November recap

November has came and gone without a single blog post. Whoops. Sorry. I've lost my desire to blog I guess you could say. I think about it once in a while and I enjoy reading others blogs, I just don't "feel like" it anymore. A person really should post daily to keep any readers, so I'm fairly sure I'm talking to myself here!

In November Jed and I both celebrated birthdays. Another year in the books..yay! The girls are getting to the ages that they really worry about us having a GREAT birthday! It's very cute and thoughtful how they hand make paper cards that they think are the worlds greatest masterpiece! Bless their hearts!

The Batie's actually came home the weekend after my birthday, so we were able to spend a weekend with them. As always Jayda and Paisley were very excited to see Sydney, Wyatt and Cooper. Grandma Jinx kept them for one evening and the adults went to a hockey game. I'm sure they were perfect angels :)

Thanksgiving has also passed in the meantime. We spent the day with the Seim family, eating and playing games. I came down with a horrible sore throat and cold that conveniently kicked in that morning. I made it to work Friday, but not Monday. Jayda and Paisley had already taken their turns with it, but somehow Jed missed out.

We have resumed work on the house the past few weeks also. Jed's tractor broke down so he had to quit hauling hay. Little does he know, I was behind the demise of the tractor. ha. just kidding. That shit gets expensive.

He's been plumbing and sheet-rocking, so it is starting to take shape inside! The duct work is being installed slowly by Grand. The guy has been out two days, hopefully can be done in another day. It's like pulling teeth to get them out there to work on it. It seems something else more critical comes up each time he is scheduled to go. Once the ducting is done we can really move forward with EVERYTHING! I'm very excited to get the sheetrock up and get the tape/texture crew out there. Taylor and her boyfriend Tate came up last weekend and helped for a day. We are hoping Ryder will spend his Christmas break with us also!!

We finally decided to go with ceramic tile in the bathrooms. We had considered linoleum, but just couldn't get too excited about it. We took the plunge and headed to Menards one Saturday and came home with a load. A week later I was looking at the Menards ad and saw it was on sale, and the sale would save us around $500!! Do you think I could find the receipt to call them and get the price adjustment?? Of course not! I kept asking Jed if he had it, because he had paid for it and hauled it out to the tahoe. He couldn't remember and didn't try very hard to look. I went through all his jeans, vests, coats, wallet and piles of papers we have everywhere. No luck. Finally one night I switched purses and guess what I found shoved in my purse?!! Yep, there it was! One phone call later, we got the price adjustment with just 1 day to spare, as they only honor the sale price for 14 days after the original purchase. I was excited. Jed could care less about that kind of stuff. But $500 is $500 and I'LL TAKE IT!