Thursday, June 18, 2009

Lions and Tigers and Bears..Oh My!

It's summertime and that means none other than using our imaginations on a rainy day indoors.

After too much quiet in the living room one day, this is what I came out to find. ALL of the chairs from upstairs (including the piano bench) had been taken hostage to create a cave for a picnic and a game of Pokemon Sorry. (Boy, I've sure developed a lot more patience in my old age!!!)

A Big Mess -Before and After

So, umm, ya... This is (was) a little peek into my kitchen pantry. (I can't believe I'm actually owning up to this mess!!!) These pics were taken about 20 minutes into the dejunking process, so some items had already been taken out and moved to the counter or the garbage can. Better late than never with the camera. right?!
On Monday, after a big shopping trip to Costco, Roger and I had finally had enough of our messy, cluttered and disorganized pantry! Before we even brought the groceries in from the car, he went to the pantry, pulled EVERYTHING out, made piles of items we never use and threw away MANY outdated items. That left us with less than half of what was in there to put back which in turn, gave us plenty of room to store the groceries from the Costco trip. WHAT A MENTAL RELIEF!

Don't some things hang around buggin' you forever until you finally take care of them? After the mess has finally been dealt with, it feels like 10 years of stress and frustration just disappear into thin air! Thank heavens my husband and I got a wild hair at the same time Monday night!!! Now we are the proud owners of a dejunked, cleaned out and organized pantry! Can I get a Woo hoo ?!?!?!?

"My second favorite household chore is [cleaning the pantry]. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint." ~Erma Bombeck


"Housework is something you do that nobody notices until you don't do it." ~Author Unknown

We Love the Rain!

"I am a mushroom on whom the dew of heaven drops now and then."
We have had so much rain this June, little surprise visitors are starting to pop up all over our lawn!
Can we eat these things?

Thursday, June 11, 2009

and the New Kitty's Name is...

Peanut! After a few weeks of trying to find out if the new kitty is a boy or a girl we decided to google it! Turns out (according to the lovely sketch on Paws Online Info.) our kitty is a boy. We had kinda been stuck on Peanut anyway so I'm glad it was a good unisex name. Any tips on raising boy kitties would be greatly appreciated. Peanut is still so cuddly, playful and good natured, especially with the little kids! We're falling more and more in love with him every day.
He likes to dart outside when someone opens a door. The other day we thought he'd gotten out without being noticed. The kids scoured the house and couldn't find him anywhere. They started searching outside in the front and the back along a very busy road behind our house...all to no avail. They were becoming quite distraught by this point. Soon, Ariel came home from work and went down to her bedroom to change and who should she find burried under the blankets on the bed? You guessed it...Peanut! That saved us much weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth!!!
He likes to hang out with me when I'm on the computer, sometimes on my lap, sometimes in back of me and sometimes right in front of my working area!The other mishcheivious thing he's done is chew the leaves off of two of my potted house plants and knock another one off the cupboard, dirt, pot and all! You can imagine the mess that was!!! Luckily it happened in the kitchen so sweeping up the mess was a LITTLE bit better than having the dirt spill into the carpet. Let's hope he doesn't get into too much more trouble or it's gonna be LONG summer!!! ;D

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

High School Graduation

Ariel graduated from Highland High today! We are so proud of her and the accomplishments she made in school. Now, on to the next chapter of her life...
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Sunday, June 7, 2009

Another Concert in the Tabernacle

My husband, dad and two brothers got to sing in the tabernacle on Saturday night. They were part of a 260 voice choir under the direction of Merrilee Webb accompanied by Kelly DeHaan & Bonnie Goodliffe! You'll hear one of their songs as background music to the photos. Fun music, fun time and fun memories!
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