Busy Life

Ok, I'm finally updating after a few people told me that I have been a slacker at blogging. This is for you guys...

I know everyone is busy, but we have been so unbelievably busy I don't really even know where to start. Ok, here goes....

First, we had our bedrooms all torn apart so we could have closets built in every room, the drywall texture & ceilings fixed & new flooring put in. Well, the closets are done, drywall done & ceilings fixed. So, while the 2 rooms were being worked on, everything from those rooms was shoved into the other rooms. What a mess!

I have felt so unorganized for 3 weeks now! I'm already having a hard time finding something to wear (something that fits), let alone actually FIND where it is! For a few days our jacuzzi tub was FULL of clothes from our closet that wouldn't fit hanging up anywhere else. I went to take the clothes out & accidentally turned the water on!! Yes, now we had a tub full of soaking wet clothes. Joy. Now I had to find a place to hang everything to dry....

Finally, Emily's room is pretty much done. We have to replace one of the windows in there so we can put our front porch roof on this spring, so we can't totally finish her room until that is done. Hopefully that will be done this week. Her room is a soft pink on top with white bead board on the bottom half with chair rail . It's so pretty. I love it. It seems so soothing. She loves it too, which is what matters.

The boys' room is a denim blue color. I told them they could choose the paint color. They kept choosing colors like orange, black, red. Finally I gave them a choice between 3 colors & they all decided on the blue. It looks great. They are really happy with it too. It feels good to have rooms that are finished with baseboard up & every piece of trim painted!! Both of their closets are done too with closet rods. Now, I need to go through their clothes & start giving some away! They have way to many clothes!

Our room has never been painted. It's like the last room in the house to be done. We've had the paint for 4 years! It is a taupe color. We had carpet in there, but Craig & I decided to do hardwood instead. So, that became our weekend project last weekend along with our closet system. We love it. Our new bed & mattress was delivered yesterday, so we got to sleep on it for the first time last night. Our headboard is HUGE!! Craig & his brother, Chad, stood it up & it's taller than Craig is. It's at least 6 1/2' tall. Craig says he's embarrassed at how big it it. I love it! Today we are finishing baseboard in our room(that is where Craig is, picking that up) While I paint the baseboard, Craig is finishing the closet system. I'm excited that things are finally getting done. This morning I spent 3 hrs just cleaning downstairs. I feel like all of our energy has been going to the upstairs that our downstairs has been lacking ANY attention. I have been like drill sargeant mom lately! I think the kids are sick of me.

This last week was also spring break. I painted trim a lot & cleaned upstairs sorting stuff, but I wasn't going to do that all week with the kiddos home from school. The last few days have been so nice out!!! We've been to the park (the boys had baseball practice too), we washed the car, played in the yard & just had fun. Now, I feel like It's back to work time.

I'll post pictures of our rooms later.