Spring time!

I love spring. It makes me happy. I feel like there is just so much more time to get things done and to enjoy being outside. Winter makes me grumpy and dreary and I am just really enjoying the sunshine and the fact that SUMMER is getting closer. After a long winter I always feel the need to freshen things up a bit and this year we did that in the bedroom with a new duvet (why did I never knew how much more awesome duvets and duvet covers were than comforters?? I love this thing!) and curtains from IKEA.... ok now, I might be REALLY behind on this excitement but I had never gone to IKEA before a few weeks ago. I thought of it as cheaply made furniture and crowded parking lots... ok so this is still true but HELLO, I loved some of their choices for decor! The fact that it was cheap didn't hurt either. Hooray for thrifty cuteness to brighten things up in April. ;) We are also (still) trying to figure out our furniture arrangements and have moved the entire house around trying to see the best fit... Now, what was our living room is sort of a computer/sitting room that I am not sure that I love but we decided it needed some tables. I thought it would be NO PROBLEM to get some old tables at the Salvation Army, sand and re-stain them and VIOALA, new living room furniture... Not so easy my friends.... three weeks later and I am still sanding and staining ONE stinking side table... I will post pictures when I feel that I have made enough progress to have something to show for it. We are also planting a salsa garden this summer (yaaaaay) so I have been growing peppers, onions, jalapeños and cilantro in my basement with my brand new grow-room, courtesy of Mike and his dad! We will be building grow boxes out back to transplant everything when Colorado stops snowing randomly. So that's that, new plants, new duvet love, new projects.... must be spring!