A lovely Monday

It all started with waking up...and Katelyn loves to climb around us on the bed... :)
Good morning Sunshine!

Then James took Katelyn downstairs so I could sleep some more - ah, delicious sleep. :) He is such a sweetheart. This is one of their 'self-portraits' I found on the camera. :)

Then in the afternoon we headed to town for some errands, and to pick up some mulch for our front 'flower gardens'. The place where we got it from doesn't sell it in bags anymore, so we bagged our own, and put in in the back of our car. It was a full and smelly vehicle by the end. Katelyn played around in the back of the car while we packed. :)

James did the shoveling, I did the holding of the bags. :)

This is the finished product, well sort of...you can't really see it, but we mulched all three areas you see - and we did the brick work around the big tree last night - looks really good, and is encouraging for me to have our place looking at least decent.

A better glimpse on how it turned out. And then it was bathtime, supper and then pretty much to bed. A productive day as a little family.

The other day I had been weeding and cleaning out the flower beds, but all I had for tools was a metal frying pan flipper and spaghetti strainer/fork. (as newlyweds don't quite have it all together) And it worked fine, but I planned to go to garage sales, to find some tools later on this spring. But before I could go, two friends heard of my plight, and bought me some tools! So thoughtful, and I felt very blessed! So now James and I can tidy up around the yard together. :)

And at last, our basement. :) For those of you who knew we cleaned up and organized, this is what it looks like now. :)

The 'west' wall and my washer/dryer are on the 'north' wall just to the right of this picture.

And the last picture. :) Since my cupboard space is quite limited upstairs, I have to store all my linens, blankets, some kitchen stuff, and of course all the extra's down here. :) But it's almost all nicely labeled and such a help.