So, I finally have some time to do some blogging!!! It's been kind of a crazy summer and life just kind of flew by, but even though I have bathrooms to clean and floors to sweep and mop, I can't do that right now, so blogging it is!!!
My last big post was about our Winnipeg trip. So since then, we done a camping trip with my family to Moberly Lake, BC for my grandpa's 80th birthday, a week of holidays camping and staying with Dan's family in Lloyd and Meadow Lake, a weekend in Didsbury with my brother and Aunt's and Uncle's, and many different fun things throughout the summer.
Our biggest thing we did a lot of this summer was renovations. We have replaced our electrical pannel, added a fan into our bedroom and a light into the hall, put new windows in, done some landscaping, and, the reason why I am blogging now instead of cleaning, making our living room window into a modified bay window. We also put a hole into our wall between the living room and kitchen in order to open it up a bit more. I love that hole!!!! I am sick to death of dust and messiness in my house, but now at least for a few months I won't have any more. We only have a door to replace yet this year, and hopefully that will be done sooner rather then later.
We have also done a lot with the sound ministry this summer and Dan is finally feeling like things are happening there, which is nice!!! We now have 5 sound people for the church, which is very nice because that cuts the workload down a lot. We have seen improvments in communication and procedures that we would like followed with the sound ministry and it is nice to see that these things are happening.
I have been working part-time all summer and it has been enough, praise the Lord, so that we don't need a renter for our basement. And because we bought my parents old piano, we had to move the TV downstairs, so now our entire house is ours and it has just been a huge relief!!!! We bought a new couch/loveseat/chair set for upstairs and moved the old ones downstairs, as well as all our DVD's and CD's. The drums and guitars are also all downstairs. So upstairs is now much more of a living area and the downstairs our recreational area, and that is exactly how we wanted it!!!
Maddison has been busy growing and learning and cutting teeth. We finally saw the first tooth break through over the Labor day weekend, and even though we lost a lot of sleep with that tooth, it was good to finally see it in. She currently loves to stand up and use her exersaucer and jolly jumper and she is also trying to crawl. I would rather she not crawl, but I know that I'm not going to win that battle because Dan wants her to crawl and is helping teach her. Little does he know that a mobile baby is not the relaxing baby we now have!!
Fall has come and tomorrow we are having family pictures taken, so that will be fun! We also have my bosses wedding next weekend, so next Saturday night Maddison is having a sleepover at Grandma & Grandpa's and we get a night without baby!!! I am very much looking forward to that, but am also really hoping that Maddison does good for my parents!
And that is about it. Short and sweet right? Hopefully now this fall I'll have more time to blog and be able to keep you updated more.
