Been a while!

Ugh - I guess I haven't posted anything in a while. I have ACTUALLY been busy! That never happens - I really like it! So, I'll try and catch everyone up without boring you to tears.

We moved back into our house on May 29. The renters voluntarily left early! We came over that day and did the final walk-through with her. There were a few things we needed to fix and we figured the cost would be about $150 so we only gave them half of their deposit back - with a personal check. Right??? Was I crazy to do that?? Obviously..... Anyway, we got everything moved into the house that night and spent the next few days getting unpacked. I'm not going to lie. I was in a lot of pain from being on my feet. It was pretty much just me and Shane - I wouldn't really have felt good/comfortable asking people to help me unpack my stuff anyway! So anyhow - we spent those next few days getting unpacked and settled in. It was amazing :) Then, on Wednesday morning Shane came in with the bank account pulled up on the computer and says, "What's this for?" There was a $300 debit for some U.S. Cellular charge. Anyway, long story short - the renters had taken the routing numbers off of our check and used it to pay their phone bill.... We got the money back and the renters are now in trouble with their bank, our bank, and their cell phone company.

This is her sad little face at 1 in the morning.

Other than that, things have been going so well. Shane has been so busy with carpet and my working situation has been just great too. My office is set-up in the kitchen/dining area so I can feed Chloe and watch her play outside while still working. She's been getting a little more temperamental lately though. I'm not used to this attitude from her though! I guess it's just her age... hopefully. She has to fall asleep with the door open now and does pretty well. She had a really bad fever last week though. It got up to 103.8 and we were up with her until 3 AM. Shane gave her a cool bath at about 12:30 in the morning and we kept a cool washcloth on her head. That seemed to work. She was ok the next morning.

I lost a kitchen box :( Had my pot/pan lids, all my tupperware, and my bread pans. Weirdest thing! Other than that, perfect! We're trying to sell our entertainment center so we still haven't really decorated or unpacked our DVDs yet.

The yard was.... less than perfect. The grass was ok, but the flower beds were definitely not taken care of. Luckily, our favorites, the lilies were ok. Shane has completely re-worked one of the beds and now we have a little vegetable garden with tomatoes and peppers and cucumbers, squash, and even cantaloupe and watermelon just for me! Hopefully they grow!

We still have a lot of work to do - thankfully. I am loving having things to keep me busy. I still need to work up a cleaning schedule and "decorate". I am TERRIBLE at decorating so I really don't know how I'm going to do things. I have no sense of style... and very shallow pockets! I have been able to keep the kitchen and my bedroom tidy - and if you know me, you know what an accomplishment this is!

Anyway, I don't really have any new pics to share other than what's here. we're going to work on our other flower beds this week since the weather will FINALLY be better!  So I'm hoping to have some pictures of our beautiful flower beds and decorated house by this time next week. Sorry for the nothingness of this post, but now you know what's been going on in our world! We can't wait to have people over for a party or something!