Have A Great Rest of Your Day

I’ve decided that paying taxes kind of stinks. However when you get some of what you have payed BACK the stench is considerably less.

We received our state portion of taxes back this weekend and have already spent it ALL. That’s right it’s all gone, towards bills that is. Our pediatrician is payed off and soon our OBI will be also. Yippee!! I love getting things pawed off.

Now we can start to try and save to get our hospital bill taken care of. It will probably take us about a year to get that all payed. Oh well, our baby has been worth every penny.

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Here is the newest member of our extended family!! Kaitlyn Nicole was born on February 23, 2006 at 2:40pm. She was 7lbs, 12 oz and 20 1/2 inches long.

What a doll she is. I got to be there for the birth and it was such a wonderful experience. What a miracle children are. It was a very special time to share with my sis-in-law Melissa. I even got to stay for a few hours afterward and snuggle the precious new one. I also became the designated photographer. They didn’t get a lot of photos with their first one, so we were trying to make up with the second. I took about 60 pictures in a 4 hour time period.

Now my Katy will have another Kaity to play with. How fun to have a cousin only 8 months younger than you.

Katy got these adorable ruby red shoes for Christmas from Grandma Jensen. This is the first time she has worn them. They were too big before. She was wearing her Christmas dress again to church on Sunday and the shoes matched perfectly. I just love little baby feet. They are my favorite part of her body. I went a bit picture crazy I think I ended up with about 33 pictures of her in her shoes and dress. She was quite patient and just let me snap away.

There has not been a whole lot going on lately, yet it seems so busy all the time.

Cassi and James are coming this weekend. They will be here thru Monday. Mom and I have Monday off, seeing as it President’s Day. So I will get to enjoy the day with family and my baby.
Cassi has graciously offered to watch Katy tomorrow so she doesn’t have to go to daycare. That will be nice and helps us out on our bill.

One new thing I guess I forgot about. We just got our taxes done last week and we are getting enough back to finish paying off basically all our extra debt. That means no credit cards, no doctor bills, nothing. We will only have what I classify as “standard” items, house payment, car payment, phone, gas, utilities and groceries. Oh we will still have our home equity loan that we used to pay off the hospital, but the payment is somewhat manageable and will take about 1 more year to have payed off. I digress, we would have a couple hundred dollars left to buy Kathryn a new bigger, better carseat.

Yesterday John’s car started making a funny noise. He took it into the shop this morning and he needs some new part having to do with the wheels. CV joint, or axle or something, I can’t remember. Total cost: about $150.00 Oh the joys of being grown up. Now we are going to use ALL the tax money to get stuff payed off including his recent car repair, which for the time being is on a credit card. I guess Katy will have to wait another month or two for her new carseat. At least she can still use the one we have.

Cool picture and even though the holiday is dumb, I still thought the picture was fitting for the occasion. Aren’t elephants cute? Look they love each other! I bet they don’t know it’s Valentines Day!!

I really don’t like Valentines day. I think it is somewhat pointless. I mean why do we need a REASON to show our spouse, or children or whoever that they are loved. Shouldn’t that be a daily occurrence. Seriously if John only told me once a year that he loved me or did something special, he would be so gone.

I will be spending this Valentine evening by my lonesome. John will be working at the video store, so it will just be us girls. Now most would pity a married women spending tonight alone and wonder what was wrong with the husband. I really could care less. In fact I’m kind of looking forward to being at home by myself, maybe I’ll have time to do some reading.

Kids will play with ANYTHING. Katy found the potato scrubber and canister on Grandma’s countertop quite interesting. Katy is such an easy going baby, almost anything will keep her entertained.

My friend Heidi and her husband Mike just finished painting their living room. Can I just say WOW, I would never have enough patience to PAINT that on a wall. That’s right rolks they drew, then painted that themselves. Update to follow on how long that took. Looks great and all I can say is “When are you coming to do mine?”

Boy has it been a busy week. I missed Tuesday and was in classes all day Friday, so I went into the office this morning to see if I could get caught up a little bit.

I hate it when I can’t see my desk because of all the paperwork that is stacked on it.

Got that taken care of now, so it won’t be as bad Monday morning.

Came to my parents house tonight for dinner and to visit them. Haven’t seen them for a couple of weeks. Had a nice talk with my mom, and now I’m just catching up on my internet stuff before going home. Not anything too interesting going on right now. Just waiting for taxes to come back.
I can hardly wait to get the checks in my hot little hand and get stuff PAID off. Granted we still have other things to pay off, but the more we can get out of the way the better.