Our new house is coming along!

Our new house is coming along nicely. We have put about $9200 into it as improvements but since it is an investment I guess that means it's okay.  We ripped out all the carpet and the kids ripped out the carpet pad. Duane came over on a Saturday and helped us fix it up too. They are buying their own rental so Erik will repay him with a day of work as well. 

putting those kids to work

Matthew actually ripped carpet pad out of an entire room himself!

Some of our expenses are:

• New Garage door $940
• New Sliding glass door $1400
• New water heater $995
• Paint indoors $2286
• New dishwasher $275
• New carpet $2438
• New vinyl flooring in 2 baths and kitchen $720
• Locks rekeyed $160

More expenses will come up but these are the bigger items. The house looks incredible. Honestly I would move in there now. Not kidding! There is only one full bath upstairs. Erik is thinking about putting in another full bath in the master. We got an estimate of $7500. Yikes! So we may do this later but it would really be great for the house.

While Erik was gone for 2 weeks in Boston Matthew lost his first tooth. He was unbelievably excited! He got to pick any treat he wanted and choose these artificially colored cookies from giant eagle. This is what he chose over ice cream, candy, etc. Whose kid is he anyway? The tooth fairy brought him bubble tape and a $5 bill. Only for the first tooth - the rest of the teeth are only worth 50 cents. amiright?

bottom tooth gone!

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 The kids have gotten a lot better at board games. Jenna is actually really good at pretty much all games. She beat Erik at Lords of Waterdeep! I won and Jenna came in second place. Normally Erik wins every game so this is rather exciting. Lords of Waterdeep is a good game because Matthew can play too. I help him with his actions and he really loves the little blocks.

Lords of Waterdeep

 On Sunday Erik and I did an indoor triathlon at lifetime. I was pumped because I have done this twice before and was hoping to beat Erik. Wrong :(. 10 minutes swimming: I beat him at swimming - I had 14 laps and he had 13. But he beat me considerably at biking. 30 minutes biking - he rode 9.4 miles while I only rode 8 miles. So we split the swimming/biking. I was ready to win at running. 20 minutes running - when we got on the treadmill I kept bumping up my speed. But then he kept bumping up his speed. We kept doing this until my legs felt like jelly. So I backed off and ran at 6.3 most of the way. He was up at 6.5 then up at 7.3 for the end. I couldn't keep up. Grrrrrrr. Well I need to train harder next time.

Post-tri selfie

 I am a sucker for all new marketed sweets. I saw these three new types of M&Ms. Coffee nut, chili nut, and honey nut. So we all tried them and picked our favorites. Mine was coffee nut. Yum!!

New candy? Of course I'll buy it!