What's harder to find than...

"the second shooter on the grassy knoll?"

A Nintendo Wii... well guess what folks, looks like we found the shooter, because we bought a Wii yesterday!

The above quote was from a very helpful Gamestop employee, who was giving me the low down on the game. The other employee was a bit confused, but I knew what he meant. Apparently, these games are a bit hard to find. I was going to get one for Chad's B-day a few months from now. I guess he's been trolling around Wal-Mart and Best Buy looking for one, and we just happened to see one at Wallyworld yesterday.


This is a really cool game system, especially for somone who grew up on the old 2600 -- a lot of the Wii games are more my speed. Can't wait for Izzy to get home so she could play!

House Updates

Drove by today, they weren't working on our house, but a crew was prepping the foundation for our neighbors house... it looks like we'll have a new neighbor! I hope we can get in soon... keep your fingers crossed that we are in by the end of August/early September.

How did I spend my evening?

With


and

YUM.

I want I want....

http://www.tatermitts.com/


This looks sooo cool -- however, I don't really want to pay 27 dollars for them... (including S&H) .


In other news.. Izzy is at her Nona's, and it's so quiet here... nice for a little bit, but too quiet after a while!

Chad and I took an "unofficial" walk-through of our house today. We sneaked through the front door, and started planning out our living room. It's so odd, but very exciting to see what our views will look like, and where everything will go! I'll post more pics as I get them -- forgot the camera today.

The tatermitts would make a good housewarming present!

Summer Reading

Since I have way more free time this summer than it seems in summer past... I'm keeping track of all of my reads. Enjoy!

If You Could See Me Now - Cecilia Ahern
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - JK Rowling
Every Boy's Got One - Meg Cabot
Tounge in Chic - Christina Dodd
I'm In No Mood for Love - Rachel Gibson
Pleasure for Pleasure - Eloisa James
The Boy Next Door - Meg Cabot
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - JK Rowling

More house photos...

Exciting day! After about 8 days with just the slab (below), the walls are coming up! Yipee!


This was about a week ago....

And this is today.... Yeah! Walls!


The secod floor is going up.. My big bathtub will be under the window on the second floor...

Our roof!

Our Garage -- and no, Gareth - we won't be living in the green box :)

Photos from the old homestead...

We went down to visit the folks and to have a belated birthday party for Izzy. (Cake was rather dry!)


She got lots of cool toys....

Including the Barbie -

Who liked to spy on us and...

Go around without her panties... (well, they are painted on, but if I had my undies tattoo'd on, I don't think I could get away with it!) Chad got a big kick out of this one!


And here's Pandora - My baby, otherwise known as the Cat From Hell. Trust me.

I promise, this was in the middle of a "meow" but she normally has this expression when anybody but me comes near her.

My sweeties!

Chad doing his best Kate Winslet / Rose pose. (He's gonna kill me for putting this one up!)

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House

Summer Summer

Yeah! My last day of school is finally here! It's been a crazy few months, I've been extremely busy with getting senior grades lined up. UGH - It isn't like I haven't been warning them since, oh, October of the deadline for grades. But that's behind me now - whew.

So what do I hear when I wake up this morning? A stupid alarm clock. Mind you, it's not one of mine. I've looked at all 4 of them. My best guess is that it's my neighbors. There are a few teenagers across the street, and I think it may be one of those.

Izzy got her hair cut the other day, so did I a while ago... Izzy's looks really cute - mine can't really tell a difference.

Arrg! That alarm clock is driving me nuts!