Regulator's...Mount Up!!

So today at work I had to regulate!! Let me start at the beginning. So for some odd reason kids love to fight in front of the attendance office? I'm not exactly sure why? They must not know that there is a camera in that area because all the fights are caught on tape. Anyway, about two months ago there was a fight between these two huge kids. I mean these kids were monstrously big!! I was a little caught off guard, I ran back into the hall to find an administrator, which there were none back there. So I just kind of sat there and watched. Then this very pregnant teacher comes up and stopped the fight! I was very impressed, and felt pretty stupid at the same time because I just hid out in my office and did nothing.
So today this little girl started screaming and pushing this other little girl, then she moved on to another little girl. They were swinging at each other and pushing! (I don't actually think anyone made any contact)But I'll have you know I walked out of my office and stopped the fight! I had to grab the one girl 3 times! Because she kept getting away from me. And the best part is, my whole heroic deed was on camera, so I got to watch it. Pretty fun. The girl that started the fight was not as impressed that the whole thing was on camera, she of course was suspended.
Lucky for me they were just tiny little girls and the one that started it didn't seem too mad at me. After all was said and done and she was suspended she had to come sit with me for about twenty minutes waiting for her parents to come get her. She didn't try to hit me or anything, so I took that as a good sign!:)
So that was my crazy day I can't wait to tell Margie! It got the adrenaline pumping, I even started sweating a little bit. So I don't even feel a little bad about sitting on the couch and watching t.v. all night because that's the biggest work out I've had in a while.:) It's just too bad I don't have the video to go along with the story. Oh well.

Happy Easter

Our First Easter 2006

Happy Easter everyone. I love Easter. Getting together with family, having egg hunts. For those of you who don't know, I'm pregnant. I've been trying to figure out a cute way to tell people and I just can't think of anything. I am 14 weeks and have been extremely sick. Extremely sick for me anyway. So now I'm going to brag about how wonderful my husband is...since I've been sick Mike does a lot of extra stuff, like clean, cook and go grocery shopping. So he went shopping last night at like 9:00 pm. He got all the Easter stuff, he even put Jaycee's Easter basket together (outfit included). He did such a good job. All this was at the end of the day, earlier that same day he installed a new water heater. He is amazing. I sure am lucky! Love you Mike:)

Remodeling part II

As promised, here are some more of our remodeling pictures. The first couple are of Jaycee's room, which Mike finished just before she came.

It got a new paint job and new molding, crown included. Then I painted the wood flowers, butterflies and hearts.

My sister Joy (with the help of Jaime) surprised me with her name when I got home. I knew she was working on it, I didn't know it was done. They put it up while I was at the hospital. Our house gets super hot in the summer. I remember people telling me how hot it was, so I was glad to be in the nice air conditioned hospital. Anyway when they came over to put it up the power had gone out, so they couldn't turn on the swamp cooler and it was very dark. So they got it put up in candle light, because at the time we didn't have flashlights. So kudos to my wonderful sisters!

Now on to the Basement. We realized we had a leak when I went to do laundry and at the bottom of the stairs was soaking wet!! So Mike and his dad went to work, they found we had a pretty good sized crack in our foundation.

Not long after that I moved a coffee table I had pushed up against the wall under this window to find that it was all moldy. So when Mike tore this wall apart we found a pipe coming into the house which wasn't sealed. So we had water coming in there also.

And now for the after pictures. When we started we had no idea that we would be doing the whole basement. It just ended up this way. Which we are glad of now, at the time it was a pain. We really enjoy it now. It's nice to have everything nice and new. So here is the new kitchen downstairs. Oh ya....the basement also got new french doors, and all new windows.

The only thing that stayed was this brick wall and the fireplace. The basement got new molding, lighting, wiring, plumbing, windows, doors, cupboards, sink, counter tops and tile.

So part III will have to be our room which Mike just finished and the bathroom. I'm having a hard time finding my pictures of the bathroom. I remember taking them, now I just have to find them.:) Now we have the inside all done. If only the outside looked as nice as the inside!! Does it ever end??