An uneventful, much needed Saturday morning

I love mornings like this. It is not very often that my husband and I are home on a weekend. We like to stay busy, visiting friends, having friends visit us, going out and doing something fun, or running errands.

This morning, however, I got to sleep a FULL HOUR past my usual alarm time! I have done a load of laundry, and now it is pouring rain (which I love the smell of).

I did my toes! (Which very rarely ever happens)

I also cleaned up our bedroom and living room. For those who have read my "moving pains" entry, here are some of the updated pictures I promised to show you of our new apartment. 

 our bedroom is small, but functional. I wish it was a tad larger so we could put some decoration in it, but that's Ok I guess I don't need to decorate every room, right? 

 this is the living room, where we spend the majority of our time most evenings. 

I wish I could work on my scrapbook to finish the rest of July and most of August. For the last 4 years I have been doing an online scrapbook with CVS's photo website. They are a little cheaper than Shutterfly, and I like how customizable things are on it. Throughout the year I update it and at the end of the year I send it in for printing. This way, I have a year's worth of pictures that takes up...what, the size of a children's book? 

I would highly recommend doing this to anyone who likes to take pictures. If you keep up with it, it doesnt take much time to do. I can spend 30 minutes uploading a month's worth of pictures and then arranging them how I want them. You can separate it into months like I have and go through a whole year,

...or I have also made separate books just for one occasion. For example, in the first picture of the books, you can see the one on the bottom left is our wedding book. I also did a whole book for our honeymoon. 

No, there aren't any actual prints, but in a world that is becoming more and more digital, this is a good outlet for me to express some creativity while preserving memories. By the time I'm done at the end of the year, they end up being around $50, sometimes $60. Still, for a whole year's worth of pictures and memories, this price is worth it to me. 

Too bad CVS's photo website has been down for like a month now. 

:(

So the rest of my morning is spent doing something else I love, planning our next adventure! We are going SOMEWHERE over the labor day weeekend. (September 4-7) we just aren't sure where yet. 

Looking at our map, which is something else I've put together, we are thinking of going somewhere in either: Kansas, Arkansas, or Iowa. 

But where? 

You can see our map:  

- the idea is that each state we visit as a married couple (married in 2014) we take a picture inside the state and then cut the photo to the shape of the state and paste it onto the map.  I'm trying to convince Micah that I need a bigger wall and a world map..

I'm so glad I got this morning to sort of relax at home...This afternoon is a big one for me: we sign the deed to my childhood house over to the new buyer. I still have mixed feelings about seeing my home go to someone else. But in reality, I am not going to be able to live there anymore...so it is better that someone else uses it.

The next post will be more exciting. We have some fun things coming up in the next few months. Pretty much every weekend is booked except for one, between now and the middle of October. Also, my husband starts his classes Monday morning.

 Life doesn't slow down..I just have to keep up with it and enjoy the ride.