Saturday: Loran does guitar lessons in the morning and I clean...his last guitar lesson was at home so the girl could babysit while we went to watch Eclipse. Loran and I really enjoyed it...better than the first two for sure! Then we just hung out at home...it was nice!
Sunday: A few weeks ago, Loran was mowing the lawn and hit something. It killed the mower. We didn't pay much for it in the first place so fixing it seemed to be a bit out of the question. So after getting up awfully early to get to church for him to practice for the worship team, we went to Lowe's to look at new mowers. The awesome saleswoman told us about a deal...a mower that needed to be repaired that was a top of the line John Deere push-mower that we could get for a little over half the price and it was still covered by the warranties! We snapped up the deal and when we got home we started mowing lawn. Loran did the front lawn and the neighbor's lawn and I did the backyard...WE LOVE MO, the new mower! I made beans, cucumbers and potato salad and homemade ice cream cake and grilled hamburgers from the town's meat market.
It rained but when it stopped we figured we'd head into Platteville for the fireworks. Because there was another storm moving in, they lit off the fireworks before it was even really dark. We sort of saw two as we were driving in and missed the rest. Luckily I had sparklers at home so we were outside when we noticed that somewhere in Belmont there were about 10 fireworks being lit off. So we saw some :-) I keep reminding Ankica that Homecoming will have lots in October. She remains unconvinced.
Monday: We had a lazy morning...we read a little and started to clean and organize. There were still boxes to unpack! I organized my pantry closet and parts of the kitchen finally. Loran took off two baseboard heaters so that we could put our free bookshelves up and unpack our books. After that, I unpacked the books and he cut out pieces for a shelf he is making for the girls. Then we relaxed and enjoyed our "completed" living room and read. As much as I missed spending time with my family, it was a busy, productive, and wonderful weekend at home.
View as we walk up the stairs from our room...because the shelves match the white walls it make it look like a second floor of a library or old bookstore...just what we want!
This is a hutch/cabinet thing that we got from the landlords when they moved out and down-sized. It has books in it right now but I hope to have dishes to put in it someday :-) 
Our living room with the couch and sofa that we trading our lawn-mowing services for...super comfortable and "pre-catted" (some scratches but perfect for our house).
The bookshelves with most of our books. Most of them are science fiction. Three and half of the shelves are written or co-written by Anne McCaffrey. Loran has John Ringo and Orson Scott Card. I also have Elizabeth Moon and Mercedes Lackey. We also have a shelf of "required reading" classics (literature and poetry) and some science books and the rest are political and history books. Our Bible commentaries and other books on religion are in the hutch at the top of the stairs. I love our library :-)
Our piano that we got in trade for our digital piano because we had room and they were moving to a smaller house. I feel a little bad because she was a piano performance major but I have already taught Ankica to find the "C"'s on the piano and I am planning on taking lessons again once school starts up again. For now it holds our family pictures quite nicely :-)
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