Two Sisters with Nothing Better To Do On A Saturday Night!

Take note of their makeup.....

One Saturday night, two bored girls, one drawer of Mom's make-up and a digital camera......Priceless!

My big change!

I have changed real estate brokerages!

I'm excited to announce that I am now with Utah Select Realty. As many of you know, I loved my old company but what I really needed was to change things up AND because this is such a big company I'm hoping to find a "real estate girlfriend". I know that might sound dumb but I need to find a REGF to go to meetings, serve on committees and go to convention with. My old company was just so small I didn't have much of an opportunity to rub shoulders with many agents. I'm also excited about what this company can offer me and my clients. They have a fabulous website (utahselectrealty.com) the latest technology and they're located really close to my house! So that's my big change! I'm a little scared (cause I'll miss my old brokers & office manager) but I'm also excited to meet new people and make new friends.

Monday Musings...

So, last night @ 12:50 am a helicopter flew very low over my house and shined it's lights on my street, illuminating the front of my house. I thought perhaps bank robbers were running down the street or hiding in my bushes but since my trusty dog, Ella (the ferocious Shorkie) lay peacefully sleeping between James and me, I knew I was safe. (As she growls if the neighbor's teenagers come home late at night.) But now I was wide awake and I laid there and thought about how I would organize my kitchen cabinets when some glorious day I actually have them installed, and if I were being chased by a helicopter with a huge flood light, how I would hide under a car or better yet the creepy crawl space under my new kitchen. Which then made me panic that burglars or worse murderers were actually in my craw space. But I turned to Ella and again my fears were alleviated. Eventually I fell asleep and had a nightmare that I was in a play and didn't know my lines or entrance or anything. Then my alarm went off to get up and go to the gym.

I cleaned my car and van today. The weather is so beautiful and it's so much better to be outside than looking at the ton's of work (none of it that I am capable of doing) that needs to be done inside my house. I also chopped down my decorative grass bush thing. I should have cut it down in the fall when it was green instead of waiting until it was yellow and razor sharp and cut my arms up. Ouch!

Well, the mud guy isn't here yet. He's a bit flaky, he's only come once and cancelled about four times but I haven't heard from him today so there's hope he may still come.

Oh, another great Monday happening. Apparently the State of Utah (where James works) has to raise our premiums for health insurance. By about $240 a month. Yep, that's two hundred and forty dollars plus the eighty we already pay. BUT they're giving the state employee's a raise to help cover this cost. How nice. James raise will be $40 dollars a month. Nope, not $40 more than the cost of the increase but a flat $40 dollars. There is a serious flaw with the math here. Now, one of the reason's we work for the State (and make peanuts) is solely the fabulous, inexpensive benefits. Now they are no longer inexpensive. Needless to say we're back in the market of looking for James a new job. If you have any suggestions or contact's please send them our way. He has a two year electronic technician degree, works in maintenance for the state, ample sales experience (but he sort of hates that) ton's of home repair experience, driving experience and a lot of plumbing experience but not a journeyman designation. (Long story there that has everything to do with the State misinforming him during his interview that he could work under a journeyman plumber and continue school and get his designation.) Oh, such is life!

Good news is my listing in WVC finally went under contract this weekend! And I'm changing brokerage's this week and will be hanging my shingle with Utah Select Realty.

Here is a picture of my ferocious guard dog!

Kitchen Update!

The mud guy finally came! Hurray!

So I hastily moved out my plywood table and James tools so he could walk around on stilts and mud my ceiling. My kids were impressed with his talent of standing on a bucket and then jumping with the bucket to the next spot.

James hard at work.....again!

Notice our old ceiling or lack of it!

Look Ma! No banisters!

This was the easiest job so far. I advertised our banisters and handrails for free on KSL.com. The only catch was they had to remove them themselves. We had a very nice older man and his wife show up and remove them. Unfortunately, we didn't get any takers on our old parquet floor so I had to bribe my children to pull it up.

And here is our living room, nope we are not remodeling in here but it is now the storage place for all the dining room furniture and boxes and boxes of kitchen paraphernalia.

I have given up on cleaning my house. It's amazing how much more time you have when you just don't clean anymore. I've also taken to wearing shoes more often around the house as I've had to remove way to many microscopic slivers from my feet.

Yet another great family night!

I had another one of my brilliant ideas for Family Night! Pull up the old wood floor in the entry way. No one was excited until I offered to pay 5 cents a plank. (I'm not sure what this is going to cost!)

It's fun to seen them work together but I'm afraid they might injure each other with these hammers and crow bars.

Rylee got lucky at first and started at a spot that popped up easy but now they're down to parts that are glued down better and it's taking some work to pop them up.

Oh, joy. The sub floor is coming up with some of the planks.

Here's proof they CAN work when they want to!