Mission Complete

We never would have thought it was possible but we did it!!!!!!! I drove the kids to the IKEA in Hamilton on Friday morning to meet up with Nee Nee. We did a little shopping and had some lunch together. The kids continued on with Nee Nee to Welland and I drove back to our house. We were Riley and Simon free for the whole weekend to try to get some of our to do's before baby arrives tasks done. Let me tell you how much one accomplish when there are no kids in the house. Here is a list of some of things that we did.

1. Cut the front and back grass (this takes almost 3 hours on the riding lawn mower).
2. Cleaned out both kids closets. They are now spotless.
3. Stripped and washed all bedding.
4. Hung the jungle leaves in Simon's room that I bought at Ikea on Friday.
5. Cleaned out the kids drawers.
6. Hung some picture frames on the wall
7. Cleaned out the basement. This was no small task, we had the messiest basement you have ever seen.
8. Did the grocery shopping
9. Hooked up a T.V. and V.C.R. in the basement
10. Set up a craft and painting area in the basement.

We worked about 4 hours on Friday night, 7 hours on Saturday and another 5 on Sunday. With all this work we managed to watch a movie, go out for a nice dinner and even sneak in a little nap. On Sunday late afternoon we headed back down to Hamilton and met Nee Nee and the kids at East Side Mario's for dinner. Here are some photo's of some of our work.

I thought of doing a before photo but I was to embarrassed to show the mess.....here is the after shots.



Jason in his pimped out basement cleaning attire.


Simon's new bedsheets and jungle leaves. Now my quest continues to find a nice brown and green muted quilt for his bed.



Now our to do before the baby is born list is only 4 pages long not four and a half....YIKES!!!!!