House for Sale

We listed our house on Monday!! Anyone want to buy a house??

This is the link for the MLS and shows mostly interior:
http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/Minot_ND_58701_1106892852?source=a15696

This is the link for our Century 21 site and shows the exterior and gives a descriptions of what work we've (okay, mostly Travis) done to the house:
http://www.minotsells.com/properties/details.asp?MLS=20090158

A moment to brag - Because I'm Spoiled, I mean Loved

I have had my good old computer from my freshman year at college: an Emachine with 4 gigs of memory. Its a bit slow and has been slowly picked apart and revamped by my husband. So I've been strongly hinting about how nice it would be to have my own laptop. He often leaves his at home so I can be with the kids when I'm working on it, instead of trying to hide in the office. SO this year for my Christmas/Valentine/Birthday present I got a laptop. It was a surprise. Okay, so it was exciting for me :-) My Mom and I set up our web cams to use over Skype, without Travis' help. We were very proud of ourselves (although it was actually easy). Yea!! Thanks for the brag moment.

An overview:

Your digital media, your games, your Internet: The Gateway® MD2614u Notebook is designed with you in mind. The new 64-bit edition of Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium SP1 will give you the media features you want, and the blazing-fast AMD Turion™ X2 dual-core processor will ensure that your fun rages on as long as you do! Download more efficiently with the advanced draft-n wireless functionality, and let your friends and family in on the fun too, with the integrated webcam. The black Gateway® MD2614u laptop is available at Best Buy. Not like I know what any of these means, but it sounds good.

Charlie Video

This video is hilarious. It had us in tears!
Watch it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OBlgSz8sSM

Pay It Forward!

So my friend is doing this pay it forward thing. This is how it works..... The first 3 people to leave a comment on this post will receive a hand made gift from me during this year. When and what will be a surprise. BUT, in order for you to leave a comment on my blog, you have to post this on your blog first. (That means that sometime during this year you will send a gift to 3 people as well.) Get it? So, the first 3 people to comment on this post will be the lucky ones! Good Luck!

Orders, Orders, Orders!!

Yes, we have ORDERS!!! Travis' last duty day in Minot is 6 Mar, but his report date is 23Mar. Our packers come 20Feb and the truck will be packed up and leave 25Feb. That weekend Travis, the kids and I will drive 12 hours to my dad's house in Madison, WI stay all the next day then drive the 7.5 hours to OH. Travis will fly back to Minot to finish up our house and get it on the market.

We have a house on base waiting for us!! Whether we take that or not is in the works. So its official, we're outta here!! Yes, we loved Minot. Yes, we love our house. But it is time. We will miss all of you!!

Backpack Eats

We've started Backpack on solids a few weeks ago. He loves it! We stared him on veggies and just recently started giving him fruits. We mix the solids with oatmeal cereal. He eats about 5oz. a night plus ceral for breakfast. The best part is that he's been sleeping 7-10 hours at night.

Nostalgia

My dad is moving to WI from OR so on the drive out he dropped off all the stuff I had at home like toys and books. I had boxed most things up when I left for college. Then a few years ago Travis and I went through it all again and purged. Anyway after they (he traveled with Aunt Donna and Aaron) left I started digging around. Ta da! I found my old Nintendo. Good times, Good times...
(Travis is playing while I'm writing and you can see my old cabbage patch doll on the floor with one of several tubs of books and very strange memorabilia)

It was great to see Aunt Donna and Aaron. It had been ages. The last time Aunt Donna was out here Trouble was just a baby, so she was impressed with Travis' house projects. They got in late Thursday night, spent all day Friday, then tried to leave Saturday morning but the moving truck couldn't start because it was so cold. They still can't understand why anyone would want to live in this weather. Our sentiments exactly :-) Thanks for stuff, dad!!