You've got a friend in me

The new school room is nearing its completion, just a few final touches should put us right where I had envisioned us being. :)

On another note, I have got to make friends in North Carolina.  I was so sad to leave my friends in Maryland, I guess it just felt easier to not make any friends here.  But we aren't leaving.  This is likely home to us for awhile. And I guess I need to accept that and start getting cozy.

But I miss my Maryland friends and my longtime Ohio friends desperately.  :(

I've got an idea!!

Over the weekend, we decided that we needed to so some rearranging.  By we, I mean me.  I decided that we needed to do some rearranging and my husband just said ok and moved stuff. :)  Currently, we have three bedrooms and a "bonus" room.  Our bonus room is a room above our two car garage, so it's the same size as the garage.  Just off of the bonus room is a smaller room referred to as an office.  In the bonus room there are also three decent sized closets.  When I started house hunting in January, I decided that we wanted a three bedroom with bonus room/office combo so I could set it up a certain way.

One bedroom, the master, went to the boss and I, of course.  We have a master bathroom, too.  Down the hall is the hall bath (that the boys and any guests use), keep on walking and you'll get to two doors across from each other.  One door leads to our guest room (we have a guest room!!) and the other door to our very full, very busy school room.  On down the hall leads you to the bonus room.  All the toys are in the bonus room and Zander and Jaxon's beds are in there as well.  Adisson was given the "office" as his room but due to the safety of my very busy toddler, the french doors were removed and black out curtains were put up instead.

It seems most evenings, you'd find the five of us hanging out in the school room.  The smallest room in the house.  Someone on the computer, someone at the school table, some of us on the floor playing with stuff.  And I thought, why on earth are we in this tiny room when just a few feet down the hall is the largest room in the house not being used??  So I talked to the boss about my idea and while he wasn't thrilled with the amount of work it was going to take (he often gets the heavy, ugh part of the work), he agreed with it being a better use of space.

So here's what we needed to get done:
School stuff to the bonus room, Adisson's stuff to the empty school room, Zander and Jaxon's beds to Adisson's old room.  It took alllll day on Sunday and we still didn't get it done.  I'm hoping to post pictures of our new school room when it's finally finished.  Hopefully, we get it all done by tomorrow night.

But this week's schedule is baseball game on Monday, Scouts on Tuesday, baseball game on Wednesday, FREE ON THURSDAY, camping all weekend with scouts starting Friday, baseball game on Saturday, work function Saturday afternoon/evening, baseball practice for both boys on Sunday.  :)

Lovin' it!

Let's play ball!

Ohmygoodness.  I'm going to give you, imaginary reader, a rundown of the next several days for us.  Today, we're having lunch with Adam at work, going over our wills with an attorney, doing a tiny bit of shopping before coming home to quickly get ready for baseball's opening ceremony tonight.  The tomorrow, we have three baseball games.  Sunday, a two hour baseball practice.  Monday, a baseball game. Tuesday, cub scouts.  Wednesday, a homeschool meeting and a meet and greet with a political candidate (for NC).  Thursday, a baseball game.  Saturday, a baseball game.

This is our first experience as a baseball family.  :)  I'd like to say we'll continue playing after this year, but honestly, I'm not sure.  I can see now why soccer definitely suits us.  Hopefully, we'll be able to find a soccer league this fall.

Honestly, not much else going on that isn't baseball related.  Tonight, I get to see my boys in their uniforms for the first time.  :)  I can't wait.

I guess there's been so much going on in the last month, but then not a lot to talk about. :)  The boys have been signed up for baseball.  That's a new thing for us, we've always been more of a soccer family and this is our first time trying out baseball.  I was a little concerned that Zander wouldn't like it (we had an episode last year when we took him to his first soccer practice and he quit without setting one foot on the field) but he's done sooo well and he's so cute!  Adisson's been trying hard at baseball, but it's hard to start a new sport at nine when everyone else has been playing for years.  He also has some not so encouraging coaches, but we're trying to deal with it the best way we can.  Tomorrow night is the big Opening Ceremonies thing at the ballpark and I'm so excited to see my little guys in their uniforms for the first time (they don't have them yet!).

Adam's parents came down to visit over Easter weekend.  It's the first time in 9 years of marriage that we've had a guest room and people stay in it.  :)  It's so nice to have a guest room!  We were super busy and got to do some fun stuff.  We also managed to get to the park and get some nice spring pictures taken of the boys.  I hope Adam gets them finished up soon so I can post them.  It's just so nice to have family visit.  Adam's parents always make sure they do the best they can to visit us during the year.  They usually come down to visit twice a year and we make it up to Ohio twice a year.  It makes me kind of sad that the only grandkid experience they get is kids living far away.  :(  Anyway....

So the next 6 weeks will be a blur of baseball games and Cub Scout meetings.  Plus Adam's got several weeks of training coming up that will keep him busy for half of May, most of June, and half of July.  :)  Then....it's vacation time!  We're going to Gatlinburg, Tennessee!!  We've never been there before and I'm SO excited!  We'll be vacationing with my brothers, their kids, my Mom, my Grandma, my Aunt & Uncle and hopefully my cousin, and then my in-laws will be coming down for the weekend.  The boys are going to have SO MUCH FUN!!

Anyway, I've got to sew belt loops on to Zander's baseball pants.  He's sooo teeny tiny that there's no way I could have bought him pants without an elastic waist, but those with an elastic waist don't have belt loops and he has to wear a belt for his uniform.  But I'm pretty sure I found a decent tutorial online to sew belt loops on to baseball pants.  We'll see how that goes. :)