The Craig's

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Sale Barn Day

Yesterday (Tues) we sold our spring calves. Owen loves the sale barn. He actually sat on Brent's lap for about 2 hours and then wandered between Grandpa Derald, Grandma Debbie and myself. Our calves sold about an hour earlier than I thought, so that was good. He didn't have to sit too long. We have sat longer. He was enthralled w/the BIG BLACK BULLS! That kept him guessing about what would come into the ring next!

MMMMM. Wonder which calves look best to buy?

mmmm. I think THAT one!

I am always a little nervous about any hand gestures-don't want to end up buying something...

Doing a little diggin' -Hey we were at the sale barn. I've seen worse!

He had to write down the number, weight, and price just like Grandpa and Daddy!

Yep...they sold Good!

Wind Again

I like living in the country. Really I do. I LOVE where we live. Pretty central location even for the country. I love my house...but really! Wind blowing 30 miles w/snow blowing again. UGHGGGGHHHHHH. To be honest, layed down to take a quick little cat nap. Things were calm. Not so much when I woke up. Must have slept a bit longer than planned!!!

I'm really fighting the urge to repost AGAIN Mexico Trip Pics. Why make myself suffer?

Christmas Present

I got my Christmas Present FINALLY in the mail yesterday. Its NOT the red hot mixer. My mixer is the industrial gray/black. Quite cool too, if you ask me. No the gift is the handy little white thing. The thing slices and shredds in 4 different sizes. I used the coarse shredder size last night for cheese. I shredded 2 blocks of cheese in about 30 seconds. COOL. I got a little "high" off of that. Oh the things that I can do. I MIGHT try potatoes tonight. Altough my family is not a real big fried potatoe or hasbrown family. Its not the potatoes its the fact that I don't drowned them in oil! Or all the zuchini from the garden this summer? Oh this so beats the hand greater..I got my present.. yah,yah, yah! Thank you to my hubby for thinking of me.( even if you did order Dec. 23!)

Monday, January 4, 2010

Update

Well....its been almost a week since we were promised a "credit" at NFM. I also told you I wasn't going to get my hopes until I receieved the letter. I've been holding my breath.

TAAA-DAAAAA - IT came in the mail today! All said and true we have our credit. Woo Hoooooo. Now I can do some serious research and thinking on what it is that we need...

I forgot to mention in the last post, we were able to "buy" back our "old" furniture from Guardsman. Meaning that when NFM delivers our new stuff they don't take the "old" away...so on top of all of this we get to keep our orginial pieces for a small price. Going to try and get the stain out myself. I was hesitant to try anything before we had all paperwork, in case they decided to try to clean it after all.

So if I can get the stain out, not sure where the credit will go. But so excited of the possibilities!

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Tale of two Chairs

Ok...so I haven't really been good about updating. I haven't really had much to share. I mean I have pics from Christmas, and I could post, but do you really care that Maddison got 3 of the same Taylor Swift Cd? Totally my fault-thinking next year need to keep my lists a little more organized! Owen got cows, cows, tractors,tractors and more of each. He's totally in love w/them. Garrett got wii games. He's been the basement all week and barely comes back up for air! I know, I know, his "screen" time is overloaded, but hey-he's going back to school in a few days. Its Christmas Vacation! That should update everyone on Christmas....

My little tale is a month in the making...

These 3 chairs are in our basement. They are theatre seats that can be hooked together to make "one" section. We actually have 2 sections. EXACTLY the same!

On December 1st while Owen is/was potty training. While I was working out, he pe'ed his pants.

With wet pants. Sat on arm rest and then crawled over another armrest and sat on the cushion of this chair.

This armrest.

When buying these chairs we new they would get a lot of wear being in the basement. We "live" in our house, meaning we do eat and drink on our furniture and in the basement and to be honest, hope for the best.
99 percent of time we don't do warranties.
We did do warranty on this "sectional" along with the other "sectional" which is EXACTLY the same so they match in the basement
Called company w/in 5 minutes to come clean "soiled" areas (company requires calling them w/5 DAYS of problem) again I called within/5 minutes
No problem just fill out papers the lady will email me, w/all warranty information
They will put in the claim and get someone to come clean "soiled spots"
Sent papers back to warranty company
Earliest cleaning company can come Dec. 16 between 5-8pm. Really almost 3 weeks after occuracnce? That is the soonest???? Ok...whatever I called to confirm time and address
Dec 15 cleaning company calls -guy will be running behind on Dec. 16 can we push the appointment back to 6-9pm? Really??? you already know he is going to be late?? Whatever sure come between 6-9PM
Dec. 16 5:30 pm-Cleaning guy calls himself. He is running late it will be around 8:30 or 9:00pm before he will get there. Really??? Can he still come? What are my options? Cancel appointment and they will reschedule again? Really? Already has been 3 weeks? How long will cleaning actually take? How many pieces am I cleaning? Really you don't know that? Don't you have my paper work? Oh, I'm guessing 30-45 minutes? Are you going to be loud? I have kids that will be sleeping? No, I shouldn't be too loud? No I don't want to cancel. Come at 9PM.
9:30pm Cleaning guy calls again. Sorry still running late. Really??? Can I come at 10PM. Are you kidding me????? NO way. Cancel appointment!
Dec. 17 still no cleaning. Call warranty company again. Said what kind of servicemen do they hire? Why on earth would I let a stranger come into my house at 10pm to clean something that is 3 weeks old? Really???? Am I just a bum because I go to bed at 9:30 or 10pm? Is this normal practice? They assure me it is not. She will see what they can do?
Dec. 18-Warranty company calls back. - They will replace the pieces that are soiled, if they can find same make, model, and fabric? Really just like that? Really? Yes they would do that. Really? what do they know that I don't know? She will check w/NFM and place the order. Really? Cool.. some companies DO still stand by their word!
Dec. 22-Warranty company calls. SO SORRY can't find make and model to match! Really? I knew it was too good to be true! We will do an extensive search to find a another cleaning guy in area to come clean? Really 21 days later??? Really? Fine whatever I just want it cleaned.
Dec. 23 cleaning company calls Jan 14 is first available appointment (left on answering machine) Before I even have a chance to call them back..Warranty company calls. So they can't find a cleaing guy in area. Really? Who just called me...oh-the ORGINAL cleaning company...Really can't find a cleaning person? Now what?
Dec. 30. Store credit...really? really? We can go pick out whatever we want? YEP.. already got the call from NFM saying that they would be sending us a letter w/our reference number and everything.
Store credit is good for anything that "GUARDSMAN" will cover. Really????? Really?
Excited-but don't really need anything. Oh-sure I WANT a ton of stuff
NOT getting my hopes up until after I receive letter!

AND THAT MY FRIENDS IS THE TALE OF TWO CHAIRS!

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Feliz Navidad

Thinking "Happy Thoughts" of this place:

and SOOOOO wishing we were there instead of waiting for this next big snowstorm.

( I sooo want to go back!)

May your Christmas be filled with love and happiness. I pray each family has safe travels wherever you go, near or far.

From our house to yours Merry Christmas!

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Christmas Part 1

Our Christmas Season is always a long one. We have many Christmas's that we try and go to. Both sides of our extended family still get together. Thus making the total around 5. We had one last weekend...and we had 2 this weekend..

We had my immediate family Christmas Friday night. We had a BLAST. The younger boys played well together considering them being 2 and well...boys. Here the kids are eating their light supper. We usually do sandwiches, becuase we always have a TON of food to munch on all night!

Nephews Kael and Grady checking out their new book lights. Yes, book lights and yes that is what they wanted.

Maddison opening up Taylor Swift CD!

Garrett w/Ghostbusters Wii game. This was Garrett's first real taste of "its not about the number of presents, but WHAT the present is." He had a number of things on his list that were expensive, therefore-not as many gifts as others. We had told him this might be the case, but hearing is a not the same as experiencing. He had to do more watching than opening. After a few brief minutes of some pouting and little arguing he enjoyed the rest of his night!

Nephew Carter w/tool box

Owen

This was priceless...My sister Katie and her Confessions of the Pioneer Women Cookbook. She had NO idea!

My mom posing w/her new mixer! Her old one had bit the dust! (she was really surprised too)

Brent and his forever gift stand by: Home Depot Gift Card

My Dad and his new gift-A gun cabinet

My brother Mark and niece Morgan-Look at those eyes!

A good time was had by all.

Today we had the BIG Rundquist Family Christmas. Everyone was there except 3 cousins. We missed them not being there, but everyone else made it. We ate and ate and ate. My brother in law Jeremy got a new game called Wits and Wagers. I recommend it. It was a great game. A few can play or up to 20. AND each game lasts only around 20 minutes.

Wishing everyone a wonderful Christmas Season!