I recently purchased a new camera and yesterday it arrived at the house. I've been busy testing it out and trying to learn all it's new features. Needless to say, my 2 1/2 year old photo subject isn't the easiest to photograph, but here is the best of all I took outside today.

Lovin' the new camera!

Life Lesson #1435

Today I was reminded why home ownership can be so frustrating! Jon woke me up this morning to inform me that our furnace was leaking oil and that I would need to call someone to come out and fix it. It was 7am, what a great way to start the day. So I called the people who serviced the unit before and they sent someone out. While I was waiting for the guys to arrive, I went down to the basement to survey the damage myself. This was no small leak, it was pouring oil out of the filter when the furnace turned on. Jon had put a bucket under the filter so at least we were now catching the oil, but there was a large puddle of it all over the floor and the whole basement smelled of oil. Ugh! Well the guy arrived, took the filter apart and immediately new the issue. We needed to replace the entire thing. Wonderful! So a couple hundred dollars later and the furnace is up and running again. Let's just say, I'm tired of handing out money to replace parts because the house sat empty for so long before we purchased it. Learning experience is what we could call this. Probably should have made the sellers call out service men to check over everything before we closed so they would have been paying for all this. Lesson learned.

Since we are so into paying for service men, I guess we might as well call the septic guy and get the tank located and pumped because who knows what else might be wrong and we have no idea when it was last pumped. Hopefully after that we are finished with major repairs. Oy!

Big News!

On Monday, my brother and his wife called to inform us they are expecting their first child in August!! We are all very excited for them! We just ask for prayers for Kelly and the baby. She has a genetic blood disorder that is life threatening to the baby. However, she and her doctor have it under control with daily injections and a number of pills and things are looking very good right now. So prayers are welcome by all for our little niece or nephew.

It's Tax Time

It's tax time at our house. Our account and future account are hard at work preparing our tax return!

Here is what I saw coming down the stairs when she was supposed to be napping!
I couldn't help but laugh and take a picture! She looked so cute with that hat and carrying all her favorite things with her! Oh JuJu! =)