I am Amber, and I am a moron!

Here are some updated pictures of my basement: I am so excited, we are finally in the home stretch.

BEFORE-ISH:

AFTER-ISH:

This is when I got locked in a bedroom in the basement. I decided to see how the door would close, and I accidentally locked myself in! I was laughing so hard I could hardly yell for help through the doorknob hole to get help from James who was upstairs. He was making fun of me while I was laughing so hard that I was crying. I am a moron! I am sure glad he was home though! How embarrassing!

This is some of my war scars-painting, and more painting! We have to paint the whole basement! I have killed many brain cells from the fumes. That is probably why I locked myself in the bedroom downstairs. I am for sure dumber now!

I have so much more to do on this blog, but I am tired and I can't go on any longer, maybe later!

May all of your brain cells last a long, long time!

What about Bob?

I have a new construction worker named Bob here today. This is how I met him: I was in my office/laundry room looking up fireplace Mantles on my computer (I was home alone). My office is currently in my "mud room" which leads into my garage. All of a sudden I can hear my garage door closing...weird! Then I hear a man talking...even more weird! I thought "James must be home for some reason" so I got up and opened the door and this very odd guy was standing there talking to himself trying to open my garage door again. He said "I thought that was your doorbell". What?!? Bob is about 60-something, sort of looks like the wizard on The Wizard of Oz, smells like cigarettes and talks like Elmer Fudd. He seems like a nice enough guy though! Just funny.

My favorite part of it all was he pulled up in a huge blue Buick boat with a cloth top. I was thinking "is this your construction vehicle"? Then he unloaded it and left and came back with an old beat-up truck with a handicap sticker, and a guy with huge earrings in his ears. My life is sure full of interesting people lately! Only a week or so and then I will have our normal contractor back (who probably thinks I'm crazy!). I can hardly wait to post new pictures of my basement, I am sooooo happy!

Hola Amigos!!!!!

We have been sooo busy! We had Taylor's baptism, birthday, and then we had to do lots of insulation in our basement. Taylor was so cute at her baptism, we are so proud of her. She knows more about the gospel than I ever did at her age! Thank you to Jessie, Ben and kids, Chris, Grandma's and Grandpa's Williams and Empey, Karen,Doug, Michelle, Grandma J., Amanda, Travis and family for coming on such a bad snowy night! We appreciate and love all of you! I promised her a birthday party this weekend so I had better get planning, I only have one day left, that's how I roll!


Finishing our basement pretty much is my dream come true, but putting up insulation was my worst nightmare! Whoever decided to make insulation out of fiberglass is a butt-head! I think I will get lung cancer and forever have itchy skin after that adventure. Why couldn't they have made it from something else, I don't have any other suggestions, but come on-was fiberglass their best option? What in the heck is fiberglass anyway? On a happy note... I have to brag about my superhero husband who carried 86 sheets of drywall down stairs by himself! He is so strong! I could NEVER have done that! He rocks! Our dry wallers are here today, and they should be done today too! Then taping and texture, and I will have real walls. We are doing the painting ourselves (yes, we are crazy) to save money! This is expensive! With the "great depression" and all, it had better be worth it!

(these are some "before" pictures)


My dry wallers are hispanic: Alfonso and Jose, they are very nice. Their Spanish is starting to rub off on me and Averi! I will be fluent soon. Averi wants to do all of her counting in Spanish, but I don't want to offend them, so I keep telling her to stop! She actually recognizes that they are speaking Spanish which is cool. Today Alfonso came in and I asked him what his name was and I didn't think he spoke English. I said my name is Am-ber like I was talking to a deaf person or little kid! As soon as I heard myself saying that I knew that I sounded like a moron! I can make the biggest fool of myself sometimes! He just looked at me with pitiful eyes and said O.K., smiled, and ran downstairs as fast as he could! How embarrassing!

And last but not least! You know you are too obsessed with politics when you turn on the t.v. to one of the candidates speaking and your blind daughter can recognize who it is by their voices! She says John McCain or Nobama (yes I taught her that-oops)! Maybe she can grow up to be the first blind woman president, I think she could do a better job than anyone who is running at the moment! OUCH! Yeah, I went there!

Adios Amigos!


P.S.-Why on October 11th did it snow 2 inches? This is some kind of cruel joke! We had from June 11th to October 11th without snow, that is so not long enough!

Oh yeah-I cut my hair off again! I feel so liberated!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAYLOR!!!!!

Today is our sweet little Tato-Bugs birthday! She is 8 today! She is the one of the kindest, sweetest,snuggliest, silliest, smartest girls I know! We love her so much and we are so happy that she is in our family! We are so excited for her baptism too, she is such a good little girl and she has such a loving nature.

Let's smirk at my quirks!

O.K., my cute cousin-in-law Katie tagged me. I am supposed to list 6 "quirks" about myself. I know I have thousands, so it is hard to narrow them down. Here goes:

1) I hate silence in a conversation. I will talk about anything to avoid silence. I HATE the awkward silence of just sitting there looking around. Besides, I love to talk, so this isn't that hard for me.

2) Messy microwaves! I can't handle them. I think the old food particles will fall into the new food I am trying to cook up. I freak out when I hear the exploding sound of food while it's cooking, it makes me so mad.

3) I sneeze when I pluck my eyebrows. I don't know why, but it is annoying. I think I'm allergic to grooming.

4) I love to belch really loud. Is that a "quirk"? Probably just bad manners! I can out belch a lot of people.

5) I am obsessed with a neat bed. James hates it when his sheet is tucked in and I can't stand a messy unorganized bed where the sheets wrap around and strangle me. I think it is an actual hazard to have loose sheets wrapped around me at night.

6) My favorite-my weird dreams. I have been blessed to have very vivid dreams and remember them in the morning. I love telling anyone who will listen about my dreams. I would love to go to a dream analyzer, they would have me put into the loony bin for sure!

BONUS QUIRK:

7) I had to add one more because I saw it on my sister's blog and I totally have this HUGE quirk too! LISTS- I have notebooks FULL of lists about everything imaginable! If I died, it would take a year to go through all of them. And...you would laugh hysterically and make fun of me the whole time you read them. They are really weird-like me!
I tag: Jessie, Dayna,Pam, Amanda, and Kjerstin

FINALLY!!!!!

Today is the first day of the rest of my happy basement life! I am so happy because today our contractor started our basement!

We hired a new guy we know and like a lot, and he is doing an excellent job! If any of you need a handyman, call me and I will give you his number He already has closets and walls and our tub drain dug up!

On a whiny note...I feel like my head may explode soon! I have some dang sinus infection, and it is making me very mad!