The Great Clean Up....well, maybe great isn't the right word.

I have been trying to take advantage of my days at home during Christmas Break.  For me, I've been pretty productive so far.  Whatever I'm doing I have to do in short bursts because there seems to always be somebody needing me for something.  Two days ago I cleaned our bedroom, well mainly I cleaned off the desk.  You can actually see the top of it now.  Yesterday I was busy doing other things so I didn't get much cleaned up.  Today I cleaned our "cubbies" out.  Here is a picture of the finished work.

I'm pretty happy with the way it looks today.  I'm sure it won't last.  When school starts next week the piles will creep back.  I threw away papers that were dated 2009.  I'm not sure how many pairs of shoes I cleaned out of there either.   There were at least 5 singletons that I have yet to locate the partner.  I am thankful that we have such a space in our house though.  It's one of my favorite things.  You may be wondering why we only have four spots, but 5 Hunt's.  Well, we only had room for that many cubbies in that particular location heading into our garage.  So, Harley is probably going to move most of this stuff to the garage as Haddon gets older and needs her own space.  He is getting used to us taking things over, and usually bows out graciously.  

Tonight I cleaned the pictures off my camera.  It has been a while since I did that too.  There were pictures from Halloween to Christmas and in between...over 350 of them.  I desperately need to get an external hard drive to store my pictures.  I've had my macbook for five years, so I have that many years worth of pictures on it.  If it every crashes I'll be devastated.  I have a feeling it might be on its last leg...maybe that's just wishful thinking because I want a macbook pro :).  

Halsey took my camera one day and snapped about 100 pictures.  Most of them were of her toys or the driveway, but this one really caught my eye.  I just love it.  They were outside and the lighting was just right.  This is not the first picture of this type Halsey has taken either.

I took this at Halsey's birthday party at TNT Tumbling - where the girls take gymnastics.  This was before all the fun began and I could actually get them to stop for a second for my camera.

Hayleigh had her first major sleepover for her birthday.  I don't even know how many girls we had, but we had a good time.  We had a spa.  I have to give a special thank you to Harley's sisters and mom for coming over to help.  I could not have pulled it off without their help.  This is a picture of them being silly.  Charity was a late comer, so I added a picture of her too.  She added lots of life to our party! :)  It was so great to have them all there.  I have to admit that I was glad when it was over too.  I was pooped!  Thanks to my mom for keeping Haddon, and Mandy B for letting Hals stay with her that night.  

I did a horrible job taking pictures on Christmas morning.  I only got about 15, and none of them were of the three girls together.  I hope this next year I can do better all the way around with pictures: taking them, loading them, developing them, etc.  The girls are only this age once, and I want to make sure we don't miss anything.

Well, it's late.  Thanks for reading!