my dad!

Happy Birthday!

We love you!

weekend project!

Matt and I decided it was time to organize the garage. When we moved BACK into our house we just "put" stuff in the garage. So other than a place to hang our scuba stuff it all had no home. Not that we have a lot of things, but it all took up the center of the floor!

We sat down in our camping chairs at the front of the garage and decided what "zones" we wanted/needed. This is what we came up with; scuba, computer, tools, garden and storage/camping. Then we mapped out the most practical & logical layout. Then the hard part, moving everything out and around! We cleaned it in stages- removing everything, sweeping then repurposing that zone for it's new use. At one point the garage was looking really good then we looked at the driveway!!

Hey things always look worse be for they get better, right?!?

As we went along designing each new space things really started to fall into place and it all just felt right. Like in the garden area I asked Matt to hang a bucket for my gloves. But I wanted it mounted sideways so as to not hold so many spiders! Then we found it was handy for more than just gloves!

It works great for storing extension cords! We also mounted a milk crate to the wall for little things witch gave us room to store lawn care stuff under it. Next we decided that the shelf on the left of the garage was in the way for hanging our scuba stuff so we took it out and moved it to the right side witch then gave us more useable storage space all together.

We also moved the work bench out from the back, where it always got blocked and was not useable. It is now out with our scuba area so Matt can work on our gear with out having to climb over boxes.

That then freed up space so the air compressor and tool box could move to the right side in the back.

So then there was room for Matt to put up his computer desk I ejected from the house. Now he has his own space to work on peoples computers. (And it's not all in my living room! =] )

All in all, I would say it turned out pretty good!! 

And we could still park a car in there too if we wanted!

15 years together!

in honor of our 15th wedding anniversary today

go fly a kite!

Matt, Sheri , Joel, Seth and I celebrated spring by dusting off the kite!

(i have had this same kite for 17 years!)

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we even skipped a few rocks! =)

PICTURE TAG!

1. Go to your my documents/my pictures
2. Go to your sixth file
3. Go to your sixth picture
4. Blog about it
5. Tag six people



this is mom and dad just as they got in the truck to pull away from my house leaving on there mission!

i tag 1. robyn, 2. lisa lyon, 3. sid, 4. aunt karen, 5. tera, 6. aunt viv

a five way give away

I found this on Shayla's blog and thought it sounded like fun---hope you all agree! I'm excited to see who the first 5 lucky ducks will be!
The first 5 to respond to this win something from me! But...you have to do this:


Repost this to your own blog and offer the same thing to your first 5 responders.
The first 5 who repost it to their own blog will get something made by me! My choice. For you!
This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:


1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make
2.What I create will be just for you.
3. It'll be done this year-no guarantees on when this year, but sometime in 2009!
4. You have no clue what it's going to be. the possibilities are endless.
5. I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.


The first 5 people post this on their blog and leave a me comment telling me they did, win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me! Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it! Sounds like fun right?!? So let's PLAY!

where does it all come from?!

so as many of you know Matthew and I put our house up for sale in Oct. 2007. (we want to travel the world doing scuba diving.) it took some time but we did find a buyer and they wanted to be in by Christmas. so because we would be traveling light we had a huge estate sale and sold EVERYTHING! we keep about 15 boxes of stuff like Christmas decorations, my floral supplies and some keepsakes. but other then our clothes and bed we sold it ALL. then the buyers asked to extend it until Jan. we were a bit disappointed we didn't get to spend our last Christmas in our house but things happen.(we had moved into a room at mom and dad's until everything was taken care of.) so as all of us do we put off cleaning and taking away the rest of the trash from the house until the last day. just as we were puling out of the driveway at 4pm the day of closing we got "the call" letting us know the sale had fallen thru! i told Matthew just to keep on driving because i was not ready to face our empty house yet.

we stayed away from our house for about 6 weeks. then we thought maybe if we painted some of the rooms it would help it to sell. so we moved our bed (just the mattresses as we had gotten rid of the frame) into the living room so we could paint all the rooms. then as you all know the housing market really dropped! so we took our house off the market. and here we sit until it comes back up. (in two three years?!? maybe?)

so back to my question "where does it all come from?" how come my house gets so messy? we sold almost everything. how can what we do have left take up so much space??!!

we may never know the answer to some of life's questions. =)