Busy weekends were well worth it!

Our last few weekends have been pretty busy! Not last weekend, but the weekend before, my brother and dad came over and installed new windows in my living room. They look fantastic, and I am soooo happy with them!! I cant thank them enough for doing that for us! It was a little scary at first seeing a saw cutting into your house, but once they got the holes cut where the windows would go, I was very excited!
Thank you so much Chris and Dad!!!

We've had some leaky pipes in our master bathroom, and until this weekend had just chosen to ignore it, and quit using our master bathroom shower. Derek's uncle Mike came over this weekend to help us with the pipes, and we had to cut a big hole in the ceiling in our kitchen to get to them. Again, very scary seeing a hole being cut into your ceiling! It appeared that the problem was that the builders had just failed to tighten the pipes very well when they built the house, and also not enough putty around the drain.... I think. There was also a little mold where the water had been sitting. Thank you Uncle Mike for volunteering your Saturday morning to help us with this! We greatly appreciate your help!

After that, we had to go to Home Depot to get some supplies so Derek could patch the hole in the ceiling. He did a fantastic job for having had no experience, and I am very proud of him! Then Saturday night, I was getting ready to go to bed, and I opened the front door to call the cats inside, and I noticed what looked like a huge spider on the porch railing. So I called Derek to check it out. Turns out, a certain plumber who thinks he's funny had left a plastic spider there for me to find and freak out at. Lets just say that even being close to a plastic spider made me a little panicky, so I made Derek throw it away.... BUT I made him wrap it in toilet paper first because I just know that when I go change the bathroom garbage, I would see that spider there and probably scream and scare the daylights out of Jadon again!

Anyways, I wanted to show you pictures of our windows!

Here's a before shot, showing you our old windows.....

And here's the new windows....


While I'm at it, here's a picture of the main upstairs bathroom that I recently painted (cupboards white, walls tanish color...) sorry I don't have a before shot of the bathroom.

America's Funniest Home Videos

So I don't know if you all watch America's Funniest Home Videos or not, but we do on occasion. Last night I was watching it while I was feeding Jadon. One of the videos was a man talking on the phone....he is scared to death of spiders. And someone put a tarantula on his back, and it crawled up his back, over his shoulder and down his chest. The man has no idea, and everyone around him is laughing. The man stands up facing the camera, (still talking on the phone) and the other people in the room must start pointing to his chest or something, because the man starts feeling his shirt, and puts his hand right on this tarantula!!! Then freaked out obviously! As many of you know, I am horribly terrified of spiders, and for some reason I couldn't stop watching this video! I got so into it that when the man put his hand on the spider and freaked out, I too started screaming and freaking out! Then I hear Jadon whimper and I was brought back to my senses and I looked at him, and his little bottom lip is sticking out a mile and he starts crying. I had scared him!:( Then Derek came running downstairs saying "whats going on down here?"

I really really REALLY hate spiders!!! I used to have nightmares almost every night about them... just ask my husband, I woke him up every time I had one because I would suddenly jump out of bed, turn the light on, and start looking through the bed sheets to make sure there were none in the bed. Thankfully, I haven't done that in a long time! ;)