House Update

Well we got the keys to the house last Wednesday night, we started scraping wall paper and planned to get all the painting done this weekend. I don't think that will happen! We ran into a few set backs, when we scraped wallpaper the Sheetrock is not finished underneath in the kitchen, bathroom and downstairs bathroom. We called a friend of ours to come patch it up and texturize the walls. There was an overhang over the kitchen cabinets with some can lights, when we were scraping wallpaper in the kitchen we noticed the saufet above the kitchen cabinets was made out of some cheap wood and not Sheetrock we we decided to tare that down. Got down to the original saufet and found out that was made out of wood too.....Tom had lots of fun with the sledge hammer :) They used every kind of screw and nail possible I think some were even going into the shingles they were so long. The guy that owned the house was Tim the Tool Man, things were just not up to par. I am happy with the results above the cabinets that they are now open above, it really opened up the kitchen. Tom has the downstairs painted ~now if the rest of the house could just paint itself, wave the magic wand POOF we would be back on schedule. My mom and I went shopping last night for a new toilet, light fixtures and a few other things. While we were shopping Tom called and said to get a new toilet for the downstairs bathroom too. We laughed so hard, when people ask what we got for Christmas we can say His and Her toilets :) I will post some pictures of the before and after when we get done. We are hoping to be in, in a few weeks.

Deer Hunting

Tis the season for deer hunting....Chris got this 10 point buck last Sunday. He thought it was a pretty nice deer but not quite as big as James' Monster Kill!!!

Jace was really scared of it at first he has never seen a deer like this.

He was so excited to get his picture with dad's big deer!

Jace and I took the deer to the Fairmount Locker yesterday, I took him out of the truck when the guys were unloading the deer because he wanted to see it. Bad mistake because then we had to go inside to give our name and what we wanted, well he took us through the back way and that is where they were skinning the deer. I think there were about 10 hanging deer with no skin on them, Jace didn't know what to think ~ I have never heard him so speechless. I think he was petrified but didn't say a word. When we got home I had him tell what he saw and all he said was it was really scary! He did sleep last night so at least he didn't have nightmares about dead deer! I might have ruined him on the hunting thing :(

Sesame Street Live: Elmo Makes Music

My mom and I took Jace to Sesame Street Live in Fargo at the Fargodome last Saturday. It was a blast! I don't know who had more fun.......I took 58 pictures and video's I think this was the hardest blog to choose what pictures I would use!

Jace picking out what he wanted to buy.

He picked out an Elmo spinning light

Jace and Grandma

Grandma bought him a new hat and Elmo binoculars

And Cotton Candy

Bert and Ernie

The letter of the day was J

Disco Bert

Jace was singing and dancing through out the show!

The ABC'S

Jace singing along with the ABC's

Big Bird singing Rockin' Robin

C is for Cookie

This was the only song I was waiting for to get on video. I was helping my mom with her camera and I almost missed it and I forgot to zoom in. This is Jace's favorite song, Pop (Tom) sing this to him all the time! You can hear in the video Jace saying this is pop's song! (This was pop's favorite song as a kid too)

Cookie Mamba

Fall Fun

The other day Jace wanted to go feed the ducks so my mom and I took him down to the park.

There were lots of hungry ducks!

My big helper!

Jace loved to rake up the leaves. He even helped our neighbors Jim and Marybeth rake! This was the first time that he really got to play in the leaves too, he would run and jump in them and kick them all over.