I took one look at her and just starting laughing, it was just the cure I needed when having a NOT SO good day. This little girls just seems to know when I'm having an off day, or just one of those days, because without fail, she always seems to find a way to snap me out of it! I just love this little girl!

My little Helper!

Brielle absolutley LOVES helping me clean.....whether its dusting, sweeping, or cooking, she LOVES to help! Now if only we can keep this going into her school age years! Because I know one of these days she isn't going to want to be as helpful!

As you probably remember from one of my previous posts, that my backyard is well......SCARY, so while I work on that, I thought well, my backyard is a disaster, I can at least make the front of my house presentable.....so i made a trip to Lowe's and I probably went a little overboard, but at least the front of my house looks good, now I just need to get the backyard to look the same.......

The House

I remember talking to Jason about Army housing, and it scared the CRAP out of me, I have heard some pretty scary stories of Post Housing, and just how run down they are. Well, all my worries and stressing I guess were for nothing, because we got pretty lucky. The military is now going to Privatized housing, which means, better homes, and NEW homes! No more living in homes that were built in the 60's! The only thing I'm having to get use to, is NO CARPET! That's right, there isn't carpet in a single room in this house, so we have had to buy A LOT of rugs! I guess it helps with cost issues with how many people move in and out of these houses. At first I hated it, but I'm use to it now. These aren't the best pictures, but I thought I would post a few of the house....So, Enjoy!

The kitchen

Part of the living room area......I haven't finished decorating or putting pictures up, so this is what I have so far......

This is the view from the back door to the front door



more of the kitchen......


This is as you walk in the front door



The laundry room and Gingers Home..... Nothing fancy or special

HELP

Okay....so we moved into our house here on Post and we LOVE the house, but the YARD IS A DISASTER! The people that lived here before us did not take care of a thing! I swear we have more weeds than grass, and then the grass we do have looks like its pretty much dead. So here is my question to all you homeowners or anyone that knows anything about lawns. Where do I even start?!?! I have never had to deal with a lawn like this before, and because i know we will most likely be moving in a few years, and the house isn't actually "ours" I don't want to spend a whole lot of money, but I also want a decent looking yard and somewhere I can let my kids play and not worry about a weed infested mess! Now I say decent looking because I know I can't get it perfect and because I don't want to spend a fortune on this thing, but seriously this yard is embarrassing! I put a weed killer down, and I have noticed some of the weeds wilting.....but seriously there are so many I don't think applying a weed killer is going to work, and I can't even think about seeding this yard until we get rid of these weeds, and so I'm wondering is there no hope??? So here are a few pictures of the yard.....Don't judge...well, actually you can judge, because I judge the people that lived here before me, I mean seiously!! So any advice would be MUCH appreciated!

I have been watering this thing for over a week and it still looks like this...... UGH

here is a close up of a section where its pretty much all weeds...... Scary!

and this is even after i put the weed killer on it!

and the countdown begins......

All I can really say is I sure hope these next 2 months go by as SLOW as possible!

Jason leaves in 2 months! (sigh) I pray everyday that I will have strength to get through this next year ALONE with 2 VERY active kids, and a new puppy! Now onto my HUGE list of to do's I want to get done before he leaves! So let the countdown begin.....