Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Girls lunch today at Mimi's

Lois invited her two daughters that live here and her three daughter-in-laws to lunch at Mimi's today.  I am kicking myself around the room right now for not taking a picture.  Anyway, there were six of us: Lois, Dawn, Rebecca, Cathi, Laura, and I.  We met at the Mimi's on Alma School and Southern around 11 am.  We all chose to order from the lunch menu.  I had the chicken chopped salad and a buttermilk spice muffin.  The salad was good and the muffin was great!  It was super fun.  I don't think any of us expected Lois to pay but she said she had a gift card and insisted.

 

James was worried we weren't going to get to do taco Tuesday but I assured him we would.  Later this afternoon we went to a little Mexican dive on Chandler Blvd and McClintock that has been around since we first moved to Chandler.  It is called Espo's.  We liked the tacos, refried beans and green chili burro.  I am ready to up our taco Tuesday game to nicer restaurants that have a little atmosphere.  Dawn says Barrio's in Phoenix is supposed to be the best Mexican food restaurant in Arizona.  I also would like to try La Hacienda's, a place I heard of on Facebook, and Garcia's.  I haven't been to Garcia's in years.

 

This is what my hand looked like this morning when I first got up.

It's hard to write when your hand is puffed up like a toad.

 

This even Max had a band concert at Hancock Elementary School.  He is in the fifth grade band and plays the trombone. 



Max on the trombone

Both the fifth and sixth grade bands performed.  I really enjoyed the concert and was proud of Max for receiving an award for Most Improved!  We sat by Sheri, Ian, and Evan.

 

We finally made a decision regarding the realtor who will represent us while we have our house on the market.  Her name is Jen MacClay.





Tuesday, April 7, 2015



James says these are Eastern bluebirds.

They are "twig" sitters just like the birds in Vernon.

 

Jen, the realtor, wasn't scheduled to come until 1 o'clock this afternoon, which means James and I had all morning to get ready for her.  James finished up outside and did some chores for me around the inside of the house.  My main focus was cleaning and polishing the wood floors.  Funny that both our vacuum and our lawnmower are broke down.  Not funny in a good way though, but we did make do.  Here are some of the results:



I love how the floors look when

they are polished!

One of my favorite views.

Even the "degreased" kitchen looked good.

I love the new dining room rug.

The living room is pretty bare, but I love

how comfortable this furniture is.

We got it from Karen Schneider when she moved.

Jen was right on time.  She had been here before and Stacy showed her the house.  She was amazed at all we had done.  She said it looked ten times better.  She stayed for over an hour and we both really liked her approach.  Now we have narrowed it down to two: Kent Van Vleet or Jen MacClay.  We are going to need to pray about this.

 

Jared Ammon went with James this afternoon to do some final work at Jerod Bowen's.  He told his grandpa that he's going to go back to school because he can't really do much with his degree otherwise.  Good idea Jared.

 

I took my vacuum in to Oreck to be serviced and got my car washed at Neat Freak's and then went to Winco to get four cases of water to take to the church for one of the scouts in our ward for his Eagle project. 

 

Oh!  I almost forgot that today was Taco Tuesday.  Because we were so busy James and Dallin went to Senor Taco's and brought back lunch.  I had a shredded beef taco and a carnita taco.  Delicious!