FAT LAZY CAT

Jinxy is so fat and lazy... All she does all day long is sleep and eat.  On occasion she will wonder outside but quickly finds her way back in to lounge some more.  I love her,  she is my baby.   

She recently killed off one of her five lives, I say five because of the four she has killed off in the past.  When we went to California for our spring break, she got locked in our office for five days with no food or water and, yes, that's right, no litter box.  I felt so bad when I got home.  I didn't know whether to be sad or mad when I walked in the door.   She made it though, and surprisingly didn't loose a pound.

NEW MAC

I'm so excited! Our new computer came in today. Of course Rick has been messin on it all day and then Kolten jumped on it so I haven't even got to try it yet...figures! That's the way things roll in this house.

Gloomy Days

The recent gloomy days have put some delay in the progress of our yardwork. Hopefully we will see some sun soon so that we can get our curbing in and grass. Rick did have a chance to get the sand put in around our firepit and set up the frame for our concrete pad entrance to it. I can't wait till we are done and have grass so we can sit out by the fire at night after a hot day of sun and toast our toes in the sand while cooking up some smores.

More interesting news...

I had a lady in my office ask if I knew of any horse property for sale on the west side of town and so I told her that we were thinking of selling in the fall sometime. She brought them by today and they loved our house. She said they would buy our house right now if they could. They need to sell their house first and an offer is coming our way. We are sad to leave our nearby family (for Kolten's sake but are excited to move on to a new floor plan. Jess and I were driving around the other day and found the cutest house, I brought Rick by it today and we both love it. Kolten calls it a pop tart house. He said it looks like there are a whole bunch of pop tarts stuck to it. The only way I can describe it is that it is very cottage like. Something you would see in a fairy tell story. I tried to take a photo of it with my camera on my phone but because of the rain it turned out so crappy. I will try to take another photo of it soon so you can see it.

Also some sad news... (Kids and people with soft hearts don't read!)

Kolten came in the house so excited today to tell me there was a racoon out in the ditch and that I had to come see it. I was a little busy at the moment and couldn't make it out to see it. He came back in the house shortly thereafter to say that I didn't need to worry about going out to see the racoon. I asked him why and with a very sad look he told me that it had drowned. It about broke my heart but I couldn't let him know so I said that things like that happen in nature all the time and that it was Heavenly Father's plan. The thing that was so sad was that he told me in great detail that he saw it struggling to get out and it went under water and bubbles came out of it's nose and then it went under the colvert and was dead when it came out the other end. HOW SAD IS THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I feel like balling right now just typing this.

Gotta go wipe my tears and blow my nose...talk to you soon.

5 Tag

5 yrs ago:

I was in high school...OK so I'm a little older than that, you couldn't guess that though right. No, really I was working a low life job as a secretary for Peterbuilt. Worst job I ever had - well maybe tied with Albertson's - where I worked at for literally about 2 months before I quit that hole. It didn't take me long to figure out that only mental patients work at places like those.

5 months ago:

Enjoying Christmas with the fam. We had a lot of people over for Christmas and wasn't used to that much commotion. The kids kind of drove us mad and we've been recuperating ever since. I hope we get-r-done before we have to do it all over again.

5 things on to do list:

1.Sell a house
2.finish yard
3.clean house
4.relax
5.relax

5 snack I enjoy:

Nothing now that I am on GrenX...in case you don't know what I am talking about - I think Rick called it a magic potion that I think I am drinking. No really it is a magic potion that I have been drinking that has helped me lose 17 lbs now. Email me if you want to know more. It is awesome.

5 things I would do if I were suddenly a billionaire

1. Go out and mow the dirt naked.
2. Tape dollar bills to my truck and drive through Idaho Falls just to see how people react.
3. Not share with my mom (just kidding mommy dearest).
4. Wait for you all to call wanting some.
5. Put it all away for Kolten's college...he'll be the best educated 80 year old there ever was.

5 places I have lived:

Hmmmmm...Let's see, 1. Idaho, 2. Idaho, 3. Idaho, 4. Idaho and 5. Idaho. I like Good-O-Idaho.

5 jobs I have had

Ok, so you already know the two crappy ones I've already talked about. My first job I ever had was working at a motel - Back then it was called Holiday Inn, now it is Red Lion, I think (Rick worked there too - about a year after I did and we didn't even know each other then). Then I worked at The Shoe Box - where almost every relative starts, except the smart ones (Amber). Just kidding, I loved working there...that's where I met my girl, Rach. From there I landed a career as a secretary for a tax accountant, needed insurance so I worked at Abertson's, foolish mistake, then Harley Davidson, another foolish mistake, then cleaning house and playing the mom roll for Dr. Brossard for a while, they went bankrupt and moved so I worked at Peter's hole, I mean, Peterbuilt for a year and a half and then started in Real Estate...Been a Realtor for almost 4 years now and love every minute.

5 things people don't know about me:

1. I'm really smart...brilliant, I call me.
2. I'm really cute and funny. Well you guys probably already know that.
2. I'm rich, in my dreams.
3. I ruin the edges of all papers I carry because of a mental issue I think...with a family like mine, who wouldn't. Anyway I love to put paper or the sown edges of things like pillow cases under my fingernails. It feels so good!
4. I like to watch Dr. Phil.
5. My real hair color is brown.

5 people I tag

1. Amber
2. Maria
3. Jake and Tracy Fam.
4. & 5. I don't know that many people who like me.

Brilliant Idea by Cindy

Thanks to my smart wits, we now have a beautiful night light border. These two pics are of a fense that my grandma used to have up before we moved here. When we moved here, she did not want me to take it down because she said it defined our property line. I thought it was butt ugly so I talked her into letting me take down part of it and leaving the poles up. They stayed this ugly metal color until a couple of days ago when I decide to make them look better. Don't ask me how I came up with this great idea, it must be genetic (ha, ha, ha). I painted the poles black and found a four pack of $20 solar yard lights at Walmart (the kind you just place in the ground that stand about a foot tall) and put them inside the posts. At night they light up and look so cute. Take a look at the before picture (not really a before pic, it is a picture of a part of the fense that is still up). I also talked Rick into letting me replace the horse fense with this same principle only in between the posts, instead of putting horizontal poles, we are going to droop two lines of chain and I am going to spray paint it all black and put the lights at the top. We figured to do the whole corral might cost about $1500-$2000. Totally worth it, I think.