New calling

Before I end, I should let you all know that I was called and set apart as the 1st counselor in the Young Womens Presidencey!!!!!! I was the Mia Maid advisor for 4 years prior to that. Needless to say I am not real thrilled. But I will do my best to do a great job for the young women of our ward.

Ashlee

This has been a big weekend for Ashlee. She had her wisdom teeth removed on Friday. We have been talking for awhile and asked her orthodontist about it. She has a huge overbite and she wanted to know if there was something that could be done quicker than the braces which don't seem to make much difference. Well he referred us to an oral and maxilofacial surgeon. We had a consult about a month ago where we talked about what it would take the costs and whether it would be covered by insurance or not. (Me being the pessimist, glass is always half empty kind of gal that I am) was pretty certain it would not be covered and that I probably wouldn't be willing to fork over half (because of divorce we would only have to pay half) of a 10,000 to 15,000 surgery. Well the doctor submitted it to our insurance and guess what? They approved it!!!!!!! So they gave us a 90 day approval time. So that meant that we had to get her wisdom teeth out immediately because they needed 3 months to heal before doing this other surgery. Whew!!!!! So sometime in July Ashlee will be having a sagittal split mandible and mandible anterior osteotomy. They will cut the jaw and put in an expander plate and do something similar in her chin. She will have to have her jaw wired shut for at least one week!!!!! Anyway, it has been a crazy weekend (which she spent at her moms) and then she has been home since Sunday night. She has missed monday and tuesday from school but I hope she can make it back tomorrow. In fact I need to get her up and taking a shower so she can start preparing herself.

Tree doctor

I can't remember if I have commented on this before or not. But we have a maple tree in our front yard and Marc just loves this tree. Every year when we would sit out front under the wonderful shade that it provides, he would say isn't this tree just getting so big and beautiful. Well last year we noticed that it really didn't give us much shade because it didn't seem to have the leaves it normally has. So I called the tree doctor. I wasn't sure that Marc would be up to losing this tree. Well the doctor came out and said that it may be able to survive and it may not. It could either be a fungus that was treatable or not. Don't you just love doctors? Well they deep root fertilized and told us to deep root water frequently. So we tried it. So far this spring the tree does seem to be getting a lot of leaves but only time will tell. WELL........ as with everything else we try to do. Fixing one problem has just brought out another. If you look in this picture of my window out at the lawn you will notice pretty green spots, well that is where they deep root fertilized the tree.. Those spots are the most green, lush, thick spots of grass and the rest of the lawn looks like CRAP........So if the tree survives hopefully the grass will too.

And more home improvement

Well this will teach someone to comment about missing hearing what is going on in my life (Lora)

4 years ago we (mostly Dad) finished our downstairs bathroom. Well I had been planning to paint the top portion of the wall dark blue and add a shelf and put some fun beach stuff on it. Well I finally painted the wall, and I finally asked Dad to cut me a shelf (which he had completed in a couple of days) I finally painted the shelf and purchased the cutest floral arrangement with greenery and sea shells in it. ( you will probably have to wait until next months blogging spree to see the final project ) So I am hoping to have this room done before tooooooooo long.

Home improvement - Does it ever end?

My blogs today will mostly be about home improvement or things that need to be improved. Or in reference to my last blog new always means more. Our main bathroom needed some new grout and so I called one of the many wonderful people that are always advertising and have them give me a bid. $440.00 to remove and regrout our shower/bathtub. Well Marc decided he could do it. And so he did!!!! It took him the whole weekend and he spent this whole last week home with bronchitis (not sure they are related but probably because he inhaled grout all night Friday and all day Saturday) But including the new dremel that he purchased he did it for around $250.00. So not bad and it does look nice.

With new comes more..........

Ok, so now I have these beautiful new windows and I don't know what to do for window coverings..........That is what I mean by with new comes more. So you(or I) always think that I can just get something new. But of course then you have to figure out the rest of it. So if anyone has any ideas for window coverings please let me know. The crazy part about these beautiful new windows is that I just got new blinds about 6 months to a year ago and now they do not fit!!!!!! Again, that is what I mean by more. So the blind sales man is going to come over probably today to give me some ideas about blinds or shades or something. But then I think I will still do a valance or something. With my beautiful new sliding door I have to get a new rod to cover the expance of the 6 foot door. I did have extra fabric to add on to the curtain ( I guess that is what it would be called.) So now I just have to get the rod hung and we can feel a little covered at least in the family room. However, I also had to paint the wall the door was in. I could do the whole room and I'm sure it needed it. But I chose to change the color of that wall only. It is a little oranger than I think goes with my burgandy and tan curtains and our burgandy furniture but it works, at least for now. And so........as I said with new always comes more.

Time and money

Before Before
Kind of in the middle
After
And After

This is my current favorite saying. "all it takes is time and money, two things we have very little of." But we have been getting some things done around the house. Marc received a bonus at work and he is so kind to let me spend most of it. I have always heard that is the way it works. What's his is mine and what is mine is mine!!!!!! Anyway we got new windows in our living room. And a new sliding door. I am such a sucker that I let the contractor and the window salesman (who happens to be our neighbor) talk me into a 6 foot door. But it is so nice. I love it.

Kasey's wedding

What a beautiful wedding. It was held at a historic house that has been converted into a reception center while trying to maintain the main house. Anyway, it was beautiful. Here are pictures of the ceremony, Chance and Jaxon , The bride and groom, Jordan, Kolton and Cache and for those of you who live far from home and haven't seen Trevor in awhile that is him next to Brian.