Jasper

I know Matt posted a picture of Jasper, but here is another. He loves
to put his face in your face. Its cute but a little wierd when he
launches him at your face. I am enjoying having him. A kitten was a
good addition to our family.

I don't wanna go back to school

I am sitting on my bed admiring my new kitten, Jasper, take a nap and
thinking I had better get my crap together for class on Monday. Yes
ladies and gentelmen, summer classes for Graceland University school
of nursing starts Monday June 30. I don't want to go back. I know that
six weeks of classes now means I am done five months early, but I'm
not ready for classes to begin again. Going back on Monday means that
between now and mid January I will have about four weeks off and it
will be hectic. I get two weeks the end of august and two or so at
Christmas. When I am done with classes jan 30 I hope to have a job and
take the NCLEX, the licensing exam, sometime in February. My life is
going to be crazy. Is it so wrong to want to delay that a bit? I don't
think so. I just hope I don't torn into a big hairy witch during the
next seven months.

In Anticipation of the New Kitten

Ever since my sister in law, Stacie, found a stray cat in her
apartment complex that we took in, we have wanted another cat.
Bellatrix, as we named her (go ahead and laugh) was an awsome cat. She
slept on my pillow and was very loving. However, Bellatrix was sick
and didn't live long with us before she died. It was sad. Matt and I
talked about getting another cat, but decided that we needed to do
something about the dog situation before another cat. Now Roxy is gone
and our house is pet free. It's sad. We have decided several times to
get a cat, and talked ourselves out of it each time.

We heard an ad from the place we got Roxy, Wayside Waifs, and they
have feline fridays, where kittens are two for $60 and cats over six
moths are $15 to adopt. We decided we were going to go today and get
an adult, shorthaired, male cat. We bought all the necessary things
like litter with litterbox, food, and dishes. Then Stacie called
yesterday and asked if we wanted a kitten because she knew someone
that had six kittens to give away. Matt and I talked about it, and
today at 4pm or so, we should own a brand new, black and white male
kitty, just weaned from its mom. I've never had a kitten that small
before. Any advice?

We also would love some name input. We are trying to go with boy
Wizard names, like Merlin, but we can't use Merlin because he is alive
and well at my mother in laws house. We thought maybe Jasper (see the
literary theme?) Any advice would be welcome.

Hideous Salmon Colored Walls

There are many colors of wall that I can handle. However, salmon
colored is not one of them. When we bought our house, there was
wallpaper in our bedroom, the living room, and the dining room. We
started with the living room, peeled wallpaper, sanded, and painted.
It took at least 9 months to get that all done. We began peeling
wallpaper in the dining room about the same time we moved in, but quit
to finish the living room. Still, it took over a year after finishing
the living room to get the dining room painted. It looks great now,
even if the trim still needs to be painted. So, Matt and I peeled
wallpaper in the bedroom today. What was underneath was the most
hideous shade of pink I have ever seen (see the above picture). I
cannot live in a salmon pink room for 6-9 months before we paint. I
start school next week and have classes for six weeks, then I am off
for two weeks before the fall semester. I am hoping to get our bedroom
painted during that two weeks.

On a related matter, we have decided to paint our bedroom something
other than orange. Something more soothing and more suited to a
bedroom in a home we are going to sell in the next two to three years.

On an unrelated note, I will graduate from nursing school in seven
months. Go Me!

"Noooooo"

This is what I spent my morning at choir and the hour of sacrament
yelling at Will today. Somedays are good and others are not. Today was
a not good day (until after our nap that happened after church).

First was choir, where we were practicing "Joseph Smith's First
Prayer" to perform today. There is a family named Tolman who have two
daughters. One, Samantha, is older than Will and he has been facinated
by her for quite a while. There other daughter is younger than Will.
Today during rehersal, Will pushed over and kicked the younger
daughter twice. He also pushed the Samantha several times. I was
horrified and at one point rehersal stopped because I yelled, Will
yelled, and the youngest Tolman was screaming. Will and I had a chat
about Jesus and how He didn't want us to hit.

During sacrament, Will was ornery. He wouldn't sit still, and he was
getting cranky. The last straw was that he bit me. I wasn't even doing
anything that could have really made him mad, in my opinion. I guess
we had a difference of opinion. Matt took him out and brought him back
in. I took him back out because he was so ornery. I was mad and he was
cranky. He even made me cry out of frustration. He was better in
nursery and fell asleep during the third hour of church. All the
crankyness was out when he woke up from his nap. I think he is going
to have quickly changing emotions like me. May the Lord bless our
family and give me patience.

Dining Room

The living room was painted by my mom and my mother in law while I was
in the hospital after having Will in October 2006. I have been meaning
to paint the dining room ever since the living room was finished.

Monday, my mother in law and I sanded the dining room. Sanding sucks.
We put plastic over both doors and sanded the crap out of our plaster
walls. Kathi and I were covered from head to toe in greenish dust.
Kathi had it on her nose hairs so you could see them up her nose. We
cleaned all the dust from everything EXCEPT the ceiling fan. I went to
eat dinner and get Will. When I got home, dust had been distributed,
via fan, all over the house. I'm such a dunce sometimes.

Mom and I painted today. The green is something Matt and I agreed on
and I really like it. It is really green. Mom said it looks like a
lime lifesaver, but I think it looks like lush, beautiful grass.
Either way I like it, but my sister in law, Stacie, doesent. She
doesn't have to live here, though, so her opinion is not all that
relevant. My only concern is the ability to sell a house with a purple
living room, green dining room, and an orange bedroom (the bedroom is
next to paint). I'm sure we can find somebody crazy as us to love what
we have done.

Baby + yogurt - highchair = disaster

In case the title of the blog didn't clue you in, this morning I gave
Will a container of yogurt. To defend myself, I was making a fathers
day lunch for Matt and Will loves yogurt. I really didn't think he
could do anything but dump it on the floor, which I would clean up
later. So, I'm in the kitchen and Will has had his yogurt for several
minutes when I hear a big thud. I put down what I am doing and go
check on him. There is yogurt on the floor and Will is trying to stand
up. Somehow he managed to get yogurt all over his legs and feet so he
couldn't stand up without slipping. It was so funny, I couldn't help
but laugh. Will started laughing too, although he didn't know why. I
put him in his highchair to finish the yogurt that wasn't on the
floor, and had to hose him down in the shower (which he hated) before
we could go to church. It was awsome. Kids are so talented.