Front of house

These are the front of the house. We seriously cut down the bushes in front. They was a wall of bushes that covered the front of the house. We plan to put in a little fountain with bench seating around it in between the two bushes left. In the future of course!

Surprise!!!

Well, Yesterday was a complete surprise! We had a special stake sacrament meeting. The whole stake got together to discuss ward boundary changes. They were creating a new branch and changing some of the boundaries around, they told us all of the wards would be affected too. We thought well we live five minutes from the building so it is not likely we are going to change buildings, and then our ward has the smallest boundaries so we are most likely to get more people added and we will sill be in the same ward. We got the maps and WOW!!!! what a change! All of the wards were indeed affected! We got put in the arlington 5th ward instead of Mansfield 1st! Wow we thought we weren't going to change wards! Not only that BUT our ward will meet in the stake center every sunday! So we get to drive past our old building to go to our new building!!! WOW, what a change! I keep saying that because we are just floored! we were not expecting to be affected! At least we haven't been in our old ward too long!

I finally got some pictures of the outside of the house! These are the ebackyard. Our pool is not working and it was covered by the foreclosure company to reduce liability. We just left it on till we can fix it!

Easter

So Easter came and went. It was nice this year. I was able to clean out and make the house look nice. Eric helped a lot with that one. He was able to move the furniture around. We had a huge dinner, and my whole family was able to come over. We had Jeanne and George, and Mom and Dad, Rachel, Melanie, Mike, and Linda, And Becky Ariel and Aaron came over later after dinner. We had a huge feast of food, and not all of it was eaten. We are still eating left overs. I had to borrow some chairs from the church we had so many people over. The food was good and then we had this Easter Resurrection eggs activity. It basically goes through the big events dealing with the Savior and Easter. And they used little symbols and had quotes and scriptures. I thought it went over well. I can use it again next year too.
As far as easter and candy we have not done that yet. We do not like having the commercialized version of easter on Sunday so I go a few days after easter sunday and get some easter stuff on sale and then we do the candy easter.
I am doing my Flylady program. It is going pretty well. I still have a long way to go to be even remotely good at it, or have it down as routine but that will come. Today my two big accomplishments were to plan my meals for the next week so I do not buy too much food and have it go to waste, and I cleaned out the car. Not the whole thing because there is this big storage thing I got from Mom in there, but the front is cleaned out and even vacuumed!
I am sooo close to having Insurance! I can finally go to the doctor soon!

Bye Bye Spring Break

Well spring break is almost over. We got a lot done. First we had a torrential downpour on Tuesday and that caused our septic tanks to fill up and start backing up so we couldn't use the toilets for a couple days. The next day was clear and we were able to get a pump to pump out all that water. So the toilets work now. But we are seriously considering hooking up to the city sewer now. It will not be cheap but we won't have to worry about the rain and not being able to use the toilets any more.
Then we got the sink mostly hooked up. We forgot one little seal that will not be very hard to put in. So I have one little leak in one side. The other side works. That is good. Then we got most of the trees trimmed and disposed of as well. We have some crepe merdels that have fanned out and if we are to trim them right we can out a little cushion on the middle part and have a wonderful tree chair! I think that would be wonderful!
We need to borrow a lawn mower from someone because our grass is just growing. We also need to seriously work on the weeds that have been allowed to grow for the years they were overlooked.
Then we spent a couple days cleaning out Jeanne and Georges garage. It was good weather and not hot like it will be in the summer so we took care of thata now. They still have to go through it but they can now get to it in an air conditioned house. We still have one more load to get but that will just have to wait for another weekend.
So now I have to clean the house for the party we are having here tomorrow. I invited all of our family to come and have dinner woth us. I might try to get an easter thing together. I might. I still have to do so much here. Or a least Eric thinks I have so much to do here. I have already done half of what is on his list. I still have to go get the food though!

Not Pictured

As you can see the house is big and it needs our touch on a lot of things. But it is going. The rooms not pictured are thekitchen, the laundry room, the third bathroom, and the garage and blue room behind it. I will get pictures of the outside and backyard sometime! LOL
In order to get all the pictures on there I had to put them on a few at a time thus some of my other new posts have been put on the older page. Check them out too!