Catching Up

My internet has not been working properly lately, it goes in and out as it pleases. That makes loading pictures or videos very frustrating! We have also been really busy lately, so there are all my excuses for the lack of blogging!

I spent the weekend redoing our bedroom. The bedrooms and a bathroom were all I had left to paint (from when I was pregnant and went on a painting spree). We had seen a picture of a bedroom that was painted orange and had burgundy colored bedding and surprisingly liked it. So, I VERY skeptically painted my bedroom walls a yellowish orange color. I found burgundy bedding and curtains and have some deep red accents throughout. It ended up having kind of a spanish theme, even though I was not necessarily going for that. I finally finished it all Monday and I really like it.

Saturday we finally went and got new living room furniture. We have been talking about doing it for a long time, but the thought of trying to shop for furniture has made us put it off. We have done it before and all the boys think they need to try out EVERY. PIECE. OF. FURNITURE. We picked out what we wanted for the living room, and also picked out a new bunkbed for AJ and Bryce. The one they have we bought from someone when we first moved to Arkansas and it has been through to many boys jumping, moves, etc. It has gotten pretty wobbly and I have a fear of it collapsing on Andrew. The new one is solid pine and also shorter than the old one, which I like.

We listed our furniture on Craigslist (we LOVE Craigslist....we have sold so much on there!) Monday evening. We had a ton of emails for it and had it was picked up Tuesday morning. So, we have had NO furniture in the living room since yesterday morning and the new furniture comes tomorrow sometime. The boys are really enjoying no furniture. Lots of space to run and lots of echoing voices! Mom is ready to have a seat to sit in and to get the tv and all the games, DVD players, cable box, etc off the floor. Andrew has had a blast getting into all of that!

This weekend the older boys are meeting my Dad and and three oldest nephews at Caddo Lake for a weekend of kayaking. Andrew, Mady and I are going to Canton to visit Mom, Aunt Heather and my neice and nephew. We can't wait. Alyssa is SO excited to meet the only other little girl in the family.

My computer died on me this past weekend. Died dead!!! I rebooted it to try and get internet to work and when I turned it back on a black screen came up that said "Operation system not found". Paul read online trying to fix it and found out that Dell has had a lot of hard drive failures on their netbooks. ARGHHHH!! I have only had it for six months, so hopefully whatever the problem is is covered under warranty.

I have lots of pictures to get on here and also a few videos. I will try to do it tonight or tomorrow.