so apparently we have an attic...

all you texas folk are going to think i'm dumb for not knowing about attics...but for those of you who don't live in texas, you may not know that most of the houses here don't have basements...at least here in the dallas area. i thought that was so strange, having lived in utah all my life, where everybody has a basement. i guess the dirt here is more like bedrock/clay, making it nearly impossible to dig through. so most of the houses start at ground level, making storage space in the house a little scarce (thus the need for an attic).
so being ignorant to the attic fact, i did my best to consolidate all our stuff and de-junk when we moved in, but it still made the garage (what i thought was our only storage space), pretty cluttered.
so helping me think of solutions, fredgie suggested that we build a shed, or put some shelves up in the garage. we talked for a bit about how we could go about it, and then he stopped for sec and said, "wait, i think we have an attic."
well sure enough, just like the one on christmas vacation where clark griswold gets stuck when everybody goes christmas shopping...we have our own little attic, stairs and all.
he never had any use for an attic before we moved in (his junk consists of one box full of old baseball cards, high school year books, and mission photos), and i've only lived in an apartment in texas, so i didn't really know that they were a standard thing here.
so now i'm happy to say that all our "junk" is neatly stowed in its own little place in the second wing of our house above the garage. now i can send my hubby up there to get christmas decorations and "accidently" close the door and pretend like i don't know where he is:)

so this is a picture of the kids up in the attic (their "new house") the first thing van said was "mom, go get your camera and take a picture of us up here!" (he knows i never miss a chance at a cute pic:) they thought it was so cool, going up and down the stairs of their new house. they requested that i bring their dinner up to them so they could eat it in their "kitchen"...they played up there for hours!