Fresh Flowers

Little E, Baby J, and Baby T helped me plant flowers this morning. We ran up to Home Depot and got some moss roses for around the tree and some bright flowers for the planter on my porch. The kids had fun playing in the dirt! I'm just happy that we have some color again!

New Bed

We went out and picked out our new bed today since we found out after we ordered the Queen sized matresses that our old bed was a full size and not a queen like we thought. So, problem solved...we just buy a new bed which we really needed to do anyway. We picked this one and we're getting the end tables too (one for each side of the bed so we each have our own). The bed has 2 drawers that pull out on the end of the bed so we'll his/hers drawers too. I really like it. It's almost like a knotty pine.

New mattress...

We are finally getting a new mattress and box spring for our bed...I'm hoping a new bed is in our future as well...but one step at a time. We got a Serta Pillowtop! They will deliver it on Wednesday.

Santa brought me new living room furniture!

Here is my Christmas present from Santa! It all is so comfortable and nice! Little E tore the zippers off of our old couch pillows and so I went looking at a new sofa. Andy surprised me by letting me pick out a whole new set. Finally new living room furnite and I love the way it looks in our new house!

Decorating the 4th Bedroom...

We got 2 new foster placements...2 cute little girls! I went to pull out some of Deidra's old clothes so the girls would have something to wear since they didn't come with much. I found all of her old Pooh bedding and so I pulled out the set for the toddler bed and I pulled out one of the crib sets and I got to thinking that I could hang some Pooh pictures and wall art and that room would be so easy to finish up for them. So, I went and ordered some Pooh appliques,



and a plush wall hanging for their room.



and I think after we get blinds for that room this weekend, I'm going to go ahead and order the valence for their room.



I think it will be cute once it's all done.

We are SO exterminating this weekend!

We have so many of these spiders in our house lately. They're big and they're fast! The boys think it's funny to go find them and try to hit at them and stuff with their toys. I won't touch them (the spiders I mean). The speech therapist killed one for me the other day. Andy just killed one in the kitchen today. We had one that he threw out the slider door a few days ago. I'm tired of them catching me by surprise. And I certainly don't want one crawling on me. I have the heeby jeebies!

We got some Hot Shot stuff from Home Depot to spray to get rid of a zillion insects (one being spiders) and we are putting it down this weekend. I hate HATE spiders! Yes, I'll be the first to admit that I'm severely arachnophobic. I used to hate any type...now I do ok with the small ones. But, I still don't like them!

Landscaping the front yard

We wanted to get out there and do our landscaping this weekend. After numerous trips to Home Depot and one trip to Lowes and one trip to Wal-mart we completed the front yard. We're saving the backyard for next weekend (if the weather cooperates). We're happy with how it all turned out! Here's the before/after shots.

BEFORE--Big Flower Bed


AFTER--Big Flower Bed



BEFORE--Tree



AFTER--Tree



BEFORE--Small Flower Bed


AFTER--Small Flower Bed


BEFORE--Full Shot


AFTER--Full Shot