Organizing Mission Monday Link Party – Week 23

Surprises This Past Week

I had a big surprise this past week.  My oldest son Joe got married! He is stationed in San Antonio for National Guard Training.  He met his girlfriend there and they found out she was going to be transferred to another base (long story, Army lost and messed up her paperwork..blah blah blah) that week.  They are both in the military.

I got a Facebook message from him on Monday.  Yes, Facebook (at least it was a DM) He was going to not even tell me, but she convinced him to.

I think he was worried of what I would say.  I of course, being his mother an all, wanted to make sure they had thought things through. It was a very quick decision.  I didn’t tell him not to (I wouldn’t do that), but I did want to ask him some questions. (No… she isn’t pregnant)

They ended up getting married on Tuesday evening.  She had to leave first thing Wednesday morning.  But they will end up being stationed at the same base in September when Joe gets out of his training.

On Tuesday when I knew for sure the wedding was definitely going to take place, I asked my other son who is stationed with him to please take their picture and send it to me.

Then I posted that picture on my computer.  My other son, Drew put his phone on speaker phone, and we got to hear the wedding.  See what he is holding?  It isn’t a Bible, or smart phone so he could remember his words.  It is my other son’s phone so that I can be at the wedding too.

Here is the kiss!

And one more..

I told the triplets they could go make a wedding cake for them.  Of course Joe and his now wife, Fulton wouldn’t be able to have any, but it would be something the triplets remembered and associated with it.  This picture was taken about 9:30pm. The kids were ready to go to bed.  Texas is an hour earlier and it was about 8:00pm est when they were married.

So…. that is my bit of shocking news.  I got to hear about my son’s wedding via Facebook and be at my son’s wedding via speaker phone. Now how many of you can claim that?  lol

Joe is so happy. I just hate to see them apart now until September.

My Featured Bloggers This Week

Parents of a Dozen – Uses Storage Space So Wisely!

They utilized space in their garage for storage.  This is one of the things that I had planned to do in our garage, had we not gotten the storage shed. But I will if I need the space in the future. I love this.

Here is their attic. Unfinished…. insulation…. yes… fall through the slats into the room below kind of attic.

On her post she shows the steps they went through to make this usable.  Then she also labeled the sections so anyone could find things.

Stop by her post to see the rest of Extra Storage Space and how she converted her attic.  Also just check out her blog… some great ideas for large families!

Katja from Skimbaco Home shares this really cool idea for laundry storage on the wall.

These are laundry baskets on the wall from Helene Steiner.  Katja always finds the coolest things on her blog. I mean really, wouldn’t these be great if you had a small place and a small family?

Then you just take it off the wall to use it.

Check out Katja’s blog and you can get the link to where you can find these too.

 

Be sure to stop by and give some bloggy love to all my Featured Bloggers!

Link up to my Link Party

I would love to see what you are working on this week. But as always you can link up any organizing or cleaning or DIY post to my link party.

You can find the link for my button and also my “Proud to Be Featured Button” on my sidebar

Rules

1) Link to your specific post – not your blog

2) Please Link back to my blog with my button or link (link just above underneath my button)

3) I’d love if you’d follow me on google and/or FB. The google is new and I’m trying to build it

4) Blog post related to Organizing or Cleaning or DIY or decorating

5) No sales pitches or web sites.

6) If I feature you I will use one or more of your pictures with a link back to your blog.

8) Feel free to link up more than 1 post.

Looking for other link parties? I have a whole list of them. Thumbnail via day above and keep scrolling down to find a more extensive text lists by day on my link party list.

If you aren’t sure how to link up… see my link party tutorial here. It is simple.

If You Are On A Reader and Want to View All the Great Link Up’s Please Click Here.

This will be open until Saturday night May 28th, 2011

Genesis of a Great Idea $10,000 Contest Info

The launch of this Social Media Contest happened at Blog World Expo 2009 on Friday October 16th. Dr. Lindsey Duncan, John Andrews of Collective Bias and Katja Presnal of Skimbaco took the stage to explain the contest and talk about Genesis Today.

This is a fantastic contest because it is anonymous. The panel who is judging will not have any information on the person who has submitted the idea. So this is not a “popular blogger” contest. How refreshing.

Here are the contest guidelines…

Here are the basics:
Submit your idea (250 words or less)
You will have to enter your name etc…but the panel will not see ANY of your information. This will only be viewed by one person who will be organizing that part of it.
5 semi finalist will be chosen.
Those 5 will be flown to Austin Texas the week of January 11th (not sure of exact dates, but plan on 2 days)
All expenses will be paid for.
The panel will hear the 5 ideas and will chose 1 winner for the $10,000 cash.
The other 4 will win $1,000 each.
The the winner will help to put their idea into reality.