Exciting and Excitement

Last Friday was the first time that someone came to look at our house (that's the exciting part). I was very careful in cleaning up, making the house look it's best. As I was doing this, I thought that the brownie pan with plastic blue lid shouldn't be left out, so I put it out of sight, in the oven. At the time that I did this I thought, "I'm going to forget that it's in there and start the oven", but did it anyway. I must say, as a biased voice, that the house did look incredible. Well, they came and left and I came home to get dinner ready. We were going to have pasta and breadsticks. So I turned the oven on and started the water boiling. About 15 minutes later, I started to smell an unpleasant odor. At that moment, I remembered that I'd put the brownies in the oven. Opening the oven, the smell of melting plastic assaulted my nose. I removed the offending pan, and cooked the breadsticks, which luckily didn't smell or taste like melted plastic. (That's the excitement part.)

Yard Sale

We had our first yard sale today. I had some teacher supplies that I no longer need, some furniture that won't fit in a two-bedroom apartment, lots of books, and other various and sundry items. I had a figure in my mind of what I thought we could make. We more than doubled it. And we emptied our house of many unnecessary items. And other people were blessed with our junk. And I didn't go yard saling (?) today, which saved us from adding more unnecessary junk to our house. And a friend from the ward offered to take my teacher supplies that didn't sell to a local elementary school that could really use it. And she told me about a used book store in town that will give store credit for books you take in (what could be better than that?). Except when I thought about it, we're trying to get rid of stuff, so I offered to let her take in the books for store credit (which sounds kind of like I'm trying to get out of taking them myself, but really I just wanted to let her get the credit for them. I would have taken them in her name, except I don't think it would have worked). All in all, my first yard sale was a success.

Moving

It's official. We're moving...to Las Vegas. No, we don't have a job or a place to live. But it's a lot closer to family and it's where we're supposed to go. So our house here in North Carolina is for sale (anyone looking to move here? It really is a great neighborhood!). Kind of sad, since it's our first home together, but happy in that we're moving on with life. Definitely an adventure!

Hair Clips

Guys, just a heads up, you're not going to care about this post AT ALL.

Okay, gals, my friend bought some hair clips for her daughter and we were looking at them and thought, "Hmm, we could make these!" So we've been making them. Note: The friend is very crafty and artistic. She's a stickler for the small details (I'm not). So she makes really cute clips. I fee like mine are go-in-publicable and pretty cute. Well tonight, my husband was gone for church calling and so I had some time on my hands. Luckily, I'd made a run to the store today and bought some really cute ribbon (turns out having really cute ribbon is a head start to having really cute clips. Go figure!). I made clips and I think that most of them turned out really cute, and thought I'd show them off.