Ahhhhh! I just down loaded 300 pictures to my computer and really need to catch up on our blog (thank you for reminding me Millie!). There is just too much going on right now for me to stay on top of this :-( We FINALLY closed on our house back in April and since we've been living here already for the past 3 years, you would think there wouldn't be that much for us to do, right? WRONG! Seriously, it's funny how much changes when you go from being a "renter" to a "homeowner"! I've been trying to work on the outside of the house and have been spending a lot of time trying to plant flowers, and praying that I have a green thumb. Now I remember why I never did this in the past - so much money and yes, so much time. They look really good, but I hope they survive the 100+ degree heat in the summer. We've also been busy meeting with landscapers, waterfall guys, design build companies etc... I didn't realize how time intensive all of these little "projects" we had in mind would take and how many options there are for everything. The backyard needs some love and some new plants and we have to decide if we want to put the money into fixing the waterfall/pond or pulling it out. We also want to put in an jacuzzi and possibly some artificial grass. Jim has spent the last few weekends removing all of our planter boxes and moving them to a different location so the kids can have a larger play area. In terms of the inside, we have turned the bedroom in the downstairs (which was previously the kids play room) into my office and I am so LOVING it. I spend all of my time in here and love having a place for MY stuff :-) But now we want to put in some new wood floors in most of the downstairs, a sliding glass door from my office and take down a portion of the wall between the family room and office to open that room up. We also ordered some new family room furniture last weekend (a new sofa and coffee table) and that should be delivered in the next few weeks. FUN!! Our last one we bought in 2002, so it's seen better days!
I finally got our windows professionally cleaned after living here for 3 years and they look amazing! What a difference that makes and now it has decided to rain three times in the last week all in the month of May...WTH???
Anyways, we have several meetings scheduled in the next few weeks and hopefully we cans start making a dent in all of the things we want done.
Other than that, I've just been keeping busy with the kids and taking care of everything while Jim is gone. He is definitely traveling a lot more with this new job, but he is enjoying it and getting to travel to some cool cities. Cole is going to wrap up T-ball in the next few weeks and I'm actually going to really miss it. He is on a great team, with an awesome coach and I love watching their games. He just started swimming lessons and is loving those as well. He is becoming quite the little swimmer and I'm really proud of him. Olivia is still in "Little Gym" and loving it. I need to remember to take my camera next week so I can take some pictures. I'm trying to cram in all of our makeup classes from the ones we missed while we were on vacation, so we've been going twice a week now. She loves them and although I've decided to hold off signing her up for the summer because we will be gone so much, I can't wait for her to start up in the fall again.
Cole is also in his final few weeks of preschool. Can someone tell me where in the world that year went? Crazy! But I am so proud of him and am truly amazed by how much he has learned this year. Next year I will have them BOTH in preschool at the same time......YAY for me :-) So so so excited!!
Well that is our little recap for now. Hopefully this post will be followed by a few more - meaning I am trying really hard to catch up on our blog!!
