text: Break It, Make It, or Bake It: 09/01/2012 - 10/01/2012
  Holy Moly where did September go?
  Looking thru our calender, we realized the next few months are filled with wedding activities (My sister-in-law is getting married in December), Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and a trip to the Great Wolf Lodge! We are going to be busy! Hopefully we can find time to go to the pumpkin patch and other fun fall things.
  As always you can find these pinned onto my Laughs Pinterest board. Feel free to follow me!
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  Saturday I was able to take my dad home! He has been in the hospital and rehabilitation center for over a month and he was finally told to leave! Yay! After I took him home I bravely took the kids to get pictures done. We only got Jensen's pictures, and have to go back today to get Jakah's done. Ugh! Yesterday I spent the day at my parents house helping my dad out. He is still getting used to getting around his house in a wheel chair. (f you don't remember what happened you can read it here)
  Anyways, this week Stasha has asked us to list 10 things in our home for Monday Listicles. I had every intention of taking pictures for this, but didn't have the time. So just use your imagination!
  1. It looks like Toys R Us threw up in my living room. There are toys everywhere, but they are neatly piled into buckets and the train table Casey made, to look somewhat organized.
  2. Even though we spent HOURS scraping the floor last week (you can read about it Here) There are muddy foot prints on the wood floors. Stitch insists on digging holes in the back yard
  3. Almost every inch of walls are covered in pictures. Every room of the house also has a stack of photo albums. I get all our pictures printed every month and put them into albums. I am obsessed with pictures.
  4. Downstairs there is a pool table that hasn't been played in years. It is holding all the baby clothes until they are needed. I want to get rid of it, but Casey says the boys will play with they are older
  5. Speaking of downstairs, I have an elliptical, baby clothes, baby items (high chair) and a set of bunk beds taking up space. I can't get rid of any of it yet.
  6. I have a drawer over flowing with kitchen gadgets. I don't use half of them, yet I keep buying more
  7. My kitchen also has rocks on the wall. We made our back splash from rocks. I have never seen another one like it
  8. In my dining room, that is connected to the kitchen, I have one red wall. I also spray painted my dining table chairs to match. My mom also loaned me a painting that my great grandma painted (because she doesn't have a big enough wall). She is 105 years old.
  9. My husband and I sleep in a huge Tempur-Pedic king size bed with separate comforters. We started doing this year ago when we got tired of stealing the blankets from each other. It leads to great sleep, but not much cuddling.
  10. The boys have almost the same room, except on is blue and gray, one is blue and green. My brother-in-law helped my husband paint both rooms since I wasn't allowed to paint while pregnant. But I did hand painted the trucks on their walls.
  So there you have it, 10 things in my home!
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  Labels: About Me, Baby, Boys life, Home life, House, Kids, Monday Listicles, My Home
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  I had every intention of posting this yesterday, so it would be a proper WTF Wednesday. But time got away from me, and right now is the only free / quiet time I have.
  For the past week, OK since Sunday, I have spent almost every free minute I have (so an hour if I am lucky) scraping my wood floors BY HAND
  I was mopping the floor and saw that it was cloudy, not clean and shiny. I rubbed it with my finger only to find out this filmy grime came off. Ugh! Its not wax, since I don't have the time or energy to wax the floor. The only conclusion I can come up with is its cleaner build-up.
  Murphy's Oil to be exact. Something that has been around for forever so I figured it was good for the wood floors. Apparently not!
  And since its cleaner build-up I can't bring myself to use cleaner to get it up.
  So instead I have been scraping the floor by hand with a plastic scraper.
  Can you see the little cloudy spot on the left I hadn't scraped yet? Its like that ALL over my floor. The entire upstairs of my house.
  This is what comes up, and it takes FOREVER to scrap it. Because first I have to steam mop the crap out of it.
  My husband thought I was scraping the varnish off, but varnish wouldn't come up with just a steam mop and scraping.
  Did I mention the ENTIRE upstairs has to be done!? So far it has taken me 3 days to get the hallway done and part of the kitchen. (of course I am doing this with both kids around so I don't get to work on it as much as I need to)
  Saturday the kids are going to grandma's and my husband and I will be moving everything out of the house and scraping the floor and getting it back to where it should be.
  Nothing like spending some kid free time with your husband.... scraping the floors.
  Anyone who wants to come help I'll give you your own scraper and beer!
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  Labels: House, Housekeeping, Housework, Kid free time, Murphy's Oil, Steam Mop, Wood floors, WTF Wednesday