Casino Night at the Hall House

Yes. We went through with our plans to pay our house payment by starting an illegal casino.... kind of. It can get a bit boring at night, so we decided to break out the deck of cards that I bought for us about two years ago. Anyway, the stakes were high seeing as we only had about a half of bag of Starbursts to divide between us. We both took turns being the dealer at Speed (coming soon to casinos everywhere), Blackjack and Poker. It was quite eventful and we played until about 11. However, to sum it all up, I can gladly say Justin was "Royaly Flushed" as he had to receive about four different loans from my Starburst collection totaling about $1,000,000. He was pretty close to winning my whole loot once, but the best gambler prevailed and won it all! Anyone is invited to come and play as long as you bring real money. (Please, no bills smaller than $100.) However, because it is at our house, we still get to use Starbursts.

Pics of the House

Here are pics of the house. It's kind of boring right now but hopefully it'll be cute one day!

Goodbye to the Blue Loo!

So we are sad to say that we no longer have a blue toilet. We moved! My brother and his wife and kids came to help us move into our townhouse about two weeks ago. Weston was so concerned about the blue potty. He was sad that our new house doesn't have one. However, we assured him he could go and visit Bagle and Christi any time and see it. That seemed to calm all his fears of never seeing it again. He's so funny. We are finally getting settled into our new house and we've finally figured out how to keep the upstairs cool so we don't have to crank the AC all night. It's hard to stay cool these days. It's kind of weird to have so much room and more than one closet. I just can't decide where to hang decorations! We finally have room for Gill so now we can start buying baby stuff! Yay! Kim gave us a bunch of cute things and they are already in his drawers so now they aren't so empty. Hopefully we'll make some of the exciting baby purchases now. Gill's pretty excited to have us buy him stuff too. :) It's interesting to have your first homebuyers experience. We are starting to make a list of things to look for next time. The water pressure is horrible here but it's so funny to turn on the sink or something while Justin's in the shower. I didn't mean to turn on the sink downstairs tonight while he was in there and he thought I was doing it on purpose. Sorry, but if it was on purpose I would be dang sure to be in the same room to laugh at him. Anyway, this is kind of boring but we thought we would put some pictures of the new abode on here but it currently is being retarded and won't let us. We'll just have to try again tomorrow. Ta ta!

Tagged! (Thanks to Camille)

Joys

1- Being w/big J. ;)

2- Feeling Gill kick me when I ask him if he agrees with me or Justin... he always agrees with me. 

3- Eating... especially snow cones

Fears

1- Justin dying

2- Getting in a car wreck

3- Making someone feel bad

Goals

1- Survive the hot summer being pregnant and try not to be grumpy because of it.

2- Paint my toenails sometime soon

3- Put pics and write in the book Kim gave me for Mother's Day (I'm still your favorite though, right?)

Current Obsessions

1- Feeling Gill move

2- Asking Justin how his finger is. (He's going to probably flip me off one of these days...)

3- Eating. Why am I so hungry all the time?!

Random Suprising Facts

1- I have the secret desire to paint Justin's toenails while he's asleep. 

2- My love for ice-cream is slowly diminishing... :(

3- ???

Throbbing Stupidity

So Thursday I was shoeing a few horses and tried to overpower a horse as he tried to put his hind foot down. I had a hold of his hoof, and most of the time they'll quit fighting if you just give them a minute. This horse wasn't even a rank one, he was just determined to put his foot down. So, like an idiot, I hung on and he stepped on my ring finger and skinned my pinky. If I would have had my ring on it probably would have chopped my finger off. The horse stepped down and then to the side, and I simultaneously jerked my hand out from underneath him, peeling the skin off of the back side. There wasn't enough skin or hide to stitch anything to, so I just wrapped it up, finished the horse, and came home. Now I'm milking it for all it's worth. Turns out I wont be able to do dishes for a very very long time. Doctor's orders. I must say it looks a lot better after 3 days. 

Resurrected... Almost

I have been thinking about sharing my new discovery for quite some time, so brace yourselves. I have discovered how to take a shower that will make you feel like the morning of the resurrection. Let me first set the stage. Monday evening, I have 4 horses scheduled to shoe. The sign at the bank said 92 degrees. After the first two were done I drove to the final two of the day. It is 7:00 and it gets dark at 9:00, so I should have just enough time. Then, nonchalantly the lady says, "We bought another horse on the weekend, can you do him tonight too?" So I had to fly to get 3 done in just over 2 hours, and thought I could finally go home to my wife. But no, the neighbor came over and asked if I could do one for him too. I told him I was coming that way in the morning and could get to the horse sometime around noon, but he was leaving at 6:00 and wanted him done then. What do you do? Well, we turned on the headlights and I did him too. So, total count for the day, 2 in the morning, 6 in the evening, still feels like its 140 degrees outside. I felt like I'd been through 17 straight wrestling practices. I staggered in at 10:30 and turned on the shower. Here is where you should all take notes.

Step 1: Get clean, do what you have to do, just take a normal shower. 

Step 2: Gradually turn up the heat during step 1. Gradually so you can burn yourself without really being burned. I can get it tons hotter than Sherrie, maybe because men are tougher than women, maybe not, but you must get it as hot as you can possibly stand it, and then stand in it for a minute. You'll get used to it.

Step 3: Start turning it down. You don't have to take forever, but too fast could cause brain damage. Your brain will need time to adjust. Trust me.

Step 4: Turn it as cold as it goes, and tell yourself to keep breathing. That is important, because the brain slows down and it will become hard to stay in there, but stay as cold as it goes for at least 30 seconds. I find that breathing deep through your mouth is best. Now, you Valley-ites might not be able to complete step #4 because your water is basically purified urine, but up here our water still comes out of the ground and is liquid ice, practically year round. So, Valley-ites, you might not wake up on resurrection morning like the rest of us, but hey, wasn't all that heat a fair warning? Just saying.

Step 5: Get out of the shower. This seems like the easiest step, but due to the brain freeze, it is actually quite difficult at first. But that's it. This recipe will make you feel like "limb and joint has been restored to its proper frame." It comes short on the hair of the head restoration, but as far as limb and joint, this is a miracle formula. So try it. You'll wake up on resurrection morning with a familiar feeling. Thank me later.

Funny Card

This is the card I got from Sherrie and Gill. I thought it was pretty funny, a guy playing ball with nobody. I really can't wait!