Abracadabra

Missing: One Garden Shed

(full of stuff)

The shed above isn't the exact shed, because I never thought to take a picture of the shed. But it is pretty close to what was in our backyard as of 11:30 yesterday morning.

I left for a couple Visiting Teaching appointments at 11:30. When I got home at 3:00 I didn't notice anything different. I park in the front and can't really see around the house where I pull in. The kids got home at 3:30 and the boys went outside to play football. Todd and Mitch thought they'd tease Justin and hide in the shed, so they turned around to go over to it and this is what they saw.

NO SHED

They came in the house and Todd asked me where the shed was. I thought he was pulling my leg, because that is something he'd do, but he didn't seem like he was joking around so I looked out the window and he was right. The shed was gone.

My first instinct was to call the police to make a report of a stolen shed. Then I decided to call our landlords first to see if they knew of anything. The shed was full of their stuff so I couldn't imagine they'd want someone to haul it off. The other 1/2 is full of our stuff and I know I didn't want it hauled off.

Amy was shocked (and angry) when I called. She made a few phone calls and I guess the company they bought it from was supposed to pick up a shed from someone else that never paid up. Unfortunately, they picked up the wrong shed. They took our shed with lots and lots of things in it, including the flammable liquids inside.

(hope they got home okay)

The crazy thing is that there isn't a whole lot of tracks where the truck & forklift were. It's a medium sized shed. I'd guess 18'x12' or so. It is just like someone came and plucked it right out of the yard. Besides the concrete blocks laying around and uprooted lily's, it is pretty much the way it was before they took it.

They must have one heavy duty forklift. That building has to be VERY heavy.

Anyway, I couldn't stop laughing because the whole thing is absurd. Amy is on the hunt for our stuff & the shed. She is not a happy lady right now. Things were in the rafters so they had to have fallen. I'm sure things had to have been broken.

This could be quite a costly mistake for this company.

Everyone is invited.

Family Week is back!

This is the week we 'unplug' for the evening and do things with the family.

What I love is that anyone & everyone can get into it.

Temple attendance, Family History work, getting together with roommates & friends for FHE, service projects, etc. The ideas are endless.

Last year we had a blast.

We are all signed up for 2009 and ready to remember the importance of families, without the 'noise' of everything else in our lives.

Join in, no matter where you live. If you sign up (and if you live out of the area give them your address) they'll send you a bag for participating.

Get the word out.

November 22-28, 2009

**The week to give Thanks for our families**

No means...well, No.

What is it about salesmen?

Today I have Mitch home sick, with the flu.

(He had the normal flu shot a few weeks ago, so I hate to think of what he might really have.)

Anyway, I open the door to two guys. I wish they wouldn't have made me nervous, the whole time they are talking to me my mind is deciding if there would be ANY way that I'd be able to get the door shut & locked fast if I needed to.

It would have been easier to concentrate on them trying to convince me to let them shampoo a spot of carpet if I wasn't fixated on their bad, bad, bad (did I mention bad) teeth and the tongue piercings.

After letting them put my name in for a drawing (now they are going to call and bug me, but I'd rather be rude on the phone than to their faces, I guess) they asked me for the 4th time if they could come in and shampoo & vacuum for me.

NO NO NO, I said NO

I have so many different opinions about this. At least they are trying to work. I know too many people that are VERY able to work and choose not to.

But when I don't want what you are offering, please say

"Thank You for your time Ma'am" (yes, please call me ma'am) and be on your way.

Okay, now I've got to go check my sick kid.

Growing Pains...for the parents

Our eldest son has had his first shaving lesson.

(THANK GOODNESS)

He had one of those thin, almost-there, makes it hard to look at the person in the eye when you are talking to them kind of mustaches.

There is something about those types of mustaches that make my skin crawl.

Do you think this is sad that I have had these adverse feelings about my darling son?

Well, for those of you that have had boys at this age, you totally understand me, and if you have boys and they haven't hit this very weird time in their lives.....just wait. You'll too have feelings about that sweet little face that you never thought you'd have.

Just for the record, I'm not a real big fan of any facial hair.

We're In

Happy Halloween

Josie's pumpkin turned out really cute.

This is a really random post, but I've had some requests about our move & the house we've moved into. The people that own this house said that they were repainting when they moved back (in two years) so no worries, but I still have tried to use some of the original nails and things like that. We aren't going to be here too long, so I didn't think I wanted to get too much of our stuff unpacked. BUT, as we've moved in, I've found that I just don't have it in me to not decorate and put up a few of our things to make this house our home. Amy, the lady that owns the house, left some of her stuff and is that is great. We have a lot of the same tastes.

This is a sad picture. An empty room in our old house.


And here are a few things in the trailer we moved with. We were SHOCKED to find out how much stuff we have.

I wanted to show Geri where I put my birthday gift. (a close up of it is a few pics down) I was so sad because I got it in the mail just a couple days before we moved. So I opened it, and then I packed it. As soon as it surfaced, I found the perfect place to put it. It makes me smile, so I put it where I see it every time I walk in from the garage. Thanks again, Geri.

This is the mess we started the first night we moved in. It only got worse from there. BUT the calendar was hung first thing. I'm embarrassed how many things I was late for or just forgot about that week. I live by my calendar, that is for sure.

Just more mess.

My sweet gift from Geri.

Right after the calendar was hung I did my next most important thing...

I MADE MY BED!

And yes, my red cabinet came with us. I've had a few offers and requests, but it is still with us.

So things are getting cleaned up and it is feeling like home for us.

We have been really lucky to find a great place to live and great people to rent from.

Now on to the next project.

Home Sweet Home

Well, I guess it is time to admit that the house is no longer ours.

It would be fair to say that we've had a love/hate relationship with our home, but ever since Layne fixed all of Mr. Markin's mistakes and we've remodeled to bring in all the things we love.....
well ya, we'll miss our home on County Road 1.

Thankfully we have found a great rental from a great family. So that makes the transition much easier.

Here are a few of my favorite things in & around our house. I guess this is a form of memory making & journaling, but maybe you'll enjoy taking a peek into our home....oops, I mean the May's home. We met them today. They are nice people. I think they'll enjoy living here.

The children's office in basement

Kitchen/Dining

The walk up to the front door.

Justin & neighbor Emma playing golf by the fruit trees.

The living room.

This was one well used kitchen. Probably my favorite place in the house.

I decided not to put all 59 photos I took on here, but I'll have to keep a file with the pics. Someday it will seem like a distant memory of our 14 years in this house.

Isn't it funny when you look at old pictures that have images in them that you just don't remember? It's sad that things are so easily forgotten. I hope that doesn't happen. At least not too quickly.