This is just what we've been up to for the past few days
A Closet
I received a magazine from Sally (my wonderful mother-in-law) that was all about organization. Mark's and my closet has been driving me crazy for quite a while. I wish that I had taken a picture of it before I decided to do something about it. It had a dresser in it that has been bothering me because it was bulky so it took up a lot of room in the closet. And it just didn't feel like a closet it was so crowded. My shoes were up really high which I had to either throw up there or Mark had to reach them for me. I got rid of the dresser. We had some extra shelves in one of the basement bedrooms. I brought them up and moved some poles and shelves up and down and took some out. And viola!
It looks better in person but it feels so much cleaner!!!
A Messy Face
Sutton ate a cakester which was Mark's birthday "cake."
A Mother's Day
For Mother's Day from my husband I recieved his time and his elbow grease (that sounds a little gross). The best thing I could have ever wanted right now! We went around the house and weeded most of the flower beds and garden (we ran out of the day before we could finish) and trimmed bushes. I didn't get before pictures of all of it, but here are a few. You can see the bushes are touching the house. They needed to be trimmed and of course, you can tell that you can hardly see the irises for the grass.
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| Before - except that I had already trimmed the far bush. |
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| Laina's butterfly "Flower" that she got to play with for a few hours...then we let "her" go. |
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| "Cheese!" That's always his caption! :D |
An Evening Lakeside
Mark volunteered for something for work, so the kids and I went down to the lake across the street from our house to play in the water.
We walked.....
hand-in-hand...
some quickly....
some slowly....
but all with a smile.
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| Downtown Buffalo across the lake |
We played...
with sticks....
and more sticks...
with flowers....
and sticks...
and flowers...
with wet feet...
with rocks...
and with splashes.
It has been a great past few days.
3 comments:
Beautiful sunset pics!! And yay for Mark's elbow grease! lol :) I'm jealous of your closet....wanna come do that...to our entire house! HA! :D
Oh how cute! I thought you'd say sticks and.....stones. And as for your closet I have a whole house you can come and organize!
So glad you could use some of the ideas in the magazine. Your closet looks so much better now. Also, loved that you got some of your yard done. The pictures of the kids playing by the water are so cute. What a gorgeous sunset picture! I thought Ixtapa, Mx. had the most beautiful sunsets. I'd say Buffalo's sunsets are right up there!
Love, Grandma Sally
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