Before Pictures of the New House!

I like to document everything and show where we came from and where we end up! So here are photos of the empty house!

Life Lists

To Purchase:

• A few bales of hay for dinner if animals are stalled at night
• Paint for bedroom, kitchen?, bathroom
• M. bed
• Guest Bed
• Bookcases
• painter's tape, brushes, rollers. I think I left these in WA
• Deck furniture
• entertainment center
• dining room table
• fencing for the garden
• Curtains to replace what's there

To do at the New House:

• Paint M. Bedroom
• Set up fence charger
• Weed front garden
• Weed wack/mow fence line
• Fill water tanks for animals
• Organize tack room
• Clean out old hay under pallets
• unpack
• Raise water tanks off ground with wood, maybe from wood pile?
• Control the garden
• Pay back S. Mauzy for 100 gal. tank

To do at MIL's house

• Get our shit OUT
• Clean the house

If you can't tell, life is crazy. We are on the verge of living in the new house. Friday will be the first night! The schedule is getting hectic since Kaylee's birthday is a week from Sunday.  I found out I'll be needing a root canal and that will happen a week from tomorrow, the day my parents come into town to stay with us. 

A car review, WHAT WHAT?!

This is what our driveway looks like right now. Oh the gloriousness of working for GM. Eric gets to try a 2015 Corvette Stingray convertible for a week. I took it out for a test drive last night to get ice cream. It took 20 minutes to come home...

There's a display in the windshield so you can keep your eyes on the road and still know your speed (necessary!!!!) It also tells you how many 'g's you pull in acceleration and turns.

This thing purrs. I'm not a car person, I swear I'm not but I just kind of melted when I hit the ignition button. And the responsiveness. I hit 90 with ease on a back road and it's so small and light it took forever to coast down down to the speed limit. You can do 0 to 60 in no time and I was SUPER afraid of going over the speed limit (aside from that one road) because I'm sure this car is a cop magnet. But oh so fun to drive.

My one complaint is it's a pain to get in and out of (First world problem, I know). And it's not made for fat people. I feel claustrophobic in the seat. 

passed out child today. She was a pill. Really embracing the threenager she'll become in a month.

Playing at the splash pad yesterday.

yay Science!

Here are some cool patterns I got tonight with my Ferning test with my saliva. I'm pretty sure this is a positive result :D

Hello Gorgeous :D

Look what I picked up today! Beautiful blue and perfectly in our budget. I need a good name, only I can't get too attached because it's a lease. We'll be buying a 2020 model when that's finally released (hint: That's what Eric's working on)

But for now, this truck is perfect for our needs. It's a 2015 Silverado 1500 with 5.3L V8 gas. For the infrequent hauling I'll be doing over the next four years it will be perfect. With this truck I won't be getting the gooseneck that I posted about previously, but I do have a lightweight aluminum bumper pull in mind. More on that tomorrow!

Summer Storms

The backyard at my mother in law's house where we're staying. It has frontage on the St. Clair River.

Lake St. Clair, a not quite Great Lake. I found the rain.

The kid, a new house, and making babies

I've only been temping lately and I wanted to get back into more tracking so I ordered more LH test strips as well as a nifty new toy that can also be useful!

LH test strips, I hope I don't need all 50 of them...

Apparently, you can also check your saliva to see if it crystallizes. The crystallization changes when you ovulate and that can be detected by drying saliva on a microscope slide and examining it. So I got a pocket microscope.  It's small enough to fit in my purse!! And way cooler than the "marketed for fertility looks like a lipstick case" pockets scopes. That would stick out in my purse.

Glass slides.

Bright LED for examination

Test of saliva. You can see some crystallization but during ovulation/fertile zone there should be tons of 'ferning'. I'll hopefully nab a picture when I see it in the next few days!

In other news, I am the owner of this AMAZING front yard! Horses not included, but that's okay! I have my own ;) 

And Kaylee is already in love with this awesomeness in the backyard.

She practiced climbing a rope ladder at the park.

It was a gorgeous day on Lake St. Clair

So she went swimming in her undies. Lack of swim suit bedamned!