House for Sale!!!!

it's ready, the sign should be in the yard today

The house is finally on the market... I filled out the paperwork yesterday! YAY! Here are some photos of the front of the house, the living room and the bathroom! If you know anyone who is interested... send them my way! haha.

Now THAT'S a kitchen!

i think this will be the selling point of the house

Last night Jared and I finished up the kitchen and shampooed all the carpets. Man, that was gross. Isn't it funny how we get some kind of feeling of accomplishment when we see all that yucky, dirty water being sucked up off the carpet. It looks so much better and smells better too. Jada couldn't quite figure it all out. She walked on the carpet kinda weird for a while, haha.

Jared also got all the caulk scraped off the bathtub and used the Clorox on some areas to get it cleaned up. It already looks so much better and I can't wait until he puts the new caulk on tonight and I can get the bathroom all cleaned up! We still have a few things to take to storage, but this darn weather makes it kinda hard.

Here's some photos of the kitchen. I will hopefully be able to post some of the bathroom, living room and the outside soon... weather permitting.

Almost ready!

just a few more things to do before this puppy goes on the market

Jared and I have been working hard for 3 weeks to get our little house ready for sale. I am soooo particular about everything so it is no wonder it has taken so long. We started by de-cluttering everything, which was quite a chore. It's bad enough that I had a ton of crap, but when we moved Jared in last year it just added to the mess. Although we had a lot of stuff, we kept a tidy little house. But boy does it look better once you get rid of all that stuff.

All we have left to do is re-caulk around the bathtub and clean the entire bathroom from top to bottom. We also need to shampoo all the carpets (which shouldn't take long since the entire house is only 850 square feet, haha) and I need to pick up the porch and the front yard a little before the realtor takes pictures.

Here are some pictures of what I have completed so far. I don't have a wide-angle camera so the pictures are a little crazy:

(This is the back bedroom. It is a very small room, and for those of you who have been to our house, this is what I used as my closet :). We took down the clothes rack, touched up the paint and got everything outta there. It looks kinda bare, but much better than it did)

(This is the front guest bedroom. This room was the catch-all room and it was perfect for that. We cleaned it up and got everything out of the way. I think it looks pretty good!)

(This is our bedroom. It is a small room, but cozy and it is right in the middle of the house and close to the bathroom, haha. There is no closet in this room which actually makes it easier to fit furniture in.)


There you have it!!!! I will have pictures of the kitchen (the one my dad so beautifully remodeled for me two years ago) the living room, the bathroom and the front of the house very soon! We hope to finish everything up tonight! YAY!!!! Then I can finally relax a little :)

Birthdays with the Birks

another birthday for the father in law

Jared and I went to Yates Center Friday night to celebrate his dad's birthday with the whole Birk clan. It was a really good time and we rode up there with his Uncle Dave and Aunt Debbie, which was great because we never get to see them... even though they live in Fort Scott. Here is a picture of the Birthday boy about to blow out his candle.


Here is the whole gang at Smokey Bens in Yates Center! Happy Birthday Alan!

Hangin' Tough in 2008!!!!!

grab your 80s gear, NKOTB t-shirts, and cassette tapes



My friend Julie and I have been chatting all day (yes, during work hours) about the possible reunion of New Kids on the Block. We fully support this venture and will probably do about anything to get tickets to this momumental event! As we chatted, memories of the NKOTB days came rushing back to me. The t-shirts, the dolls, the buttons, the pillowcase, the books, the lunchbox, the trading cards... I had it all! Well, I always wanted more, but I really did have a lot of stuff. The photo below is of the NKOTB Dolls. Alicia had Jordan and I had Joey. Mmmm.... our Barbie's just loved their new friends. :)



The next picure I found is a T-shirt that I actually had back in the day! I went looking through Ebay to see if they had pictures of anything I had as a kid and sure enough, there it was!

I can remember listening to the Top 10 Countdown on Oklahoma City's KJ103 everynight at 9 hoping to hear a new song. With my radio/cassette player ready to go I would wait and press RECORD just at the right time so that I would have the new song before anyone else.

I can remember getting the call from my friend Amie when she got tickets to the concert. I was sooooo jealous and mad at my parents. I remember crying and telling them how bad I wanted to go and asking them why I couldn't go with her. I even remember saying, "Well, if Debbie Gibson or Amy Grant comes, can I go see them instead." Little did I know that my parents were making me go through this torture because they had tickets for me all along and were waiting until Christmas to give them to me. I really thought they just wanted me to be the most un-cool person ever because I didn't go to the concert, haha. On Christmas Day it was the last present I opened. It was placed at the bottom of a clothes box and it was covered with packing peanuts. I remember opening it up and thinking, "what the heck is this?" Low and behold at the bottom of that box was the "Golden Ticket"! I remember asking, "I get to go? I really get to go?" My mom laughing replied back, "well, you have a ticket don't you." I screamed and danced around the living room... it was the highlight of my 3rd grade year!

Jordan, Jonathan, Donnie, Joey and Danny... will you please let it be the highlight of 2008 too?! :)

Cause my Southern Belle tagged me...

Just for you Mar Mar

4 Jobs I've Had:
1. Senior Prevention Specialist at Greenbush
2. Staff Writer at the Morning Sun
3. Vision Therapist at Coleman Vision Improvement Center
4. Customer Service Clerk at Dillons

4 Movies Watched Over and Over:
1. Grease
2. A Few Good Men
3. Anchorman
4. Top Gun

4 TV Shows I Watch:
1. American Idol
2. Days of Our Lives
3. Sell this House ( I need all the tips I can get right now)
4. Rock of Love (I don't care if he is a man-whore... I love Bret Michaels)

4 Places I've Lived:
1. Moore, Okla
2. El Dorado, Kan.
3. Pittsburg, Kan.
4. Girard, Kan.

4 Places I've Been:
1. New York City
2. Las Vegas, NV
3. Baton Rouge, LA
4. Paln Springs, CA

4 People Who Email me Regularly:
1. Misty
2. Mike
3. Sherry
4. Melanie

4 Favorite Things to Eat:
1. Mexican Food
2. Pasta
3. Chicken Quesadillas (see #1)
4. Anything I don't have to cook (I agree with all of Marla's!!!!)

4 Places I'd Rather Be:
1. at home working on the house
2. anywhere but work
3. sleeping
4. Bahamas

4 Things I Look forward to This Year:
1. Moving to Indiana
2. Starting a new career
3. My one year wedding anniversary
4. Possibly making a baby :)

4 People to Tag:
1. Sherry (cause she's new to blogging... and she loves these things as much as I do)
2. Sarah (cause, I miss that gal)
3. Don't know anyone else who blogs
4.