New, News & More News

First order of business is the situation regarding the renting of the old house. We were able to get the home ready for rental on Monday and the listing went up on Tuesday, the 12th. Our rental agent said that it should take less than 1 month to get good renters so we were excited about that...fast forward a whole 2 days to Thursday....we get a call that we have renters, a signed 2 year Lease and they are moving in mid-June. Holy smokes! That's friggin' awesome!

We finally have had a few moments to actually work on the new house, which has been a lot of fun.

• Mike and I worked on putting up window treatments today in the kitchen/eating area and the living room.
• We installed a new coat hook area in the hall leading out to the garage.
  
• We fixed the kids tire swing (the rope was broken) and added another swing/seat/pancake-looking-thing to their playset.
• Mike installed a light fixture and ceiling fan in the formal dining room.
• Hung a picture in the eating area of the kitchen.
• Installed a new light fixture in the Master Bedroom-still looking for a mirror....hmmm
• Put up new numbers on our mailbox so people can actually find our house and house numbers on the outside of the house itself.
• I actually found the kitchen table today, which was my biggest accomplishment by far. Yes, it was located in the kitchen where it belonged, you just couldn't see it under all the papers, tools, kids artwork and other treasured junk. Surprise! :)
• I'm sure there's more but those are the main things and I'm total happy with that!

We took the girls to a Bounce Party! birthday party this afternoon as well, and had a ton of fun there. The kids keep asking when we can go back...I told them they are going to have to wait until some other kid invites them! I do see now where they have open bounce times...ok, well maybe we can go back again some time. It was fun...

Then Mike and I had the opportunity to out with a friend of mine and her hubby to The Green Well, which we have never been to before. Great atmosphere, food was fantastic and company superb. What more could I ask for? Well....

Tomorrow we get to get away again with my sister and brother-in-law for an early afternoon showing of Angels&Demons! I can't remember the last time we have all had the chance to see a movie together. I tried to remember earlier and I *think* it was Pirates of the Caribbean 3? Now that was a long time ago! Sheeesh...

And to top it all off, Mike is whisking me away on Thursday night to the Palace of Auburn Hills to see Elton John & Billy Joel in concert! Followed by us leaving from our hotel Friday morning and driving to Nashville, TN to attend the world's largest Geocaching Event-GeoWoodstock! We will be down there Friday night, Saturday and Sunday, then coming home Monday evening. Can you believe it?! Almost 5 days without the kids!!!! It will be the longest we have been away from the girls since they've been born, and although we are going to miss them a ton, we can't wait to spend some quality time just the two of us...and a couple thousand of our closest geocaching friends! Ha ha ha ....