Thursday, December 31, 2009
House Update
Today while out doing errands and looking at model homes for decorating ideas, I swung by our new house that's under construction to see if anything had been done since last week. I was so excited when I walked in! They had taken all the plastic off of our cabinets, put in the granite countertops in the kitchen, and put in our fireplace. It's always hard to know from little samples whether or not the choices you make are going to be good ones so I was a little worried, but after seeing it I am very happy with the choices we made. The granite is black with copper and charcoal flecks in it, but the flash from the camera made the granite look a little lighter. I tried to get a picture of the granite with the countertops but with no electricity in the house yet the lighting wouldn't work. See below!
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
2010 is on the way
So, another year has gone by and so far this year has been pretty busy for the Kovar household. We finally had the damage from Ike fixed on the house, put our house back on the market, sold it, moved into a two bedroom apartment, Josh started 3rd grade, starting building a house, and next thing you know it's Christmas and now here I sit already dreading going back to work on January 4th, 2010.
For the most part we have been doing great. I say for the most part only because since we have moved into the apartment, we seem to always have some kind of head cold or sinus problem going on. I think it may be something in this apartment. Hopefully we won't be here too much longer. But as I said, we really can't complain too much. It's been a good year for us.
Sadly, my side of the family did lose a member of our family, my Great Uncle Charles Carter. This was one of my Grandpa Wayne's 7 siblings. We did get to see him in July though before he passed away. He sang at my grandmother's birthday party. You never would have guessed he was sick. He had such a wonderful voice.
The kids are really growing. Joshua so far has done pretty good in 3rd grade. It was a rough transition at first but I think he's adjusted just fine now. In previous grades all they concentrated on were the basics of reading and knowing how to read, or knowing how to add or subtract. Now it's not only about how well you can read but also how well you understand what you're reading. He had a hard time with that concept at first but he's improving. Math is still adding and subtracting but now you're throwing multiplication and division and word problems. He isn't too thrilled about the word problems part. I don't blame him. I never liked them much either.
Jacob is really starting to talk like crazy. His favorite past time is watching Elmo on you tube and playing with his big brother who he absolutely adores. I can't believe he'll be 2 in just a couple of weeks. How fast that went by! He is such a joy. He stays busy non stop and is a very loving boy. Of course, he has inherited a bit of his mother in him too so therefore, he does have just a wee bit of a temper and stubborn streak. (As my Great Uncle Bob put it, I'm getting everything I deserve! He says it with love though:)) That's alright though, it'll serve him well in the future.
Brent and I stay busy with work and the kids. His job always slows down at the end of the year but with the new year comes new projects and he'll be busy again before you know it. School of course follows the same schedule. After the holidays starts the push for the TAKS test (yuck) and then before you know it it'll be summer again. It'll especially be busy for us here again in about a month when the new house is ready.
We are currently having a new house built. It's in the same neighborhood that we built in last time. In fact, it's right next to the house we built last time. For those that remember, we had to let that one go when the contract on the house we were trying to sell fell through at the last minute. Which, as we see now, was really a blessing. The last house was a two story with all rooms but the master upstairs. We had tile put all downstairs. After much consideration and visiting other houses with that floor plan and stuff, we decided on a different floor plan this time. Now, we went with a 1 1/2 story house with all bedrooms downstairs, game room and media room and half bath upstairs. They tell us it'll be about a month, end of January/beginning of February before it's done. At first that seemed like it would take forever and that it was so long away, but here we are already looking at the new year coming in this week.
So, now the only question that really remains for the rest of this week is, What's in store for the Kovar's in 2010? Well, we are pretty sure we can still count on having our jobs, which lately is a huge blessing considering the economy and the countless people who have lost theirs this year. We are pretty sure that our new house is definitely going to be a huge blessing after being in a two bedroom apartment for almost 6 months now. As for the rest, we will just have to wait and see what is in store for us.
Enjoy the pics from the last few months.
For the most part we have been doing great. I say for the most part only because since we have moved into the apartment, we seem to always have some kind of head cold or sinus problem going on. I think it may be something in this apartment. Hopefully we won't be here too much longer. But as I said, we really can't complain too much. It's been a good year for us.
Sadly, my side of the family did lose a member of our family, my Great Uncle Charles Carter. This was one of my Grandpa Wayne's 7 siblings. We did get to see him in July though before he passed away. He sang at my grandmother's birthday party. You never would have guessed he was sick. He had such a wonderful voice.
The kids are really growing. Joshua so far has done pretty good in 3rd grade. It was a rough transition at first but I think he's adjusted just fine now. In previous grades all they concentrated on were the basics of reading and knowing how to read, or knowing how to add or subtract. Now it's not only about how well you can read but also how well you understand what you're reading. He had a hard time with that concept at first but he's improving. Math is still adding and subtracting but now you're throwing multiplication and division and word problems. He isn't too thrilled about the word problems part. I don't blame him. I never liked them much either.
Jacob is really starting to talk like crazy. His favorite past time is watching Elmo on you tube and playing with his big brother who he absolutely adores. I can't believe he'll be 2 in just a couple of weeks. How fast that went by! He is such a joy. He stays busy non stop and is a very loving boy. Of course, he has inherited a bit of his mother in him too so therefore, he does have just a wee bit of a temper and stubborn streak. (As my Great Uncle Bob put it, I'm getting everything I deserve! He says it with love though:)) That's alright though, it'll serve him well in the future.
Brent and I stay busy with work and the kids. His job always slows down at the end of the year but with the new year comes new projects and he'll be busy again before you know it. School of course follows the same schedule. After the holidays starts the push for the TAKS test (yuck) and then before you know it it'll be summer again. It'll especially be busy for us here again in about a month when the new house is ready.
We are currently having a new house built. It's in the same neighborhood that we built in last time. In fact, it's right next to the house we built last time. For those that remember, we had to let that one go when the contract on the house we were trying to sell fell through at the last minute. Which, as we see now, was really a blessing. The last house was a two story with all rooms but the master upstairs. We had tile put all downstairs. After much consideration and visiting other houses with that floor plan and stuff, we decided on a different floor plan this time. Now, we went with a 1 1/2 story house with all bedrooms downstairs, game room and media room and half bath upstairs. They tell us it'll be about a month, end of January/beginning of February before it's done. At first that seemed like it would take forever and that it was so long away, but here we are already looking at the new year coming in this week.
So, now the only question that really remains for the rest of this week is, What's in store for the Kovar's in 2010? Well, we are pretty sure we can still count on having our jobs, which lately is a huge blessing considering the economy and the countless people who have lost theirs this year. We are pretty sure that our new house is definitely going to be a huge blessing after being in a two bedroom apartment for almost 6 months now. As for the rest, we will just have to wait and see what is in store for us.
Enjoy the pics from the last few months.
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