"Get Organized!"

We have all the typical New Years Resolutions that everyone else has... read scriptures, have family home evening, loose weight (by the way, I got back down to my pre-pregnancy weight this week!), ect...ect... but the most important goal has become our Sivits Family Theme for the year: Get Organized! Each month we are going to have a part of the house or our lives that we are going to focus on and get ourselves organized! (By the way, this is all me- Brett so far is smiling and along for the ride, but we'll see how long he lasts). So far we've gotten a few good projects done this month, but I'm most excited about what we did last weekend. I was watching Oprah and she was talking about The Container Store, which is my organizational bliss, and I got online and got a great idea for the boys room. I have no where to put their big toys and they have just been piled at the bottom of their closet and in the corners of their room and it's making me crazy. So I saw an idea for these built in shelves at the Container Store (which costs upwards of around $300) and thought that I could do that myself, so we spent the morning at Home Depot and now have some nice built in shelves in their closet that will be easy to unscrew and take with us when we buy a house. We also were able to get Aidan's bed fixed and are glad he's not sleeping on the floor anymore. It feels so much better in there and Aidan has even been more willing to clean up his messes now that there is somewhere to put everything. I could use another set of them, but then there wouldn't be room for the clothes. Now if we could only do something about the big empty white walls. I hate renting. :(



By the way, Ethan does not like rice cereal and definitely doesn't like squash, which you can tell from it being everywhere but his mouth. I guess I got excited too soon.