She thinks my bed is cool because of all the pillows.

Kitchen

Dining room

Love the walking closet.

Master bedroom

Its huge and I love it. But I can't get a good shot of it.

Girls room..

...just need to fix that picture.

Kids BLUE bathroom...

....with lots of fish everywhere.

One room done....

I will post photos of our home one room at a time as I finish them, or well when hey are atleast temporarily finished.

Here is the piano room. We really do have too many books. On my piano is our picture of Christ, that's going in the entry way and the stain glass window will go elsewhere to but for now they are safe in here.

I'm glad that they have emery....

.... I only wish they would share. I've been up since 5 unpacking. We did this till 1 am Friday night from 7-11 Saturday, and we are almost done. One small problem I am loosing my motivation. Jeff and I still have an office to paint and organize, a bunk bed to assemble, and we haven't touched our room much. My kids have been such troopers, often bored with the unpacking, and its too hot to play outside long. Everyone here has been motivated by the leftover ice cream bars we elder to our EQ movers. I am thrilled to have a kitchen and appliances back, but the kitchen isn't ready yet for cooking much unless you don't need a countertop. My goal is to be done by.Wednesday night. The garbage man comes on Thursday, if my kids can pit up with me till then I think we will make our goal.

Officially we are now homeless....

....we better close today without anymore delays!

Beck is doing this.....

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...so I can do this!

.....we are really hoping, and praying, to close on Thursday. But even if we don't we have to be out of the apartment by Thursday night....so I better finish packing up this apartment. It's really nice that Jeff took the other swiming.

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What's wrong with this photo....

..... do u see the problem? We had a very limited selection of jump suites. Jeff has the extra elastic...Chandra's doesn't...and hers is too big but we only had one large and one extra large.....oh well they worked. Jeff performed the baptism and confirmation...his first ever! Chandra glowed after this the Atonement is so wonderful!

Awesome baptism...

Chandra was baptized on Saturday, it was amazing!

Usps tag

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Starting to roll over...right at 4 months!

We close in ONE week.

I wasn't going to start packing yet.... jk for those that know me...its a shock the house hasn't gotten all packed up by now. :) A wonderful friend just moved and gave me her extra boxes....and then I just couldn't help myself.  The kids helped me today. We've packed up 75% of the apartment stuff minus the furniture. We'll take this over to the storage unit tonight and then next week with our 16' truck we will love everything else to the new house. I'm starting to get really excited!

New desk

I found this desk on craigslist list for a steal...so I just finished touching it up. This will be perfect for our entry  way.... we close in 6 days!!!

MAD and Very WORRIED mom....

...this morning I woke up to a large POP and then Ben saying his fingers were hurting and crying. I immediately knew he had been shocked. I ran to his room and 3/5 fingers were all black (no pic). I went to the bathroom but the lights were out. So I used wet wiped to examine his gingers better....thank fully no burns. Maybe not best choice word but I kept telling him over and over how.stupid.it is to play with outlets because you cab get hurt.  After all this I finally worked.out that he had put this tab above the fan plug and touched it to the two prongs. I don't know how bad he could have been hurt but all I could think of is previous burn patients hurt fingers.

Oh...little boys can really scare their moms!

IU looks Cool!...Very different from Purdue.

Beautiful campus doors.

Isn't it cute!!

Found a pretty gazebo on our walk.

Walking to the library...

.... 3 miles round trip

Backyard Friends

Horsey Rides

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I can get my own yogurt!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Jeffrey Maas" <jeff.d.maas@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 13, 2012 8:55 AM
Subject: I can get my own yogurt!
To: <anony@gmail.com>

And use it like shampoo.

Weather and Computers

We got the rain we were praying for...well some of it. But it sent some other problems as well. When we had the thunderstorms during church we oohed and awed...but then came home to see that for some reason it fried the power supply to our computer... so I'll be working of my phone for a while. Not sure when the computer will get fixed. I do have my small laptop but it doesn't work very fast, its great for what we purchased it for, me taking notes and keeping up with classes while I was in school but that was a few years ago. Jeff's computer got him through gradschool but is on the fast declien as well. I guess we'll add a new computer to the "purchase when funds become available" list. So please bear with us, updates may be less frequent, webcam options are gone for a while unless my laptop is having a good day.

 

Ann

New hair do for Elise

Well it took a while but its done. She also let me paint her nails light pink!

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Compost Gardening Idea.. cool!

I may just do this for strawberries, lettuces and cherry tomatoes! Makes picking easier!

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YIKES 111 !!!!!!!

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HEAT.....

Today high will be 101 but with the humidity it will feel like 111, tomorrow will be 103 feeling like 113!!!!!

We'll be at the pool.

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Off, off, off with her hair!

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Curly hair

Princess hairstyles shows how to.make these spring curls. When Ehre's hair drys we will take out all but the top 3... it will then be curly!

No wrapping paper...

I needed wrapping paper and didn't have any so I used a paper bag. It was fun so I just decided that for Christmas this year the kids will be doing the same thing with me as we wrap gifts. Fun art project...totally free!

Its sooooo HOT!!!

Well it's warmer than 104, went to the pool for 2' this morning.... now we are going back!

Summer heat....

104 today,   102 tomorrow..... it is going to be really "warm"!!!

Fell asleep eating lunch!

Bad Genetics...

Well its now fading but here is my 4" bruise on the back of my arm. I was carrying Beck and dogged a kid, but bumped into the corner of a wall...and bruised. Some days I look beat up....its not Jeff, just bad genes. Jeff laughs at my legs after every move because they have.bruise polka dots.

A common sighting...

... don't know what but there are lots of cool cars in Indiana!

But I don't want to be The President!

Thanks dad for the tee shirt.

Finally a good smile photo from Beck!

85' indoor and humod

Needless to say it has been a bit uncomfortable the last few days. We knew the ac was having problems the first week we got here. We put a work order in...but it got lost. So I called again today and they brought us a portable ac unit. Tomorrow morning they will come to work on th ac. In the mean time this is.where the kids are hanging out.

Baby's in our ward...

Last summer when we were here there were no Baby Beck's. When we moved out here we found that in Jan a baby was born named Beckett and in late March a bay boy named Beck. There is also 4-5 babies that were born around Beck's time... its fun to see so many babies all around the same age but so different.

My sleepy child....

.... likes to sleep alot on Sundays.

Thank you notes...

...larger than life. These are for the Activity Day leaders my partner and I are replacing. This will be a fun calling!...not to mention, my partner Jena is pretty cool!

I <3 garage sales....

... picked up this solid beauty for $15. Original price was over $150 :) Ignore the tv and computers for now it will have to do....45 days till we close on the house.... were not counting or anything.  :) 

Family picnic and walk.

Tonight was beautiful, but at dinner I realized that I had forgotten Beck's bottle. Now we have a new promotional photo for Camelback water bottles and Crystal Lite.

AWESOME NIGHT!!!

No it want the brownies or the Elders but our investigator. She is so cool and I think I just made a good friend.

Whats up next? A 2nd meeting with the elders and were having it at a park so the kids can play while we grill some hamburgers.

This individual is so interesting and has had an awesome LDS friend that has been guiding her to this point in her life.  I've never sat in on a real discussion before...so cool and the spirit was so strong.

The gospel rocks! I'm glad Jeff is the ward mission leader hopefully we will have more experiences like this!

Settled down.....

.... today...and yesterday...a migraine. This morning I got up and fed Beck but he fell asleep so I left him on the couch and went to lay back down. A while later he started to scream, poor he squirmed and rolled off the couch. I guess that means we have to now keep him buckled in the swing or in his crib while sleeping.

Indexing

Well tonight I hit 999 names, I really wanted to complete my first 1000 but that would require doing another batch. Our Stake has a goal that each member do 1000 names. My goal is to do those names for my family, so that means I need only 5001 more names. 

 

Have you tried indexing yet? Its fun, and you can do it while visiting with others, or while your hubby watches a movie... and its for a great cause!  Tonight I had an interesting page, the household included, a chambermaid from Switzerland, a waitress from Denmark, a Chauffeur, etc... it was fully staffed! (This was a NY household I wonder what their income was like.)

 

I also spent some time entering in death certificates, its incredible how many deaths were caused by illnesses that we treat today, even more surprising were the number of stillborns. I am so grateful for modern medicine!

 

Ann

Spring curls

This idea came from Princess Hairstyles. I kept the top 3 and the bottom 3 just curled the hair ( really well! )  Tomorrow we will do a similar version for church.

Good Morning Elise!