storage, so to speak....

If you know much about me you know that I am not an avid reader, besides childrens books and during my quiet time with the Lord. We went to the library as a family the other night as I am gearing up to do some schooling with Kaihtlyn this fall. When we got home my husband said he had grabbed a couple of books for me to read. One I have not started yet but within a few days I have almost finished one of them...its called Home Staging for Dummies! I can not put this book down; got to love the Dummies books! This book has given me so many great ideas for my home on how to get organized!! Now I just have to get to work and implement it! When I think about it my closets are my biggest disasters...How do you make more closet space though...I keep telling myself we need more storage but in reality I just need to get rid of the junk in my closets! My biggest fear is that I will get rid of something and need it again and then will have to go out and buy it new...so what am I to do? This staging books talks about temporarily storing stuff else where until you move into your new space, but at this point we do not have any plans of moving. I really just need to create the storage within my given area to best utilize what I have, I will post how that goes later, once I figure out how I am going to do that :) Until then I hope you have a great weekend and enjoy the warm weather!!

random happenings

I have been meaning to get on here all week and share a few thoughts but sadly enough I just did not find the time. The last week brought many new adventures in our household. Last Saturday we all went camping together for the first time ever as a family and it was a very nice time had by all! We went to a reservoir just north of town and it is extremely nice for a camping area, your trailers are not butted right up next to one another and you have a little room to spread out unlike with most campgrounds around here. We thoroughly enjoyed our time together as a family. Just the night before we left to go on our camp out Kaihtlyn had managed to sprain her toes while playing on the slides at sonic. I felt so bad for her as it caused much pain and for a few days straight she was unable to bear any weight on her foot. After talking to the doctor on saturday she said not to worry about it unless it started swelling up, then we would need to have her seen by a doctor. Sure enough on sunday afternoon it started swelling, so we had our first trip to Minor Med, it was surprisingly a great experience. The doctor looked her over and said he thought she was fine, it might just be a minor sprain and that she should be walking on it with in the next few days. Needless to say within five minutes of being back home she was hobbling around the house again and starting to bear weight!! Which made her mama very happy!! :)



On Tuesday we got to see one of my bestest of friends as she and her family were back in town for the week! It is always great to see her, it was especially fun this time as her little girl just turned 6 months old and she is a cutie, she brought many smiles!!



We also visited Legends this week which is always fun!! It was well worth the trip, time spent with friends and some good bargains-what more could I ask for? I found a pair of tennis shoes for Kaihtlyn at the Nike store that were $7 cheaper than the shoes I looked at, at payless shoes. It was baffling to me that a name brand shoe that was made of real leather was cheaper and much cuter (if I may add) than the shoes at payless that were not real leather...Note to self for later purchases. Payless does not mean you will payless! I was very happy with my purchases that day, I was also able to get her a pair of GAP jeans for $2.50 regularly priced at $19.99! They were on sale for $10 and I had a coupon for 75% off any one item for filling out an online survey=sweet deal!!



The rest of the week has just been spent preparing for the big 3rd birthday bash! I have the invites half way completed and still waiting to finish them after our destination is determined! Until later I will leave you with a few picture of our camp out! Enjoy your week and count it all joy!!





Taking in all the beauty


too cute Kates!