Easy come, easy go...

That's how it always seems to be.
We get money, and we don't have it a full day and Frank already has it spent in his head.
And those of you that know Frank know he hates taking NO for an answer.
This one is partially my fault though.
I put the idea in his head.
We finally sold the boat :(
I know, i'm really sad about it.
But with Em being so little, it would be practically impossible to use the boat this summer.
And finding people to go on the boat every weekend so we can ski and tube isn't as easy as you'd think it would be.
But now we have the pool, so i think it's a pretty fair trade.
And we've vowed to get another boat in a few years when the kids get a bit older.
But anyway, back to the story.
We sold the boat, so now we have the money for that.
Frank wants to buy a hot tub.
Not that i don't want one, but when would we use it?
The way it is, by the time he gets home from work,
he showers and spends a little time with the girls,
we eat dinner,
clean up,
then it's time to start the bed time rituals (ie baths, stories and cuddles).
By the time that's all done, its late.
He can't even stay awake past dinner time the way it is,
and he thinks he can stay awake past the girls bedtime just to get in a hot tub?!
HA!
So when he was making his usual plea for what he wants,
i made the suggestion "Why don't we go look at beds".
I should have emphasized LOOK a bit better.
In his typical way, looking means coming home with something right then and there.
So needless to say, we went to Shimocks and Baders, and now we have a new bed.
This didn't come without a fight though.
Of course, he isn't happy with just a new bed,
he wants to entire 6 piece bedroom suit, plus 2 end tables, plus everything else he saw.
And of course he wasn't happy with a queen bed, he wanted the king.
Even though i told him the difference in the price of sheets from queen to king is a lot.
So after arguing, and me making my points well known,
we ended up getting just the queen bed, but we got the best mattress available.
I thought it was a good compromise.
Plus i told him we could get the bedroom suit pieces one by one.
We dont' need them all right now.
My most compelling argument is simply, "Just because we have all this money now, doesn't mean we have to run right out and spend it all".
Why doesn't he understand that?!
Is it a guy thing?!
But he at least gets the new bed he wants, so now i don't have to hear him complain about how much his body hurts from an old bed.

And so it's done...

Em's ears are finally pierced.
She did better than Mady did when we had her's done.
Daddy, on the other hand, wasn't so ready this time.
But both patients did vry well.
Em only cried, maybe, 10 seconds.
Daddy didnt cry at all, but he looked like he wanted to.

Things that go bump in the night...

So Frank is very insistant that there is a Mountain Lion in the woods behind our house.
Ever since our neighbor came home from vacation and said her dad thought he saw one.
I think they are ALL our of their minds.
There is no Mountain Lion!
But he is insistant.
He was out walking the dogs the other night...
now mind you, he takes a flashlight and a gun with him (so don't sneak up on him, lol)...
well, he swears he heard something in the woods,
and then he swears he heard something up behind the shed that "was definately bigger than a human",
you know, because nothing can sound big and be nothing.
So he comes running into the house, dragging the dogs behind him, yelling "get it, get it".
He is at the screen door, shining the flashlight out into the woods, looking for something out there.
All we saw was a cat, a kitty cat.
It's too funny how scared he is of this supposed Mountain Lion!
We were in the car the other day and we were going down the road.
I said to him "LOOK! There's the Mountain Lion!!"
and of course he yells "Where?!" like there really is one just hanging out on the side of the road.
Of course, it was just a kitty cat that i pointed to.
I told him he better warn the neighbors.
I was laughing,
he wasn't...lol

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Happy 4th of July!

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What have we been up to...

We got some new hair accessories...

We had a few good laughs...

And we managed to get Grammy into the pool...

What have we been up to...

I know it's been a while since i've posted.
It's been a bit crazy around here.
We've been trying to catch up on our reading...

Frank went out last week and got a new car.
Well, not a "new" new car, a used new car.
It's a Traverse, and it's so nice.
And it's just as roomy as the Yukon was, if not more!
It also has a DVD player in the roof for the girls,
And it comes with wireless headphones so mommy and daddy don't have to listen to the movie (for the millioneth time).

We've spend some quality time with family.

(As you can see, i am CLEARLY the one that doesn't fit into this family)

We caught some rays...

We had a few lunch dates...

And we spent a ton of time in the pool...