Courageous Joy

Today at our **House**!

We continue to do all those chores that are required at the end of an extended trip.

AND We tackled some of Mike's "pre-deployment" list....the boys took out a dead tree from the front yard. Mike tackled our tub....unfortunately...the G family handyman's curse holds...never, say NEVER touch a bathroom project. Those of you who are friends from AK will remember last time we tried to do a small job in a bathroom. We began needing to fix the grout in the tub and ended up replacing drywall, tile, grout, tub, toilet (which had to be SPECIAL ORDERED)....you get the picture.... The tubs in this house have a small amount of rust that needs to be repaired. Mike bought the kit. He dug into it and found the previous owner had puttied a big hole in the tub and covered it with grout and white paint.....The home inspector that SAID he knew a couple of guys who could fix that in town suddenly can't come up with a name. We're trying to find a plumber to see if this can be fixed or if we need to buy a new tub....which means the grout and tile will need to removed....and Mike said he's not checked the dry wall yet....I told him NOT TO LOOK! He will. {g}

I went grocery shopping and uploaded pictures and continued laundry. Bre and Krista worked on their my spaces.....guess I can't complain about blogging too much as I was given the "most prolific blogger" title on SHS. :::Snort::: They also played with younger ones a lot today.

I made a REAL dinner...organic even. I made cheese/turkey enchiladas, tacos, rice, refried beans, salad....shhh....don't tell the girls they ate organic and tell none of them it was free range turkey. YES - they continue to tease me. They also think the cloth diapers are plain weird.

Here are a couple of pictures....I'll continue to upload road trip pictures in the next few days...wow we DID do a lot....it was delicious to sleep in this a.m. (0700 is now a luxury). Stacia did o.k. in our room.

Oh yes, Mike took me to look at Road Whales today....ok he says that technically it is NOT a road whale because it isn't a MOTOR home...so what should we call a 31 foot trailer???? Road Dolphin? What???? We also went to Lowe's to price new tubs and sinks...

SCENES FROM OUR HOME (Yep - it's heavenly to all be home again) I'd include a photo of the tub but it is really GROSS looking!

Krista and Bre did THIS today - WOW!

Josiah and Jamin - the dead tree slayers! Photos won't upload

Krista asked me to buy cherries while we were shopping today (Yippee - adults with me on shopping trips!) and we discovered that Stacia loves them!

My favorite - a FULL dining room again - Stacia and I aren't in the picture....