House improvements

With the baby coming, we needed to rearrange the house, clean the office (3rd bedroom) and decorate the baby room. All of our games (350+) were in the baby's room on a couple of decent wooden shelves, a few less decent wooden shelves, 16 or so milk crates, on top of all that and a few left over ones in the floor. We did not want to keep the "wonderful" shelving system that we had.
So we took the 2 decent shelves and one other shelf into the office and put books and stamp collection on them. We moved some white plastic shelves into the baby room. We got some new cabinets with doors last week. We moved all of the games from the baby's room to the office. We had been preparing for this by reorganizing things in smaller boxes, selling stuff on ebay, taking 5 boxes of English books to Sheila's office at work, stacking things tighter in the closets, doubling up the book on some shelves, taking more stuff to the shed, and actually throwing away a few things.


So now the office is still crammed full of stuff as you can see. There are 3 tall cabinets on the left full of games and the 2 decent shelves in the center from the other room with books, and 2 smaller shelves stacked on each other for my stamps on the right. The boxes in front are depression glassware that I still need to get rid of. On the side of the room that you cannot see are 2 more small shelves, a small computer desk (I am using it to type the blog) and a small table that Sheila uses for a desk. It is a very functional office and game/book/stamp storage room with barely enough room in the floor for 2 guests to use.

The best thing is that we got the baby room clean enough to paint. The theme will be jungle animals. Here is what it looks like with just the paint. The top half of the room is a dark baby blue. The middle is a chocolate brown asymmetric stripe. It is hard to see in the picture but the bottom of the stripe is parallel to the floor while the top rises or lowers across each wall. The top of the brown in the corner behind the shelf is about 8 inches lower than the top in the 2 corners you cannot see. It is very apparent standing in the room. The bottom is white. The idea is that the brown is the earth and the blue is the sky. There will be cutouts of these patterned animals/trees (those on our amazon gift registry) stuck on the wall.


So that is what we have been doing for the last week. This week we are going to work on my syllabus and lesson plans (I have no idea what I an doing) and go to Tenn Game Days in Nashville this weekend. The next 4 weeks Sheila is off while I will be teaching a class. She is supposed to work on photo albums from our wedding and honeymoon, work on the composition book she is writing, make a lot of crochet squares for a baby blanket, and plant the spring flowers in her garden. I will be teaching and selling glassware and stamps on ebay.

P.S. If any of the kids (or parents) want to start a stamp collection in the future or need stamps for a school project, I can help.

Competition

Angel Thank you for signing up some thing must have gone wrong we never got the thing saying you signed up. You will be able to work towards winning the next few competiions we will be doing.

The next competition we will be holding is to see who can get the first online donation. Even those who won't be in Vernal for Relay this year can fundraise online. So lets get to work and get some online donations coming our way!  Ready, set, Fundraise Everyone!!!

It's a Boy!

I just wanted to put this on the blog for history. I hope all of our faithful readers already know that Sheila had an ultra-sound last Wednesday and found out that we are having a boy. We have decided on the name Lincoln Matthew Davis. Everything else at the Dr. was normal. Sheila is having a lot of pain in her hips when she sleeps and Lincoln is poking and prodding more but those things seem to be normal. Sheila has been using one of those "u" shaped pillows in the bed. It is like sleeping with 2 more people. She is going to try sleeping on an air mattress to see if that helps her hips. I am sure I will sleep better in that big bed without that big pillow. I will keep you posted.

Relay for Life

Okay guys we have our team all signed up for relay for life now we just need to get all our team members signed up (aka all family members.)  So go to our team page link below and sign up. That link should take you directly to our team page. Thanks guys it's going to be a great year to relay!! If you have any questions just call us.

http://main.acsevents.org/goto/mortonfamily

Speaking of apple devices, all of the kids in my friend's mom's preschool have their own iPads. It's crazy talk right? That's what Melanie thought, so she asked the kids' moms and they said "yes they have their own iPads." Melanie told me and Aubrey and we were like "what?!! We don't even have iPads! They are preschoolers and they do!!" Anyway all of their parents are completely phsyco.

Big News...

Well, Wayne and I have some news to share with the family. I was trying to decide the best way to share it with everyone without having to gather us all for a family picture, and then I remembered the updated, modern, technological "read me" journal that we have created here at blogspot.
We have been thinking about this decision for a quite some time now. Times are changing fast and we're not getting any younger. And now that Wayne is graduated, he has a little more time on his hands.
With miles getting so big, so fast, we thought it was time to enter the next stage of our family: time for the addition of a precious, tiny new treasure.

It must be obvious what we are referring to, but for those of you who are a little more dense..... we got iPhones!!!

Lessons in gratitude

So vernal finally got some snow over the weekend. I was personally disappointed because of my strong dislike of the stuff. There are certain things I like to do in snow, like sledding and building snow men, but for the most part I hate snow. If I could borrow a line from dads wedding toast. Snow is like an annoying friend. You know that friend that is fun to do one or two things with, but is usually just annoying so you don't want them hanging around. After you do that one thing their fun for they won't leave you alone, and keep bugging you. That's how snow is to me. Fun for a couple of things, but annoying most of the time. So when it snowed the other day I was being awful grumpy about it. That is until I opened the door and Brooklyn went running outside in her diaper and bare feet. She was so excited. She was grabbing snow by the handful and shouting and laughing. "Look at the snow man", she said, with her mouth full. She calls all snow snow man whether it has been formed into human replication or not. "Look at the snow man". She was so excited that I decided that if this stuff could make my children that happy, then maybe I should be more grateful for it. So thanks for the snow man.
P.S. Happy birthdays to Sheila and Nora. Love you guys