Ava Video

Posted January 11th, 2009 by Sally and filed in Uncategorized
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A couple of videos of the kiddo.  Exciting as my closet organization story is, we know this is why you’re here.  :-)

First, our little drummer girl…
And, she doesn’t often wear belt loops, so this is a real treat…for us.

Weekend Warrior: Office Organization

Posted January 11th, 2009 by Sally and filed in Uncategorized
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The dawning of a new year has left me feeling the need to finally get organized.  It could also be that I’m a champion procrastinator and realized that my break before classes and papers begin again is nearly over.  Whatever it is, I’ve finally tackled some of the scariest organizational challenges in our house.  

Our DVD collection has become astronomical and we were out of places to store all those cases.  Now that we have the new TV stand and got that part of the house all prettied up, it just didn’t seem right to make a new mess by putting an ugly bookshelf full of DVDs right next to it…plus, I needed the storage space in our coffee table for new board games received for Christmas.  Enter DVD sleeves and binders.  I removed all the DVDs from their cases, saved the cover art/information, and alphabetized them into 4 binders.  We still have a bookshelf full of DVDs because of TV shows and special sets, but this is so much better.

The second task was to organize the closet in the office where we keep all the office supplies, computer stuff, and my craft/sewing stuff.  All this stuff used to live in a closet in our house at Edwards we referred to as “the closet of death.”  While nothing threatened to fall on your head when we crammed it all in here, we still couldn’t ever find anything and, in general, it was a real mess.  So with the help of these and my new labelmaker, we’re now organized to within an inch of our lives.  
Here’s the before…

And here’s the after…

Really loving this.  Just a couple more things to get cleared up and then we’re really ready for a new start to a new year.  Two weeks late isn’t bad….:-)
Have a great week everyone!

Ten on Tuesday

Posted January 6th, 2009 by Sally and filed in Uncategorized
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1.  I started back to work today.  Why is that I always feel behind when I’ve been away from work, even when I left things to be picked up right on time when I got back?

2.  Ava woke up with a fever and cough today.  Hopefully, the Motrin knocked that right out.  
3.  Bless Sarah Hoffman for taking in sick children with unbalanced pigtails.

This photo isn’t from today, but you get the idea…
4.  Matt built us a new TV stand over the Christmas break.  We put it in the house yesterday.  It’s beautiful and perfect and we both love it.  Here it is in all its glory…

5.  Since we’ve started this blog, we say the word “blogworthy” at least 10 times a day in our house.  For example, the TV stand goes in the house, I take pictures of Matt standing next to it and he says, “It’s great, isn’t it?  But is it blogworthy?”
6.  It’s cold in Vegas these days.  The sun is deceptively bright, but there’s just no heat coming from it.
7.  I’m moving to a new office for work tomorrow.  Thus, I really do have to sort all the paper I’ve got stashed in this desk…just so it doesn’t, you know, blow away when I’m walking across the sidewalk.  Exciting times!
8.  Ava likes to play chase.  As in, she runs away from you and you stomp your feet on the tile behind her.  Her little baby running stride isn’t really a match for a regular mommy step.
9.  Baby socks in our house must be fabric painted.  Otherwise, she runs around looking like Bambi on ice all day.
10.  So very glad that classes don’t start until next week.  Easing into this whole reality thing is definitely the way to go.  

Ava & Santa

Posted January 5th, 2009 by Sally and filed in Uncategorized
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Still catching up from the last couple months…

Here are photos of Ava and Santa (squeezed this in while we were in Fort Collins).  
She did fine as long as I was with her.  

On her own, however…

A New Home

Posted January 4th, 2009 by Sally and filed in Uncategorized
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In the interest of keeping up with posting better, we’ve chosen to move from the website to this blog.  We won’t be posting bulk pictures, but the best of the best and, hopefully, we’ll post them more often.  Bear with me as I learn to use this new program…still growing!

Wishing you all the best for 2009, friends!

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