Picture Tag-a-rooni!

My cousin Jessi tagged me eons ago. I have been meaning to do it, and I suppose I got lazy? But when I started seeing the tag going around in other circles, it reminded me to get in gear.

The tag: take pictures around your house. NO cleaning beforehand.

Picture #1 - The fridgeYes, it's usually this empty. I spend a lot of the grocery budget on food storage type stuff, then come home and realize there is nothing in the fridge. One day I'll get it right.Why Erin, is that a remote control spider and a Pez dispenser next to your fridge? Why, yes it is. A very common occurrence at our house.

Picture #2 - The laundry room
I love my laundry room. In the past, my washer and dryer have been in my kitchen, so to have a completely separate room where I can close the door is fantastic! Plus, there is tons of room behind the door to store Christian's crap - I mean, really important stuff like camping and fishing equipment. (My crap is in the office closet: scrapbook stuff, non-important items from high school.)

Picture #3 - What the kids are doing nowIt's 10:21 at night as I type this, and thankfully they are sound asleep. When I took this picture, however, the flash woke Ethan up. Oops.

Picture #4 - My favorite shoesMy Haflinger slippers. I would wear them everywhere if I could. But they aren't fashionable. Sigh.

Picture #5 - A closet
I love love love this pantry (it's a type of closet, right?) When we moved here three months ago, I opened my moving box filled with food storage stuff, put it all in the pantry, and took note: everything we had in Iowa took up the space from the kidney beans to the tuna. About 2 feet worth of space on one shelf. So I have been desperately purchasing stuff to put in food storage so that I didn't have to view an empty pantry (oh yeah, and because the prophet asked us to).

Picture #6 - My favorite roomMy favorite room isn't actually a favorite room. It's a favorite area. My little reading space, with my rocker/glider, my bookshelves, and my...clothing waiting to be ironed??? I need to figure out a new place for that stuff. Like the laundry basket.

Picture #7 - Self portrait
It's technically not a self-portrait, but a drawing done by my son. I am the second one from the left, in light green.

Picture #8 - Kitchen sink
Um, yeah. Please don't click on it to see all of the griminess in its glory.

Picture #9 - A bathroomThe boys' bathroom. Why in the world did I choose white as the theme?!? It didn't happen that way on purpose, I promise. And Christian just put in "sun" light bulbs, which burn white instead of yellow. I immediately saw just how dirty the bathroom really was, and had to get the cleaning stuff out right away. I'm warning you - do NOT purchase sun light bulbs! Unless you want to clean a LOT more often!

Picture #10 - Originally was supposed to be a picture of my dream vacation. But I don't want to be the person who flaunts the fact that she is going on her dream vacation in four months. So the next choice was heating vents. But mine are plain old boring white ones in the ceiling. So, I randomly found a picture from my archives to post as a "welcome fall" type picture:

Leaf Man. Made by Ethan, 2007.