still working hard....

This is how the floors turned out after Brian finished sanding them. I personally think that they look really good.
Ashlee did most of the work....
Isn't she the cutest?
Brian got a little carried away with the stairs....

So, things are still going... I think that it might be faster if Brian would stop breaking things... HA

Holy Crap....

In a far corner of the basement, I found THIS. Isn't it hot? I really don't understand why there would be a toilet in a corner of a dark old basement. Maybe it was used as a back up toilet for "just in case emergency's". Or, what if they kept someone done there as a prisoner. That would be really cool. Brian says that this little room is going to be for when his parents come to visit... At least I can leave some blankets down there for them...

Looks like someone had some issues one day.... I'm kinda scared to open the lid, I bet that I will find a hundred year old poop....

This is another part of our cold, dark, scary basement. It doesn't really bother me to go down there... I just don't like going down there.
To recap everything: Our basement is scary.

so tired....

Tonight is our first overnighter at our project house. The floors are finally getting sanded. I'm not doing it... Brian doesn't trust me with power tools. He really shouldn't either, I always break things. I really can't believe how fast this whole thing is going. I just hope that every thing is actually ready for us to move in when we finally have too (two weeks). Next week is going to be really stressful, Brian gets to go on a business trip for about 4 days. He is leaving me here with a list that is a mile long and expects it all to be done before he gets back. Right. How am I going to accomplish anything by myself with my three kids. Most of it is painting, the ceiling is twelve feet high, but I am only five feet tall, even if I stand on a ladder I still won't be able to reach it. I think that I will just hire some Mexicans' to paint the house for me.

kids.....

Three days ago, my darling 2 year old dumped a cupful of water on to the keyboard of the laptop, it stopped working. Since it has had time to dry out, the keys work, but when I turn it on the laptop on it screams at me for about 2 minutes and the screen goes to crap. I figured out that I have to shake it for it to go back to normal... Brian's just pissed about the whole situation.

Reese has all of a sudden gotten really mouthy. Example, last week we went to Walmart, I get her out of the van and do my usually speech about spanking her if she runs away, breaks anything, etc... She responds to me saying that the cops will take me away if I spank her... I told her that the cops will come and take her away if they see her being naughty in the store.

The other day we were working on the house and I hear Kailyn crying, so I go to check on her and I pass Reese sitting in the fireplace breaking the tiles and crumbling them into pieces. I lost it I started screaming at her and Brian runs in the room because he thinks that I am going to kill her, takes her aside and asks her why she would do such a stupid thing. Her response was that she thought that the tiles were ugly and didn't want them there anymore.

My mom said Reese is payback for what I put her through when I was younger...

Our project.....

Well, we did it. We bought a project house. This has been something that Brian has always wanted to do; live in a house that is falling apart with 3 little kids. It's going to be fun.

For the past three days that we have owned the house, we have ripped out about 4000 sq ft of old dirty smelly carpet, millions (yes, millions) of carpet staples and are still not done with the floors. In the meantime, while I am being slave driven by Brian to remove staples, our kids are free to roam the house and get into what ever their hearts desire. They haven't been a problem yet; Ashlee discovered what a hammer does to wood floors and Reese found that the Shop Vac is an awesome toy.

Since I have been so wrapped up with the spooky house (Reese's name for the house) the house that we live in now is not ready for the move. I need to pack! But, today I have to do laundry, go to Lowes and buy some type of sander for Brian and be at the spooky house by 2:30 so I can pull out more staples. Like I said before, it's going to be fun.