Mouse in the house!

So we saw our first mouse in the house about a month and a half ago. I of course was freaking out when jared told me he saw one run along the living room floor. So, we went out and got some traps. We put one in the basement because he thinks it came up through the drain. Another one in the living room because thats where we saw it, and we put another one in the kitchen. We soon caught 2 in the basement and 2 in the living room. I was freaking out because I'm thinking they are going to reproduce and have a mice infestation in our house! We kept the traps out and within the last month have probably caught 2 more in the kitchen. Then about 2 weeks went by where there weren't any and I thought we got them all!.... I was wrong!
Yesterday I started vaccuming the guest bedroom and I swore I saw one under the dresser, so quickly I moved into the kitchen to vacuum that, then the living room, then I moved to our bedroom. As soon as I snuck the vacuum in I saw one run from under Jared's dresser under our bed! I SCREAMED and dropped the vacuum. I couldn't decide if I should shut the door or just run out and let it wonder out the the traps.. so thats what I did! I left and went to the store to get more traps. I was sick and tired of these things and beyond scared of the little rodents!

So I got back and you should have seen me, walking through the house in tennis shoes and stomping in every room before I walked in. That night we went to Jared's dads house for dinner and I was telling them about it. They gave us some sticky traps to set out..so needless to say, we have about 10 out right now! That night I knew I wasn't going to be able to sleep because what if that thing was still in our room!!!!!

I woke up several times checking the trap in our room... nothing. The next morning I got up when I heard Jareds alarm and went on a hunt around the house to check all the traps. I did find the living room trap upside down!! I went to get Jared and sure enough there was a dead one. I'm REALLY REALLY hoping that he was the only one in here and I got him. I did some DEEP cleaning today. Made sure there were no crumbs on the counters, floors, under couches.. etc. I bought an air tight container for the dog food and moved that outside. I'm really hoping that the dog food was what they were attracted to. Please pray we have no more mice because the next time I see one I might go crazy!! I will call an exterminater next time, and then that will suck because you have to try and find them when they die! uhh.. stupid things, no one likes them!

House Updates!

Well we have been in our house for 9 months already! It has flown by, thats for sure! As for house updates we have made it look so much better with not too much money into it!
We have:
--painted every room except the "guest room/future baby room" which we will prob either wait to paint or just do tan since we aren't planning on kids for a long time.. I just hate painting so I don't wanna paint it and then in a year paint again, so we'll see
--torn up the old nasty carpets in guest room and office, replace office with tan shag carpet and left hardwood in guest room
--torn out all the kitchen countertops and replaced with new!
--torn out the kitchen backsplash and had a new one tiled
--tomorrow we are pouring a small 13x12 concrete patio in the back yard!

*The future house improvement plans include building a deck up from the patio
*Cleaning out the garage and putting in a garage door opener so I can park there this winter
*Painting the front porch cement grey (right now it's red and chipping)
*Having the basement floor and walls painted grey (hopfully with a sprayer!)
*Dry walling a small portion of the basement so it can be a little hang out area down there (mostly because jared wants to hang his deer stuff somewhere, haha)
*Still not sure what to do about our kitchen cabinets but they are so ugly! I want to paint them white but Jared says no, so we'll see about staining them or maybe replacing them but I know that is very costly! We don't want to put too much money into this house beacuse we aren't sure we will be able to get it back out when we sell it down the road.

Our plans are to stay here for about 4 more years, once we have kids, we'll see how that goes!

Dissapointed

I am very sad to say that I did not get the job in Altamont as a first grade teacher. God must have something better in store for me! Although I'm dissapointed I didn't get the job, I am excited about my future in subbing and getting to know other schools around the area. My hope is that I can sub this coming year and then re-apply as a teacher at the area schools and get something maybe next year. So, for now, I'll keep on servin at the Hilton and subbing in the fall. Unless God as another plan I just don't know about yet :)

4th of July weekend

We had a crazy busy weekend! On Friday I wanted to surprise Jared with a trip to St. Louis just the two of us. He found out the week before so he could get off early on Friday. So we were off! We headed to St. Louis and checkin into our hotel, which was so nice and modern btw... Then we decided to check out the St. Louis Mills Mall since we had both never been there. It was really.. BIG! I never realized how large that mall is until I went in it and kept walking and walking and walking! I stopped at the first girl store I saw which was Old Navy while Jared stopped into Cabelas. If I had known there were so many stores I wouldn't have spent so much time and money at Old Navy. Oh well, I got some cute stuff. We were there for a few hours and then decided to go out to eat. At this time it was like 9 and we were really hungry so we decided to go to the first place we saw. We ate and headed back to our hotel for the nigiht. Saturday we got up early and went to the Zoo. It was sooooooo hot that day! I was actually rather glad that we made it through the zoo in 3-4 hours because it was just to hot to sit around and look at any more animals. We did have fun though, good couple time :)

When we got back I went to work and then we went to a friends for a cookout. The next day we went to church, then headed out to my dads for a cookout and swim party. We were there all afternoon until about 6 and then we headed to our next cook out. This was Steve's house, a friend of both of ours. We watched fire works there and had a good time.

Monday, another busy day! We were so exhausted from the already busy weekend that we went to bed at 11 the night before and woke up at 11 on Monday! I couldn't believe it! I hate sleeping in that late, I would much rather be cleaning or doing laundry to get that kind of stuff done on my day off, oh well. So we got up, hurried up and got ready, and had to be at his grandmas at noon for lunch. We got there and ate cheesburgers and stayed for a few hours to hang out. Then we headed back home for an hour or so before heading to our next festivity! We were debating on having people over to our house to watch the fireworks since we live so close to the park, but his dad invited us over to Dieterich for lemon shake ups and pork burgers. The lemon shake up did it for me! So we went over at about 430 and played cards for awhile and then headed over to the park in Dieterich. I have always thought Effingham did a good job of puttin on a great fireworks show so I didn't think Dieterichs would compare but they weren't bad actually! They were slow to start, few and far between, but they picked up and seemed like they had 4 finales, which are my favorite anyway.