To blog or not to blog

I love when other people blog regularly; it gives me something new to read everyday. These people that blog regulary, though, usually have something good to say. So I guess my dilema is, I try to blog at least once a week, but if I don't have anything new and exciting to say, is it really worth my time? I guess it keeps me in the habit.

Let's see...what has happened this week...

Last Saturday I took Jenna to get her picture taken. Several people had called Jenna a boy after seeing her picture on my desk at work. The picture I have is really close up so you really can't tell if she's a girl or a boy based on the one picture. I figured I really needed to have a "girly" picture taken of her so there would be no question. So I got her all dressed up and put her hair in pig tails (at Joel's request). We got in the car and got halfway to Target when I turned around and saw that she had two fists full of pig tails. I told her to stop and she just stared at me for a second before bursting into tears. Oh, no. This should be fun. She finally stopped crying as we pulled into the parking lot. I fixed her hair and we went in. As soon as we stepped foot into the studio it was all tears again. She was unconsolable. So we just turned around and left.

We went back on Monday to try again. Same story. We were able to get 3 pictures taken, but they were all really sad looking. Oh, well. I guess that's life.

Here's why she was so upset...

We are still working on the basement. We are only able to do a little bit each day. We are lucky to have Joel's dad who comes over a couple of days a week to work on it while we are at work. The painting is nearly done. We just have a little bit of touching up to do. The electrical is almost complete as well. We went and bought a bunch of face plates yesterday to put up before we flip the switch to see if we get power.

These aren't very good pictures, but people have been asking about the colors...

The entertainment room. Joel wanted a dark color so it would be as dark as possible when he watches movies. The back wall is just darker than the other walls, but you can't really tell in this picture.

The bedroom. I LOVE this color!

The bathroom. This is a nice, calm, relaxing blue. Joel wants to be as relaxed as possible when he enters this room.

The hallway looking down from the landing. The color looks white, but it is really a light tan. Not what we expected at all.

Today was our last time teaching our Sunday School class. It's a 16 week course and they won't be starting it up again for a couple of months. We are excited to not have to worry about preparing a lesson each week.


Joel beat me to the punch putting that video up of Jenna. Isn't she just the cutest thing ever??? My favorite is when she gets all tense and makes that funny "Hulk" face. Joel says that he is going to take a picture of her when she does that and photoshop it to make her face all green like the Hulk. She wouldn't sing all of the words to the songs she knows. I like it when she sings 10 little monkeys. She says "mo mo monkeys" instead of "no more monkeys". She's the best. Today I found out that she knows how to sing Ring around the Rosie. We spent quite some time earlier falling down over and over again.


Oh, yes, how can I forget. Joel went shopping with his friends the other night for "Guys night out". He bought yet another pair of shoes. He is such a girl. He has more shoes than I do. I guess when they are only $9 a pop, that's okay (he goes to Steve and Barry's where everything in the store is $9). We are running out of places to put them, though. So, hon, does this make pair number 34 or 35 (just kidding!)?


Well, I guess I had more to write about than I thought. See, Mom, you can blog about boring stuff. You don't have to wait until something really exciting happens :)