Christmas in July Question

I know it's very early to be asking this, but since Brant mentioned it. Is anyone toying with the idea of coming to Moscow around Christmas time? I'm not sure what our plans are, but we will have a new baby at that time and I was hoping to bless the baby around New Year's if people are going to be here. No pressure, but it would be nice for my brothers to actually come to one of my baby blessings considering I've come to most of theirs...ha ha. I was just wondering. We have a three bedroom apartment too, so if anyone wants to stay with us, that's always an option. But you never know, maybe Mom and Dad will have added on by then with all their makeovering.

This is a picture of my 3 for 3 run. I kinda mostly wounded that last one, but a kill is a kill. Just like George on Seinfeld, I said, "I'm outta here" and left them on a high note. It was a lot of fun shooting with the boys. We also enjoyed shooting with the other groups up there. It got interesting as we left and one group was adjusting their targets and the other group opened fire on their targets to the side of the first group. The first group got a little excited. Needless to say there was a lot of firepower up there including several semi-automatic rifles.

Congrats Mom and Dad on the new upgrade. Send down some photos of the new place so we recognize the place at Christmas time. Sounds like it is going to turn out really nice. We used the sticky tiles in our master bath and so far they are working very well. We used a dark color slate and they look really good. They were also pretty quick to install.

Have a great week!

Brant

From Moscow

Greetings from the interior decorators. Mom and I have decided that since we cant afford to move and build a new house (we don't want to anyway), and since we cant eat the elephant all at once, we will take it on small project by small project. Recently we put up new blinds and drapes in the living room, new blinds in my office, and new blinds (not up yet) in the computer room. Yesterday the drapery rods finally got here and we put up new drapes on the sliding glass door.

Mom and I have been thinking about colors and walls to paint in the living room and we finally decided on what and which. About 4:00pm yesterday afternoon we were talking about it and I said lets do it right now. So, we drove out to Wal-Mart bought the paint (that's going top of the line) and a few supplies and painted the living room. We finished at 11:00pm last night. We both love it. We painted the whole north wall, the east wall past the glass doors to the cupboards and then that little short wall where the two chest of drawers are. We replaced the electrical cover plates too. We took down all the pictures (yes, Lacey and Matt your high school pictures are down) and only put the big family picture back up. In the living room we are going to do a collage of new family pictures (look out, we are in need of 6 family pictures - be ready when we get to Denver, Coeur d'Alene and when Seth and Lacey get back to Moscow - nothing fancy, just digital shots) the "family name" (thanks Erik and Jamie) and a couple of other things. We still need to find a home for the wedding pictures.

Our next project is the kitchen. We are going to paint it, put down new flooring (Do those of you that have used the 12" square tiles with the sticky back think they would work in the kitchen)?

We'll send a picture one of these days.

It has been terribly hot but has backed off a little today.

We love all the blog pcitures.

See you all soon.

Dad and Mom