A flower making basket

It's Louisiana, it's spring already... maybe
But the above fits my mood. Tuesday we FINALLY refied our house! Savings of $220ish a month thank you very much! Just to turn around and spend that on a new note elsewhere. Yep, we are going ahead with getting our house painted.
**Backstory**
Past three weeks have been pure hell for me. Four Sunday's ago someone tried to break into our house - whatever except for I was home. Thank God for my pups though Huckabay tried to get killed afterwords. So we had to replace our back door. The following week our next door neighbor gets broke into. And last Wednesday someone again tries our house using a hammer to a window. Thankfully I wasn't home or I would be moving into my mom's house again or an institution for a breakdown. BTW -- take my crap just stop breaking things. It's just stuff and I'm tired of constantly putting out $$ for doors and windows. I'll give you the stuff in the house... possibly... and then call the cops... maybe... I've become a ninny with all this happening, not to mention a silly girl crying at EVERYTHING.
So we went to Lowe's and got a new door and had them install it. Found out we have lead paint on the house. YAY... but the guy they sent out does restorations and renovations and we talked to him about painting the house what it would intell since we have rotten boards that you can't just pay anymore. We had looked at siding last year but at $20K I don't think so... He had to check with Lowes but in the end he came back and gave us a quote on painting it and remaking some wood siding... 1/2 the cost of vinyl siding!!
So yeah sometime next month we will have our house painted!! Much to my excitement because I LOVE STUFF BEING PAINTED and Hoss's because he thinks it will added much need value -- I'd rather do work on the inside but whatever.
So we are taking out another loan for that. And no a HELOC wasn't an option - we have no value in the house at this point. But it will be paid off in at least 5 years and we will be done with that project and move on to another if we don't use some of money for it before hand.
But back to my title... the stress of everything has pushed me outside with the skeeters and my pups to just calm down. Of course my backyard has barely any grass much less flowers but that will change too. I've employed LG's lawn service to come up with a pup friendly backyard :)
Like I said last post... it's exciting times for Mc's

Whoo hoo!

No song, sad times but lookie lookie. Our refi is finally coming through! It has been in the works for almost 3 months. I was beginning to think it might not happen. But finally! It will save us almost 250 a month so we are finally going to get our house painted!!!
Exciting times for the Mc5 family and we can only hope for a few more this year.

It's the age of ...

The new year has come. Yay? Last year ended kind of whatever for us. Don't get me wrong, everything was fine just weird at the same time.
Hoss has declared this year the year of the hr.
So this year was mostly like any others. We went to mom's for New Years to do Christmas with my family and it was a blast. The boys are just getting old enough to start staying up closer to midnight in fact one did make it to midnight. Hoss spent way too much money on nice ending fireworks (he stayed in the budget though so no complaints) and they were AWESOME! I feel asleep somewhere between 11-12 but was up for the display (obviously) but slept through some of the louder fireworks. Nobody (Hoss) threw fireworks at us or in the fire on purpose to scare us.
I have a few photos but you'll have to check them out on facebook or tumblr because that's where I posted them this time around --> took them with my new phone so it was easier.
Then Sunday we went to see Hoss's mom for her b-day. Again nice, took the three kids and that made it more interesting. Saw Hoss's dad and g-parents Christmas Eve. All in all, wonderful time.
First year though we didn't make plans to see friends. Last minute I got my girls together for a quick evening but otherwise it was "friendless" and WONDERFUL! No stress, no worries, no extra spending and traveling (because why ever should people travel to see us)
I only got bogged down as to what to get Hoss since he went to San Diego, we're trying to do something else with our money so I didn't want to spend a lot until it goes through (which meant no dishwasher for the house). But I think the stress actually came from his flight issues and just went from there.
All in all, a good holiday time.
This year the major thing planned is the Final Four and Hoss's 30th b-day. I had hoped to convince him to go back to the CWS (which would only be fitting, Hoss, year of the hr... home run =D) but doesn't look like he's up for it. Maybe we'll pick up a few concerts.
So Hoss, here to the year of the hr!