It Was a Good Weekend! (Plus a basement update)

I guess I'm on a posting roll tonight!  Hope you don't mind all the posts.  It's been a great weekend.  We got a lot accomplished, did some fun stuff, and also had time to relax.  Friday night, we had dinner at home and then went to Lowe's to look at bathroom stuff.  We have decided to go ahead and finish the bathroom in the basement.  We wish we would have just did it all at once, but circumstances changed and as they say, hindsight is 20/20.  

My agreed-upon tasks were completed on Friday, so I was able to go out garage saling on Saturday morning with my best-garage-sale bud, Careen.  It was a ccccccoldddddd morning.  I woke up to a just barely, but definitely snow-covered, frosty neighborhood.  Yes, in May.  Yuck.  We wore winter jackets and gloves.  Yes, we are die-hards!  :)  Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture of my finds, but I can probably rattle them off for you because I'm sure you're just *dying* to know, right?!

• White wastebasket - $1.50
• 8 bottles of Gap - Close perfume, new in the boxes - $2.00 each  (For resale; hoping I didn't make a big mistake on this one!)
• A few bottles of shower gel (Bath & Body Works and Victoria's Secret) - 25¢ and 50¢ each
• Shoelaces & a few pillowcases - free!
• Handy Manny cloth doll & toolbox with a few tools - 50¢ (I was soooooo excited about this find; Cody LOVES Manny!!)
• A few shirts for Cody including one with a motorcycle (one of his new words) and another with guitar/mic stands - 25¢ to $1.00 each
• A few books for Cody - 25¢ each
• White serving bowl - $1.00
• Plastic tablecloth for craft projects - 25¢

I think that's it.  I have high hopes for the perfume, but time will tell!

Got home around noon on Saturday and we had lunch and put Cody down for a nap.  Thankfully Cody napped for 3 hours (I know, I know...we are SO lucky), because Gordon and I had a ton of work to do in the basement!  Earlier in the day, a load of garbage was taken to the dump, so in the afternoon, Gordon and I picked up the rest of the garbage, washed down the majority of the walls, Shop-Vac'ed the floors and mopped all the floors.  Then we took all the stuff our of the "storage" room (aka the future bathroom) and sorted through it.  Surprisingly we have a decent pile of stuff for the garage sale (we're planning to have one in June) or at least items we're willing to go through and pick out stuff to sell.  We're not getting rid of any baby stuff.....just in case :)  We were super thrilled about how much we got done.  Thank goodness for long naps!  Amazing how productive you can be with home tasks without a 2 year old pulling at your pant-leg and asking telling you to "come on!!"

We were able to get the basement in such good shape that Cody will actually be able to be down there now without us having to carry him.  Yeah!

Here are a couple of recent photos from the basement.  Wish I would have thought to take photos before moving the stuff out of storage, but oh well.  You get the idea!  The painting is (95%) done, the ceiling is done, the lighting is done, the trim is done and our custom cabinet is done!!!  Wahooooo!!!  Next will be carpet!  We visited a local store the other day and were impressed by the service and locally owned feel, so I think we'll probably end up going with them.

So, anyway....back to Sunday....Cody eventually woke up :) and we got cleaned up and headed out for an early Mother's Day meal.  It was nice to beat the crowds and get a night off from cooking.  

Today (Sunday), Gordon made breakfast for all of us and then we did some shopping and more projects around the house.  One of the things that we did is bought a new organization system for Cody's toys.  I was hesistant, but eventually came around to this idea that Gordon had.  And, I'm so proud because he noticed it was on sale at Target this week for about $16 off.  Yahoo!  But if I see this at a garage sale next weekend for $5, I'm gonna be mad :)  Before we just had Cody's toys downstairs in two clear bins.  They worked okay but it was hard to see everything unless you dumped the entire thing out.  I was able to pack away lots of toys that Cody doesn't play with much anymore and just keep out the favorites and newest items.  I am really trying to control myself at garage sales this year on the toy-front....I really am :)

After getting all the toys organized, Cody and I were fooling around with the camera and we got this picture.  I think it's pretty funny.  Happy Mother's Day to all the moms, moms-to-be, and in-waiting moms :)