bearing (though based on what Daniel said if the house/roof was framed out properly it wouldn't have been load bearing). After this discovery we decided it needed to be closed back up but I was not wanting to make it as un-useful as it was before. Daniel was willing to comply and we widened the door opening (after installing a header above the door). We're in the process of mudding it now and hopefully it'll be totally done and functional by next week! Good news...all 3 windows are installed upstairs and just waiting for trim! woo-hoo!

(window installed and closet all drywalled!)

Anyways, onto life with 2 kids. We had a soccer game tonight (it's been over a week since we had soccer!) Jacob was AWESOME!  He actually kicked the heck out of the ball tonight. At some point he kept a little girl on the other team from making a goal, somehow he ended up on the ground and the little girl that he kept from making the goal stepped on him! Of course his coach (our neighbor!) came to his rescue and sternly told the little girl that we don't step on people (ok, let's be honest...she yelled at her! If you know Megan you'd laugh about it!). Regardless, the little girl cried her way off the field which really makes me laugh since she stepped on my kid and he stood up and kept playing!! The same little girl that stepped on him would just sit on the ball frequently throughout the game if other kids were going after it and they were all huddled together.  Obnoxious!!

As usual, Zach enjoyed lollipops throughout the game!

This is how Daniel and Zach ended their day....you can bet that the simpsons were on.

Zach was tired and Daniel was feeling crappy. Poor boys.

Tomorrow's a big day for me to get stuff ready for Saturday's party! As well as folding the 3 huge baskets of laundry sitting in front of me right now that I'm ignoring!

Here's some pictures from the end of last week...............

 BEST slide ever!

my silly cats. They're inside/outside cats but they know they eat their wet food outside (so the dogs can't eat it!). It wasn't dinnertime for them yet but they kept staring in at me like they were starving. Anytime I opened the door to let them in they walked over to their food dish on the deck! stubborn cats! (I remember before I had children and used to take pictures of my pets frequently........not so much anymore!)