Unkies Visit

Here are some pics from our trip to the Cleveland Zoo today. One of these kangaroos had a baby in her pouch just like me.

tickle tickle.

I had to make threats to get a real smile. there are about 5 shots of the stretchy forced smile.

A red head family shot. yes I am huge, and yes we are a very short family.

I couldn't get over the size of this guys chin. Can you imagine carrying that around all day??

The cardinal that came and sat with us at lunch. (I swear I couldn't make this stuff up)

The zoo was great and we had nice weather all day. I wish I had seen more animals, but I had a dizzy spell that turned into a scene and ended me up in the first aid room for 30 mins. (they really need more benches in that place) We didn't know the place closed at 5 and still think thats dumb, or we would have gotten there sooner.

Pics of Braeden driving the riding mower with Papa. He would have stayed on it all day if we let him. Had a cookout at Grandma and Grandpa Zitella's (as Braeden calls them the Tells) with Mom, Uncle and some of their cousins. It rained ALL day and we sat in the garage and played old school brain teaser games(the ones with the golf tees like at cracker barrel) and GO FISH.

We went to the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame on Tuesday. They had this MJ guitar thing and a sad excuse for a Michael Jackson Memorial wall. (4 pictures and some misc. quotes from other celebrities written on the wall). This place still just doesn't do it for me.

I've done more this week than I have in a year. What a good time!!

Rainy Saturday

Woke up this morning to find 6 deer in the back yard. 3 babies and 3 mommies. Have to admit that when we first moved in we thought seeing deer in our yard was just as charming as could be. Now we are coming to realize that they are a big pain. In this picture they are standing in the bed with 4 deer repellant stakes. Clearly working just fabulously. so our adorable deer have already eaten most of the pretty flowers I planted around my front pole, which is only about 20 ft from the house, and this morning they were munching away on the bushes about 20 ft from the house too. They have no fear. Don't get me wrong, I still went running for the camera when I saw this amazing sight.

more house drama

We signed all of our closing documents for the sale of the old house on Wednesday night and were told that the buyer was closing as scheduled on Friday. This morning I get a call from our agent who tells me the buyers are not signing till tomorrow and they were wondering if they could have early possession to start painting. We decided that this was probably a bad idea since we still own the house and would still be liable if anything were to happen. Plus didnt want them to be finding things wrong and then refuse to sign for any reason.

This could be where we earned the bad Karma...

Ten minutes later my realtor calls to tell us that the buyers mortgage package is not ready and that Howard Hanna mortgage wnts to contact the person who put the roof on our garage to see if they are insured and if they would certify the job. Naturally before we had the work done (more than a month ago) no one said the work had to be done by a certified roofer so we had a friend of a friend do it for cheap. So... NO certification. Keep in mind that everyday that this deal goes past the original close date, per diem fees are coming out of my already miniscule profits. Now I may have to get someone to go out there and certify the damn roof. then send it to Howard Hanna mortgage and hope that they don't come up with any other reasons to stall. I totally blame the buyers agent who could have specified this certified roofer on her original repair request sheet in MAY!!! and who has had copies of receipts for all the work for weeks now. It is absolutely rediculous the the mortgage company would come up with this stupid request the day of closing when the work has been done for months.
I really just want this whole thing to be over. what's next???

Our fun day at Waterworks.

We had a really great time at waterworks on Monday. Thought we were going to be stuck sitting around in an empty house waiting around for meter readers all day, but we got some good Karma and they all showed up before 1:00.

After some coaxing we talked Scott into joining us, and no sooner than he got there the clouds rolled in. That didnt stop the two boys from having fun though.

I mostly sit in my chair and rub my belly.(feeling much like a hippopotamus) I tried to ride the lazy river on a tube... but i don't fold in half very well anymore.:)

my first blog

well I have been following a few of my friends on their blogs, and have decided that its time for me to get in on this fun. So over the next few days I'll work on figuring out the layout of this thing and then I'll be off and blogging.