In the past couple of weeks, our backyard has transformed from a mound of dirt to a beautiful (at least I think so) landscape with grass and woodchips. It really does make a difference. Now that we’ve completed our yard, it was time to move on to the inside once again. Finishing our basement has caused the rest of our house, mainly closets, to be a nightmare. When we moved Jeffy out of what is now Logan’s room, we put a lot of his stuff in our closet and the closet upstairs. It has been something I’ve just had to deal with because the basement wasn’t done enough to move it down there yet. Then his office WAS done enough but neither of us wanted to move things down two flights of stairs and then walk back up to get more. What a pain. Then we got distracted with finishing the backyard and moved the basement to the back of our minds. But now that the yard is done, we can focus once again on the basement. My brother-in-law Lane is moving in with us in about 2 weeks so that has forced us to get things done. Don’t get me wrong, the basement has been ‘done’ for awhile, it’s mostly just Jeffy’s office that isn’t finished. We never painted or caulked the baseboards but again, that was only because we’d have to move his desk and his computers and thousands of cords. No fun. But I have had it with the cluttered closets and am ready to get it done! Jeffy realized he would need some new bookshelves because the one he had before is about to fall apart and we didn’t want to risk moving that down stairs only to have it fall to pieces when we were done. No thanks. So, we went to Ikea (love that store!) yesterday and bought two new bookshelves for his office. So as Jeffy put those together, I caulked and painted the baseboards where they were going and also painted his door frame and cleaned out the closet under the stairs. It’s about this time of year that I start to get in an organizing mood. I told Jeff yesterday that during the winter I love to do things like this. He reminded me that it’s still summer. Oh yeah. This cooler weather is really throwing me for a loop. I’m enjoying it though! Anyway, so that’s what we did last night.

But before that we also put all of the beds in our house on frames! Since we’ve been married, our bed has always been on the floor. Jeffy never trusted those little metal frames and I just didn’t think it was necessary so we never bought them. But again, since Laney is coming, we’re switching Lindsay’s twin bed and the guest room queen bed so that Laney can have more room for his stuff. So, Lindsay has a HUGE bed now and she loves it. So, since we were moving beds anyway, we decided we’d put them all on frames, including ours. We’re such grown ups now! Our house has had some changes lately and Jeffy has been such a hard worker the past couple of weekends getting so much done. We love you!