Posts made in March, 2009

New Water Heater

Yesterday morning when I went to take a shower I found that I had no hot water. Somehow the pilot light went out. Ken came over and helped me get it started again. It keeps going out though. We had a plumber come look at it an said it would cost about $400 to repair it, between $970 – $1500 to replace it. We currently have a 40 gallon tank, be we run out quickly so I want to replace it with a 50 gallon tank. I found them at Home Depot for...

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Free Groceries or Not

Last Friday we went grocery shopping at Wal-Mart. While checking out we decided to get a gift card for my mom’s wedding. This is brand new Wal-Mart that opened about a week ago, so it seems all the employees are brand new. The girl at the check-out messed up trying to activate the gift card and billed us twice then while trying to fix it she messed it up even more. I was there for about 20 minutes more than I wanted to be and eventually...

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Second Round of PPIs

I had PPIs with Gracie and Gehrig today. It was a neat experience. I found that Gracie is really a girl because she loves to talk! It was fun just taking the time to listen to here and let her tell me stories from school and stuff. Apparently she has a “boyfriend” in her kindergarten class. She likes to chase him and hug him. I would probably discourage her from kissing if that came up, but I guess hugging boys in kindergarten...

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Busy Saturday

This morning Rachels parents came over. Nani talked with kids about helping out and keeping their toy room clean. She gave Gracie & Gehrig timers to help them “clean fast”. We then spent about an hour organizing the toy room and getting rid of a lot of stuff. They also brought over a little bell to tie to Nolan’s pants. Whereever he goes now you can hear that bell ringing. It is so helpful because he gets into everything....

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Grocery Night

Today Rachel started cleaning and reorganizing the garage. I helped once I got off work. We made room for our freezer I bought yesterday. We then spent our friday night shopping at Costco and Walmart for groceries. After we put the kids to bed I made Rachel stay up and watch a movie with me.

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