Wooo Hooo!!!

Wow has a lot gotten done since I wrote last!  I finished deep cleaning and organizing the basement and master bedroom.  I made a craft organizer out of an old shoe rack, old cans, paint, and zip ties (my first attempt at a tutorial is coming up), and I made a post-it planner for my projects based on a blog that I found on Pinterest.  OMG you guys!  It makes me feel super awesome and a lot less crazy now that EVERYTHING is clean!!  It's been a couple weeks since the major deep clean of the most used rooms and things are still pretty clean.  Of course there is the exception of some of my husbands things that I guess I haven't nagged enough about yet haha.  I can always find important papers, getting work done goes faster because my area is neat and I feel calmer.  In the basement my crafts are organized so I can actually get some projects done, the husband's army clothes and toys are all in one area and matched according to wear and tear, and things are off the floor.  Now our basement looks huge! The only problem is that the husband now wants to set up his drum-set.  The set that had to come to Germany with us and sat in not 1 but 2 basements for the 3 years we were there, and has been sitting, never unpacked, in this basement for 2 years.  I think as soon as I get a space I want to spend time in, the husband finds a way to take it over.  This is why in the future house, I get my interest rooms in the house and he can have a shed in the back.  No joke, I want my space so I'm kicking him into the shed.  
Oh I have also started gathering all of the frames and making time to get some decorating done.  This weekend we are going to take pictures of each other with the husband's nice camera and then play around with my dad's Photoshop.  Those pictures will then become giant photo booth style prints that will be hung in our hallway.  I'm also looking for great food/dining quotes to make a set of 3 kitchen paintings.  One will be the words in the shape of a bottle of wine, another of a fork I think, and the third is up in the air so far.  I also have to get the butcher paper from work to plan out the gallery wall in the living room.  BTW I'm thinking that I'm going to start stealing the husband's camera so that I can start putting pictures to go along with the words on this here blog.  That will make me so much more interesting to read!
Jumping topics like I'm jumping from a train.  The hubs and I went to marriage retreat last weekend.  The class is a good class, but the army shortened it, provided a presenter that was not totally comfortable with the information, and left out some pretty important parts (like where you are supposed to talk to your spouse about how you think and feel) while replacing those parts with unnecessary other bits (like asking the entire room every question and talking a lot about trust/commitment and physical safety in your relationship).  We met some pretty cool people and had a great time and I would recommend the class to anyone wanting to strengthen their marriage and improve communication or learn more techniques to do so.  Oh and it might be helpful to tell you what class we took too huh?  We took P.R.E.P. and you can find out more about it https://www.prepinc.com/Content/ABOUT-US/What-Is-PREP.htm <----right there.  (Note to self: learn how to add in links that are not all website-y and just a word or two)  
Oh and just another thing...can anyone explain why when I get all motivated I want to do a million things when I should really only focus on one?  I'm trying so hard not to lose my motivation and to get everything started and finished. Haha by the time I get everything on my list finished, I'll probably have just as many new things on the list!
Coming up we still have a wedding shower, a race, a military weekend, a visit from friends, and a wedding in the next three weeks.  Wish us luck that our house stays clean, that you still hear from me, and that some additional items get knocked off of the to-do list.  Cheers!