Look Ma...I Cleaned My Room

We were up until 1 am cleaning our room last night. We moved the "office" up stairs to the living room. Wow! It feels so good to have that desk and computer out of our room. Once we started moving the desk we just kept on going and didn't stop until it was clean.

For some reason our room is the collection room for all the odds and ends of the house and all the laundry. We tell our kids to keep their rooms clean and take pride in their things and we weren't setting a very good example.

Hopefully, that will all change now. We really want to keep our bedroom a place of calmness and not chaos. I am pretty sure this is the cleanest our room has been since we moved in!!!

The Place I Call Home

I was reading articles on the computer this morning and saw that there was a new list of the top 100 places to live in the United States. I like these Top Tens and countdown things so I gave it a glance. To my surprise!!! The city of Jenks, where Matt and I live was listed as number 43. I got all excited and proud....that's where I live...yup...I'm pretty cool....yeah!

If you want to find out more about the town I live in you can click on this link. http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/moneymag/0707/gallery.BPTL_top_100.moneymag/43.html

Photos...Oops

For those of you who have been coming to my blog and trying to see pictures on our Flickr account, I must apologize. I had been making the photos private to friends and family thinking that since you had the link you would be able to see the pictures. Well I was wrong. Sorry! You can now go to the link and see all of our family photos.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wiggy5

Enjoy!

Fast Car

One of my all time favorite songs is Fast Car by Tracy Chapman. I don't know what it is about that song but I love it. I never get sick of hearing it. It is a regular on my Ipod listening list.

Papa and Grammy's Cottage

Up North was great. The kids all had so much fun. It was so good to see the cousins playing together and having a good time getting reacquainted. It is almost surreal that I am the adult now. Looking back at all the activities the kids do and how much they swim in a day reminds me that I too, once, never stopped going when I was "up north". It is funny to me that now I am the one who has to say "time for bed" and hear the moans, groans, and cries for "just ten more minutes."
It is so hard to say good night to the lake. After a hard day of playing and being out in the sun, there is nothing more relaxing then getting warm by a bonfire, listening to the waves and the crackling of the fire and watching the moon reflect off the lake. Every night Matt and I would sit out on the dock and look up at the stars. Why are there SO many more stars up there than anywhere else? One night there were so many stars in this one area it was making the sky look almost clouded. One night we even got to see the moon rise. It was so big, bright and orange. We watched it come over the horizon just like a sun rise. It was so beautiful.

Anyway, enough of making the people who love up north and miss it jealous. Thank you mom and dad for taking the time to do stuff with us and to take such good care of us while we were there. The kids had so much fun and will cherish the memories they made "up north" forever.