What we've been doing lately....

I have a happy heart. We have been so blessed this year, I'm still pinching myself wondering when I'm going to wake up. I am just so happy with where life is headed and can't wait to see what life will bring next.

I have spent the last few weeks trying to get our house ready for some semi-permanent guests.  For the next year, we will have our friend Lauren come live with us and her two boys, Aiden (3) and Kyler (1 1/2 ?) while Richard (husband/dad and Andrew's good friend) is serving in Iraq. He was in the same unit with Andrew in Idaho, and was with Andrew when he went over to Iraq. It'll be new, refreshing, and I have a peaceful, comforting feeling that this will be good for them and us to be living here together. I feel that it's what we're supposed to do and am hoping it'll all work out for good. And maybe it'll encourage me to keep my house cleaner. :)

I've got the toy room picked up and organized and ALMOST to where I want it. I've been through the food storage room and organized, clean and gotten rid of things. A good number of picture frames are up on our walls now (in the staircase). Andrew has been putting shelves in closets and in the laundry room (nice, good looking shelves too. Not those cheapo plastic/metal rod ones. I'm talking wood, screws, caulking and paint! Yay!) A friend gave us a nice dresser for free, so we have moved clothes from our two dressers into the one nice one now. The house is painted (ceilings need to be fixed still though). We got bunk beds for the boys and are trying to go through the closet upstairs that is in the room Lauren will being sleeping in... dum dum dum dummmmmmmmm. It's a very loaded walk in closet that's served as our extra bedroom for random things like, blow up mattresses, sewing machines, baby accessories that we don't use but don't want to give up in case we ever decide to have another hellion and paper filing... lots... and lots.... and lots of papers. I think that closet might be the death of me. My goal is to get it knocked out this week. And I have no idea where we're going to put the crib, but all in all this has kept us fairly busy. Although I think Andrew and I like having little projects and things to work on; a goal to move towards.

After the closet, next up for projects: tinting the windows of our house, finishing up the shelves in our closets, reupholstering the kitchen chairs, and picking up the backyard.