Spirit Week

Cobe has had spirit week all week at New Groningen. Monday was "Read a T-Shirt" day, Tuesday was "Hat and Sunglasses" day and today was "Crazy Hair, Mismatched Clothes, Clash Day and Backwards Day." He was looking REAL good when he left for school. He didn't want to even ride the bus, so Ryan ran him to school. I think he fails to remember that all the kids on the bus will be looking crazy too. Pictures below:

I put 4 ponytails on the top of his head, and he wore one of Sissy's bows in the front.
Here is he with his mis-matched and backwards clothes on.

And of course Miss Hollywood had to get in on the action of saying CHEEEEEZZ! for the camera.

We had a busy, busy morning. I had another meeting this morning at work, so I got up and got the kids ready. Ryan took Cobe to school, Lisa came and picked up Brooks for a fieldtrip he had at Champion gymnastics, then I came home and got Sadie and Ryan and I went to a meeting with our builder separately because he had court. He left from the meeting and went to court, and I left and went to Wal-Mart to order a cake for Cobe and pick up a few things we were out of, then went to Champion Gym to pick up Maya and Brooks. Now I am about to go back to work to teach my 2 classes.

The meeting with the builder was productive. He wanted us to go over our plans one more time, and he wanted to look at all the numbers of buying our house. He said he had already gotten permission from his investors to buy our house. So we tweaked a few things on the floor plans- Mom- we ended up taking your advice and adding yet ANOTHER bathroom for Sadie, so she won't have to share with the boys. It wasn't as expensive as I thought it would be, so we are going to go for it. The good thing about waiting so long to build is that interest rates are super low right now, and our builder said his cost to build our house would come in cheaper as well because of the recession, his supply costs have decreased. So I was very pleased and excited that we may actually start building a house in the next month or so. Wow! Now that it is a possibility, I am quite nervous. Our builder will come in week after next with an interior decorator, and they together will decide what needs to be fixed, painted, changed, removed, etc. He said he may spend up to $3,000 on new carpet, flooring, paint or whatever the 2 of them together decide needs to be done. They will go ahead and do everything and then put our house on the market. If it sells before the deadline, we will make the profit and just have to pay him back whatever money he has spent to fix up the house (which he said could be as little as $500 or max. $3000). And if it doesn't sell, then he will buy the house from us at the deadline that we set. So, either way, we sell our house. We ideally hope it sells with a realtor before the deadline because we would make more money. But it is nice to know that no matter what, we can move! Yay! It has been for sale for over a year and a half. I don't look forward to having a realtor again and having to show it ALL the time and cleaning it ALL the time. But between Ryan and I, we really have it down to a science. And I do love a clean house! We will be starting to clear out furniture and what not if anybody is looking for anything- we will have a kitchen table and chairs, 2 couches, crib, dressers, multiple tvs, a desk, dining room furniture etc. for sale if you know of anybody who needs furniture. I guess we should plan a huge garage sale this spring.

Off to work!