Spring has Sprung

It has been a while since the last post, primarily because the blog has become more of an update on the house rather than on how things are going for us, and we haven't taken many pictures of the house recently. I am currently between projects, and have been for over a week, so there has been some progress, which will be photographed and posted soon enough. A new company has decided to move a lot of its business to Charlotte, and I'm apparently near the top of their list. They'll be starting a new project in the coming weeks, which is supposed to last a couple of months at most, but it is similar to my last big project which was supposed to last a month and lasted 5. Hopefully, this one will be similar, but the start has been delayed for a week or so. Hopefully, I'll be working again on Monday.

Lauren is doing well and still enjoying her job. She's got evaluations coming up soon, so I think she's a little bit concerned about that, solely because she doesn't know when its going to happen. She's obviously going to get great reviews, so that certainly isn't the reason. She has been bugging me to get a new table and chairs for the kitchen for the past few months, because our old table didn't match the decor. I finally broke down and we got one this past weekend. We originally got one that we saw at the new Ikea, but we ended up finding out that it wasn't dark enough for our dining area, so we took it back and got the one at Garden Ridge. We ended up saving $300 by doing that and the table looks great. I'll include that with the pictures.

Connor is doing well also, and has fallen back into his old habits of sleeping in until around noon when I'm not working. We've started saying that he's a teenager in a tiny dog's body because of that and his insistence that he do things his way rather than ours. He's still a little baby about some things. I made the mistake of hammering some nails back into the wood on our deck while he was on it. The shaking freaked him out and now he refuses to go out onto it. That is good in a way because he won't run away out that door, but its annoying if we're sitting on the deck on a nice day and he starts whimpering at the door.

Spring has been fairly good so far. We've had some very nice weather that has allowed us to keep the windows open for several days at a time. We started to clear out the back yard a little, but I ended up getting poison ivy and bug bites, so we stopped that for a little bit. We need a chainsaw badly. Other than that, we're just trying to make the house look better, bit-by-bit. It's a process, but we're making good progress. I'll include pictures of the newest changes soon.