Who Needs Sanity Anyways?

Monday began my main adventure while watching over my parents house. My parents are in NYC for 2 more years serving as mission presidents, and Cory and I agreed to watch the house while they were away. One of the things my parents had already had in motion was LAX coming in to put in soundproof windows and doors. If you've never been to my parents house, maybe if I told you they were replacing 43 windows in the home might tell you how big of a project this is.

In order to get ready for them we had to take down the window trim and move anything in front of the windows by at least 3 feet. Monday morning came and by 8 a.m. the house was full of men working in each room, each doing their specific job. For some reason LAX finds it necessary for my parents to get a new furnace and a new heat vent in order to reduce sound in the house. So while the windows were being popped out and new ones being put in, they were also in my closet drilling a hole to the outside. Who needs closet space anyways?

They said this was a better option than creating a hole in the roof and cutting the tiles. So I'll trust them and hope my parents don't kill me. If anything I can put in some nice shelves cause you can never have too many shelves in a closet.

I'm having a hard time deciding what has been my funnest part so far of this experience. Maybe it the fact that Madeleine is 3 years old and hates to wear shoes so every time I heard glass breaking I'd cringe, or maybe it was the fact that she's 3 and loves to help, so I spent my days running after her saying "no". We tried to spend as much time out of the house as we could, and went on several walks around the block.

Madeleine is also going through a stage were she wakes up in the middle of the night wide awake. For example she was up from 2 a.m. to 5 a.m. last night, but I guess that gets me a baby that can sleep through even nail guns going today.

So I'm on day 3 out of 2 weeks where my OCD is going a bit crazy because the house is all out of place and dust on everything. I feel like I'm in a small section of one of those house make-over shows, without the luxury of the family being sent on vacation while its all done.

Four Years And Still Going

Our anniversary is on May 9th, and this year marked four years of being married. Our friend Charlotte was nice enough to watch Madeleine while Cory and I went to a grown-up restaurant. We went to the Santa Monica Bistro (http://bistroofsantamonica.com/). It was perfect. Cory had sword fish and I had a bowtie pasta with a pesto sauce. We also tried their Chocolate Souffle, which you have to order when while eating your entree since it takes 20 minutes to prepare. This place was absolutely delicious, for the environment and the quality of the food, the prices were more than worth it for me. I know, I'm talking a lot about the food, but it was so good and a nice change of pace from the Chili's that we go to regularly.

After the restaurant we rented N'ever After came home and watched it with Madeleine. Our gift that we decided on was getting our car fixed.

So it was a pretty quiet anniversary, but with some really good food. Which is the most important thing right?

Brain Freeze

Today Cory had the day off, so to celebrate we decided to go to Cold Stone for some ice cream. We hadn't been there since we moved to Southern California but from what we remembered about it in Utah was that it wasn't just good, it was GOOOOOOOOOOD. Our memories were correct in that the ice cream was extremely tasty and hit the spot on this hot Saturday.

It was also Madeleine's first taste of Cold Stone. She got to share with me, but once she got a taste of it she had to have it right near her and spoon it up herself. She got a big spoonful and put the whole thing in her mouth then gave this incredible look like "oh my goodness my brain is freezing" (which was an absolutely hilarious look). So I do believe Madeleine has had her first brain freeze.

Other than that our Saturday consisted of laying in bed and reading books like "No, David" and "Mr. Brown Can Moo Can You?", with a Sponge Bob episode or two. What can I say, we are very exciting people.

Along came Saturday

A part of Cory's job at Game Stop is to check out games from the store for a few nights and test them out. So that he can give informed answers to customers questions. With our tax refund Cory has convinced me that him having an xbox 360 to test games out on would be very good for him. He was able to get a deal with co-worker who is planning on buying a new black one that comes out next week. So we are now the owners of a xbox 360 with not many games. One of the rules of the purchase was that it was just a device in which Cory could bring home games to test. That was until he introduced me to Guitar Hero 2. One game which we now own and which Madeleine is a huge fan of. And not just Madeleine I must admit that I'm a "bit" addicted to the game. Its a lot of fun with lots of great music. And if you know me at all, you know how much I love music. It won't be a problem to get Cory off the game... me and Madeleine on the other hand...