The Cupboard Under the Stairs.

Also fondly known as, The Room of Requirement. We have a closet/cupboard under the stairs that usually contains our "Costco mountain" or in other words, everything that I've purchased from Costco or other grocery stores over the last 9 months that we have yet to use/eat. It's a pretty crazy place and more often than not, we can't seem to find what we're looking for. The goldfish crackers are at the bottom of the heap, the cans of cream of mushroom soup have fallen behind the hot water heater, and the rolls of toilet paper were thrown to the back and I can't reach them without having Steven hold onto me as I stretch precariously over the mountain. So on Friday we took everything out and did our best to organize it in a way that allows us to see (and use!) what we have. With 21 boxes of cereal, well, let's just say I won't need to go shopping any time soon.

A quick glance at the rest of our weekend... Friday night we spent hanging out with the Piehlers.

Tim made these yummy snacks for us and we just sat and ate them all while playing a game of Cargo Noir. And then a little hot tubbing after :)

Aw, how sweet.

Saturday morning Steven and I spent tidying up the house, which felt SO good!! I pulled everything out of our closet and organized it and we scrubbed the bathroom and I tidied our room a bit (still needs some help as I've started to pull things out that we will be packing for Hawaii later this week) and weeded our little dirt patch out front and tidied up downstairs and cleaned the kitchen and it was just so great to do a little spring cleaning! The guest bedroom is still in desperate need of some attention as is the closet in there.

Saturday evening we went out for dinner with my Dad's family to celebrate Amanda's birthday. Sushi at Kiku. Yum. And then we spent the night at my mom's house so we would have a short commute to church Sunday morning. We played Cargo Noir with Mom and then crashed in Tara's bed since she was out of town.

Sunday was busy busy busy! We went to church and then I dropped Steven off at the Mayer's and I went to Alderwood Mall to work on wedding stuff with Joy (we got a nice little timeline going, excellent progress!) and then back to the Mayers for Chad's birthday party and then off to Uncle Scott's to celebrate Grammi's birthday, phew!

And right now, we're heading out the door to spend Memorial Day with Scott and Kristen in Vancouver, WA.

Hope Memorial Day weekend is treating you well!!

OH! p.s. Steven is moving on to the Chief's interview. It's this Wednesday at 11:20.