Sunday, August 28, 2011

A Day with Dad


Written by William Shakespeare, on the account of Colin Christiansen’s 13th birthday

(How William Shakespeare wrote this is completely unknown, as he was dead and buried many centuries before this. However, Colin could not have written this, as it is in the Third person limited, and it is thus that we are left to wonder who wrote such an amazing play.)

Scene one

Lights come on to reveal a rather handsome young man in bed. Suddenly, his very loud and large family bursts in with a large plate of French Toast. After singing Happy Birthday, they all go downstairs to a large breakfast. Soon after everyone has eaten, they rush off to various schools. Fast-forward. It is in the evening, and everyone sits down to a very large piece of homemade pizza. Everyone digs in, and before cake is served, the young man, named Colin, opens his presents, among which are:

  • A compound bow
  • A book
  • Gum
  • Candy
  • A movie with the title Jurassic Park
  • A video game called Star Craft 2
  • Multiple cards
  • $$$$$$$$$$$

After, cake is served, as well as ice cream.





End of scene one

Scene two

Fast-forward to Saturday, were Colin is having a special day with his dad. They wake up, run some errands, and then settle down to a trip to BJ’s, a restaurant were they have a delicious salad, a scrumptious pizza, and the best pizzookie on the planet. They head home, stuffed to death, and play video games with a strange uncle in a faraway land till dinner. Dinner, served by Colin’s Mom, is again a very large, heavenly pizza. After this, Dad and Colin go upstairs to watch Jurassic Park and Star Wars Episode 3. They eat large amounts of caramel corn while doing this. After the movies, Colin goes to bed, with a very large smile over on his face.



Monday, August 22, 2011

1st Day Back to School


Today is the 1st day back to school and boy are the members of my family excited! We are now evenly split between the Middle School and the Elementary, with two kids at each.


Elementary



In 1st grade we have Reagan.




Austin is now in the 4th Grade.


Our Big Middle Schoolers



Colin is ruling the school in 8th grade.


Our biggest change is Caitlyn's transfer to middle school.


She is a feisty 6th grader.

Friday, August 19, 2011

Got to Go?





After a few complaints about my lack of blogging (sorry Mariah) I thought I would stop and do a little write up. I have so much to cover from the last few months, due to a laptop failure and the incompetence of more than a few Staples employees, that I'm not even going to attempt to play catch up at this time.


Instead I'm going to post about my much improved bathroom.

Sorry there are no Before Pictures...



This is a project that was started months ago finished before July and only now do I have time to write about it. For anyone who talks to me on a regular basis it will not surprise you that since buying our home we have had more than one or two or even three things break. One of these was the toilet seals in both of our upstairs bathrooms. The flooring had been replaced, but the seals never had. Both toilets decided to leak down to our main floor ceilings. That meant I got the opportunity to try my hand at fixing drywall and texturing. Turns out, I'm a natural! Ü I started with the main floor bathroom, figuring that if I was going to mess it up at least it was a small space. The ceiling turned out so well that I decided to texture the walls.

Can you tell how awesome this looks? I love it! The only problem was that the old fixtures, towels, and rugs now looked, just that ... OLD! So I went shopping and at the pottery barn outlet found towels and rugs.
Everything was still not quite right, so I got new towel racks and a new toilet paper holder in that great Brushed Bronze. They looked amazing, but totally clashed with the chrome light fixture and faucet, so they had to go too. I am now left with a beautiful new bathroom that I was only able to enjoy for a few moments before Mark decided to check for mold at the other leakage spot in our family room ceiling. NO MOLD. He was kind enough to buy me some new drywall and replace the hole (which our family had lovingly began to call the not working skylight). I am now in the process of texturing the ceiling that runs from the family room through the kitchen and down the hallway. On a happy note we had a friend give us an amazing (new to us) ceiling fan. Score! Plus, we are getting rid of this ugly kitchen light and putting in some much improved understated recessed lighting.