House, Scrubs, and Swimming

Our house is sparkly clean right now.  I love it!  We had house appraisers come this morning.  We need to borrow some money from our house in order to buy the cabin.  We never had our house appraised when we bought it almost five years ago.  The guy said he could come out and do it, but the land alone was worth the price we were paying for our house.  The appraisers asked us if we had done anything to our house since we bought it.  (They asked us this over the phone.)  I started listing things and was surprised at how much we had done. New kitchen with new cabinets and appliances.  New floors through the entire house.  New windows through the entire house.  Completely redid the upstairs and downstairs bathrooms.  Awesome painting in the girls room.  Cool wood paneling in the boys room.  Moved the laundry and made it a room instead of a hallway.  Added a door to the pool bathroom.  Made a small shed out back.  Made a pool shed to cover the pool equipment.  Redid the pool wall.  New pool lining, pool cover and winter pool cover.  Replaced all of the old pool equipment (heater, filter etc.)  Put an intercom system in the house.  Wow.  We have done a lot. Hopefully the appraisal comes back with good news.  We won't know until next week.

I took Maysen to the scrub store after school.  She needs scrubs for her vet class.  They have to be a solid color and they can't be orange. Apparently her teacher hates orange.  I thought it would be super easy to get the scrubs, but it ended up taking forever.  She finally found some that she liked.  She chose a pretty green color.  She was able to take the shirt home today, but the pants have to be special ordered for her.  Even when they do come, we might have to hem them anyway.  I wish I was more handy with the sewing machine.

Jorja organized a little get together with some of her friends.  Natalie, Kate, Katlyn and Hailey all came over.  They had pizza, played games and went night swimming.  Jorja ran in dripping wet and asked if I could turn the pool light on.  It was pitch black outside.  Mike was in extreme pain, so I went to get the light plugged in.  It's pretty easy in the daytime.  It took me forever to find the cord.  I finally went and found a flashlight, that worked much better.  Jorja was so happy today. I'm glad she was able to have such a good day with friends.