Much better......

Before we went on vacation I decided to clean out and organize my closet. I had put it off waaaaay to long and it NEEDED it. What a mess!

No wonder I could never find anything. Every piece of clothing I own is in this closet with the exception of undies and pj's.

Ugly wire rods and baskets. It was time for a change. So I pulled EVERY SINGLE item, shoes included out and went thru EVERYTHING. I even found a dress that I liked and bought TWICE. I know!!!!! I said it was bad.
My brother Frank took all the old racks down and installed a brand new system for me. And I LOVE IT!

Believe it or not I did take 2 large bags of clothes to goodwill. Yes, I could still go thru my purses. Some I no longer carrry. Maybe craigslist??????

We used every inch of space. Now I can see all my boots.

Found this lil idea in a magazine and it works great. Chair railing to hang heels on. AWESOME!

Still need to add more chair railing for these.....

Hey a girl can never have too many shoes. Right???????? Can I get a whooop from all the "shoe ho's" out there?

Perfect? NO! BUT I can find things easier.

And it looks prettier than it did. So for now it works.

East Coast Vacation

Jeff & I saved all year for a 10 day vacation to see the east coast.DC,NYC, and Boston. After a year of wedding planning we were more than ready. Just the two of us. Then it all changed in an instant. Mystic Ct is only a 1 1/2 hour train ride from Boston. The Graces (aka the Wontons) lived there. Travis & Jades old neighbors and dear friends. And Trav knew this because he told us this info. Oh he wished they could go. If you have ever seen Travs sad face you know what I was dealing with. But we couldn't just take 2 of them.
It has been years since we had taken a family vacation. Could we??? Can everyone take time from work???
It was on. Everything fell into place and we were off and running with a plan. The closer it got the more excited we all got.
We flew into DC. All 7 of us. We had three days to explore this city before taking the train to NYC. We checked into our hotel and went to check out Georgetown. The next day we took a 6 hour tour of DC. It was so HOT. but very interesting. Jeff and Trav played golf and the rest of us did a little shopping. We decided on our last night of every city we would go somewhere nice for dinner and we toasted that city and everyone took turns telling what their favorite and not so fav part about that city was.

I love history so I really enjoyed visiting DC. Loved it.
Our hotel was in Virginia (long story) so we had to take many $$$$$ cab rides everywhere.
We did take the public transportation when we could.

Kate is missing from this pic she is a Tx girl.

Georgetown here we come.......

My beautiful daughter in law Jade and handsome son Travis

Handsome son #3 Curtis and his beautiful new bride Kate

My handsome baby boy Paul with our girls

I know I know Im a lucky girl. This is MY FAMILY and I'm one proud mama.
I'm SO blessed. My girls get along, my boys love the girls and Jeff and I are crazy in love with each one of them. We enjoyed seeing Dc and were ready for NYC.