6 days on the market and counting. . .

So we've now had our house up on the market for 6 days and things are going fine. We've had 3 showings so far. It really hasn't been too bad keeping everything clean since they give at least an hours notice, but it is just annoying because I never feel like I can just relax. At the same time, I don't feel like I can do anything very interesting either because all of those things make messes. No little projects to keep me sane, just the same old vacuuming and cleaning bathrooms. Yuck! I'm so bored, but of course always have lots of boring work I could be doing. Since the house has been up I have not really cooked. We've been eating, spaghetti, boxed dinners, stew and biscuits, easy stuff that's quick to prepare and requires little or no dishes. I never realized how much time I usually spend cooking, figuring out what to cook and cleaning up after cooking. It's been kind of nice to have the break, but at the same time that is probably the homemaking responsibility I enjoy most. Now I'm just left with bathroom cleanup.
My agent showed our house today and she said of the 11 houses she showed to her client ours was #2. The client liked my neighbor's house better because it's bigger, but she said ours was really clean! That's always good to hear. The new carpet helps alot with that. It is great at hiding dirt and stuff and we are working really hard to keep everything cleaned up. THe kids have also spent a lot of time outside lately which helps.
Samantha had a birthday party at the park on Tuesday which was great. According to Kethy Holland there was a scary man stalking us, but I was oblivious to the fact. Luckily her husband showed up to scare the man off. As usual I forgot to take pictures, or I would post something here.
Justin emailed Major Long today to see about our next assignment. He said he is working really hard to keep us in Mountain Home so hopefully that is where we will be. We are really looking forward to seeing family a little more.

Waiting, waiting, waiting

Well, we carpeted the entire house, touched up all the paint, planted flowers, raked leaves, hauled off branches and other various pieces of junk, replaced the dishwasher, washed windows and cleaned blinds and our house is now on the market. Just days before all that work (and after all the money was spent) we found out we might not even be moving where we want to go! We want to go to Mountain Home, Idaho, and were told that was probably where we are going, but now we are hearing that we might get bumped and sent to some place on the non-volunteer list. yuck! Hopefully we will find out soon! Meanwhile, we have had two showings and no feed back. One of the showings was on Easter. Who goes house hunting on Easter? Easter was exciting anyway. Our ward choir did a cantada which I was semi in charge of. Justin sang a solo and the whole thing was pretty neat. Then we had dinner at the Landin's house. kelly is so awesome . . . she made blackberry pie, need I say more?

Joey's Baptism

December 8th 2007 Joseph Allen Rowberry was baptized and confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. It was a wonderful day. Grandma and grandpa Rowberry came out for the event and the Massengale family also came down from Dallas. Joey was excited. Justin baptized and grandpa Rowberry confirmed. It was great meeting.

Thanksgiving/Joey's birthday

This year was one of those fun years when Joey's birthday was on Thanksgiving. Consequently he got to have Birthday pie, yum! We went up to Uncle Brett's house in Dallas for the big day. It was great! Among other things it was our first close encounter with Tivo. What a great invention! The food was fabulous and the company was too. It even snowed for about 5 minutes! I forgot how much colder Dallas is than San Antonio. I don't think I even brought coats for everyone :0 Here is breaking footage of the blizzard:

Halloween 2007

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This year the kids and I made wooden grave stones for our yard using the jigsaw Matt and Colleen gave us for Christmas last year. I can't tell you how much I enjoy using that saw! It's so powerful! It was so fun to just randomly decide one boring saturday that instead of organizing and cleaning our eternally messy home we would instead make our grave stones out of random scraps of wood. The kids had a lot of fun painting their own stones and writing things about themselves on them. We all wrote that we were dying on 10/31/2007 which I suppose was just tempting fate to have us all get in a fatal car accident that night (having written down our deaths weeks before) but we managed to survive the night and now have 5 very large tombstones competing for space in our attic. That really was probably one of my favorite parts of this Halloween, but of course there was also the pumpkin carving, ward party, the school party/performance, and actual Halloween night, Not to mention WAAAAAAY too much candy.

That white stuff all over my dresser, that's lotion. I guess it looked a little dry. That's what happens when you think your 2 year old is asleep in bed and really he's not. Actually that is just a very tame incident that Justin cleaned up. He still thinks it's cute enough to merit a picture. In addition to "greasing" up the furniture, he also used some of my perfume that night. Luckily he still knows how to be extra cute when caught doing something wrong.

Here's our smiling baby girl! She is becoming really sweet!