It's June 2013

June was not a very interesting month. I have been working very hard on the inside and the outside of the house to get it ready to sell whenever Brad takes a new job and we all know where we will be living. Apparently, my plan to move to Washington will definitely not be happening because he wants to get another job and there aren't any there he is interested in. I want my house ready to sell when he accepts an offer wherever it is, so I am working hard on sorting any cleaning and planting and weeding.

Going through my boxes to sort I discovered dolls I made for Courtney when I was preggers with Beth.  I didn't get the hair done in time for Christmas so she got them anyway and then I took them back to finish the hair and 35 years later I finally got around to finishing them. Haha

The dolls I finally added hair to finish.

I think they are happy to have hair.

This chair used to be yellow but I have red accents in kitchen now so it fits perfectly!

I guess I am not very prompt but life got in the way and I kind of forgot and they got packed away in all the moves we have made. I was inspired by Beth and her makeover of the high chair I had for all of my kids and then she borrowed 12 years ago for Kaven. Since he grew out of it she has been intending to refinish it and she finally did and brought it over before she moved into her new house. My son teased that it only took her 10 years but I think I am much worse with the 35 years it took me.

Aaron and Beth's new house. 

The Merry Month of May 2013

Ryan relaxing in his kitchen on the weekend.

May was another busy month of getting a lot of things done that I hadn't planned on. I have started to seriously work on the yard to get it ready for selling the house. I want the house to have some street viewing appeal when it goes on the market. I also had to get me another car since I could only have the rental for a week and then had to pay to rent on my own or get another to replace my Civic that was totaled on the last day of April.

Nathan now wears glasses, but only at school he says.

So, off I went to Omaha after talking with Ryan about Jill's old Ford Explorer. He had been wanting to sell it for the last couple of years but hadn't done anything about it. I have driven it when I visited them in Denver and in Omaha so I knew most of the history and it had less than 75,000 miles on it. That was less than my 10 year old Civic and the Explorer is a 2002 model year. I flew out and had a fun time with the "boys" for the weekend and drove back home after the weekend since they had school and work to attend. It was quite a change after driving my little Civic to drive the big Explorer and the gas mileage is not as good as my old car. But the price was right. After the settlement I had enough to pay for the car and the trip and a bit left over. All in all I am pleased with the whole deal.

Here I am at home with my "new" car. 

Front view of short hair.

Side view of short hair do.

Then I decided I was sick and tired of my longish hair. After being bald for 6 months and super short hair for another 6 months I had let my hair get too long. So I had it cut short and I am happier. I think I may keep it shorter now that I am entering the age of the "old" and not in the middle years any longer.  That and yard work after the whiplash was healed was my month.