Shelves!!!

Look at that mess!!! Back in February, this is what our basement looked like! If you know Cass, you know that this bothered us to no end, but we never needed to go downstairs for anything so it got neglected.

We decided that this needed to be fixed! We had a whole bunch of leftover plywood from building the shed doors (see August 9, 2010) so we figured that'd make some excellent shelves! Now I just needed some 2x4s! Too bad those don't grow on trees! (Wait, they do actually just not in my backyard.) I also needed some nails. Quick trip to Lowe's took care of that!

We brought my tools and stuff down into the basement and cleared out a workspace for me and away I went. They only took me a day to build. We had 4 pieces of plywood that were about 18" deep and 8' long, and we had 4 more that were about 30"x20". Perfect for storage bins!

In the end, we had two super sturdy shelving units. One that looked like a 4 person bunk bed! Combined with a set of metal shelves we got from where Cass's Mom used to work, we ended up having enough room in the shelves to organize just about everything we had in our basement, after going through all our stuff and throwing a bunch of stuff out of course! We had extra garbage to throw out at the curb each week for about the next 2 or 3 weeks as a result of that! NICE!

We're quite proud of our handy work! This of course made room for me to start putting together my man cave!!! Check it out!

Our Christmas Vacation Photos

Well, I'm sorry that it took so long to finally post these, but after sifting through over 2,000+ photos and videos, I've picked out the best photos from our Christmas Vacation trip to Ohio, Georgia, Tampa, and our Western Caribbean Cruise. We posted pictures at the links below for you to see and if you want a copy of any of the photos, there should be a link on the bottom of each photo's page that says "Download in High Resolution".

There were so many pictures, I decided to split them up so that the photos of our trip leading up to the cruise when we're in Ohio and Georgia are in the "Christmas Break" album and our cruise is in the "Our Western Caribbean Cruise" album. Once you click on the album name below, you can click on a photo to get a larger view of it. We hope you enjoy them!

Christmas Break

Our Western Caribbean Cruise

Not Much Happening Lately

Hello All,

I know I haven't posted about anything in quite some time, but unfortunately not a whole lot of interesting things have been happening with us lately. I don't want the faithful few who check our blog from time to time to think I've abandoned the blog, though. I haven't taken a whole lot of pictures lately, either. Hence the lack of new posts on the Eaton Perspective. We got a new DSLR camera, though.

Cass and I wanted to take a fall vacation up to Northern Michigan at the peak of color but that fell through for other plans we're making. ^_^

With the Christmas season fast approaching, I want to wish everyone a merry time with family and friends and don't ever forget what we celebrate on the 25th of December. I promise we'll have more to blog about after the holiday season.