Oven saga continues

Ok, this is getting annoying. The oven arrived last Thursday (hours after they were supposed to arrive and just before we were leaving for Amarillo) and then it DIDN'T FIT! It fits in the opening and everything as measured, but there is a natural gas pipe that sticks out in the opening. On my old oven, that pipe just fit into a recess on the oven frame, but this new oven doesn't have such a recess. So now I have an oven mostly installed, sticking out three inches, and I have to get a contractor to repipe the natural gas line in a different location (I hope). So I guess I'll continue to update the saga as it continues! And I'll work on posting some cute pics from the trip to Amarillo!

Our new Oven -- part three!

Wow! This is actually our 200th post. So we have come a long way in posting, and been a little more consistent!

And yet, it seems like we were just here a few months ago, with an oven that broke. So if you don't remember our previous oven trauma check out part one and part two. Today we are starting part three (which is hopefully the final chapter).

Today, while attempting to make biscuits, the oven ran away, got really super overheated, generated an error code, and toasted the biscuits.

It literally blackened Chris's homemade handmade biscuits (they looked like campfire marshmallows that got in the fire) and if you know Chris, you know that did NOT endear the oven to him. We theorize that it went it to self clean mode temperature (where it was stuck last year), and have now decided to just get the new oven we wanted any way. So today we bought our new oven, and next week we should have it installed and working! Yippee! (We are excited to upgrade our oven and get a convection oven as well!)

So while I am posting, I found (stole?) a cute photo addition from Easter!



All dressed up! Of course while we got ready for church, not one of the really cute little girls in the house would willingly participate in any kind of cute posing....!

What kind of accent is that anyway???

Megan cracked me up this week. We always joke a little about her Texan accent. Despite the fact that Chris and I don't have particularly strong accents for Texans, Megan has (since even 1-year old) had several strongly accented words. We think this came from daycare, where several of her teachers have accents. Recently we have been working with her more trying to "smooth" out the accent and transition the words to more (midwestern?) unaccented sounds!

You know, the typical "you guys" vs. "y'all" (although we have never really had that lesson with her)

So when we took Megan to Sunday school, and she wanted to know where we would be, she asked "Where are y'all guys going?" I guess at least she didn't use the plural of y'all (all y'all -- for those of you 'not from around here')

Bowling

megan bowling, originally uploaded by homanhouse.

So as a Saturday activity over Easter, we all went bowling. By all, that means that one lane had Megan and Lauren, bumpers, and really really slow moving bowling balls that often stopped halfway, and sometimes even rolled backwards! Another lane had Nana and Papa, Mike & Erica, and Chris and AnnaLisa where the bowling balls often hit pins, and sometimes just ran down the gutter (why couldn't we have bumpers?) Adorable, fun and exhausting by the end!

swim fun

P4080085, originally uploaded by homanhouse.

such concentration -- just look at that tongue out....

Little Swimmer

P4080082, originally uploaded by homanhouse.

Pretty in Pink

Riding Her "BIG GIRL" Bike

riding her bike, originally uploaded by homanhouse.

She has gotten good now! She can pedal, steer, brake quite well, and turn. Although by the time I got the camera she had gotten tired, (and knew I had the camera) so she just got off instead. But WOW has she grown in the last month or so! a few inches makes a lot of difference in all of this!

Rollie Pollies!

rollie pollies, originally uploaded by homanhouse.

So if there is soemthing Megan loves, it is bugs. Ladybugs, snails, rollie pollies. Well that is at least the list of bugs she is allowed to play with. She spends hours with her friends outside looking for bugs.... Here, she brought one to show me.

Zoo day!

Today, the weather was just beautiful and so Megan and her Daddy had a zoo day. I woke up with terrible allergies (Gee -- it was 75°F on Friday, 35°F on Sat, and back at 72°F today, so my head can't keep up!) so I didn't join them. They had a nice Daddy daughter day though, with the zoo, lunch at Pappa's burgers, and then playing outside while Mama took a 3-hr nap! So I had a great day! (Thanks Chris!) Most of the photos are from the bird area...

And here she visits with the kangaroo's little Joey...