What a week!

we've been having already! We started swim lessons for the boys yesterday and it's Mon-Thursday this week and next. Our teacher, Ms. Piper, is a true bronzed beauty and has brains ;-) She really gets the kids attention, but has fun with them at the same time. Caden was impressive and did what was asked of him. Riordan didn't want to show off, he just cried for about 90% of the time. But it will get easier.
Last Saturday's game was yet another hit watching the kids play. It wasn't so hot this time and it was an hour later so I'm thinking it won't be so bad and mabye the two weekends before was an off weekend. As long as we are out in the morning!!
We signed the papers for our house yesterday. Arizona is different in that aspect, it take three days for the paperwork and lender payment to go through so our closing day is still the 15th. And instead of getting all your keys at signing we get them from our realtor. Also different about Arizona is flooring. I may have touched on this months ago, however, popular carpet colors are the brown family, no creams or whites, and tile for hard floors instead of wood in entry ways, hallways, kitchens, and even family and dining rooms. Most people like the convience of tile and laminate if they want a hardwood look and are taught that hardwoods are hard to up keep. With our experience with tile, that has been hard to up keep LOL it just looks dirty at the time to me and a lot of things break on it and it chips too easy.
So with that said, Mike and I have decided to really upgrade our house. New carpet everywhere, berber, and taking up the tile in hallway, kitchen and entry and replacing it with hardwood. We are going to replace all the appliances, they are standard no name appliances and some have wonderful dead bugs in them, so I'm digusted at that thought already. We already have to buy a new washer and dryer so I'm getting the ones I've always wanted and we will ALWAYS keep them along with our fridge, same one we had at the big house. Shutters throughout, ceiling fans (there is absolutely no lighting in this house and it's four years old), and change out the beat up brass hardware to a antique bronze. Would like to redo cabinets, countertops in both kitchen and bath, and lighting in the baths, but can survive it for a while longer. The backyard too will be put on hold. Not really using it right now since it's so hot. But we are hoping with all that, we will make our mark on it and it will feel like home.
Riordan has been having a tough week, his eye teeth are cutting. His left side top and bottom finally came through on Sunday. Saturday they apparently hurt so bad, that he was grabbing at the space for it. So I'm thinking since we had another tough day today with playgroup that they will cut tomorrow on the right side.
Everyone is asleep now and I'm off to make my friend, Kristi, a meal for her family. She had her baby boy, Cashton James ,on Saturday her DUE DATE ;-) I can't wait to see him!! Pork tenderloin, hashbrown casserole, and a salad and ice cream bars for dessert! Yummy I'm so hungry!