Are you wondering where I've been?!

Because I have! I have felt very far removed from cyberspace these days, e-mail and my blog. Sam has been working on our computer from home and it has been a little hard for me to get time these days. However, today his laptop FINALLY arrived and he has officially moved his business downstairs. For those of you who don't know, Sam was laid off about a month ago. He's kept busy with some contract work and figuring out how to open his own business. I'm excited to have him working from home...but even more excited to have him working in his own space at home. For those of you who have husbands working from home understand my predicament. Keeping kids out of his hair is hard enough, but plans in the middle of the floor to tiptoe around is none too easy. Anyway, it's okay, we're getting it all figured out. And I'm just proud of him for deciding to go out on his own and going after it.

I've also been trying to catch up from the weekend. I was gone at a women's retreat with my church at Estes Park. It was very refreshing and encouraging. And of course, it was great to get back home. Sam and the kids had cleaned up before I got there and it was impressive! The kids all had colds too, so I'm not sure how it all got done. I'm still waiting to open a closet and have a bunch of stuff fall out at me. :) Here's some pics...


Mac drew this Welcome home sign for me. This is my new chalkboard I just finished...although I like Mac's artwork, I'd like to keep kid's art a minimum on this chalkboard. It's Mommy's!


The boys decided to have a parade...with Elly on a float


Wave Elly!


Here's Sam's new office! We just had to get him moved in...we'll deal with the walls later. :)


In case you don't hear from me again in a while...you'll know where I am. This is the pile that came out of our storage room to get to Sam's desk. I've vowed to only put it back in organized. I really need to go through my stuff more often!

Happy Easter!

Hope you all had a great Easter! I decided to post an album this time around. Besides the Easter pics, there are a couple pics with my parents here. They were in town for 5 days and we had a great time. Hopefully the kids didn't tire them out for their trip to Atlanta! The boys got Papa Monte on the tramp numerous times...and no, no one got hurt. :) My mom helped me out with decorating and teaching me to make curtains. The home decorating has been going slow and steady. I'm looking forward to one part of the house looking finished at some point! Anyway, hope you all had a great Easter and I'm really hoping from now on, our pics will only contain sunshine!