Home again, home again...

"Aunt Hotsy, I can't believe it!!! You and Uncle Dougie bought a new house!!!"

 We sure did!!!

 About 2 months back we started looking at houses knowing that it wouldn't be too long before we wanted to think about buying.  We went to a Sunday school party for our 10th graders one Sunday, and after that we were planning to go to an Open House Blast that Ebby Halliday was hositing in our area.  As were leaving the party, we looked down the street and there was an open house in progress...so we went!  Long strory short, we loved this house the second we saw it, but it wasn't the right price.  We looked at many other homes, but just kept waiting and hoping that the house we first saw would become an option.  And it did. And so we bought it.  And now...

The Steffensruds are HOME-OWNERS!!!!!

Please let me introduce you to the house on Bois D Arc!!!

What?  How do you say that name? 

Well, I'll tell you:  I'm Holly Steffensrud (that's "S" as in Sam, "T" as in Tom, "E", "F" as in Frank, "F" as in Frank, "E", "N" as in Nancy, "S" as in Sam, "R", "U", "D" as in Dog....and I live on....

BOIS D ARC
That's "B" as in Boy...you get the picture.

Basically I married a man whose name nobody can spell and now I live on a street whose name nobody can spell.  Can't wait to see our kids names!!

The street name is pronounced, BO-DARK.

It just looks like Boys-D-Ark...

or if your French...

BWA-DARK

So, here she is...our new home!!!

 This house needs a little bit of love, and we've already been busy!!  This is our master bedroom, which we are in the process of painting.

 The other project we're working on is painting the front door and outside shutters.  They used to be this color...

 and before the brown...I guess they were pink!!  This house was built in 1969!!

And now they're black... 

So, that's our exciting news!!!  Many more projects to do...so I guess you know what alot of my posts will be about for awhile! We are so very excited and feel so very blessed to have our very own home. 

Can't wait for you all to come and visit us on BO-DARK!!!

That's "B" as in boy...ha ha ha.

The Great Flood

The rain just keeps pouring today, and we can't get out of our driveway!! Guess I'll just have to put my jammies back on and work from home! :)

Friday Night Wildlife

You may not know it, but the Steffensruds have some pretty WILD Friday nights.  For instance tonight, we got to take my car to be serviced, eat dinner and then...an adventure in squirrel rescue.  I know, you're wondering why you can't have a social calendar like ours.  But wait!  You can!  All you need is a cat who goes on murder rampages about 12 times a week!  Tonight we were standing in the kitchen holding a large fan over our heads.  (That's a side story:  Donna put a pot on the stove, turned on the stove, but did not realize that she had not yet removed the stove cover.  Hence, there was smoke and fire and a need for much ventilation.)  So, as we're in the kitchen blowing smoke away, we hear a horrible noise outside.  It's a noise we'd definitely heard before...something between a scream, a cry and a squawk.  My heart always leaps into my throat when we hear this noise because it's indicative of only one thing:  murder.  Sure enough, Risky, the tailless wonder, was tossing a baby squirrel up in the air and catching it in his salivating mouth...a terrible sight!  I RAN outside to find this precious little sister clinging to life...

I ran and got a bag to cover my hands with, threw the murderer inside the house and picked the sweet baby off of the ground.  She was panting like crazy and all curled up in a little ball.  I immediately thought of our sweet friend, Cathy Carruth, who at one time used to rescue injured/abandoned squirrels and nurse them back to health.  I called Cathy, but she's no longer in the biz. Thankfully, she directed me to another sweet animal-lover, Lisa.  I called Lisa and within about 10 minutes, we were standing in this total stranger's house observing the world of squirrel rescue.  And boy, is that an experience!  She had like 10 squirrels in cages in her living room.  Interesting.  Lisa picked the baby right up and said, "She'll be fine!"  Risky had only nicked a little spot on her leg, but she said with a little bit of antibiotics and love, she'd be as good as new!

My heart is SOOOOOOOOO happy that this little baby squirrel will soon be able to say to her friends,  "I'm the one (make that the only one) that got away from the Shady Creek terrorist!"

**In the picture, you can see that the little baby was clutching my finger with her paw.  The picture is blurry, but her head is to the left.  She was terrified, but I think so happy to be rescued.  I'm going to sleep well tonight knowing that she's okay!**

I have to go because we have a very exciting rest of the evening planned...Can you say laundry, clipping coupons and online defensive driving!  We really like to live it up around here! :)

Try not to be jealous.

Aunt Hotsy's Sweethearts

Brock and Chloe were at our house last week.  Brock went to Camp Thurman for the first time, which was very exciting!  These are two little videos of the cutie-pies that I took while they were here.  Sure is fun being an Auntie!

World Cup 2010

My husband is a soccer loving MANIAC!  He's NOT an "I love soccer when it's time for the World Cup" type of fan.  He's an "I love soccer and want to watch/play anytime, anyplace...rain, snow, sleet or hail" type of fan.  So needless to say he is THRILLED that it's finally World Cup time.  He counts down the years, then months, then days, then hours until the moment it begins and pretty much LIVES soccer for an entire month!  He went out to Victory Park in Dallas on day one of the WC to watch the opening game and had the best time!  He was well protected from the sun and million degree heat in his trusty umbrella hat.  And while he does loves team USA, his favorite team to root for ALWAYS is Liverpool.  I certainly don't share his level of enthusiasm for soccer, but it makes me happy that it makes him so happy!