Monday, January 24, 2011

New Carpet and the cusp of change






I got new carpet...I got new carpet. yes I am singing with a little bit of dancing. My carpet looks beautiful. Okay let me back up a little so you get the full picture. We have lived here for 2 and some odd years. After moving in we got a puppy who proceeded to "mark" the place as her own toilet. I have enclosed a few pictures. Luckily we met a young man in our ward that was willing to help us out with the cost of a new carpet, unluckily he measured wrong and we ended up with enough carpet to do almost the whole house excluding the two small bedrooms. Since he saved us thousands of dollars (literally) we forgave him.
I can't explain the level of my excitement. We did get to do a little extra work of our own that day as after they ripped up the old carpet, we found that we needed the sweep the cement with bleach and water to assist Mugsy (our dog) with not "marking" the area again when the new carpet was put in. I'm happy to report that she has been doing amazing and has not had an accident since. During that day, we also found a slightly large crack that ran from end to end of each of the rooms that we needed to cover up with caulk or in our case , left over grout. This crack I was told was common when the house settles. Although after the carpet guy mentioned that we might want to seal them up so prevent ants from coming in, I was ready to get started. Caulking and grouting was fun and bob even put a smiley face on the cement in our room in grout. Yes, ladies and gentleman, future generations in this house will know Bob (cheesey face) Laney was here.
By the way, I posted the pictures backwards so the one at the top is the new carpet.
Soon we will be having a welcome carpet party at our house. Please look out for further details.

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Funny funnies


Today, I actually laughed at most of the comics I read. This one just rang too true.

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Christmas


It was a good time had by all! We enjoyed having the day off together, and preparing for Santa to come.




Smiley cookies were made...

A few survived for Santa...
And presents were left under the "tree". (We never made it out to buy one. Next year.)
Mugsy was even so excited she chased her own tail. One day she'll catch it.

Christmas Day we went to spend time with Tiffany's family-Mom and Dad


Nate, Sue, and the kids
Tammy, Rob, and son
Okay, so this isn't Christmas. But I didn't have any pictures of Ryan and Todd at Christmas.


Tammy Ward..Again..not Christmas. See above.




And the cutest couple in the world!

Christmas was a good time...especially as we remembered Jesus Christ and the gift He gave us more than two thousand years ago.

Happy New Year!

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Hard to believe it's January again. A few things have changed for us...

I got a new job 2 miles from home!

We have a new calling...teaching the YSA class. I think its a bishopric plan to get somebody to say yes to something, say its just teaching a class on Sunday, and then let you find out about everything else that goes on with it, like monthly stake meetings and other activities responsibilities. We love the calling though---and still love our bishopric!

We made the decision to put new carpet in the house sometime this month...we'll let you know how that goes. Let us just say a few spots that were there originally when we bought the house and puppy training gone awry do not make for a pretty carpet.

Nothing else new lately...we still hope and pray for a child to come into our lives...check us out and share with your friends our adoption hopes.

Happy New Year from, well, us. And Mugsy too.