What you've been waiting for.

I feel like I've won a home makeover/having the Nanny come in and re-organize my whole life except without the cameras. Steena really did an amazing detailed job!!!
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OK let's start with the downstairs.

The hall closet: This was so over stuffed with stuff that the door couldn't even close.
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The Laundry area:
One door was already broken off, so I removed the other door so that I could move the dryer over and put a laundry basket there. There were clothes hanging (probably for years). And stuff piled high on the dryer.
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The Living Room: This room was used as my scrapbook/ sewing/craft room. I think you can probably imagine what it looked like. See that yellow chest it was FILLED with scrapbook stuff. I didn't have any idea Steena would go into it. But check out these drawers: (imagine every drawer in the house being organized!)

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The cleaning supplies are all in one place now.
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The School room:








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The Kitchen:

My pots and pans were overflowing.

These 2 drawers were junk drawers.

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The Family Room: (AKA- The toy room) The adult videos are alphabetized behind the kid videos.

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Now onto the upstairs:








Ashley's Room- Steena added a bookshelf.
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The boys' room: They also got a small bookshelf (not shown).
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Our bedroom:

Our bathroom: This was the dumping ground for everything!
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And (drum roll please) the office/scrapbook room:
Everything has a place! Every eyelet, every paper clip, every marker, pen, crayon, paper, tool, you name it, it has a place.

To let you know just how detailed she was. My buttons are color coordinated (well I started that) but she put them in a place where the light shines on them so I know exactly what color I am picking up. YES! She is THAT detailed.

Not only did Steena organize the entire house, but she trained us in how to keep things up. She implemented a marble system for the kids. Each kid decorated their jar. (Don't worry their name is on the top) They don't get a marble EVERY time they clean, but they do get a few marbles every day. If they clean with happy faces and energy then they can get a marble. If they clean with grumpy attitudes they don't get a marble (even if they clean). If they don't clean/ or don't obey they have to bring me a marble. When the marbles reach the top then they get a prize (which I haven't decided on yet.)

Their attitudes have already started changing for the better!

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Now onto the contest:

Since all of you guessed too low, I'm going to give you another chance to guess. Here is a clue: These pictures are from the first run to Goodwill.

I'll let you know how many tomorrow evening probably around the same time (10PM-11PM). So let the guessing re-begin!

Before pictures and a contest

Alrighty- Since I can't find my photo loader and since I haven't finished taking pictures of all the rooms lets play a game.

I was in a humongous rush to get everything done before our vacation that I was only able to take pictures of a couple of rooms. These are before pictures of Ashley's room:

And these are before pictures of the office/junk room (these pictures were actually taken a little bit "after" we started working on it.)

OK so now onto the game. Guess how many big black garbagebags/big items were taken to Goodwill over this weekend.

Whoever gets the closest will win a sweet undetermined prize. So go ahead and guess!

home

I'm home! I'm alive! My house is fabulous! I just got into my office/scrapbook room tonight and it is AMAZING! I don't have time to post pictures though tonight. I will definitely post them tomorrow! I have been falling asleep for the last 1 1/2 hours, but I keep doing more sorting with Steena. So I have to go to bed now b/c things aren't making sense anymore.

Independance day

Today I got to go to the J C Penney Outlet and buy some much needed clothes.

We are celebrating Independence Day today. I am really looking forward to tonight where we will go out on the boat and see the fireworks. This is what I look forward each time we get to come here.

Austin didn't want to co-operate with the pictures today. He had just lost a game and he was in a bad mood!

Mason took this picture of us. I tried to fix it on Greg's computer but the coloring was off so it was hard to fix. OK I am having no luck placing these pictures where I want them to go. I am using Firefox instead of Internet Explorer. ( It makes a difference.)

We also played dress up with Ashley. I'll take pictures tonight for a blog entry tomorrow.