{"id":5723,"date":"2010-06-01T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=5723"},"modified":"2013-06-12T12:01:47","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T18:01:47","slug":"tuesday-briefs-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/tuesday-briefs-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/tuesdaybriefs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/tuesdaybriefs.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"tuesdaybriefs\" width=\"500\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4418\" srcset=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/tuesdaybriefs.jpg 500w, http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/tuesdaybriefs-300x90.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a busy few months around Casa de Blundell! <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re both heading back to work after an extended weekend (3 days for Jonathan &#8211; 5 days for Laurie!) so I thought it might be time for another brief.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Weekend injury report ::<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A number of splinters in my hands<\/li>\n<li>A few small cuts in my hands<\/li>\n<li>A smashed toe<\/li>\n<li>General soreness<\/li>\n<li>A bruised head<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Weekend accomplishments ::<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>I (believe) Laurie&#8217;s finished hanging all our pictures and decor in the new home.<\/strong> I don&#8217;t see any other frames or boxes lying around as of right now.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Added additional decking to our attic<\/strong> to store our Christmas decorations and four child car seats (see the injury report). For some reason our builder felt it was a liability issue to put decking in the attic before we moved in &#8212; however the wood they put in for a pathway to our A\/C unit felt like more of a liability than anything else. They used (maybe) 1\/2&#8243; plywood on 2&#8242; foot beams. Let&#8217;s just say at 235 lbs I was a bit leery walking around much up there. I replaced it and added additional decking with 3\/4&#8243; OCB that I have no worries about standing on now.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Installed a new tool rack in the garage.<\/strong> I&#8217;ve been using a larger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00009K76I?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=malesurvival&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B00009K76\">Rubbermaid tool rack<\/a> for most of my long handle tools, but it takes up more room than is necessary &#8212; especially for my few number of tools. I opted for a new wall rack ($12 a Lowes) that saves space and gets the tools up and out of the way. The new rack was super easy to install and only took 10-15 minutes to do. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jdblundell\/4659094839\/\">See photo<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hung our bikes in the garage.<\/strong> In order to optimize space, we decided we&#8217;d hang our bikes from the ceiling in the garage to get them off the floor. We bought four bike hooks from Lowes ($3 each) and after getting the spacing right along the ceiling rafters it was a cinch to screw the hooks in and mount the bikes from the ceiling, giving us additional floor space below. (See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jdblundell\/4659093361\/in\/photostream\/\">photo 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jdblundell\/4659092781\/in\/photostream\/\">2<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Finished organizing the garage. With the changes noted above, I was able to clear out a number of things in the garage and organize things a bit better so now Laurie can continue parking her car in the garage &#8212; and I can park my truck in the driveway without blocking her from coming or going. (See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jdblundell\/4659093859\/in\/photostream\/\">photo 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jdblundell\/4659719170\/in\/photostream\/\">2<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Church hoppin&#8217; ::<\/h3>\n<p>With May 2nd being our last official Sunday at encounter, we&#8217;ve known we&#8217;ll be needing to do some church hoppin&#8217;\/shoppin&#8217; in the coming weeks. With the move, a return to encounter for our friend&#8217;s wedding, a trip to Austin for another friend&#8217;s wedding, we haven&#8217;t had much of a chance to visit the churches in the area other than via their websites.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was our first &#8220;official&#8221; church shopping day and we visited Life Community Church nearby where my sister and her hubs attend. It was a nice experience. We both feel like we could be happy there &#8212; but nothing grabbed us and said, &#8220;this is the place you should be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;ll keep looking. I think we have two or three definite churches we want to visit and then after that, we&#8217;re not sure what we&#8217;ll do. Neither of us want anything further than a 10-15 minute drive (if that). So that does limit our options.<\/p>\n<p>But we&#8217;ll see where we&#8217;re led and keep you posted.<\/p>\n<h3>Baby update ::<\/h3>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;re having a boy!<\/strong> (Well at least one!) At our monthly check-up on Thursday we found out that we&#8217;re definitely having at least one boy &#8212; and the other one is more than likely a boy as well &#8212; but we couldn&#8217;t get a good shot with the sonogram to be certain.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have a high-risk (Level 2) sonogram next week and we&#8217;ll likely find out for sure more about our babies and if they other one is in fact a boy (or a girl).<\/p>\n<p>Mom and babies seem to be doing great and they seem to be growing and developing at the proper rate.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your continued prayers!<\/p>\n<h3>Conked my head ::<\/h3>\n<p>In case you missed <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jdblundell\/status\/15148223899\">the tweet<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Walking into the garage + looking down + not realizing the garage door wasn&#8217;t fully open = nice dent in the door and bump on my head<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let me explain in a little more than 140 characters. 1st off I&#8217;m OK. The garage door will make it OK as well.<\/p>\n<p>We made a run to Dairy Queen last night to get a frozen Blizzard (Laurie&#8217;s been craving one all weekend).<\/p>\n<p>We made it to the local Dairy Queen only to realize my wallet was still at home in the nightstand. DOH!<\/p>\n<p>So we turned back around and once we came in I started to jog up the driveway. I noticed right away I was a bit sore for jogging (see accomplishments and injury report above). So while I held my leg a bit I was looking down, assuming the garage door was opened all the way and the next thing I knew &#8212; I was on my back in the driveway. I ran smack into the garage door with my head. Yup! Knocked me flat on my back. Laurie said she heard the collision from the truck. I shook myself off, went in to get my wallet and other than a slight bruise to my head and a slightly larger one to my ego &#8212; I think I&#8217;ll be OK.<\/p>\n<h3>Final notes ::<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Enjoyed my last &#8220;official&#8221; Laundry Love in Red Oak over the weekend. Todd, Kai and I went through all our money just before the two hour mark. First time we&#8217;ve ever run out of money. We had a great time sharing love with everyone and hearing stories from each of them.<\/li>\n<li>Enjoyed stopping by Briana Treadaway&#8217;s graduation party for a bit. Congrats to all the 2010 seniors!<\/li>\n<li>Enjoyed spending Sunday evening with the Kiefers. They came to see the new house, enjoyed some great spaghetti made by Laurie and we enjoyed a firework show in Sunnyvale put on by a local church. Quite impressive.<\/li>\n<li>Enjoyed watching <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1vupEpNjCuY\">Babies<\/span> with the ladies in our family yesterday afternoon. A great testament to how various cultures raise their children and how often we think our children need the latest and greatest toys &#8212; but how content and happy they can be just spending time near their parents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>So what did you do this weekend?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a busy few months around Casa de Blundell! We&#8217;re both heading back to work after an extended weekend (3 days for Jonathan &#8211; 5 days for Laurie!) so I thought it might be time for another brief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[3501,3467,2186,219,3566,3567,4663,2631,3565,815,130],"class_list":["post-5723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-babies","tag-blundy-babies","tag-briefs","tag-church","tag-garage","tag-injury","tag-monday-briefs","tag-move","tag-organize","tag-update","tag-weekend"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1uj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11363,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5723\/revisions\/11363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}