The last two weeks have been full of cleaning and organizing. I figured that while I'm going to be preparing one of our spare bedrooms for a baby's room that I might as well get the rest of the house organized. This seems to be a bigger task than I realized. I set out to Target to buy plastic tubs of all sizes to get my closets a little less cluttered. Let's just say I need more tubs!
Our guest room is all put together and mostly cleaned (again, I need a couple more tubs). We have a filing system finally set up! I've been trying to do that for months and just never got around to doing it. So I might be a tad lazy but that's about to change. As for the baby's room, we have a crib that is set up, a chair and a clean closet ready for lots and lots baby clothes!! We have a whole lot more to buy for the little ones room but we will save that for when we find out the gender (Sept. 2).
Mike and I went through both of our closets and ended up with 3 and a half garbage bags full of clothes we donated to Goodwill. About 90% of those clothes I haven't even worn more than once or twice. We also spent all of Saturday cleaning out the garage. We were able to take our old loveseat, a t.v, an end table, the clothes, and 2 boxes full of various items to Goodwill. The rest of the stuff in the garage either went into organized boxes or in the garbage. My garage looks good as new!! I can't believe how clean it is and I feel so much better about myself that it's all organized.
We have a long ways to go on our organization journey but have a pretty good chunk of it done! It's nice to know that things have a specific place and I can feel a little less cluttered. Next up is the kitchen. That's going to be a bigger task than I want to tackle but it needs to be done!
So what started out as getting one room ready for the baby has turned into getting our whole entire house cleaned out and organized. It feels wonderful and it's well overdue.
Monday, August 15, 2011
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Back at it...
I know I have been totally sucking at this whole blogging thing for the last year but my life just hasn't been worth blogging about, until recently.
Most of you who read this already know but... We are having a baby!!!!! He/she is due in January and we couldn't be happier! It's been a fun and difficult year for us and this has been a true blessing to our lives. We will be finding out the gender September 2nd so stay tuned because I most definitely will be blogging about the anatomy scan results =)
As for other things going on in our lives, we did get a new puppy (thanks Desiree). She is a chocolate lab and is about 5 months old. Her name is Abby and she is quite a handful! She LOVES LOVES LOVES chewing on our other dog Kelly. Kelly is not a big fan of this new puppy but I'm sure with more time they will be the best of friends. Besides, they are both in for a rude awakening when the baby is born and realize they both have to share my lap. Abby thinks she's a lap dog... A really really big lap dog. As for Kelly... well, she would much rather play fetch.
The Legislative Session is now over so I finally have time for a life. This Session was pretty intense. The House of Representatives was tied at 30 Democrats and 30 Republicans while the Senate was close with 16 Democrats and 14 Republicans. It made for a long and rough Session. I'm glad to be back in the interim and able to take vacation time.
Mike and I decided not to use a whole lot of vacation time this summer and we'll be saving it for when the baby is born. However, we did take a week off to go enjoy some of our new toys. We bought 2 kayaks a couple of months ago and were dying to put them in the some of the High Lakes in Central Oregon. So, we set off to Bend for a week of "fun".
Our trip was a very very very wet one. Who knew it could be 45 degrees and pouring down rain in Bend 4 days in a row?!?! We decided to go kayaking anyway. We set out with my parents and their kayaks to Hosmer Lake and spent the afternoon freezing our butts off and soaked to the bone. Kayaking was followed by a picnic in the Jeep with the heaters on full blast. Although it was cold and wet, we still had a good time looking at all the massive fish sitting in the bottom of the lake. I don't think I've ever seen so many big trout grouped together like that. It was pretty amazing.
We ended up having to leave Bend a tad early. I caught a really bad cold (probably from wearing shorts in 45 degree weather and pouring down rain) and also Mike's brother came to visit from Montana and only had one day available to get together. I finally got to meet my brother-in-law and his wife! They are great people and I hope they come back for a visit soon!
Well, that's basically it for what's been going on in our lives for the past year. Not a whole lot to update on but I'm sure with a baby on the way I'll have a whole lot more interesting things to say in the future!
Most of you who read this already know but... We are having a baby!!!!! He/she is due in January and we couldn't be happier! It's been a fun and difficult year for us and this has been a true blessing to our lives. We will be finding out the gender September 2nd so stay tuned because I most definitely will be blogging about the anatomy scan results =)
As for other things going on in our lives, we did get a new puppy (thanks Desiree). She is a chocolate lab and is about 5 months old. Her name is Abby and she is quite a handful! She LOVES LOVES LOVES chewing on our other dog Kelly. Kelly is not a big fan of this new puppy but I'm sure with more time they will be the best of friends. Besides, they are both in for a rude awakening when the baby is born and realize they both have to share my lap. Abby thinks she's a lap dog... A really really big lap dog. As for Kelly... well, she would much rather play fetch.
The Legislative Session is now over so I finally have time for a life. This Session was pretty intense. The House of Representatives was tied at 30 Democrats and 30 Republicans while the Senate was close with 16 Democrats and 14 Republicans. It made for a long and rough Session. I'm glad to be back in the interim and able to take vacation time.
Mike and I decided not to use a whole lot of vacation time this summer and we'll be saving it for when the baby is born. However, we did take a week off to go enjoy some of our new toys. We bought 2 kayaks a couple of months ago and were dying to put them in the some of the High Lakes in Central Oregon. So, we set off to Bend for a week of "fun".
Our trip was a very very very wet one. Who knew it could be 45 degrees and pouring down rain in Bend 4 days in a row?!?! We decided to go kayaking anyway. We set out with my parents and their kayaks to Hosmer Lake and spent the afternoon freezing our butts off and soaked to the bone. Kayaking was followed by a picnic in the Jeep with the heaters on full blast. Although it was cold and wet, we still had a good time looking at all the massive fish sitting in the bottom of the lake. I don't think I've ever seen so many big trout grouped together like that. It was pretty amazing.
We ended up having to leave Bend a tad early. I caught a really bad cold (probably from wearing shorts in 45 degree weather and pouring down rain) and also Mike's brother came to visit from Montana and only had one day available to get together. I finally got to meet my brother-in-law and his wife! They are great people and I hope they come back for a visit soon!
Well, that's basically it for what's been going on in our lives for the past year. Not a whole lot to update on but I'm sure with a baby on the way I'll have a whole lot more interesting things to say in the future!
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