Procrastinating....

I am ALMOST done with lesson plans.... almost.

I have science left to plan and math page numbers to write in. Then I am DONE! Hopefully this week I can plan during the week so I can get a week ahead. Now that open house is over and we have some normalcy to our routine, I should be able to plan more than one week at a time. Gotta love having some cushion built in for when busy weekends come up.

This weekend has been nice. Yesterday we slept in and then went to Home Depot. We've had our eye on a couple light fixtures at Lowe's, but we wanted to compare them to Home Depot's offerings before we settled on our purchases. As it turned out, at HD we found a dining room chandelier we liked better, hall fixtures we liked better, and a new kitchen ballast we liked better... and we spent less $$ than we would have at Lowe's. Woo hoo! So we loaded up a cart! We still like the prices/choices on the medicine cabinet, interior doors, and storm door better at Lowe's. But we got all our lighting out of the way! Matt installed the chandelier last night, and the hall lights and kitchen light are waiting for when he has a buddy (the hall lights will require some attic work and the kitchen ballast will require 2 people). My dad is coming to visit in October, so maybe we'll get to do some work then. ;) We'll try to get some pictures up in the meantime. :)

It's very exciting to be checking items off our "home improvement" list. At this point, we basically have left painting a few things (laundry room, master bath), updating the den (take down paneling and put up dry wall--happening in October), and switching our fake wood stained slab doors to white molded doors. We have already painted almost every room, replaced the lighting/fans in the eat-in kitchen, den, master bedroom, and dining room, done some landscaping, bought new furniture, and painted some trim. We're going to install the fans we took down in the kitchen and master bedroom in the two secondary bedrooms for now. At some point we put in something newer, but for now, we'll take advantage of what we already have!

Sammy has been a sweetie-pie lately. She LOVES being allowed in the den. She is definitely my little buddy when I get home and wait upon Matt's return from work. :) She's just such a quiet and sweet-natured little dog. :)

Alright, I think I should finish up those plans now before we leave for small group. We hope you've had a good weekend.

We especially want to say

HAPPY BIRTHDAY
to
My mom and Matt's mom!!!