A Brief Holiday

Hello Family,

Hope this finds you all well. I myself am recovering from my 5 days off. I say recovering because Candy had the brilliant idea that on these days off I could paint. And being the loving husband that I am I said sure. So after two days of rest, I got to work.

Now our place for those that have seen inside has very little wall space and more window and door space. So I thought no problem. And the first day seemed to go that way. Well unbenounced(I know I spelt it wrong) to me, with all the cutting in I had to do, I was putting my legs thought the workout of the century.

The next morning after doing a full day of squats(not to be confused with the trots), I had the sorest legs I have had in years. Every time I went down to cut in, I wasn't sure if I was coming up again. I thought I might need to hook up the LIFE LINE just in case I fell and couldn't get up.
Well after much pain and suffering I endured and got most of the painting done. The place looks fresh, bright and clean. As you will see we did not pick our usual neutral colors, and we love it.

Love you all and miss you almost as much.

Visitors and more house warming!!!

After a few weeks of trying to make plans to go over to visit the Folknurs, Elizabeth finally gave up on us and came to visit us instead. We had a great time and it was so nice to see how big the Kids are getting and to visit with my big sis. We missed you though Jason.

I was a little upset though when I went over to Dads to sit on the kids. I get there and the boys are in bed and there is cute little Kira sitting there ready to great her Uncle Patrick. But as soon as she sees me and my bushy goatee her smile turns from happy to some contorted frown and she starts to wail. I don't know when I got so scary, but it must of been in the last couple of months. After the initial confrontation, she was fine with me as long as she was in Elizabeth's arms or she could not see my face.

Anyway enough nonsense. We did have a great time and Kira eventually warmed up to me the next day. The boys were lots of fun and can't believe how big they are getting. Here are some pics of the Faulkner family at our place for the first time.
And here are some bonus pictures of outside and new plants from Dad and the McNeill's. Thanks you so much. Love you All!!!

The Mirror Incident

Well I think by now most of you have heard about our little mirror incident, but I will tell it again for all those that have not heard it as of yet.

As you can see by the picture above, this would be the perfect place for a beautiful 55inch by 44inch mirror. And it just so happened that Grandma Sheepwash bought us one for our house warming gift. So on Thursday night we decided to have the Grandma's and dad over for supper and we would hang the mirror so that grandma could see it up in our new house.

We had a lovely dinner created by my lovely wife and had a lovely time. After some coffee and desert we moved to the living room and Dad and myself started to put the mirror up. By precariously standing on the half wall and leaning out over the stairs, I held one end of the mirror and dad the other. As you could imagine Candy and Grandmas were very nervous about my precarious position, but I proceeded none the less.

After much worry we got the wire that was to hold the 50 lbs mirror onto the hooks. I slowly released my hand and Grandmas and Candy gave directions on which way to move to straighten it. Just as all was perfect and we admired its beauty, the mirror disappeared from sight. One bounce, then two, and then a crash proceeded by a loud smash.

You could probably just see us all sitting and standing there with our jaws in our laps. It had to be the worst feeling I have had in a very long time. There our most perfect beautiful mirror, given to us by Grandma Sheepwash, with her in the house, was at the bottom of the stairs in pieces. Uggh!!!!!!

Here are some picture of the carnage from our lovely evening with our Grandmas.