Schloegel News

Well, to continue on with the news, I will speak for us Schloegel's. This may be repeat information for anyone who regularly reads my blog, but so what?! Where to start...

Oh yes. As you all should know Rylan has teeth! As that may not mean anything to any of you, for us it means his rites to passage beyond mushed baby food! Even though I'm sure two little teeth stubs can't chew much, we have decided to forgo buying any more babyfood. Who knew how expensive that stuff was?! It was costing like $20 a week. (If you haven't noticed, your nephew/grandson is a porker!) We will see how this goes. It sorta means I have to prepare more food around here, which you all know I loathe. But it saves money. Another thing I was attempting to do to save money was to make all our own bread. Well, lets just say after about 2 days of nothing but my bread around here, we had to go shopping last night and came home with about 12 loaves of bread. Which is about 1/2 of what we normally buy. I obviously did NOT have very good luck. It was delicious! But not suitable for spreading anything on, as it came off in pieces and not slices. I guess we will Trial and Error it.

What else...oh yes. Rylan is eating real food, he is also DONE WITH FORMULA! I think he's gonna make me sing lots here real soon. We actually bought too much formula, but figured it will work for emergencies. Thank goodness whole milk is "cheap" and the same price as skim milk. Normally it's almost a dollar more. With that said, we will be switching is car seat to front facing here as soon as we clean out the car. (MAJOR improvement...this way I won't break my back trying to feed him snacks in the car...) He also is learning to walk. But he won't. Like, he never will when we're around, but I see him walk un-assisted all the time in his play pen or when we're not looking. Just 3-5 steps though, but won't even do 1 when we're paying attention. Sad that kids that young learn how to play the game.

We just got finished painting Kadence's room. For pictures, PLEASE go see our other blog page. I have to say I am quite happy with the results. She LOVES it as well, and I thought it would encourage her to play in her room more and that she would never want to leave...well, she's in there no more than before. What a shame. I'M in there a lot more now! (I love her room...) Adam has also (finally) been working on the trim in the bonus room. His parents came over to help, but we didn't get very far, b/c they decided to do it the day we were supposed to finish painting...needless to say neither got accomplished that day. But it's a work in progress, and all the baseboards have trim now and just need a coat of sealant, some pieces need glued down, and then (several layers of) paint. Then we just have to still do the windows. THEN we want to repaint the room and decorate it as well...as soon as we can save up for a couch! (That's my favorite part... :)

Adam has started school, and has already survived his first week of classes. He is only going part time, since he also works 2 other jobs on top of that. He has classes Tues and Wed night from 6-9pm, and goes straight from there to the airport for his shift that starts at 9pm. It worked out great b/c both classes just happen to be located off-campus and on airport property! He is taking a Criminal Justice class that he has to have for his degree, and a Communications class that also fulfills his generals. Both are freshman level classes, so he should be fine. He is also staying extra busy with his "honey-do" list around here, along with work at the airport and Dillards, and he will start teaching Sunday School again in the next week or so. He teaches the parenting/family relations class. It's one of those rotating, everyone has to take it, kind of sunday school classes. But he has no qualms about teaching people like some of us do. (aka, ME).

We were blessed this last month, kinda indirectly I guess. See, our little car "broke down" and with what was wrong, us and Adam's dad both agreed the fuel pump went out. We knew how lovely of a repair that would be, and were NOT excited about it. Just as soon as we start socking money away, OF COURSE something like that would happen. So, thank goodness we have two cars and so we weren't OUT a vehicle for Adam. (since I have no life and go nowhere. :) Well, the only way we could get the thing to the shop was to rent a trailer to tow the car on. Thank goodness Adam's dad has a nice big truck, or we would have had to call a tow-truck. But that was somewhere between 50 and 100 bucks just for the trailer, and we were thinking we were really screwed after we paid the $500 for the repair. Just after Christmas too, trials really know when to hit you good, huh? But it turns out, our "break down" was just a fluke! The shop had no problem getting the car started, (we couldn't get it started for anything, and it wasn't the battery) and so they looked into why it wouldn't start for us. They tried some new relays for the fuel pump and starter and it worked right away again, and the old ones were fine, so they just put the old ones back on. While the car was in there, there was some recall on the flooring protectant stuff, so they fixed that for us. But overall, they just think something (i think one of the relays, but I don't know much (anything) about car stuff, so don't quote me on this) just came loose and the connection wasn't going through. So needless to say we had to pay about $100 for the labor for NOTHING, cause NOTHING was wrong with our car! I guess we should be glad about that, nothing being wrong, not having to pay $600....but it just stinks we had to pay almost $200 just for someone to tell us there was NOTHING WRONG! Argh. Blessings, blessings....it's a blessing. it IS a blessing, Shelly...

But we are doing pretty good. I was gonna add something else that's been going on lately, but my mind is frozen. We are awaiting the visit of the Rexburg side of the family, hopefully they can all come for Rylan/Sally's birthdays. We are looking forward to it. Oh! I remember, of a little note, we got new phones! Our two year contract was up and so we got 2 new Chocolate phones (BIG upgrade from our last ones) for only $30! The phones retail for over $200 a piece! They are like an ipod/phone, so the ipod I bought for Adam for Christmas might have been pointless...but we haven't played with our phones yet enough to answer that question for sure. Adam's actually gets here today, and mine came a few days ago. So, whatever. no one cares, nevermind. You actually can just nevermind this whole post if you aren't deathly bored, because it's all trivial stuff I'm sure only we care about. So Sally, Go on and read, I KNOW you've been bored!! :)

That's it. (I think) Until I think of something else anyway. Everyone else if you (please) have time, please post SOMETHING on here...some of us (aka Sally and I) ARE extremely bored a lot and need something to read!