Fall Cleaning

There is something about the Fall that inspires that "Spring Cleaning" feeling in me just as much as the Springtime does. As the whether has cooled off a little, I've been feeling the need to clean things out and get the house in order. And as usual, there is always more to get done than we have time at home together for. In an effort to make a small dent in all the projects, we had to divide and conquer.

I was finally able to get Liam's 6 month pictures taken today (shut up, I know he's 7 months old...he's been sick.) He was kind of tired by the time they got around to actually getting him in front of a camera, so he was a little more reserved than his normal smiley, talkative self, but they still turned out pretty well. We had to alter plans a little bit since Lyssa is still nursing her cough and (as we found out with YET ANOTHER DOCTOR VISIT yesterday) a sinus infection. I will have to get her 3 year pictures done later, hopefully in the next couple weeks.

Matt stayed home with the girls to work on getting the garage fixed up. When we purchased the house, we were so excited that the garage was already built out with shelves on both sides. Great, we thought, a place to put Stuff. Turns out when you have a place to put Stuff, you can't park both cars in the garage and still get the doors open. This is a problem with three small kids that you have to get in and out of both cars every day. So, some of the shelves on one side of the garage are going away and of course, all the boxes and Stuff that is still piled on the floor of the other side of the garage must be gone through and put away. (Shut up...I know we've lived in the house over a year. Don't you still have boxes you haven't unpacked?)

The Stuff (note the Jeep parked OUTSIDE the garage...)

He took a bunch of boxes in the house so the girls helpfully unpacked and put away some of the books while daddy was busy with the power tools outside. He was able to get the shelves that are staying reworked and one of the sections that needed to go removed. Lots of progress!

In true daddy fashion, he purchased ice cream for his little workers. The Scary Ice Cream Van that cruises around our neighborhood looking for children to abduct sell ice cream to happened to drive by while they were out working. (Seriously, have you seen these? Large 15 passenger van with some stickers slapped on the side and annoying music...looking all suspicious and child predator-y? I refuse to go outside when I can hear it nearby.) But the kids loved the ice cream, as evidenced by the fact that they were COVERED in it when I got home. There were a few other projects that got started - getting the food storage organized after case lot month, cleaning out the kids drawers of clothes that are too small, cleaning out the boxes from the garage - but for one reason or another we couldn't get finished. (It would be so nice to have at least one whole day we could both be home all day together!) Hopefully the Fall Cleaning bug sticks around long enough for us to get the rest of our projects done!

p.s. I TOTALLY forgot to post this on Saturday night after I got sidetracked while trying to upload the pictures...I AM A DORK.