Weekend Recap

First things first,

BEG and I rented our house in Shreveport

and we are beyond thrilled about it!!

We were headed to Shreveport for July 4th weekend with our families

and it ended up that the renters are moving in July 8

so we will spend part of the weekend loading up all of the remainder of our things

that wouldn't fit in our rent house in Lubbock onto a trailer to bring back west.

Since we are bringing everything left that we own out here

we decided the smartest and easiest thing to do would be to rent a storage room.

We decided to move our storage closets (full of our off season clothes)

that were in the office to the storage unit

and other random things we don't access often (skis, snowboard, etc) this weekend.

We are planning to put our sleeper sofa where the storage closets once were

so I can hangout with BEG while he is at his desk!

Saturday,

I decided to try a new recipe I found for

homemade dark chocolate ice cream.

Preparing the ingredients...

Finished product....

BEG enjoying our new delicious treat...

Today, we finally decided to put together the stand that came with our swing.

I blogged before about the one BEG built for the front yard,

which we enjoy sitting in

but we thought it would be nice to have one in the backyard as well.

This one is moveable and has a canopy too.

Halfway finished....

Hard at work....

the finished product....

After the heat I needed one of these...

We've been battling the sun in our room for quite sometime now

but we finally dealt with it today!!

The far 3 windows have the room darkening shades underneath;

such a difference.

Oh so nice for some shut eye!

P.S. I covered the 4th window after the picture,

just needed an undercovered one for effect!

This is next weekends project!

Blake's office gets SO SO SO hot.

Not only does he sweat to death when studying, etc

but since we are putting our sleeper sofa in there,

which can sleep 2 people,

we thought a room under 90 degrees would be nice for our guests!

His friend owns rental houses

and had a few ac window units laying around

and gave us one so.....

next weekend this will look a bit more redneck =)

With this heat out here

you just do what works!!

Hope everyone had a great weekend

CMG