Times....they are a changin!

It's been a whirlwind of activity in our house lately. The things that have gone on would make even the strongest person in the world hide and twitch uncontrollably in a corner. The biggest and the catalyst for everything that has happened since is that we decided to put our house on the market. We just feel the need for more space. We aren't bumping into each other or killing each other due to the close quarters, but our kids are only getting bigger (stinkin' things gotta eat three times a day.....growing being the after affect of such) and we want something that we are going to be able to grown into comfortably. I also need space for my business. I need an office with an area for a studio or a possible area for a future possible studio. So the look is on! It's been nuts, but we really feel this is the right decision for us at the time. The shame is that we are getting our house looking so good, I don't really want to leave. I've found that there is nothing in our area with as cool of stuff as we have, but compromise may be in our future on that.

So...here are a few things that have gone on the last month or so:

• Had a massive, 4-family garage sale. Threw it together in less than a week. Our profit reflected that. Most of it went to the garbage or to Goodwill.
  
• Painted every area of the house that had not been painted. Including the hallways and stairwell. If you've never seen the stairwell.......it's about 483 feet tall. Maybe not QUITE that tall...but....tall.
  
• Painted our room which also is 483 feet tall.
  
• Scrubbed every piece of trim in this house. I hate trim. If it's possible to not have trim in the next house, I would be ok with that.
  
• Looked at 6 houses. Haven't found one that I am in love with. Found one I really like, but will have to replace all the carpet.
  
• Have to replace all the carpet in our house. I'm calling Carpet Weaver's out on this one. They suck. Sorry.....they do. Our house is 7 years old, they "fixed" it twice before we even moved in (literally....there was JUNK under the carpet from their laziness in not sweeping up construction crap before they laid it!!). They stretched it once then. It looks like amber-waves-of-grain do to the mounds in it. Plus....our girls lived hard in it. Nail polish, make-up, you name it, its on it. So we are replacing it. Hence the reason I don't want to have to replace it in another house we are looking at.
  
• Taken, edited, and ordered about a billion pictures.
  
• Worked VBS all week this week.
  
• Re-arranged our living room, de-cluttered the kitchen, got rid of unnecessary toys, and on and on and on!
  

It's craziness. Literal and utter craziness. So if you know of any great houses going on the market in this area soon...let me know! And if you are in the market for a great house....LET ME KNOW!!

Michigan slide show

I am a perfectionist...I wanted to edit all our vacation pics and make them look perfect before I posted anything with them. And I realized that was stupid because if I EVER got time to do all that, it would be Christmas. So.....I just uploaded them to iMovie (love that program!), picked a couple fitting songs, and let-em-fly! It's not even half of the pics, but I guess I will save those for when I have time to edit them and make them look perfect. Sooooo.......Christmas........;) And again, I apologize for the super small size....for whatever reason, blogger doesn't like to let me do it big.....whatever. I'm too tired to figure it out.

Special thanks to the Holt's who came with us, had a blast with us, and gave us a vacation that we will never ever ever forget!!! Love you guys!

Vacation Pre-Post

I have a billion pics and videos to post from our vacation. I think I am going to just make a video montage of the whole thing, if I can get blogger to upload it. If I'm being seriously honest...I am a little depressed we had to come home. I am pretty sure I had another two weeks in me:)

But I love this picture...it sums it all up....fun...on the beach...arms spread as wide as you can go calling for daddy to take her to the deep end of the "pool". And can you believe I took it with my crappy little "point-and-shoot"? Love.It.

Stay tuned....much more to come later!