The Story of My Life

PACKING!!!! I have learned to HATE it! We have packed so many times in our short married life that I feel like I should be pretty good at it, but I still dread it! I am moving classrooms......so I am having to pack up!!!!!! I am very excited about going to fifth grade....however not excited about packing! The good thing is we (the other teacher and I) have some wonderful men moving it for us! The husbands that is! My principal's husband, some of his buddies, my teacher friend's husband, and Brent are going to take off Monday and actually move my stuff and another teacher's stuff for us! How wonderful is that!!!

Not much else is going on in my exciting life. Brent's cousin is getting married this weekend in OK City. We are taking Friday off, so we can go ahead and get there for all the festivities. I am looking forward to a weekend away from packing and remodeling! Then, when we get back, only 4 more days!!!!! As we say in Mrs. Camp's class......"Hip Hip Hooray"

Well, that is all for now....I figured I better update before the nazi got ahold of me!

REMODELING!!!!

Brent and I could be considered professional remodelers. I feel like we haven't had a break lately! On the weekends and at nights we work harder than we do at school. We have been redoing the cabin at the lake, and helping Brent's parents redo their new house, and my parents are redoing their kitchen......and we are EXHAUSTED! All the "projects" are coming along! The lake house is almost finished. It is so small that it really hasn't taken much. We put in a new countertop, painted, new sinks, new shower, and of coarse the fun part....decorating! We are going to wait and redo the floors this summer. Brent's parent's house on the other hand is going to take all summer! I don't see the light at the end of the tunnell, although they do, which is good! Right now we are in the process of scraping off many layers of wall paper (some of it has been there since the 20's) It is fun because there is usually so many of us over there working together. I know that this house will look absoluetly incredible when they are finished with it. My parents are aiming to have their kitchen done by the end of school. Brent is doing the tile backsplash. Dad is doing the painting and borders. And the rest is being done professionally. Mom and I are just decorating, which is the fun part! Brent and I enjoy doing these "projects" but I am looking forward to this summer when I can try and fit in some scrapbook time! Only ten more days!!!! I'll post pics of all the renovating soon!

Traumatic Experience

For those of you who have not met Adi and Ele....here they are! Obviously this is at Christmas....I don't have any recent pictures since my camera is broken!!! Aren't they sweet?

The trip to the vet was not a good experience yesterday. We had to go get our yearly shots and since we are new to Abilene we had to visit a new vet. Our vet in Plainview was the first vet that both girls went to. He was wonderful! Then in Keller, we had a bad experience with a vet. Ele hurt her tail and had to have emergency surgery(very expensive!) It was not a good experience for her, or for me! I wasn't able to stay in the room with her when they did her IV and I could hear her! It was awful! Well, our recent visit to the vet wasn't that bad, but it wasn't the best. Our first mistake was taking both girls at the same time. We have never done that before....and will NEVER do it again! The vet was great! We knew he would be, he was highly reccommended by my whole family (and we go to church with his daughter). He was very calm and wanted to know all of the girls' history! This meant alot to Brent and I because these girls are our babies!!!

So Adi went first and was ok during the shots and blood test, but then when he got the trimmers out to clip her toenails....she went crazy! She is our calm one. Brent had to help hold her down! The vet decided to not traumatize her (or me) any more and said we could do her toenails next time and give her a sedative before she came in! Then it was Ele's turn! She is our anxiety child! She gets hives when she is anxious. We had to put her on antidepressants once. We told him he would need to muzzle her because she tried to bite our vet in Keller. (although I don't blame her) We really didn't think there would be a problem since she was muzzled, but as soon as Brent got her up on the table she went crazy!!!! It was so hard to watch! Meanwhile I had a hold of Adi and she was going crazy because Ele was going crazy! They were both jumping around, trying to get loose, whining, growling!!!! It was awful....and very embarrassing!!! When the nurse came back in after it was all over, I asked her if all dogs act this crazy......and she said no and smiled!!! But then she said they had had worse situations! I think she was saying that to make me feel better! The vet told us we could give them both a "doggy downer" next time. So all in all, it was a very traumatic experience for both girls....and for me! I told my mother that night that it was embarrassing having children that misbehaved!!!

Sorry about the long post that is ONLY about my babies! I can't imagine what it will be like when I actually have children!!!