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So here it is finally!! With Fall comes a new oven and cook top. Here Haley and I are testing it out baking up some "organic" cookies that have been in my freezer all summer. I was just about to bake them up when the old oven gave up the ghost. I think the freezer funk kinda got to these, but they did get consumed. Since then we have also baked brownies for the college group, banana bread for me and bridgeford yeast rolls to have with our soup last night. We are on a kick to eat out of our pantry for as long as we can. So far so good. As you may or may not be able to see, the oven is not without its own set of challenges. When we picked the oven up, we thought it would be stainless steel. It obviously wasn't and some haggling ensued. Frank and I decided that we did in fact like this one better anyways and since I got home and started cooking on the stainless cook top I am really pretty certain I wouldn't go with all stainless steel appliances. Always shows the dirt and prints! There are gaps top and bottom of our the cut out for the oven and we are working on some creative ways to cover them up. Will report as that comes together.

In other news, we will be purchasing the wood for my floors this weekend. Can you believe it? I can't! Dad and Beth called with info that there was a coupon at Costco for great flooring with pad attached. Frank and I went to look at it and decided that we still didn't feel totally comfortable that we would be able to pay all the tithes, bills and taxes before the end of the year if we went ahead and bought it. Even though we knew it was an incredible price. I went home and crunched numbers and pouted and then we talked it over and took our thoughts "captive" and determined to do the right thing. We decided that if Frank got more than four more days booked by the end of the year we could do it. Frank called me around noon to read me a note. The note asked him if he could schedule eight days and four before the end of the year for a group. Frank had already believed he would get about four more days, but he wasn't expecting to hear from this group. Isn't God good?

So my dad has promised to help us with all the cutting if we would lay it. Get your calendars out guys!

Sorry I haven't blogged in soooo long. My mornings have changed somewhat from quite solitude to math assignments and teacher scripted language arts hours. We are taking a field trip - our first of the year - to see King Tut on Sunday and hang out with Dad in Contra Costa County for Monday and Tuesday. School books will be making the trip as well... we don't want to miss any opportunities to get our days done.

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