More mud

And the work continues on the taping and mudding. We are almost done with the first coat. Then we will sand and work on the second coat. Buster and Bob have done 2 coats on the ceiling in the kitchen because it is so high and the scaffolding is still up.

Edwards family update

We had a great time yesterday! We first went out to the house and taped and mudded Bob and Sandi's house. Joe, Sandi and I worked on their bedroom. We got the first layer done. We are trying to get all the house done with one layer and then we can sand it and put another layer on. We are hoping that by the time we get to our house, whenever that might be, that we will be pro's at drywall or hopefully we might have enough money to pay to have it done. We are at the point that we are trying to get our house ready to put on the market. We have figured out the only way we are going to get out of debt and finish our house is by selling. It would be a better investment if we could rent it, but that would be a PAIN in the butt....So, I have sold a dresser and a changing table on craiglist this last week. I trashed all the DVD cases and many scratched DVD's along with many VHS tapes. What do to with those? I have a lot of church ones. I wonder if I can give them back to the church, they probably don't want them because who uses VHS anymore.....Those are from the dinasour ages.
Anyway, last night we were invited to the Shrine Circus by some good friends of ours, and the kids really liked it. Presley loved the elephants. I think we all liked the acrobatic stuff, I think Caleb should join the circus and do all his gymnastics stuff.
We love you all and hope you all have a wonderful week. Happy Birthday to Chase!

Blogging Challenge

Ok, so I think I am the only one who regularly blogs so I am going to challenge everyone else to blog at least once a week. Everyone is so busy, I understand, but it is alwasy nice to see what everyone is up to, whether it be a challenge that you are facing or something that is wonderful that is happening in your life. If you can't think of anything to blog about during the week, then blog about what you are thankful for. That is something we all can do, I hope.....So, I hope everyone will take on the challenge!!!!

New Closet

Since I don't get enough of building our house, I have to do things at my current house. I have been tired of my closet for a while. We had a long shelf and a really long dowl to hang clothes on. Both of them were looking pretty sad and I really didn't ever use the hanging clothes spot. So, I tore it all out, by myself, and put up the new shelves. We got the shelves for our new house but we have a whole bunch so I used 2 to make the shelving unit in my closet now. We got the shelves from Linens and things when they went out of business. I need to get some more baskets so it will look better but it works for now.

Drywall

Here are a few pictures of the drywall we are putting up in Bob and Sandi's house. It is actually a lot of fun. I think because Sandi and I are working together and the guys are working somewhere else. I am the dremel queen, I like using it around the doors and window. Sandi and I are almost done with the upstairs. What an accomplishment.

3rd Overall

Caleb had a meet tonight and he took 3rd overall for his age group 9-10 year olds. He had a pretty good meet. He needs to work on a few events though, but we don't have any more room in our house for rings and parallel bars....HA HA HA.

It had to be BOTH of them....

So today was interesting....I spent 3 hours in the ER with Darien and he broke BOTH of his wrists. Poor guy. Last night he was at basketball practice and was messing around at the end. He was jumping off of the bleachers and dunking the ball in a lowered basket. On the last one, he grabbed the rim and then fell right on his hands and fell hard enough to get a good goose egg on his forehead. So all night he was wimpering and whining that his wrists hurt. This morning I took him in and sure enough....2 broken wrists. Right now he has soft casts on until we get into see the orthopedic doctor next week and then they will put on hard casts. You can imagine ALL of the things that he can't do. Which includes EVERYTHING! You would think that with as many children are in our family that we would have had more broken bones. NOPE, this is the first broken limb, or anything for our family!! I am sure that Uncle Ryan can especially sympathize with Bugz right now.