All better

I guess something was malfunctioning with the internet connection, but all is fine now =).

It was a busy weekend of catch up as always. We were all so thankful to be well again.
After a "strawberry limeade" incident on Saturday the Route 44 size, both of our vehicles got the carpet steam cleaned. Mine has fabric seats so the seats got a treatment as well. This is the first time we have ever used the hand attachment for our cleaner and it worked great. There are two tanks the solution/clean water tank and the dirty tank. Both vehicles came out with coffee or dark colored soda looking water after being cleaned. It freshened everythng up quite nicely. Yes, this was the first time to have the carpetsin our vehicles shampooed since we have owned them.

The remainder of our flowers got planted between raindrops on Sunday. I'm glad to have that over with. Now on to the fun of watering.

We got up early on Saturday to catch some subdivision sales in a nearby city/town whatever. Nice subdivision and nice sales. I spent $28.25 I believe. Here's the stuff:
new pair of brown Mary Janes for Aliyah $3.00, Gymboree-- dress, shorts, short/top outfit, jacket, 2 pair of jeans, & skirt $15.00, 7 Webkinz $4.00, 4 shutters $4.00, new berry colored Tupperware cups set of 4 $1.50, new Tupperware grape container .25.
All in all, great finds. I knew I went to the right sale when I saw a Gymboree employee running the sale =).

The list was getting crossed off, but it has filled back up again as the yearly house purge has begun for our garage sale. Yikes! I hate the process, but I love the result.

Since the weekend was quite rainy, we just did our favorite thing...enjoyed being with each other as a family. It was kind of nice not to have a project going on.

We are in the process of getting estimates to remove a good-for-nothing (except sticks and garbage) elm tree in our backyard. The first tree service that came said that they couldn't do it (who knows why)--they were the ones that family had recommended. The second one came this evening and quoted $2495 which we thought to be a bit steep. There are 4 more coming (hopefully) and we are crossing our fingers for some better estimates. We would like the beast to be gone--mainly because we feel like it poses a threat to our home and property particularly in storms. The one guy that came says that it is splitting. It wouldn't surprise me if it is, but I'm not sure if it is or not...

This week is the gender reveal sono. I would be lying if I said I wasn't nervous.