update

We bug-bombed the house on Sunday. We had the kids play in our backyard while the house aired out. So that's those pictures from the other day that I put online.

The bug bombing lead to a spring cleaning spurt from Jim & I. I climbed up and vacuumed out all the cabinets. Jim vacuumed up above the cabinets. We've re-washed all the dishes and cooking utensils in the house. I laid down fresh shelf paper in the cabinets.
When I got home from work yesterday, Jim had swept and mopped the kitchen and he had completed the dishes, PLUS made dinner. We've been having pancakes for dinner a lot lately. We have a lot of turkey breakfast sausage in the freezer. It seems like we're in a little bit of a creative slump when it comes to dinner. But he started adding walnuts to the pancakes. They're awesome.

I got a small raise at work. Every day college-aged people approach my counter and ask if we are hiring. It seems like no where is, in Denton, besides the new Carl's Jr. I'm grateful for my job, since I'm getting raises when other people my age can't even find work.
A customer offered me a paying job this week. She is the theatre director at a local high school and wants me to come in to her class as a guest and teach them about makeup application. Like how to do old age makeup, how to use prosthetic latex pieces and all that.
The topic came up because she asked me and my coworker if we were dancers, since we work at a dance store. I told her what my degree is in and that it's from UNT. Turns out, we know a lot of the same people, including her teaching assistant, and my favorite UNT professor. This director said it'd just be a day of work here and there, but the school would pay me for it. I pointed out that I don't have a teaching certificate and the director said that since I'd be lecturing as her guest, it wouldn't matter. I'm excited about it. We have eachother's contact info, so we can talk once her classes begin in the Fall.

I've been sewing a little this week. I made a dress after work the other night. It's a kinda retro look in dark grey. I wanted to do something with this fabric I had around in my office. Funny note: I shouldn't sew when I'm sleepy. I put the dress's left sleeve in upside-down and had to seam-rip and re-sew the sleeve the next day.

Elaine pretended to cut a little dress pattern while I was sewing the dress. She is very curious about the sewing machine. I helped her make a fast tube dress for one of her Barbie dolls out of a scrap of fabric. this is her pretending to cut a dress pattern.

Tonight, after Bible study, I started a quilt. It has a long way to go.

I talked to my mom today. Mark just got back from California, handling some stuff he had to do with the Navy before he can go back to the war. So he's back now and that's one step closer to getting to go back into active duty. Before he went to California, Mark's car was broken into and then the busted car was towed away. So he's having a rough go of things. I'm sure he'd appreciate everyone's prayers. We've invited my family up for Thanksgiving. They're gonna try to make it happen.

Backyard after Church today

Kids have Lice

Jim went to pick something out of Elaine's hair and realized that the 'something' was alive. Jim checked Elaine's hair and sure enough she had lice again. (She had lice when she was almost 2). At least we know what to do. We covered her hair in baby oil, which suffocated all the critters it touched. Then we combed out the critters. We also did a wash with the fancy anti-lice shampoo (we still had it from years ago). The eggs are tougher. They really stick to the hair! The only thing we can do for those is use a HOT hair dryer to kill the eggs and they will fall out little by little as we wash her hair. Elaine had lots of lice. Allan only had two. His short hair made them easy to snatch up.

If you click on this first image, it will enlarge. You can't help but see one of the lice. The baby oil in her hair, really makes the lice easy to spot.

**BEFORE Photos**

We spent 2 hours combing out and treating Elaine for the lice. Combing out all the lice was a real pain. We shortened the process, by shortening her hair. Allan and Jim also got preventative haircuts. We don't want any dormant eggs to hatch. I was the only one in the house to have zero eggs or critters in my hair. I think that's amazing, since both the kids cuddle up to me so regularly.

**After picture**
Does Al pal look like E.T.?

Today was my 'day off', but I got called in to work for 3 hours. Another employee didn't show up. Regina had us eat at their church tonight. They were serving breakfast for dinner. The biscuits were awesome. :)

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Something that makes me laugh:
I took this picture on the way to work one day. The donut shop on the left seems to get the concept of pictures matching descriptions. It says "Donuts" and there is a picture of a Donut. Meanwhile the other restaurant declares "MEXICAN FOOD Breakfast Lunch Dinner" ... with a picture of a hamburger. Well done art, poor concept.

Church Activities

At church today, we got to hang out with our friends, The Schmidts. They moved to Virginia almost 2 years ago and we've only seen them twice in that time. After church, there was a pot luck lunch, so everyone close to the Schmidts could hang out with them for a while. I made fudge, but it melted into mush pretty quickly. Jeannie, aka "the Moo", and I were both so glad to see eachother. She's like an extra aunt to me. She's always given me wise counsel and everyone should be so lucky to have her, or her hubby, for friends.
After lunch, we got a storm in Denton, which made my internal clock say it was time for a nap. I slept for about an hour, then we woke up to get the kids in their swimsuits for the VBS kick off party at 5. Elaine will be attending VBS again this summer. Allan is still not old enough (by 6 months). But anyone could come to the kick off party.

Yummm... juice boxes.

Jim helped out with sending kids up the ladder for a while. The pastor, Ken, sat at the top of the slide, to help kids over.

Regina

I've started to show yall more of my scrapbook pages that are still in-progress. It may take me time to think of titles for the title-less layouts (like the Giraffe one from the other day). But at least seeing the layouts on my blog helps me to think of something to do next.




I have no title on this 2page layout about Christmas eve in Jacksonville. I think the fancy paper with rich colors has me stumped for what to do for an elegant title. I think it'll say something like Christmas Eve Mass, but I haven't decided how to put it in there. (Like with gold alpha stickers, or words strung on Christmas lights... I dunno).

more scrapbooking

both pages together

Elaine helped with this one, shading in the goat and pushing buttons on the cricut.

I need to put a title on this one. They were feeding branches to the giraffes.

both pages together

needs a title. It's her in Kindergarten.

made with some of my favorite papers/goodies.

From the mouth of babes

Elaine went to her best friend's birthday party today. On the way home, Jim passed a senior citizen community. The sign out front said someone was celebrating their 104th birthday. Elaine read the sign and asked, "Why aren't they dead?"

Jim was in shock at her curious question, but pulled through by answering "it's all in God's timing". Good job Jimbo!
Jim said all the little girls at the tea party were dressed up, besides the birthday girl. Larissa is a very pragmatic kinda gal and didn't want to look silly. :p Elaine said there were 11 girls there and one of them had been in her pre-k class. She had lots of fun.

In other news, I got antsy and chopped my hair off. I like that it takes no time to wash it now. It usually takes forever for me to rinse all the conditioner out of my hair. This is a breeze.

We made breakfast for dinner again. Jim made turkey bacon and turkey sausage. He made pancake batter and I cooked up the pancakes. Allan wanted to help. He eats pancakes with Honey (which he calls Punny) instead of syrup, so we put Al in charge of the honey. If anyone wants honey on there plate, he distributed it.

Elaine tried to teach Allan how to use his Yo-yo. It was hilarious. He kept swinging it around like a helicopter blade and whacking himself in the neck. That didn't last too long.

Tonight the power supply on Jim's computer burnt out. So he's without a computer for now. He can use my computer, but it can't handle half the stuff that Jim's faster computer can.

Tomorrow morning Jim and the kids might go to this water balloon fight that is happening at the church down the street from us. It's gonna be at 10am, so we'll see if they make it to that.
I'm excited about seeing the Moo on Sunday. I think I'll make peanut butter fudge for the luncheon, since we already have all the ingredients. Sunday night is the kick off party for Elaine's VBS. We'll all attend the party though. There will be a water slide! Elaine loves those... besides her fear of getting her eyes wet. Elaine will have VBS every night this coming week.