Busy, Busy!!!

I have had two people call and set up appointments to see my house. And I have had several people call about it too. And Church was good. Memorial day we went to grandmas to water and try to finish our garden. We did water the garden but we didn't finish the rest of it. The ground has not been broken for several years and so it has been harder and tougher then usual to get the ground broken and ready for use. And then on top of that Texas has stolen all of our rain and so they might not grow anyway. We have had scarcely any rain so far. and the ground is all dusty and dry. But my herbs have been growing good. They are on the porch so I can water them more frequently.

Listing

I GOT THE LISTING!! She signed the papers this morning. I have my first listing! I am sooo excited! I suggested some things she change, I think she took them very well. They are all very cost effective too. I am willing to work for her. I have a few clients I can call, and Eric is going to make a flyer to take to all the higher priced apartments. For about the same price or lower then their rent they can own a home of about the same size even!!! I hope it works. She is very nice and she wants to sell in about 30 days though. I hope we can pull it off!
My visiting teachers are coming soon. I have to go hurry and clean a few more things!

Slow Going

Slow going this week so far. Nothing much going on. I went to my listing presentation on monday and she said she needed a few days to make a decision on what to list the house at. So I took a picture to put it in the paper this morning, I deposited some money, and then I went to Kroger and got some sushi, YUMMMMM.

Pirates!

Well we had a camp out last night. The ward was supposed to have one and they did but they picked some place that was 70 miles away and we have a big peice of land we can stay on that is only 20 miles away, and with the gas prices so high why go to the place that is so far away. So we decided to go camping on Grandmas property which is the closer one. Eric stayed at the house to get some stuff done and then to get our camping gear out and I went to go do some inspections. I was at this one inspection and I had to ask if this was the right house, and the lady went in to go get her husband and he came out to interrogate me about doing this property. It turns out he is a cop and I was driving my mother in laws van with the texas tags, I couldn't tell him who ordered the original inspection, and he interrogated me with all these questions. Just as he was getting ready to let me go I ran out of gas!!!! I had just put gas in, but I was on a hill so I guess the suction didn't work or something. I don't remember what Eric said haad happened. So I tried to call anybody who was at the house. I sat there for 10 minutes calling again and again, until somebody finally heard the phone! So I told Eric what happened, and he came to put gas in the car. Luckily I was doing one in town and he was only 3 minutes away. So he came and he only had a little gas, and it still wasn't enough to start the car all the way so Eric got in and managed to neutral it down the hill and it started right up at the bottom of the hill. I didn't do that because I was scared with not having any power steering or good brakes. Becuase they were both off during when the car was in neutral. So this guy finally let us go. After he had called in to the company to make sure I was who I said I was. So by the time we got going and got gas after that and then got home we just decided to not go out to grandmas. But we had told Caleb we would go camping so we put the tent up in our back yard. Adn we went to go get smores stuff and Pirate stuff for the next day. We came home, and Caleb had a blast getting the marshmallows on fire! He didn't want to eat the smores he just wanted to catch the marshmallows on fire. Then we told some stories and got out hte glowing sticks and played with those for a while. And then we went to bed. Caleb kept moving around and moaning in the middle of the night about wht I don't know. I assume it was sleeping on the hard ground. I did not particularly care for hard ground, but I made it and I enjoy my soft bed even more now!
Saturday morning we got up and came inside and Caleb was sooo cranky from staying up late and then waking up every hour to roll around or whatever. It was really trying! And then we went to go do some inspections with a FULL tank of gas this time, and we stopped with enough time to go to the Pirate party at the library. He loved it. He and Eric had a sash, and a bandana, and eye patches, and jewelery that looked pirate-ish. And they made a treasure box, and had some salty dogs ( hot dogs), and some barnacle sludge (slightly runny lime jello), and some whale crackers. He then got a picture with the real pirate they invited, he got to sign his name to the Charter for the pirate ship and he got some goodies for being part of the crew, and he got some gold dubloons to put in his treasure chest. He liked it alot. And we got some cute pictures!! Once again I have to wait to put them on here though. I wish I had a card reader on this laptop. It is hard to put pictures on here without one. So I am now going to go do some more inspections. No rest for the money makers! J/K I just need to get a few more done before tomorrow.
AND THE BEST NEWS OF ALL.....I HAVE MY FIRST LISTING APPOINTMENT ON MONDAY!!!!!!!!! ERIC FOUND THIS LADY DOING INSPECTIONS A WHILE AGO AND SHE JUST CALLED ME AND TOLD ME SHE WANTED TO LIST HER HOUSE. WOW!!!! I CAN'T WAIT.

Scooters

I went for a ride on my scooter last night. It was sooo much fun. I love that thing. Eric took it to school today. I think he likes being able to park 3 feet from the door to his building for class. And it saves a ton on gas. It doesn't get that fast but it is still fun.
Caleb is doing good, he loves to run around Grandma's property and we have already pulled off 3 tics this season. I hate tics!!!!! I am still scared to death he is going to get lyme disease or deer tic disease. Although I have calmed down a lot toward how I react to them.
Eric is doing good in school, he just finished all his midterms last week. He is still studying for his GRE. He is trying to get all his paperwork in to take the test.
My first real estate deal went through I told you all about that one, well I am still trying to close my second deal. It is not going very well. We are a few days from losing the contract. I don't know what to do. It is not anything we can do, it is the mortgage company.

IMPULSE BUYER BEWARE!!!!

We have been really concerned with our little economic car going bust, we have talked about everything we can think of on how to fix this car. So we have been watching cars on ebay, and we were looking and we stumbled on to the moped scooters. The really economic ones that get 70-90 miles to the gallon, with only one or two gallon tanks. We found a good one that was not working right, and the guy didn't know what was wrong with it, and George is good with fixing things like that, so we knew we could get it cheaper then a running one. so we continued watching it and then when the time came we got it for only 600 bucks! For the brand, the miles, and the condition we got an okay deal. so we went out to this guys place and he starts talking and he talks about this other scooter he got and then the 4 wheelers that he just recently got, and then he pops out with "I only put a hundred miles on this one and I just don't need it anymore since I got the 4 wheelers, I'll sell it to you for 500." We looked at it and it is a gorgeous red, good tires, miles, condition, and we thought about how much fun we would have all of us on scooters and we could take them to vacation and ride them around to school and maybe even church. It would save us a little on gas and stuff. So we said sure. We made a payment on paypal online, loaded it up, and drove home. I cannot believe that we went there for one scooter and came back with two!!!! I will post pictures when I get some light to take them.

Updating

Over the past week lots has happened and I have been too lazy and tired to write about it. I should have written it down as it came along because now I don't remember it all. On tuesday I took lunch to Eric and took Caleb to the library. He loves it there. He loves to look at books, they have some puzzles he loves to do, and now his favorite thing to do is play the games on the computer. He already has how to move the mouse down. He still clicks a little off but he is definitely getting better.
Wednesday I went to go do some inspections and I couldn't find some properties and drove around and around, and got so tired of not finding the properties I came home. I ended up seeing them but not realising it because the names and numbers were wrong or not on the house where I could see them.
Thursday I went to a primary meeting at Sister Moores house. She has a couple acres and lots of cool toys! The meeting was fine and Caleb had friends to play with from the other sisters kids. And then she had a lunch prepared for us. Caleb ate but only after I told him he had to eat to go on the 4 wheel motorcycle ride. He ate VERY fast after that! We went outside and looked at their pond and everything in it, and then we looked at their river and bridge. We threw rocks in the water and made lots of splashes. And then he got his first ATV ride. He got to sit in front of Brother Moore and put his hands on the handle bars and he even got to steer a little bit. He liked that a lot, and then he played in the river, and looked for bugs and stuff while the other kids got their rides. Then Caleb and I got to go on a ride. And we drove by this one pond and he kept pointing and saying this is where the pollywogs live. I was like what is he saying??? And then he always followed that with Pollywogs are like frogs. WOW He learned that while riding on an ATV they should have school on ATV's too. All the kids would be geniuses and graduating by 12! It's a cool thought, but it would never work.
So anyway Friday we wanted to take the plants we had planted on sunday out to plant them at grandmas but they weren't quite ready to be planted yet. So we went out there to try and get the tiller working. That was a bust. We have to wait till George gets up here. Maybe he can get it working. So we just spent the day there, and came home and on the way did some inspections. And then helped another sister move.
And then today we went to a birthday party for about an hour and then went to Ashland for our stake conference. We both had to go to the leadership training. So we had to take Caleb. He was pretty good for Eric the first hour and then he fell asleep in the general adult session. So he was really good then! Between the leadership and adult sessions we had about an hour and we went to eat dinner and we stopped at JCpenneys to see if they had any more of their little vest suits. We had bought them there around easter last year at a great price. They didn't have any of those this time but they had this one proper suit. It was sooo cute. So we got it for Caleb. This one should last for a year and a half maybe two.
So a lot of small things going on this week. Caleb still struggles with potty training. We have had several incidents where he doesn't even try to go to the bathroom he just spreads his legs and goes on the carpet. It drive me crazy. What do I do with that? Do I yell at him and lecture him to let him know it's not okay, tell him it's okay and try harder next time, put him in time out, try and teach him and he starts crying because I don't do it very well? What? I would LOVE something that WORKS. I am tired. I am feeling depressed because I did not get pregnant this month. I let Caleb stay up late tonight. I am going to pay for it tomorrow!