Salesman horror story

So let me tell you a little about my problem. I can't say no when someone is trying to sell me something. I often have buyer’s remorse even before I’ve purchased whatever it is they are selling. Let me give you a few examples: Sea Salt pedicure materials, nail buffer to bring out the natural shine in your nails (I had acrylic nails on when they sold this to me), a jewelry cleaning kit, many happenings books, and don’t get me started on the magazine salesmen. I’m pretty sure I get this awesome trait from my father. A few years ago their computer broke and instead of fixing it they decided to get rid of it. They weren’t able to cancel their Internet subscription so they were just waiting it out. Then when it came time to re-subscribed my dad gave in and signed another contract…they hadn’t even had a computer for the last 7 months! I blame him for my problem. Now here’s the story.

The Salesman Who Wouldn't Leave.

This sweet kid from Oregon was here selling Kirby vacuums door-to-door. But that's not what was said in the beginning. It started like this

him "hello ma'am"

me "hi"

him "you must be the woman of the home"

me "yep, what are you selling?"

him "I'm not selling anything we're actually going around cleaning people's carpet for free in hopes that if you like it you'll tell your friends and family about the product."

me "what's the catch"

him "there is no catch, this is just the cheaper way to advertise through word of mouth. Plus I don't have a face for TV"

me "you have a face for radio"

him "(fake laugh) good point so what do you say we clean your carpet?"

me "we just got new carpet last year I dont' think it needs cleaning"

him "we do upholstery and stairs too "

me "I don't think we're interested I'm sorry, thank you though"

him "well let me just show you how it works"

me "?? okay...Caleb, can you come here"

He started with this attachment to clean out the space by the sliding glass doors.

Caleb pretending he was interested. We were just waiting for him to shampoo our stairs.

Here I am testing out the couch cleaning attachment.

This is the couch that he was going to shampoo after he showed us how the vacuum/shampooer worked.

I'm doing some dusting now. 

 We had just got dinner before he showed up so I made Caleb listen to his spill for a bit so I could eat my food.

 He vacuumed our bed. It was gross, he told us some really disgusting facts that I was able to find here. I wouldn't recommend reading it while eating.

 He had to change these filters every minute or so to show us the amount of dirty/dust he was cleaning up.

 My house that was clean before he entered now looked worse than ever.

 Finally after many "NO, we are not interested in purchasing this vacuum for $2,650" he called in the closer.

There were multiple calls to "the boss" to see if he could lower the price. Even though we told him we wouldn't even buy it for $200. He still continued on his spill. Finally we told him he had to leave because we were going to a movie. (The Killers, it was way good by the way) His boss apparently came to help him seal the deal but we weren't having it. I don't care that he didn't shampoo the carpet or clean the couch like he said he was going to do.I just wanted them out of our house. That is 3 1/2 hours of my life that I will never get back. Thanks Kirby, I'll use my word-of-mouth to tell everyone how crappy/persistent your silly sales techniques are.

A little bit of ....Recently

So our awesome ward was dissolved last month. Now all young married couples are to attend their home wards.

We kind of knew it was coming but it was still hard.

We have so many good friends in this ward that we didn't want to leave them.

These pictures are from a farewell party we had after the ward was dissolved. It was nice to see everyone but it made it hard to think we won't be meeting together again as a group.

The day before the meeting our husbands had to put up chairs so a few of the wives met at Beus Pond for a little stroll. =)

Caleb and I took Brooke and Ashton yesterday to the park. We kind of love these two. =)

Here's Ash mastering the rings.

Caleb and I decided to get a dog. Here is the one Caleb wanted....

This is the one that I wanted.

We still haven't decided so stay tuned and see what we choose. I promise to post about our trip to San Antonio soon, oh and Palm Springs. =)

Airport Blooper

So I just got to the airport in San Antonio, I went to check in with Frontier, and they said that my bag was 5.5 lbs over the limit so he could charge me $75 extra or I could remove 5.5 lbs worth of stuff. I know how cheap my husband is and really, I could buy everything in my suitcase for around $75 so I decided just to remove the excess. So I knelt down (in my skirt mind you) on the floor in front of the counter and we went through what stuff would weigh the most that I could get rid of. After a lot of trial and error I finally ended up throwing away my shampoo and conditioner and Caleb's 49ers beach towel =) mine too but his was a lot smaller than mine and carrying a hard back book that I finished last week with me through the flight. Kind of funny but frustrating. The employees were super nice but I'm sure my face was more than red from embarrassment. That's my crazy airport story. I’ll be home tonight and Caleb will be back tomorrow. Two weeks of vacation is fun but a little too long. =)

Lately...

Brooklyn was trying on a swimsuit her cousin gave her for their trip to Mexico and Ashton wanted to too.

Ashy's favorite part were the ruffles.

He quickly realized the hassle of taking off your swimming suit  when you have to use the bathroom.

This is my friend Tiffany and Debra Huber from work I LOVE the people I work with. =)

A girl I work with bought Caleb his favorite Oreos... and I tested them out for him.

I decided I wanted something difference with my hair.

It was getting so long... (and a little nappy in this picture)

So, I cut it. A lot of it. Almost 7 inches.

And went dark.

Real dark.

I haven't quite gotten used to styling it at this length.

Our Ward church ball team.

Sean's pose just kills me.

We visited the Howards to get our fill of Dick's crazy stories, Janet wouldn't let me take her picture. =)

Maybe I could get Caleb to post the latest story Dick told us "Anchor Clankers"... possibly one of his best stories yet. We love Dick and Janet and were worried that once B & M moved away we wouldn't see them as much but we try to keep in touch.

I will post soon with pictures from our Palm Springs vacation.

Jonah or is it Joanna?

So I babysit my nephew Jonah every Tuesday and we had a pretty fun time this last one.

He didn't think this style worked well with his cowlick.

He loved the idea of wings but I wasn't too conviced.

He was so good, he just sat there and let Caleb and I do his hair in all these crazy ways.

He loved this style but just felt like something was missing.

Right here he is trying to talk me into letting him wear some lipstick.

Caleb just wanted to snuggle with the cute little girl but Jonah wanted nothing of it, he just needed to be able to see himself in the mirror.

He really liked the ponytail with the white flower.

We tried the purple.....

But, he just had his heart set on the white.

He asked me to braid his hair next week so stay tuned. =)

Valentine Book

I love you so deeply,

I love you so much.

I love the sound of your voice

and the way that we touch. 

I love your warm smile

and your kind, thoughtful way,

the joy that you bring

to my life every day.  

and I’ll love you forever

with all of my heart.

I love you today

as I have from the start. 

(the paper is a list of the 100 reasons why I love him)  

This was our 5th Valentine's Day together and I wanted to do something special for him. Cara made a book like this for Hayden's birthday but Caleb didn't get to see it so he thought I made this up all on my own. He should have known better. =)