Getting this Place Together

I have been wanting to get our house organized for a while now and it has even kept me up at night thinking of all the closets and drawers that I want to clean out!  I finally went through every thing except for the kitchen pantry and love how much space I found.

Here are a couple of pictures of the office closet with every thing nicely placed in storage bins…

I organized all of the giftwrapping stuff under the bed into different bins…

Before….

And after all nicely tucked away under the bed…

The guest room closest with my craft supplies just thrown in…

And now all organized in their bins…

The laundry closet with its cute little baskets…

And I love my little $5.99 sign from Ross…

And now I can sleep peacefully at night without thinking about all the clutter!!!!

Goldendoodles Don’t Shed…

It just all come out when you brush them!

Love these two!!!

This little Piggy…

Got totally smashed!!!

Doug was out of town this weekend, so I spent it organizing our house and getting ready for a baby shower I am helping host in the next few weeks.  I had some shower stuff stored in the garage, and because I just couldn’t wait on Doug to come home and get it down for me, I pulled the ladder down and proceeded to get what I needed down by myself.  (Side note…Doug says that he sees a lot of injuries caused by people that fall off ladders and for me not to get on one when he is not around…well my trouble started before I even stepped foot on the ladder)

This is the ladder that we have…

I was trying to figure out how it worked by pulling all the knobs every which way and all of a sudden the tall part of the ladder slammed down right on my toe!  I was jumping and hopping all around because my toe was in so much pain.  Of course something like this would happen when my orthopaedic surgery husband is out of town.

As soon as Doug came home on Sunday we went to the hospital for an xray just to see what damage I had done.

Doug is pointing in the last picture where the tip of the bone is broken off.  There is nothing that he can do to fix it, we just have to wait for the little bone to fuse back into place.  The throbbing pain is gone, but I can’t really bend my toe.  No more running for me for a little while…the elliptical trainer is my new best friend.

Favorite Things Party…

I came across this party idea last week while I was in Colorado.  It sounds like such a great way to get girl friends together just because.  Thanks The Vaught Blog for sharing this.  I can’t wait to host this party!

A Favorite Things Party- Here's how it works: Each person brings their favorite thing (anything you like.. your favorite lip gloss, favorite kitchen tool, favorite gift wrapping supply, a gift card for your favorite frozen yogurt, etc.). It can't cost more than $6, and each person brings five of the same thing. When you arrive at the party, you write your name on five slips of paper and throw them in a big bowl. The bowl is passed around, and each person takes five names (making sure you don't pick your own.. or two of the same name). One at a time each person introduces their favorite thing and then reads the five names they picked from the bowl, passing out their gift to those five guests. After everyone at the party has presented their favorite thing, each person should end up with five gifts to take home. It's always interesting to see what people choose, and some guests have started to bring a notepad and pen to jot down what people love.

One other thing that I found on her blog was something that she liked on pinterest…..too funny!

Colorful Colorado

Last week Doug attended The American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society annual conference  in Keystone, Colorado.  I decided to tag along since I have never been to Colorado.  I knew that I would be spending a lot of time alone while he was at all the lectures, but it was great to not have to worry about making sure this and that was done around the house.  I sat in the condo and caught up on the many blogs that I follow and also caught up on matching my credit card receipts to the statements.  This takes me forever and I don’t know when I will realize that I should just do it when the statement arrives and not put it off.  I had a huge zip lock bag full of receipts that needed to be attached to statements from the beginning of the year.  Can you say procrastinator????

I planned on working out everyday of the trip because for the last month I have been avoiding the gym like the plaque and everything is starting to jiggle.  The first day I decided I would go down to the fitness room and workout while watching The View.  I was on the elliptical for 10 minutes and the room was burning up.  I guess Colorado is like the Pacific Northwest when it comes to air conditioning…when it is only hot enough to have one one week out of the year, it is not necessary to have one at all.  I left the gym and thought that I would just jog outside because it was a beautiful day.  I only ran about 500 yards before I realized why it was so hard and why I was already so out of breath.  The elevation is a killer.  I walked by they river for about 6 miles instead and it was some gorgeous scenery.  I forgot my camera ( so no breathtaking pictures of my scenery), sunglasses, and most important sunscreen!  I guess with higher elevation that means your are closer to the sun (DUH)…so sunscreen was greatly missed.  My shoulders and nose are still recovering…all gross and flaky.

The only super exciting thing that happened on our trip was white water rafting down Clear Creek.  Doug had a half day of classes on Friday and we took advantage of his free time.  This winter there was record setting snowfall in the Rockies and only recently has it been hot enough there to melt.  Not only was the melting snow causing the creek to rise, a bunch of thunderstorms had been passing through as well.  The creek was the highest it has ever been on that particular day of the year.   The rapids were awesome.  Here are a few pics…

 

Our river guide was a Georgia boy named Bryan from Marietta that goes all around the country being a river guide in the summer and a ski instructor in the winter.  I asked Doug what he thought his degree was in and he said, “Fun.”  Wish I had a degree in fun!  Doug and Bryan got to talking and discovered that they played against each other in high school football.  It is such a small world!