{New digs}

Its time for new, updated, NICE furniture.  We've had the same couch/love seat set for about 5 years.  We bought those at Nebraska Furniture Mart (<<<amazing!) on sale.  Faux leather.  Ya, I said faux leather.  The plastic-y surface started to break down about a year ago.  Our solution?  Slap a cheap Walmart couch cover on both couches.  Great, right?  Wrong-o.

Our T.V. was bought for us about 6 years ago.  Its a dinosaur in terms of today's technology.  It works, why replace it?  Because its old as father time.  The console the dino-T.V. sits in is a hand me down from my aunt and uncle.  Its pottery barn, but its also old and falling apart.  See a theme here?

Coffee table is a solid wood mission style off of Craigslist.  It needs refinishing, but we got it for $40, so I'm all for keeping it and reviving it.  Kitchen table.  Also a hand me down.  Chairs have been replaced, but the table is your general, classic round number.  I'm hoping to refinish this also and eventually put it in the "office/craft room".

Here's the thing.  We're military.  We move a lot (well, in theory).  We rarely stay somewhere long enough where its feasible to paint.  I mean, we just have to paint it back, why do it?  Obviously, we rent b/c there's no guarantee how long we'll be any given place.  In this economic climate buying a house only to leave and have to try and sell it in 2 years just doesn't work.  Having nice things, only to have them scratched/scuffed/broken in the frequent moves?  Can you sense the wishful thinking here?! (we're DYING to PCS).  I can't justify a $3000 couch that may or may not make it through a move unscathed.

Nursery-this is one of my biggest regrets.  I went on some form of bedrest at 27w.  I was carrying TWINS, I had to take it much easier than the average pregnant lady.  We decided to start the nursery at...you guessed it 26w.  Essentially, we got the cribs (not the cribs I wanted, but the cribs we could afford-shopping for two is pricey) up and that's it.  I went on hospital bed rest at 32w and we stayed at the hospital until almost 3 weeks after they were born.

Here's another thing, when you find out TWO babies have taken up residence in your ute, savings becomes a priority.  Saving for college, saving for essentials, saving for anything BUT dream cribs and non-essential nursery decor.  In the years prior we saved for this and that, but never for furniture.  It's time to make that a priority...right after we pay off our cars and other misc debt :)  Until then I'll make my second hand, cheap, old furniture work for us.  With the help of Hobby Lobby ;)

Speaking of Hobby Lobby?  Who's excited for CHRISTMAS?!?!  Too soon?  I don't think so.

P.S.  Its currently snowing.  This is the one time I'll be excited about snow.

{workout buddies}

Its ON!  My babies are six months old and I promised myself I'd start a healthy living/fitness plan when they were eight weeks old.  Woops.  I'm tired of being a bloated, unhealthy version of my former self.  Granted, my former self wasn't going to win a Miss Fitness America pagent anytime soon, but being overweight with the battle scars from a twin pregnancy makes me feel repulsive.  

Having GD and not being able to enjoy food at all (in my opinion) really rocked my eating habits after pregnancy.  All that junk I couldn't have on occasion during pregnancy, I ate in mass amounts post partum.  I am very frustrated with myself, there's no excuse.  What's done is done and now I get to work on shedding the post partum pounds.  

We've decided to revamp our entire system.  We're rearranging our budget to pay off our cars a couple years early (hopefully by January 2012).  We're rearranging our routine to include more cooking as a family, chores as a family and fitness as a family.  I'm working a bit more until the end of November, so we need to streamline our routines to ensure maximum output.  When you have two very active babies, a (close to) full time job, debt that needs to go, 30+ lbs to lose and a home that needs to be kept in ship shape, you REALLY need a plan that works.  

We're both motivated to make these changes.  We know it will be hard in the beginning, but we're hoping it becomes habit pretty quickly.  Our kids deserve healthy, organized, happy, loving parents.  They have all that, but we're kicking it up a notch.  Something clicked in me recently and I like my new way of thinking :)

Coach figured out how to do a fish face!  I'm trying to get a pic of it, but as soon as I pull out the camera he smiles :)  I'll take dimples and a gummy grin any day though!  Fancy has started to do a similar kissy face.  They're so funny!  They grow and change SO quickly its scary.  I'm afraid I'll wake up to teenagers tomorrow.  Seriously.  

Speaking of changes, I'm considering going back to using our real names.  I'm going to talk to M a little more about it.  Yes, the blog theme has changed again.  I can't find one I'm super excited about.  I like this one and it was a TON of work to get it up and running, so I'll probably stick with it for a while.  I hope :)