Harvest Gold

Harvest Gold could describe a Kansas landscape of wheat illuminated by the rising sun..... or it could describe our kitchen floor.

Good old 70's linoleum.  Since the day we bought this house -July 2, 2007- we have vowed to get rid of this floor.  Finally, 3.5 years later, we've done something!  

We knew that before we could lay down any new floor we would need to pull up the linoleum.  How did we know?  1) There were holes in the linoleum that showed us that there was additional flooring beneath it and 2) Our dishwasher leaked and we knew there was moisture under the linoleum because of those holes.

See the hole right in the middle?

1st strip comes up!

I'm so excited!  But it smells sooo bad!  See the water stains?

After pulling and working at the seams with a flat iron we got most of it taken care of.  The work crew (my mom and Aaron's uncle and some friends) were coming the next day to finish the stripping and start the installation.  The next time I saw the kitchen, there was a vast improvement!

Installation took 2 days.  As you can see we ripped out some of the carpet by the front door to make a little entry area.  We didn't get the transition pieces for that area until that weekend.  It's all in now and looks wonderful!

Jazz really wore herself out helping.

The small things

Fun Highlights of the past two days:

Motherhood massage (I GOT TO LAY ON MY STOMACH!)

Funny video clip on yahoo ( what some soccer players will do for a PK)






Reading my friends' blogs

Looking at my new kitchen floor (will blog on that later)

Petting clean, soft dogs

Snuggling with my hubby

Crocheting

Eating Better Than Robert Redford dessert


It's truly the little things in life :)

Random, amazing thoughts

Every now and again I am struck by the absolute amazingness of thought.  All that's up there is tissue, blood and electricity... and we can think!  I can have a conversation with myself or have random thoughts. It blows my mind! I have no idea how anyone can not believe in God with such an amazing contraption sitting on their neck.

More Snow Love

As I sit here on this SNOW DAY(!!!!!) I am taking in the wonderful world of white that surrounds me.  It is absolutely gorgeous.  Everything is clean and fresh and peaceful.  Then I let the dogs out, not so peaceful but still wonderful.

I went back to the nursery this morning and the sunrise was beautiful, casting a golden glow on the snow and the ice on the window.  

So I can't help but think what a great God we serve.  He blesses us with beautiful weather and then even makes it something we can have fun with!  Enjoy your blessings today!

I LOVE SNOW

I mean it.  I looooove snow!  It makes any day better, even if you don't get a snow day.  It's beautiful and fluffy and fun!  It makes hot cocoa taste better, it makes slippers snugglier, it's just good.  We've got some giant flakes coming down today, the best snow I've seen since living here and quite possibly since I moved away from Connecticut (17 years ago).  It's incredibly light and fluffy!  Not great for snowballs, but man if we had hills in Kansas this would be great to ski on!

And then you have Jazz and Bo who also love snow 

They run and play and dig and root and get so crazy energized from the fun of it all that they end up wrestling.

Then we come inside and they look like this:

Life this week

I had unexpected minor surgery Friday.  I went to the podiatrist to see what he would do for my ingrown toe-nails and he decided to take care of them that day.  So I was a big girl and let him cut out my toenails.  (Not the whole toenail, just the sides).  The worst part were the numbing injections.  OUCH!!!  Seriously!  I kept thinking, "Man, I've got to toughen up!  I'm supposed to push out a baby in 10 weeks!"  That epidural is sounding better and better.  It was worth it though, because I didn't feel anything during the procedure. Anyhow, I was given the option of what color to wrap my poor toesies in afterward.

It was between this and green with smilies on it.  I went with the TU loyalties.  I should've asked for one to be yellow.  Ah well.  I give the procedure 2 toes up.

During the whole procedure they have a barrier up so that you can't see what they're doing.  Which I appreciated very much, but it made me that more trepidatious about removing the bandages.  I had no idea what kind of gore to expect.  Really, I was being a big chicken about it, but my husband was sweet and didn't mention that.  My instructions were to soak off the bandages so that I wouldn't pull loose any scabs.

I had an audience.  This gave me another preview of the issues we may have once Lil' Web comes.  I'm afraid Jazz is expecting to help in the bathing process.  There were about 4 layers of purple stuff which gave me a little time to build the courage to take off the gauze that was underneath.  However, I didn't look when I did.  I made Aaron look at it first.  (I'm really not usually this big of a chicken, I promise)!  I'm not sure you want to see the final product so I'll keep that little picture to myself, but it really wasn't as bad as I was expecting.  They actually look worse now just from bruising and stuff.  The good news is that I survived (shocker, right?).  Now i have to soak my toes once a day and then my sweet husband re-bandages them for me.  I've been well taken care of.  I wouldn't mind doing it if I wasn't pregnant... I just can't really reach my feet that well.


In other news...

In a previous post I mentioned something about Bo trumpeting.  I thought I'd include a little clip of the funny noises he makes.  Cracks me up, hope it makes you smile too!

Well, I'm off.  Gotta enjoy my last snow day!  Hope the crazy weather hasn't beaten you up too much!