New Rooms

Well some of the rooms in our house got a makeover this past week. After listening to the girls end their day with fighting night after night, we thought maybe it would be good for them (and us) to have their own space. When I told the girls, they were both ecstatic. Or beyond ecstatic - whatever that word would be. Lucy started packing up Emmy's things that very night while Emmy was at gymnastics, ha. (The girls decided Lucy would keep the shared room and Emmy would move into the TV room.)

Friday evening we started the big transition - moving out Emmy's bed, dresser, lights, etc. The girls love their new rooms. :) Except they both felt badly because the rest of us were quite bummed about losing our TV room . . . We tried out a few different options, but it became apparent the place for our TV was going to have to be our living room. Ben's not a big fan of the TV in our front room and, frankly, none of us were sure we loved the idea either. But Ben and I went couch-shopping on Saturday and found and bought a great set (our first purchase of new couches). Our living room is lovely now and everyone (including the hesitant boys) love it. So in the end in worked out swell for everyone!

It's hard to get good pictures of the rooms, but here's Lucy's. She loves all her open space!

Emmy loves her room and all her open space, too. Someday (maybe soon?!) we'll actually get a door for that closet. After 12 years it's probably time. :)

Our living room for about a day or so, ha.

Our new TV/living room. It's great. Jonas, who is photobombing, approves - which says a ton. I guess Ben and I can count this as our 19-year anniversary gift. 

Other than that, it was a pretty normal week. The kids all had school. The girls had gym and then had a few friends over all day Saturday. The boys got to climb at the HS this week and enjoyed that. Ben is on-call this weekend and thought he maybe wouldn't get any calls as our hospital was on divert (maybe still is, not sure?). But he is currently there on his 3rd case (one Friday afternoon, one Sunday morning, and this one now) so it wasn't too slow. Luckily he has the day off tomorrow!

Oh we did actually have a 2nd-hour church meeting today. For everyone! We've been doing YW lessons on the 2nd-Sundays for the past few months, but this week was Sunday school for adults and youth and primary for the children. The 2nd-Sundays will be YW/YM, RS, EQ, and primary. Oh, and Jonas blessed the sacrament today - that was awesome. He and Miles did. Jonas had to say it 2 1/2 times. :) He messed up the first time, then part-way through the second time Miles stopped and corrected him, and then he got it on the third time. We had way more people than we've had in like a year, so the passers had to come and get more bread, had to fill more water-trays, etc. It was exciting. :) It really does feel so good to get back to somewhat of a normal church routine.

And that's that for this week.