Saturday, January 29, 2011


Eventful......
Or maybe not to much. The major happening this week was my washing machine stopped working on Monday. They always have to do this when they are full of water & clothes. Also this is the second washer that has broken down on us in the last few months. It must have some electric issue because it was tripping the breaker and the sparks were flying when I tried to plug it in. My dad gave us some help over the phone, but after we got the back off of it we could not see any blacked wires or anything else really wrong with it. We will keep it around for a while and maybe my dad can look at it and find the problem next time he is here to visit.

We decided it would cost just as much if not more to have someone come look at it, so I started looking on Craigslist by Wednesday. I ended up having to wash some of Brandon's work clothes in the sink this week and am really glad I don't have to do that all the time. By Friday I found a washer that had not been taken and Brandon went and picked it up. It's a Maytag, which is in very god conition and we payed $100 for it. What a great deal.

Lets see other happening around here was we had friends who came down with stripe throat and so we stayed home most of the week in anticipation of the kids getting it. So far the kids never did complain of a sore throat.

The kids have been doing a lot of indoor playing and have not been wanting to go out and play in the snow at all. Anna is ready for summer and I think the boys are too. I don't think I can really count the number of hours that I played Uno this week, but the kids are getting good. Yesterday I introduce them to some new games, which they loved. It's fun as the kids get older and they can play fun games with me and themselves. I even showed them the game Yahtzee. It will be a while before they can play it, but they had fun rolling the dice.

The projects that I got done around the house this week was repainting the wood work bench in the basement. It look much better and I hope it stays that way till we hopefully sell our duplex. I went thought my hubbies gun stuff and organized it all. He now doesn't have boxes of gun stuff with everything under the sun in them. I put his reloading supplies in one container, his gun slings & leather pouches in another, gun cleaning supplies in another and there are a few containers of bullets and gun parts. I need to do just a little more work, but it's much better then it was. I also went through my clothes closet and took out all the clothes that are to small to fit me this winter and put them away in a container in hopes that they will fit next winter. Now I can find what I need much easier.

Well that is my week. Hope you all had a wonderful week and have a great weekend.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Happy 3rd Birthday!!!
It's hard to believe that my baby is now 3 years old this year. We took the family bowling in the afternoon with some friends and then had Haystacks for supper and yummy chocolate birthday cake. It was a fun day:)

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Snuggle Beagles......
I snapped this great picture of the beagles snuggling up to Anna the other night. I have to say that is one reason I really like beagles. They just can't get enough love from there people. Our beagle's names are Ruby Tuesday and Rosy Wednesday.



Thursday, January 13, 2011

Sickness....
Starting last week we all got colds and then by Friday night Anna and Mommy were up many times in the night puking. It was a long weekend of sickness and tiredness. Gabe got sick on Sunday as well and daddy got the stomach bug by Monday. This week has been spent recovering and catching up on sleep if that is possible.

Yesterday was the first day out with the kids and they wanted to go play at MC Donald's. I really like taking the kids there because they stay busy playing without fighting. I can then do a little reading and knitting while they play.

Then today I took the kids ice skating at the skating rink, which is just down the street from our house. The kids love it and Anna is doing great. Gabe is also getting the hang of it and asked me this evening about getting hockey sticks for him and Anna. I think it sounds like fun. I use to skate a lot as a kid and have always loved it. There are even some indoor skating rinks that I would like to check out. It may even be a fun way for me to get some good exercise in each week.

Also this morning Noah was sitting at the kitchen table eating his oatmeal and he told me, " I'm eating my bugs" with a big smile on his face. This just made me laugh because that is what his grandpa told him when he was at their house. The bugs are the flax seed that we put in the oatmeal. Also at Christmas I got a rice cooker and have been making oatmeal in it for breakfast and I love it.

Well that's what's been happening around the Kostman household. I hope to post some ice skating pictures sometime soon.

Sunday, January 09, 2011

I'm Ready to Fight......

Friday, January 07, 2011

A little late......
I'm not sure what has taken so long to get these pictures up, but here they are. The boys got some great things for Christmas like these skidsteers & Nerf guns. They love them and I find myself getting shot often.


Anna got this lovely jewelry box, which she loves. It was also filled with some goodies and now she has a nice place to put her lovelies.



The kids also got some bath robes and I hope to post pictures of them soon.