By the title of this Blog you can tell what the weather has been....COLD! In the last week have had a stretch of below zero temps and windchills and oodles of snow! Yuk-- usually we don't have this weather until late January! AGGHHHH- it's going to be a LLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNGGGGGGG winter! I am so ready to move to a warmer climate and deal earthquakes, humidity and hurricanes! After 29 years in the north I am ready to head to a land of 70s and palm trees!
here at the Stout house it has been an eventful week. Last Sunday our van wouldn't start and so we charged the battery and took it to the shop. THis is the ORIGINAL battery for the van and so $100 later the van has a new battery and we did get an oil change too and they said it looked great and ready for a trip to Minnesota in 2 weeks! On Tuesday, while I was working at SEPHS, Tim was shoveling (girls watching a video) and when he was on his way in he turnes the door knob and it kept turning- it was broken and our door was latched CLOSED!!!! We called the lock people (Kwikset) and they said the only way to get it open was to call a locksmith--okay major bucks and with the Christmas coming and the afore mentioned van trouble, that wasn't an option. So all week we have been working on this locka nd we even had our friend Brad, the ahndyman, come over nad work on it! praise the Lord- today it came opena nd we were able to put a whole new door knob w/ keyed enrty and dead bolt set on! Cost $26 for door set...LABOR-FREE!!!!! Now our next project is to fix our falling ceiling tiles on the front porch...we will just use Liquid Nails and glue and staple them back up for now and after the hoildays we will take it all down and dry wall----right now the idea of dry wall dust and my Christmas tree don't mesh! Also, I FINALLY finished putting dow the peel-n-stick tiles in our bathrooom...I just had the area around the toilet to do and I asked my dad how to do that when he was here for Thanksgiving and thanks to his helpful hints (scissors and cardstock templates) I was able to get it done!!!! HOORAY!
Now not too much left to finish before Tom, Kristin, Evan and Sydnie arrive from California on Wednesday! (Tim's big brother and family) WE CANNOT wait to spoil our nephew and niece! We have yet to meet Sydnie, she was born last July 4th , and we haven't seen Evan since last April. We have begun to plan our trip out west for late May...maybe even March/early April if this weather doesn't go AWAY sooon...I'll end up in the loooney bin! Anyway back to the planning...Keep praying that we will be able to go!!!!!
Okay enough yammmering, but a funny story to finish.....
today we were out shopping (boots for the girls) and we stopped by Home Depot to get the door knob stuff and as I got out of the van Maddie said, "This is Home Depot and the lady says, if you can't build it...we can help!" HILARIOUS!!!! She's soooooo funnny!
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