YEA, WE FOUND THE FAKE BOFLEX

Last saturday we had the missionaries help us clean out the garage. YEA!!!  Here in our little abode in So Cal, the garage is like the basement in other places to live. It's the only storage area we have. It's also the laundry room. It was getting difficult to get to the washer & dryer and have room to open the doors. Our aisle through the stuff was close to being a small footpath with changing hazards along the way. Hooray for missionaries who are looking for service to do! They were even excited about some of their finds that we let them take home...empty binder, plastic cups, Book of Mormon(Spanish maybe), etc. They were thrilled to take home the leftover pizza we had for lunch, too. I finally had to say, "No" when they wanted the fake Boflex. They did have fun with it while we were working.

We had them cut up the gross, dirty carpet that was covering the floor of the garage, so they wore our emergency masks. Elder Stone seemed to like his alot. Note to self: get more emergency masks before next firestorm.



It may still seem messy to you, but we could fit one car in there if the home gym wasn't there.





It might look like a beautiful day, but the rain clouds were threatening off and on all day. Also, with a driveway full of stuff, we had to keep our eye on things, or garage salers would have taken off with some good stuff! Dan put a bench by the curb with a sign that said "FREE" and it was gone in 5 minutes.

The stuff in the pic looking into the garage shows piles of things that we still need to put in the garbage, but the can was full. On the right, behind the garbage cans, are my craft overflow shelves that I still need to organize. We also came across these:

A couple of self portraits Chelsey drew when she was 10. Quite talented, I may add.

An adorable picture of me at 2 1/2 yrs old.



And a beautiful picture of Dana when she was 16 or 17 yrs old.

I've already made use of the 'feauxFlex' and my body is reminding me how old and out of shape I am. Doing the wash was almost likeable, too...almost.



RAWLINGS MAKE A SHOWING IN SO CAL

I'm finally getting my wits about me, since all the wedding festivities have come to a close. I never knew a house could get so messy, dirty & unorganized, but I'm spending my days repairing the damage of neglect.  Here's a few pics from the San Diego Open House.


Insert bride here.




Found one!




don't know who these guys are




This was before the flowers were put in the birdcage




It was a gorgeous evening





Bracken ate a kumquat for the 1st time. Should have taken a video to catch the full affect!

It was a beautiful night with friends and new family. The weather couldn't have been any better. Lots of cakes, fruit & candy.  I think Chelsey's wearing her wedding dress most of the time, now, to get her moneys worth.(and look gorgeous) They are happily crowded in their tiny basement apt....since it's 'vintage'.  8)