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November 30, 2008

thankful

Man, this holiday season has come up on us like a tornado. I knew it was coming because the people on tv said it was, but here it is and I'm finding myself in disbelief.

We did the normal Thanksgiving dinner thing at mom and dad's house. This year I didn't bring anyone with me, just the seven of us. haha. I guess that's enough. The food was great, the company and wine were awesome as well. I love that no matter how disfunctional we are, we have holiday traditions that remain steadfast.

Now don't go thinking I've gotten soft because I'm feeling mushy and grateful. I'm still me. But now let me tell you about Jake turning 18. He's now old enough to vote, get a tattoo, buy cigarettes and lottery tickets, drop out of school, and pay his own car insurance. (riiight). He was rewarded for staying alive by having his car break down. We managed to get it going and back home and we let him take our car out, but it'll have to be dealt with this week I guess. I just hope it's not too expensive. He and his friends celebrated in style by going to Hooters, where he had to spell hooters w/ his butt while they sung to him. I know he's got a lot of living to do and probably many many assholeish episodes for us to live through, but I'm proud of him and pleased with the man he's becoming.

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We're down to 10 days before we close on our house. The packing is not done. Dan packed a box of books yesterday, went through a few things in the closet and then went to take a nap. I think he's waiting for the moving fairies to show up and do all of this work, but it's not happening. I'm not a very patient person and it's frustrating to me that things aren't more packed up here, but it'll get done. It has to, right?

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Max turns 1 right in the middle of our move. I'm still not sure when or how we'll celebrate but I think we'll get it fit in there somewhere. I don't want him to grow up thinking we didn't work in some celebration time when he turned 1.

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Speaking of celebrations. We're going to have New Years Eve at our house. I'm really looking forward to it. Mom's going to watch my babies. I'll probably let Jake and maybe Trevor stay home for the party, but the rest are not coming. It's a good occasion for a babysitter.

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Posted by krystal at 9:01 AM

November 20, 2008

I get it, I get it

Since we started looking at the new house we've been told over and over by almost everyone that a pool is a huge expense. Since this house is a forclosure, we've considered ourselves very very lucky to have it in such great condition. It's clean, not destroyed, has many upgrades, a good location and is, aside from it's pink carpet, perfect. We have kept our minds open to the fact that the pool might be a bit of a problem. Especially since people tell us that all.the.time. Well, yesterday I had a pool guy come out and tell us just how bad it is. It's uhhh...bad. The guy said that he'd worked on the pool years ago and it was poorly cared for. There's a big ol crack which will cost us somewhere around 12k to fix. Woops. So it looks like we'll have a gaping hole in the yard for now and fix it when we can. Either that or we'll open a skateboard park in our back yard and call it a bowl. I'm fine with it either way.

Otherwise, we're doing very well with our house thing. We've signed a billion papers and are going to closing on 12/9, barring any problems.

Posted by krystal at 5:51 AM | Comments (5)

November 18, 2008

Max Power!

My sweet baby boy is 11 months old now. He can not be held down. He's constantly climbing up on things and now his favorite place to be is hanging onto the window. He's so happy when he's defying laws of gravity. I hope he grows up to be an astronaut.

He's not walking yet but I bet he will take steps within a week. He's so ready to go. YET!!! He will not hold his own bottle if he can get someone else to do it for him. What a typical male.

Posted by krystal at 8:15 AM | Comments (1)

November 8, 2008

5am is the new sleeping in

Ever since the time changed last week I've been getting up before 5. I can't stop wiggling around and trying to readjust and get comfortable. This could have something to do with falling asleep by 8, but even on Friday I woke up earlyish after staying up til TEN to watch grey's anatomy. I think I'm broken. I think I know why, too. I can't stand clutter. I can easily live with the messes of this house tucked sloppily into closets with the door closed quickly to prevent the crap from falling out. I can't live with everything, just ...everywhere.

The upstairs of our house is covered in boxes. Not just any boxes either, these are ABC store boxes. Those people are saints. They loaded up my car 3 times the other day and begged me to come back for more. I will, too! Jake came home the other night to find his room completely filled with empty booze boxes and told Dan that he thought maybe we didn't get the house so we spent all our money on alcohol. haha.

This is the first and last free weekend that we have in a long time so I'm planning on using it wisely. I'm going to force my trifling family to help sort out some crap and get rid of things. They are the collectors of junk, I'm sick of it. I want their stuff GONE. By Sunday you'll hear their cries of agony from miles away. If this fails I'll take a day off and throw their shit away while they're not home. Either way, I will win. Order will be restored.

We got our home inspection done the other day. Things look good. There are a few repairs that need to be made by the bank before we can get it FHA approved, but otherwise there's nothing major wrong with the house. The inspector said that he's never seen so much house for the price and that we're very lucky. I hope he's right...I won't believe it til it happens for real, but for now, we have the key to that sucker, so if any of y'all wanna see the house, we can break in and show you!!

Posted by krystal at 5:20 AM | Comments (3)

November 6, 2008

Home is where the debt is...

Here's the house we're sposta get. I now officially love it enough that if something falls through either with the loan process or with the home inspection, I will be heartbroken. If everything goes according to schedule though, we'll be moving in by Dec 10...Max's 1st birthday! Maybe we'll take a few years off before planning anything else huge so that I can have a Christmas free of stress.

Speaking of Christmas...eek. It's not far from now and I'm afraid we're going to only be getting stuff for our kids because we've got all this expense of moving etc. So....we expect the same of our friends, let's just get together and have fun this Christmas rather than spending dough, please? Maybe if we get into the house in time we can have a new years party at our place!

ok, the girl is screaming for warm milk. toodles!

Posted by krystal at 6:35 AM | Comments (3)

November 1, 2008

Halloween

We had LOOOOADS of fun. Max was a sock monkey, Tessie was a dinosaur and Kendall was a hippy. We played Goonies on the roof and hardly had any trick or treaters so we have tons to eat! WOOT!

Posted by krystal at 10:32 AM | Comments (1)