Interesting week

The floors are done, just a few touches to finish up. They look great!

Kaci and I went and listened to Max play the Star Spangled banner. I recorded it on the phone and now I can't get it to play on the computer. With some looking I might be able to convert it to put it out here. Max is happy and doing well. I thought he looked a little too thin, but he is happy with his weight. I guess you could say I worry. He played very well. We chatted for a while and he is very excited about his prospects at Western Illinios University. He is still checking into other colleges as well. He has been very busy with school, basketball, and music. He has been playing at many performances and concerts. His new family has plenty of drivers to get everyone where they need to be.

Kali went on a field trip today to the St. Louis Arch. Here are some pictures of her trip.

Video of MAx Playing violin at a basketball game

Final stretch and girls are growing fast!

We are down to the final 3 foot length! yeah! And the floor will be done! Then we have the mop boards to put back and put everything away.

























The girls are growing so fast! Here are some very recent pics

Kali's band and volleyball pics

Current pics

Kali

Kaci

Project continues

The flooring project continues. We are almost done with two rooms. I think it will be time to move stuff around again soon to finish up the last 6 feet of floor in both living room and kitchen. Hopefully we will be done with flooring projects for a while. The place is a disaster and you just don't know where to start to even try to keep it picked up and just give up. No place to sit and eat. Getting to the refrigerator or feeding the cat is an act of contortion. You don't dare step into the garage or you are attacked by a table saw and old flooring. I think the clean up will take as long as the project itself.

Here are some pics of the ongoing mess.

Project ongoing/shopping with friends

The living room project is still ongoing. The prep work is almost complete. Then easy part comes, putting the new flooring in. The kids helped a lot on Sunday and then on Monday I took them all with me to leave their dad alone for a while. We were gone most of the day on Monday hanging out and shopping with friends. We found the perfect dress for Kaci for the flower girl dress. And while we were out with friends, one of them received a call to pick up a foster baby at the hospital. The family is hoping to adopt the baby based on the circumstances.

Here are some pics:

Volleyball and sleepovers

Yesterday Kali had an all day volleyball tournament in Lincoln. When I picked her up at the the school I could hardly wait to hear how well they had done. Kali hops in the van turns to me and says "We came in dead last!" I said what!? I bet your coach is mad. Nope. He seemed to be in a pretty good mood. But at one game that they lost really bad, they all went to sit down and the coach tells them, Stand up you don't deserve to sit! They all stood up shocked. Then she said, never mind..... Kali has games on Monday and Tuesday so she won't get run at practice until Wednesday practice. Maybe the coaches will forget or maybe the girls will step up and win a game or two. We all know they can do it.

Then I find out she and friends had planned to go to a movie. O.k.... but did you ask if you can go to the movie? Then her friends call and want to know if I can take 5 of them to the movies. Well, I could if I had not already had plans with the family to go out to eat. Then Kali wants me to just drop her off at her friend's house on our way to spend the night. Where did that come from! Then I said again, no you are not blowing off your family to spend the night with friends.

So we went out to eat. Dropped her off after. I think they are forgetting they need to ASK first. Then make plans. Maybe after the flooring is in we can have several of her friends here and they can watch movies and scatter on the floor to sleep. That way I can know what is going on. ha ha ha

A new house project

Yesterday we picked up the last of the flooring we needed to replace the living room, kitchen and hallway flooring. Boyd ripped up carpet in the living room and Kole helped pull staples. The Kids and I helped put the stuff that could be moved in all the other rooms of the house. ha ha


The piano, the sleeper sofa, large dresser, and the TV are the only things still in the room that we are just moving as we need to. Everything else is everywhere, driving me crazy! ha ha


Hopefully today we can get the under layment down and at least the living room done so we can start on the kitchen and get things moved back. Of course I think I am very optimistic.



What a mess

















Kole and Boyd pulling staples

President Obama comes to a town near us

President Obama came to Springfield last night to help celebrate President Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday. We watched Air Force One land at the airport on TV (Warmer inside). Kaci was so excited she was jumping up and down and really into the fact the President Barack Obama was that close to her home. She wants to get his autograph. She is so funny. Instead of a rockstar she wants the President's autograph. Then she advised that she wants our new Governor's autograph too. LOL Not the one that is not there anymore, but the one that was the Lt. Governor. hmmm maybe I have a polictcal science major building here. ha ha ha
I have not seen her that excited about something like that in a while.

Kali loves looking at the opinion cartoons in the paper. She gets the biggest kick out of them. She really enjoys the current events class that they have at school where they read the paper and discuss the topics in it. She has drawn several opinion cartoons, but they always seem to be on her papers that she has to keep at school. darn! I would love to see them.