Pieces Coming Together

Friday was an all around good day! Chris had his first job interview with Vineyard Christian School and has another interview at Riverside Polytechnic High School on Monday (I’ll let him give you the details). We also, finally, got our IKEA items (see the pictures below) and our fridge (pictures also below)! And we were finally able to do some grocery shopping!

Here are all the IKEA boxes...I like their stuff, but be prepared to spend "hours" piecing it all together!

The completed sleeper sofa.  The bottom pulls out to make a full size sleeping area.  So we now have a place for visitors to sleep.

The completed bookshelf and desk.  We turned the dining room into an "office", since we don't have a table of any kind.

We can finally buy groceries..which we did.  Megan has turned into quite the bargain shopper.  Even though we went to four total grocery stores, we saved around $100 total!  Gotta love coupons!

As if that isn’t enough good news . . . We also received our first package today (see photo’s below) from our favorite group of teenagers and their leaders (i.e. Dena and Jenna)!

The box was a little beat up, but Mo knew right away that something in there belonged to him.

The package included a homemade card, Blitz Week video, some cute decorative items: a door hanger, tea light holder, and tea lights (from my favorite: Yankee Candle). There were also t-shirts for Chris and me: pink Carolina Girl for me (glad to know it is official---the South Carolinians will claim me), orange Clemson for him! And there was even a little something for Mo! He sniffed it out WAY before we opened the package! I just assumed he smelled familiar people on the box . . . Wrong.

We miss you all too!

We all LOVE, LOVE, LOVE our surprises! Thank you so much for thinking of us! We definitely did not expect it! It topped off an already fabulous day and made me think of and really, really, really miss you all! Now, if only our other belongings would arrive!

All of our great gifts!  Thanks everyone! And Mo loved the bone...

P.S. I loved the Blitz Week video! The carousel pictures on bowling night were fantastic and I cannot believe McKenlee got in the big ball spinney-thing at Funtasia (I must know--did he throw up)?

--Megan