Tumbleweeds Anyone?

On Monday, I came home from work and as I was pulling up to the house, I couldn't see the backyard from the side of my house, because tumbleweeds had taken over. They were piled up so high that when I went into the bathroom, it was orange inside the bathroom because no light was getting in from the light, it was coming in through the tumbleweeds.

We went out to go clean them up and then Greyson got stung by a bee from a nest that had gotten caught up in the tumbleweeds, and Gavin got stuck in the leg by a tumbleweed. So far, it isn't turning out very good. But a lot of neighbors came over and helped get them back into the field behind our house and now we don't need to worry about the tumbleweeds catching on fire and burning our house.

Food Storage

We have so much food storage and it was all just sitting on the floor in our basement. Well you all know that we have been cleaning up and rearranging stuff and fun things like that, that we needed to do something about our food storage to get it off the floor and all in the same place. Mike decided to build food storage shelves and we finally got them put together and got all the stuff put on it. It looks so much better in our basement and we have a place for food storage now!

Moving

So now that Mike and I have moved downstairs (See previous post), we had a LOT more space upstairs to spread out! So, this is what we did...

New light in the dining room (kinda blurry...)

No more toys in the Living room!

The boy's old room is now our computer room...(More details to come)

The boys are now in our old room, and Garett is in the crib!

And the boys in their new room now. They are all in the same room

We are still waiting for the baby monitor that we ordered yesterday to come, so I can sleep better downstairs knowing that I can hear them and help them if needed.

Next for our little house, moving the desk, computer and movies from the dining room into the boy's old room and now the new office/craft room and then cleaning out the other room that is done in the basement and setting it up to become Gavin's room (he is SO EXCITED to move down there with us!)

Downstairs Remodel

We have been trying to get some rooms in our basement done for a couple years now. The last couple of tax returns were spent on buying "new" to us cars and paying down some debt, but this year, we felt that we needed to put our tax return money toward the house instead of debt. So we did the wood floor in the Kitchen and Dining room and put the rest of the money toward the downstairs room (and vacation :)) So here is our Downstairs bedroom remodel...

This is how it started

After spackled, painted and starting carpet

Carpet is put in!

Us moving in!  YAY!

Our Yard

This Summer, a company in Eagle Mountain that wanted to put Fiber optics in our neighborhood tore through our yard and didn't even tell us they were coming or doing it. (HATERS) They still haven't replaced our grass!