Our Tree

Well I guess it's officially Christmas. Here's our beautiful Christmas tree!

Thanksgiving

We spent Thanksgiving in southwestern Missouri, 3 days in Springfield and a day in Joplin at my cousin's gorgeous new house. We had alot of fun playing with our nephew and even discovered a pool built in 1922 with our cousins. It was pretty cool and the food was amazing! Our nephew Caedman with Aunt Amanda!

Here's some pictures of the pool that we found in the middle of the woods.
Here's Jeremy trying out the grapevine behind cousins house. Karissa's sitting on the ground trying to recover, she just tried, lost her grip and landed hard on the big rocks cutting up her knee and getting a nice looking bruise on her hip.

the return

Okay, I know it's been a year, but I thought I'd give this another try after reading some other blogs. I've got some time at work so I figured what the heck. Speaking of work, I'm not enjoying it much these days. I don't get to be as creative as I would like and there's so much down time and not enough interaction with people. Besides the fact that one of the guys I work with, I just don't understand and my wrists hurt when I work. Oh yeah, that's a totally other thing. So I went to the doctor and he says "you don't have carpal tunnell" (which is what I was told by my family doctor). He doesn't say what I have or really anything I can do about it. He prescribes some drugs (of course), sends me to get blood work done (which I haven't heard the results from and it's been over a week), and says to come back in 4 weeks and we'll see how things are going. Well I'll tell you how they are going. No where, they still hurt and I can't really tell if the medicine did anything at all to help the pain and inflammation. So, along with my wrist problem and wanting a new job that is more exciting, my days are pretty boring. Oh yeah...and when I 'm bored, I eat, which is never good. Okay, that's enough complaining for this hour.

Basement is finally finished!

Hey guys, the basement remodel is finally finished. Here are some before and after pictures. Quite a difference huh? You'll all will have to come and see it in person if you already haven't!

Howdy Ya'll

What's up everybody? We've been really busy. We've put up recessed lighting in the basement and removed all the carpet tiles. We have bought the tile that we like and so we have 750 sq ft of tile sitting in the garage. We are not looking forward to carrying it all to the basement. Once we have the basement tiled (which will take awhile) I don't think we have too many other big house improvements to work on. We've also painted the deck, two coats and all, we had to work around all the rain and bad weather men. One day they said it was supposed to be clear and sunny for 3 days, so we painted on the first day and that night it rained. Another time it was supposed to rain for three days and of course it was clear. Anyways. We've been having alot of fun playing in the pool. I'll try to get some pictures up of our newly painted deck and pool and you all have to come jump in sometime this summer.

Well, we are leaving for Florida with Jeremy's parents tomorrow to go to Lynn's graduation from residency. We're excited, we got a hotel right on the beach in St. Petersburg. Toby is staying with mom and dad this week while we are gone and I can't wait to see him again next week. Well, that's all for now. Later.