2 Cute

During all the moving madness Quin celebrated his second birthday. While the festivities of the day mainly included cleaning walls, painting and unpacking boxes, it was still a wonderful day. It was special because we had both sets of Grandparents there to celebrate this special day with pizza, cupcakes and Mickey Mouse dinnerware.

My favorite thing about this toddler is all of the brilliant things he can say! Today in the car Bryce was trying to get Quin to call him "The Boss". After several prompts, Bryce asked Quin "Is daddy the Boss?" Quin yelled out "No, Mama Boss!"

I love this two year old.

Mockingjay Review- WARNING Spoilers!!!

Bryce and Quin left yesterday to go camping overnight at Detriot Lake. I stayed home because #1 I am not a camper and #2 Because that would mean I would have Tuesday, August 24th all to myself. What is the significance of 8/24/2010 you might ask? The release of Mockingjay. The third installment of the Hunger Games series which I have been waited for many months to read. So I picked up the book at 10am sharp as Borders opened and have spent the last 6 and half hours reading it. I am finished. Here is what I think...

I am happy that I got closure. I was worried that I would be left hanging, but everything is wrapped up nicely. However there was one very disappointing aspect of this book. Peeta...my hero, my man, my #2 or #3 favorite fictional male character of all time was hardly in the stinking book!!! It reminded me a lot of when I read New Moon and Edward was in all of like 10 pages of the book. So it is not as bad as that, but, he really has no interaction with Katniss until like halfway through the book and when he is back he is crazy! I understand the points that Suzanne Collins was trying to make about war but I closed this book feeling sad because at the end of this book everyone spends the rest of their life suffering from post tramatic stress disorder trying to find some semblance of happiness in their lives. Break my heart!!!

Hunger Game and Catching Fire were awesome because they had the whole love triangle thing stringing you along. This final book was more about wrapping up the story of the Capital and the districts. Sure there was a little Peeta/Gale bait thrown in there every once and a while to keep you going, but overall, it just wasn't enough. Honestly I wish that Suzanne would have made the Epilogue of the book 200 pages. Then I would be happy. Very happy.

A Love/Hate Relationship

Bryce and I bought a house. Crazy? I know. We bought a home in an area we really don't know much about but we got a great deal....and thus begins the love/hate relationship.

I LOVE that we got such a great house for the price. Here is a blurry picture of our new home. Our camera got sand in it from when someone went jumping in sand dunes (see my previous post)

However this leads to a HATE. This house was in foreclosure when we bought it. Little did Bryce and I know how many more hoops we would have to jump through to finally close the house. We ended up finally getting into our home more that 2 weeks after we were supposed to. For me this meant spending a week in a hotel waiting every day for a phone call saying we could sign papers and Quin could drive down with his grandparents to meet up with us again. I was awful being away from Quin so long and being told everyday for a week that "only one more thing had to be done before we could move in."

I LOVE the neighborhood we are in and I LOVE all the yard space we have. However I HATE the windstorms we have experienced since moving to Klamath. Already we have lost power twice and this morning I woke up to this:

This is the tree in the front of our house halfway destroyed...just in time to crush our new lawn.

I LOVE the layout of our home and the extra space that we have...more pictures of the inside will be coming soon hopefully. However I HATE that we have already discovered a plumbing leak. The day after we moved in we noticed the carpet in the master bedroom had a big wet spot. Luckily the Dad's were both at our house getting things fixed up and they were able to cut into the wall and discover a leak in our shower valve. Now this is the lovely view from our bed.

My next project in my new home will be learning to patch a wall....Love? or Hate? I will keep you posted.