Out with the old

We had a garage sale at the house on Saturday and it was a big success! A few weeks ago, I started looking around the house and I realized that I had a bunch of stuff in almost all of our closets that wasn't being used. It was mostly home decor that I had brought from the old house and has planned on putting it somewhere in the new house when I had found the perfect spot for it. Well, all of the spots had been taken over by new stuff and I realized the old stuff would never be used. So I needed to get rid of it. I didn't think I had enough stuff for a full on garage sale, so I invited my friend Kristen to bring some of her items over. We both ended up having more to sell than we originally thought we would and it turned into a pretty big sale. We had a pretty cute Lemonade vendor out front too.

This is Addy, Kristen's daughter. She asked everyone that came up the driveway if they wanted some lemonade. If they said yes, she would pour them a cup of lemonade and then tell them "Now you need to give me money" with a really cute 4 year old smile attached to it. That was her way of asking for a tip. How can you resist that?!? I got rid of most of my junk and made $403.75! My first purchase I made with my earnings was 2 of these:

Something else for David to assemble! As of right now, David has 6 chairs, one bench, and one side table waiting in the garage for assembly. And these stools are supposed to arrive sometime later this week, so I think he's got a full weekend! :)

Inspirational

He hides our biggest rewards behind our highest barriers.

I'm not an overly spiritual person and my faith has definitely been tested over the last 3 years. But when I saw this yesterday, it filled my heart, I took a deep breath, and I feel like I stood a little taller afterwards.

The Look

This is the look I got this morning. I was disturbing Brutus' sleep time.

They sleep in the laundry room and our morning routine goes like this...when I get up, I go wake them up, drag them out of bed, and make them go outside. I give them a few minutes and then I let them back in and feed them. Then they go back to sleep! I wish I had that kind of morning schedule. But when it's time for me to leave for work, I'm going in and out of the laundry room because I take stuff out to the car and start it to warm it up and then I come back inside and do a few more things, and then I'm going back through the laundry room to leave. Peanut hides under his blanket, sound asleep, but Brutus acts so annoyed with me (especially this morning when I had to stop and snap his picture!)