Let the tiling begin!

Howdy! This is Logan posting. So for our anniversary this year we decided it was time to get rid of a bunch of carpet and the rest of the linoleum in our house. I know, I know - we go crazy for our anniversary. But seriously, we're the second young family to live in this house, and despite our best efforts to keep things clean and in good shape, the flooring just kept getting worse. It was just time to get rid of it.

Now we've been taking pictures of our progress so we'll post those soon enough, but being the nerd that I am, I actually wanted to post a link to a tool called Google SketchUp that I've been playing with to plan this out. I played with it a couple of years ago and thought then, "Why would anyone use this?" But let me tell you, when you're planning to tile the bulk of your living space, plotting things out isn't a bad thing, and this thing made it easy.

I walked around the house and took measurements of the space and after a twiddle here and a tinker there, and two hours later (finishing up around 2am) Google SketchUp and I came up with this:



On top of that, it told me that I had 714.988 square feet to tile.

Ok, so I could have just guessed like Amy and got about the same estimate. Amy took like 5 minutes and came up with 720 square feet, but come on, this is cool, isn't it? And totally worth the late night? Right?

Abby's Cast Kicks the Bucket

Amy took the kids to the doctor's office today to get Abby's cast removed and managed to take a few pics with her camera phone. Check 'em out below:





When Abby got her cast put on we were feeling awfully guilty about it taking such a long time to realize her arm was broken so we let her choose her favorite place to go eat. She mentioned that if she got to choose when her cast was put on she should also get to choose when it comes off. We said sure why not and haven't talked about it for the past month. The crazy thing is, she remembered that and was insistent that we go to Gattiland (a sort of Chuck E. Cheese type place with much better pizza). Needless to say we had a lot of fun.

Abby's Broken Arm

So Tommy asked what happened to Abby's arm, to avoid repeating this story a number of times, I thought I would just put it on the blog. (By the way this story does not exactly highlight my great parenting skills.)

The kids and I are big fans of the Leander Library. So about 4 weeks ago I was talking to the kids and told them if they went and found all the library books that we have right now, we could go return them and get some more. Well, Abby did exactly what I asked her to and found them all and tossed them into a pile on the floor. But then realized she needed to get something from the play room, she ran back into the front room and slid on the pile of library books and fell hard on the carpet. She was completely distraught and sweating, but I didn't think much of it. She fell on carpet after all and she could move her hand and fingers without much pain.

Well the next day she wouldn't use her right hand at all, so a friend of mine says you may want to take her in just in case. So I think ok sure why not. When we got there the doctor looked at it and said this sure doesn't look broken, maybe twisted or sprained, but she doesn't appear to be in enough pain for it to be broken.
(By the way we later find out that Abby was doing everything in her power not to show that it hurt, because she saw Evan go to the doctor for his six week check up only a few days earlier and thought she was going to get four shots just like Evan had to.)
The doctor ordered x-rays just in case. Well it turns out there is a complete break along her wrist! But by this time it is about 4:30 in the afternoon, too late to get into the pediatric orthopedist. So Abby had to wait until the next day to get in and get a cast. Nearly 48 hours after the original break! She is quite a trooper.

To make it up to her we forked out a little extra to get the water-proof cast so she could still swim this summer. So worth it by the way! She has had it on for nearly 4 weeks now and will get it off Friday. Hopefully I will remember to post some pictures of her getting it off!

My Very First Post!

Well everyone, this is officially my very first post, (this is Amy by the way). I have always left this stuff up to my computer savvy husband, but I am tired of seeing my tired looking picture from minutes after I gave birth. And probably so are you! So here it goes:

We have had some great adventures with our little Evan Isaac since he was born. We have been to the Nut Tree in Vacaville, Newport Beach, Disneyland, Dallas, the Waco Zoo, the Dr. Pepper Museum, watched fire works, had his blessing, gone to the sprinkler park many times, and even the pool a few times. In his short two and a half months he has met almost all of his grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins despite living quite a ways away from most of them! This kid gets out.

Before Evan I don't think we have ever done this much in such a short period of time.

We hope you enjoy some of his pictures.


Collin "teaching" Evan how to use his toy.


My three little angels.


We had my parents and Logan's parents with us for the day of Evan's blessing.


A close up on the star himself.