A New Home. . .

. . .for Armor Seed Corporate!

We moved last Friday and Saturday (before the ice and sleet) to the offices next door. They will be doing some construction to the interior to make us a larger conference room, and a front office, but most of the offices, including mine are pretty much ready. They are going to repaint our trim and do some touching up here and there, but nothing major. That’s one thing that has been so hard about this weather. We’d all anticipated coming in on Monday and setting our offices up (and computers, networks, etc. . .) but because of the weather no one came in on Monday, Tuesday the computers and networks got set up and then yesterday those that were here still didn’t have access to the internet or our main network, so they unpacked a lot of stuff. I had to come in today because they finally got everyone up and running and I had to unpack all my office stuff! And there was no way I could bring the kids up here with the construction going on! It was crazy this morning! They gutted the entire front where a reception desk was and three walls! It was so loud! They got it all ripped out by 2pm so maybe the worst is over! (Yeah, right!) It will be so nice when it’s all finished! I am really going to have to do some work making my office look nice. I didn’t go to much trouble before since I knew we’d be moving relatively soon. This time Kelly says we will be here at least 10 years. . .but I think I’ve heard that before!

I have a lot of work to do decorating!! But, on the bright side, I have a window now!!

A big blank slate

What a week!!

Today is Thursday, and it’s my first real day out of the house since SUNDAY!!

Sunday

We went to Hickory Ridge Sunday for church and my mom had the family over for Jarrod and my birthday. When we left at 9am that morning it was starting to rain a little, but wasn’t too bad. By the time we left that afternoon it was freezing rain and sleeting hard.  On the way home we saw a couple that had run off in the ditch and we tried to help. It ended up being more than Jarrod’s truck could handle, but we tried. It made me nervous! I was scared we were going to get stuck too, or worse end up in the ditch full of water with them!!  We made it home and stayed put!

We were fairly sure they would cancel school on Monday, and they did. My office was even closed! I took these Sunday night when we got home. . .

Yes. She has on Harlem Globetrotter sweat bands. She loves them and wants to wear them ALL. THE. TIME.

Arden do you want to stay home from school?? “NOOOO!!!”

{This is her new “NO” face.}

This picture is funny because if you look at the TV the phone number displayed on the screen is the schools automated message number. At that exact moment they were calling to confirm that school was cancelled for Monday!

Monday

Over the night we got about 3 inches of SLEET. Crazy!! The sleet drifts were all the way to the top of the front porch and higher!

We normally have a sidewalk.

Arden will not keep pants on.

The kids played well. . .most of the time.

We ventured out around 10am. . .it was SO COLD!!

The sun was so bright

Arden wasn’t as much of a fan this time.

When Jarrod got home we got the sled out

Stratton had a blast. I rode it with Arden and she wasn’t a fan!

Tuesday

We stayed in till Jarrod got home around 4pm then he and Stratton went out for a little while. Arden has a little bit of a cold and I didn’t want to aggravate her symptoms. She screamed and cried the whole time they were out! Goodness!

Look close! He wrote “Amy” without any help with spelling!

My artists at work!

What a mess! It looks like a daycare not a house!!

The kids were very well behaved for the most part. It’s just hard being cooped up in the house for days! My saving grace was coffee!!

Wednesday

I really thought this would be our last day at home. We didn’t venture out, the roads were still bad and nothing was melting!! We played and I did laundry. That’s about it!

I did really love getting to nap and cuddle with my girl. She’s such a sweet cuddle bug!

The kids were so good. We actually had very few incidents!

We decided to try and get out last night and met some friends for dinner at Cracker Barrel. The main roads weren’t too bad, but the side roads, parking lots and any of the neighborhood roads are still really bad!

Thursday

I HAD to come to work today. . .more on that later. . .so the kids got to spend the day with Amy and Juliet!! This is the picture I got around noon . . .

They are camping!

Looks like they are having a great time. I just hope they are being good! And of course I just got the call from the school- they are out again tomorrow. Nice. A WHOLE week. Well, there goes Spring Break, I’m sure!