The AFTER photo!

Remember how nice my fridge looked on the day before my parents arrived? Well, I had to show the AFTER photo, just so you can understand. There's about five blocks of cheese in our "crisper" drawer. My Dad goes to Winco just about every day because they have such good bargains (quite a good bargain on cheese if I understand correctly). Plus, we've had bacon EVERY DAY (brown wrapped items on the second shelf). There's also a bunch of leftovers - though luckily, we use this up quite well with so many people in the house.

This is one of Cody leaning casually against the fridge so we won't notice that he is trying to break in while we are not looking! We're on to you Codes!

Cody's first REAL haircut

Okay, I'll admit, I have no control over Cody sitting still. And when it comes to cutting his hair, it's definitely treacherous, to say the least. He acts like he can feel each lock being cut and they are all bleeding profusely. Needless to say, it makes cutting his hair about as far from fun as you can possibly get.

Here he is as the "before" photo...trying to help us put the bunk beds (that we are just setting up as separate twin beds) together.

Here he is at the barber shop. He doesn't know what's about to happen, I'm certain.

Now he's starting to get it. Though we had given him some medicine before he went because he's had a slight fever lately.

This is when it really hits him.

It was all worth it though. Just look at this cutie pie! I had to include the photo of him in his new red pajamas. I just thought they were completely adorable. heh, heh

Cleaning it all out!

My parents are coming. Have I told you what our fridge was like growing up??? FULL! ALWAYS!!! So, I had to make room for all the cooking my father does when he's here. We had to throw away, recycle, clean, etc. so we can have some room for the new homemade, yummy food!

I started with the first shelf! I'm ashamed to say it takes me quite a prod to get this fridge clean. Good thing my parents are coming...it's very motivating!

It's not like it's even hard, truly, as long as the kiddos are busy sleeping! It just takes a little soap and water and VIOLA! all clean!

Here we are - All clean! All this food is fresh and ready to be eaten. What do you think??? It's crazy how much room you have once you clean out all the old stuff. Why do we let those dark corners (ha, ha) exist with old food? I'm not even sure. You just forget about it right? Out of sight, out of mind! Well, I just want to say, "Mom and Dad...we're ready for you!"

What have we been up to????

Not posting, that's for sure! It's been awhile since the last, so I will obviously have to do a few posts to make up for it! One thing you need to realize is that we are getting ready for some COMPANY! My parents are coming out here this weekend, so we have been frantically trying to rearrange rooms so that they have someplace they can sleep! So, here are some photos of our latest update on the "children's room."

We headed off to IKEA and had to try to buy some matching duvet covers. Here's what we picked for Cody. (We bought these beds off Craigslist as bunkbeds.)

This is the one that Caitlin chose. She didn't like the curtains at all because they were "kind of babyish." It was pretty funny that she was "okay" with the curtains once she saw her duvet cover next to them. She saw how everything sort of matched once we put the curtains up.

Can you see it all? Not too bad. I'd like to decorate the walls, but I still need Brenda's eye. What do you think?