THE list.

Or at least the start of one.  Everyone knows that as soon as you cross one thing off a to do list, two more seem to sneak on there. Well here is ours (so far) divided into things that need to get done and fun things I just want to do.

the must dos

• tear out weeds in whole backyard and plant grass seed. hopefully grow grass.
• trim/cut down all branches/weeds and everything else that is overgrown throughout the yard
• scrape and paint around windows and doors
• hang mailbox
• install carbon monoxide testers
• tear down terrible rotting shed and replace with new shed
• tear down terrible ugly metal awning on back of house (how do we do this??)
• take out terrible broken chain link fence and replace with pretty wooden fence so we can't see into neighbor's yard
• redo upstairs bathroom (that's pretty general and i'm sure will be a pretty easy one to check off...)
• kitchen and hardwood floors on main level are being redone by professionals

the want to dos

• paint exposed brick wall inside white
• tear out grass in between concrete strips of driveway and replace with gravel
• tear out grass strip to the left of driveway and replace with gravel/stepping stones
• somehow make it so car doesn't scrape on driveway every time you back out
• make cute white flower boxes for windows
• paint back door white
• make upstairs second bedroom closet into an office nook
• replace bedroom closet doors with...something better than what's there

I know there are probably many more for each category, but I think that's enough to keep us busy for awhile :)