My Life: June 2008

The best part of the boys being gone is...

Hailey and I were talking tonight as she was getting ready to go to bed. We were talking about how JR and Ethan are gone. This is what she told me, "Mom, do you know what the best part of Daddy and Ethan being gone is? We don't have to watch sports!"

I had to laugh!!

Girls Night Out

Since JR's gone, I've tried to do some fun things with Hailey to make the week fun for us. Sunday we went shopping with Grandma and out to dinner with Grandma and Grandpa, Monday we bought a car-load of flowers to plant in our yard (ok, that was fun more for me than for Hailey), then today Hailey had a friend over all day to play. But, tonight we really splurged. Hailey and I met Randi-Kay and we all got Pedicures. Well, Hailey actually just got her toenails painted with a really fun color and a flower on each big toe. Randi-Kay and I got Pedicures. It was so nice... up until the point where the lady took this wire brush and started rubbing my leg with it. Randi-Kay seemed to enjoy it. I don't know, maybe I'm just a wimp...

Oh well, we had a very enjoyable night!!

Talk about frustration!

When JR leaves for Mexico, I usually plan a few projects to occupy my time. I should know by now that projects never go as easily as they should.

I am replacing some tile that is in front of our fireplace and some tile that is in front of the sliding door to our backyard. The tile that was there is pretty cracked and I was tired of it. So I replaced the cement board under the tile and finally found some tile that I really liked. I have everything ready and I put the tile down just to see what it looks like. Crap - it doesn't fit. What the heck? It's 12 inch tile. I went back and re-measured the original tile. It's 11 3/4 inches. Do they even make tile that size? Apparently not anymore. I have no idea what I'm going to do. I know I can cut the tile, but I don't have a wet saw. Argh!! Why couldn't the tile be the same size? Is that too much to ask?

I need Help!!!

I am posting this hoping someone out there has some advice...

I took a couple videos on my camera. I downloaded them to iPhoto, but they saved as a .jpg file. When I open iPhoto, the video plays fine. But when I try to put the video onto youtube, it shows up as an invalid file. Does anyone know how I can fix this?? It's two videos of Hailey's ballet recital that I want to send to family that weren't there!!!

Thanks :)

Hailey's Dance Recital

Hailey had her very first dance recital on Sunday night. It was so fun watching her try and stay in step with the other girls in her class. She took ballet and tap dance. I have video of the dances, but I'm having problems posting them. So, until I can figure that out, here are some pictures from Sunday.