OWEN FREAKING ROCKS!!

Is all I have to say for now :)

 

 

 

Rememeber the before

 

 

he came back and spent all morning doing this! and it looks great! still need to grout and seal  but the tile part itself is done!! I'm going to have something nice in my house yay!!!!!

 

thank you for spending the time and effort to do this for me Owen! You saved me so much money and headache.. even though this project caused you a headache! :(

 

Owen is probably the closest thing to a guy best friend I have. He is so awesome and I love his sweet wife Melinda.

 

THANK YOU!!!!!!!

 

Will update more as we go!!!

Tile. bathroom. mold. What?

Ok so my fake tile in the bathroom was falling apart.. bubbling up and breaking and so I decided I wanted to put real tile down. Our toilet kind of sucks So i thought might as well do both. Then, my second job, I found out that the dad is a carpenter and so we are trading some work for a nice new bathroom cabinet. SWEET! so i'm so excited right? Never really done a remodel or any big home project besides yard stuff. I have heard that you always run across the unexpected, always costs more, always takes more time..

Well my friend from work came over to help me tile. We took toilet, cabinet, all that out. and we found MOLD! black mold! i didn't expect that! Luckily it wasn't too bad but it scares me how much is in there we haven't seen!

We rip fake tile up, and underneath is a nice level linoleum. we are like sweet we can lay the tile right on this it will be so easy..then we see the corner sagging.. and sticks a screwdriver and it just disinegrates. we thought it was subfloor. I said lets do it right. so we start ripping the linoleum off which was quite a process. turns out half of it was glued down.. and wouldn't come up.. spent so much effort trying to get it up and it was just breaking off in tiny chunks. i felt so bad i didnt want my friend to have to do this much work!! ugh!! Well he brought his 6 month old twin boys over and i was trying to watch them and help him.. Then samarah got up. she was so funny. she has never really been around babies and she like did not know what to do. she was like peeking at them, at so curious and she kept looking at me and saying 'baby'

Then she just plopped right down next to them, it was awesome. samarah kept taking the binky's in and out of theirmouth but it was entertaining to her and them lol.

Anyway, this is whats left, the dark stuff is the glued particle board that won't come up. So we have a lot more work ahead of us.. and we have to cut out some drywall and look at mold.. but i'm so excited and i'll keep you posted as we keep going and what the end result is!!

Did I say i'm taking a college class?

Holy respect for parents who also go to school can i just say? Or people that work and go to school? Oh. My. Gosh.

One of my life goals is to learn spanish. I have tried the cd's and the workbooks and it wasn't working so I finally decided to just sign up for a college class to learn it! That is what i did with my tax return, so $1,058 dollars later (yes that is for ONE 7 week accelerated class) (oh and $200 for books) here I sit, stressed. Lol.

I am loving it, but, its 4 days a week for two hours, I work two jobs (for those who don't know I got a second job because we weren't sure if chris had a job for awhile there) so inbetween second job, chris rotating shifts, first job which is full time and trying to do homework with an almost two year old in the house... UGH!!!! Oh and still being a bum from surgery.

However, I am very excited and I hope that I learn a lot, once i can get my crazy life schedule down.

Happy Mothers Day!

Holy. Crap. After having a kid, my appreciation for my mother (my parents, any parent period) jumped one hundred thousand percent!!!!!!!!!!

 

I can't believe how hard being a parent is and I'm not even to the part where my kid makes decisions that could be life changing!!

 

Isn't it funny how all those things your mom told you when you were younger all of a sudden made sense when you have a kid of your own?

 

I mean WOW

 

 

 

Last year Chris made a cute picnic and we ate outside This year with me being laid up from surgery still and our messed up schedule i hung out with baby all day until he woke up and then we went to my parents for a bbq and then called and talked to chris mom on the phone  (who lives in Missouri)

 

Wish that we could see his mom.. We miss her so much and wish she didn't live so far away. She is an amazing woman and I get along so well with her which is so nice! Wish we could actually get to see her one of these days on mothers day!

 

I was trying to get her sippy out of the way but that turned out to be a pretty cute picture of me and her (above)

 

Thank you mother, for all that you have done for me in my life. She doesn't read this but i'm throwing it out there anyway. She has taught me SO many valuable life lessons that helped me accomplish where I am in my life right now. Working hard, managing money right (which helped me be able to by a house by myself at age 19) not buying things you don't need. comes in handy when you want but can't have lol.

 

Had to snap one with my daddy

 

 

Me and nanna!

 

hahahahaha i love this

 

 

Nanna and her mom

 

Me and my mom!!

I could make this all cheesy but don't have time, I have homework to do :) I love my mom so much and thank her for putting up with me and teaching me life lessons.. I know Chris loves his mom more than anything in this world!

Happy Mothers day to everyone!

Post Surgery

Well I had my surgery.. and I think all went well. Although I don't really know what they did, sounds wierd right? but it could have been a number of things and after I woke up from anesthesia I didn't have a chance to talk to the surgeon/Obgyn so I don't know what it ended up being.. all i know is that I have stitches, have a gaping wound which I have to stuff gauze in.. and i will hopefully talk to doctor soon to find out whats up..

Will keep you posted..

As for now.. it feels almost like it did when i had a baby. OW down there!!!!!

I have to have surgery. Sigh

WELL....

We know that childbirth does things to your body.. good and bad. My pregnancy was so easy. I am so grateful that I had such a great pregnancy when I hear about the HORRIBLE things women go through while pregnant.

Labor and delivery, different story. Samarah tore me up, literally.

I am having so many issues related to childbirth right now and she is almost 2. I've been dealing with some for the whole time, some are flaring up, i'm getting new things happening because of the other issues.

I have tears up inside of me, soft tissue damage, tearing between tunnels in my body causing infections, which have created an abcess. I had to have an episiotomy, the skin where I had the episiotomy is weak and keeps tearing and healing and tearing and healing causing scarring.

I had to see multiple doctors, for awhile no one could figure out what was wrong. Now, after seeing 3 different kinds of doctors, and an MRI, they THINK They have it figured out.

So i put my trust in them, and go in for surgery on May 6.