About Time!

Due to the fact that our camera has been kaputt for the last few months, I have failed to post anything new. I have a hard time posting without pictures...even this is hard for me! It just seems pointless to post without pictures to add to the stories (and show off my little man, of course). But, I've neglected it for so long, I need to add something. Maybe Santa will bring me a new camera so I can start back up for real.

Anyways, to update since then, we've been staying pretty busy. I got to go back home to PA for our family's annual Chocolate Days. This event cannot physically be missed by any sane person. We spent the entire week with chocolate covered hands...yum! I felt bad having to leave Shawn home alone, but I made up for it when I brought chocolates back for him. We were there over Halloween, also. Oakley was dressed as Bam Bam and his little girl friend was a cute red-headed Pebbles. My mom is supposedly sending a CD with some pics of them on it, so I'll "supposedly" post those later.

We decided to put a new, wider garage door on our garage. In order to do that, we (by we, I mean my hubby and his cousin the framer) had to clean out the garage, and reframe for the wider door. The cleaning out the garage part took about a month for us to actually sort out. It was all worth it, though. We now have a beautiful new garage door, the boat is out of the snow, and we'll be painting our house in the spring when the weather cooperates.

During this garage ordeal, we decided to rent out half of our basement to a friend of ours. We have never used the apartment as that, so we had 4 years worth of storage, aka junk, sprawling all over the apartment. I have spent every free minute down there sorting and tossing and organizing and cleaning...yay fun. I'm excited to have her down there, though. She'll be the perfect renter-she's rarely home. It will be nice to have the little extra income, as well.

And now that Thanksgiving is almost over, it's time to start the Christmas prep. My sis is up visiting, and we're going to put Christmas up tomorrow (the earliest I've ever gotten around to it!). That is, after Shawn and I get our Black Friday shopping in! That reminds me, we're getting up early...I better start thinking about bed time.

P.S. I need everyone to tell Santa that I've been a good girl so I can get a camera!!!