Our House

Here's the house we bought in February, with neat before-and-after shots.

Before

After - We got rid of that stupid black gate thing and the rocks in the flower bed and planted some things!












Also there's a cat that lives on our porch - it has a human face and talks.

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Before

After - pretend that we've attached the lazy susan cupboards. We got a new dishwasher, oven, microwave, counters, sink, faucet, and we painted the cabinets and added pulls. Also we got blinds.

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Before

After - We installed three new light fixtures and painted the top half of the walls gray.

We also got blinds for the windows and I made curtains! Yep. That's why the picture is from far away.

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Before

After - we haven't really done that much in the bathroom, except we replaced this horrible, huge cabinet that we kept smacking our heads on with this much simpler and normal-sized one.

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Before AND After ... there are sill stairs to the attic.

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Before

After - we put in a ceiling fan so I wouldn't die. Also, we added furniture, so that's pretty sweet.

Oregon and Also a Baby

We went to Oregon for a family reunion and Brian turned 24. Here is a picture of that:









Here is us being on the beach:












On Monday we found out we're having a girl! Here she is:









She is due December 7th. She likes root beer and she's the best.

Brian graduated on June 2 and is "officially" a surgical technician, although he won't be certified until he finishes his externship. Still, he looks mighty fine in a blue gown. He refuses to wear it when we go shopping. He thinks it's embarrassing. Not me, though. I wear it when we go get ice cream.

Clark Gets Excited

Goings On

We haven't done very many exciting things in the last few months, but here's some things.









I'm 23.










We went to the color festival. Here's the before picture.









And here's after.










Eating Dippin' Dots at Trafalga.










Then we won a giant Krusty with our friends Kory and Marianne. Marianne really likes Krusty, as you can see.






And Clark is doing well. On Monday he somehow climbed out of his tank and fell off the counter and was running around the classroom, but the joke's on him! Now his tank has a lid!

Las Vegas

Last week we got to go to Las Vegas. It was spectacular - we say Lance Burton float a Corvette, The Phantom of the Opera, In 'n Out, One Really Good Buffet (which we went to twice,) and lots of people gambling on the Super Bowl! Here is Brian in the conservatory at the Belagio, celebrating Chinese New Year (the Year of the Tiger) with all the other Asian tourists.












Also, we get to buy a (town)house. Here is a picture of that:

You should probably know that we're planning on getting rid of the satellite dish and black gate-door thing as soon as we close. Hooray!

The Classroom

Here is my room. The wall is red. You can see the Tattletale Frog there on the counter. He listens to all the tattletales that I don't have time/energy for - he's very busy.






Here's my desk and Clark's tank.








Here are the cubbies, the sink, and Clark in his tank.






This is half of the word wall and the books.








This is the calendar wall where we do the whole "today is the fourteenth day of school" thing.