Our Excuses! :)

Well, I first must make a clarification. It was actually me (Phillip) that promised to have this blog updated within 24 hours. Believe me, I tried. :) I could name many reasons why I didn't succeed, but since pictures are worth 1000 words, I thought I would show you just ONE of the excuses we had.

You need to notice the proportions here. Notice the height of the mattress, and then the back of the couch, and then the top of this amazing pile of clean laundry. You should also know that there was another load in the dryer at the time too!

Ok, if the picture doesn't do justice, let's try a movie (and if anyone knows how to turn a movie within a post, let me know! I'll fix this once I figure out how.)

Well, besides our laundry issue, we also felt inspired by a great opportunity: Namely, our would-have-been neighbors and good friends the Bowens decided to have a little "garage sale" before moving, and we bought a LOT of furniture from them. We really feel blessed though, because one of the big things these purchases did was allow us to make our room a place where I (Phillip) can study a little better so that I can be home more often (or at least more productive when I AM at home). We bought two bookshelves, a study table, study chair and more. And since we had to transfer things between bookshelves, we then decided to go through all of that... Now, about 2/3 of a garbage can is full of all of my undergraduate papers, assignments and more. The rest is a lot more organized too.

Here's the finished product!

Yep, that's our room sweet room, complete with Caleb sleeping in the corner there. Oh, and you can't forget our little gaurdians -- Raymond (the monkey, from SLC) and McBean (the dog, from Six Flags in CA)
So, after one last late night push last night to get our house back in order (which seems to be needed all too often) and our new things all in place, we are now ready to update you on our wonderful last six weeks or so! I'm sure you've all been anxiously waiting, so let's get started (but this time with no promises on how long it will take us to get through it all - it's been pretty amazing!)

Phillip