TGIF

Well it's finally Friday. I didn't post anything yesterday. I was busy and forgot to post. Yesterday was Doug's birthday. He turned 52 years old. Kayla and I got him a new fax machine for the office. He can take the old one to the shop so he can receive faxes there and I won't have to worry about missing them here. I fixed him a birthday supper of steak, baked potato, corn on the cob, and salad. We got him a little chocolate birthday cake from Wal Mart. Kayla and I ate our 100 cal bar while he ate half his cake. And then he finished it this morning. At least there won't be any cake here to tempt me.
Kayla and I are patiently waiting for 5:15 pm this afternoon. That's when we start to participate in the Relay for Life. Then in the morning when we leave the Relay--we might ride to Houston with my dad to get a new prescription that is waiting for him at M D Anderson Hospital.
Other than that I don't know of anything new to write today.

Mid Week Update

Well for nothing better to call this one--I'm calling it mid-week. Last night Kayla and I went to the Relay For Life Bank Night. We are participating in San Augustine's Third Annual Relay For Life. Not only are we on the PTSO Team, but she and I are manning the registration table for the Survivor's Reception. We are looking forward to it.
After going to the RFL meeting, we then headed for Center to go to our Weight Watcher's Meeting. We both ended up losing a little weight this past week. We are both interested in our weigh-in for next week after participating in the Relay.
After the meeting, we came home and fed the dogs (did I mention that we have 14 dogs). While feeding them, we decided to let Bristol out of her pen (she appeared to be trying to go in heat and we wanted to keep her separated from the male dogs--she has an appointment in October to be spayed). She wore Doug and Kayla out with all her running around the main yard. I was in the fenced in backyard cleaning out her pen.
Then we ate supper and went to bed.
This morning, Kayla and I have stayed around the house except when we went to Dad's house to check his mail. He's coming in today. Kayla has been in the pool twice today and I've been trying to get the house straightened. I was thinking that Aunt Birdie might come see the house on her way back from her doctor's visit but she hasn't shown up yet. I seem to be making some progress in getting the house straight but that will change as soon as Doug gets home and brings in more stuff. That's about all I know for today.

Our New Home

I talked about us moving into the new house. Well our new house is a Palm Harbor 30 x 64 home. It was a four bedroom/3 bath home, but we converted one of the bedrooms into a home office. It is 1920 sq ft., which is 800 sq ft more than we had before. It has a large master bedroom, large master bath with huge walk-in closet (Kayla says it's big enough for a nursery), a large living room, a big kitchen with an island, a dining room, the office, a guest bathroom, a guest room, Kayla's room with her own bathroom, and a utility/laundry room. We had an extra door added to the office (so it has two doors to enter into), an extra door from the utility room to Kayla's bathroom and then we had an atrium door added in the dining room to go out to the back yard. The doors that lead out of the house were in the front room and in the utility/laundry room - which are in the front of the house and the side of the house--next to the dog pen.
Doug wants to build a back deck so the door going from the dining room to the backyard will work good.
I don't know if I will ever get everything moved to the new house or not. But I'm trying.
We set the swimming pool up Saturday evening. It's on the other side of the house. I can look out my bedroom window or my bathroom window and see the pool. Which is good because last year when we had the pool set up--it was hard for me to see Kayla out in the pool.
I will try to get pictures posted soon of the house. I have to find the software for the laptop so I can download pictures.

The Beginning

Several of my friends have started a blog so I decided to start one too. I guess I should have started this blog when we first decided to buy a new house. I sure would have had a lot to write about but I didn't. We are now in our new house but everything has not been moved in. Kayla and I wanted to go through stuff at the old house before it was brought to the new house. But Doug has a different idea on moving. He has only moved twice in his whole life--once when he was five years old (Now you know he didn't do much of the moving) and then he moved again when we got married 14 years ago. So he puts everything he can find in a box and moves it to the new house, where Kayla then has to go through it and decide if it's something we want in the new house, something we want to throw away or something we want to sell in a garage/yard sale.
It looks like this new house is getting pretty full. I can't believe we had all the stuff we are moving over here in the old house.