How times change!

Carter and I had a minor flood in our basement last week. My heroic husband cleared all of the boxes and tubs out of our storage room before anything was damaged, but the repairman just came yesterday to fix the problem... so we have had a basement (a.k.a. the boys' room!) full of crap for over a week. It gave us a great excuse to go through some old boxes of stuff! We emptied over 6 large tubs and have a TON to give away... and I'm not finished yet. In going through our stuff, we found some interesting treasures.

*** A box full of beanie babies which makes Carter shake and convulse with memories of driving around from McDonald's to McDonald's when they had Teenie Beanie Baby toys with Happy Meals. His mom and I couldn't bear to miss out the entire collection... but we ate way too many chicken nuggets that summer.

*** Way too many boxes of artwork from Palmer & Harrison. I threw away a trash bag full of coloring pages and old valentines from preschool. (Don't worry, Gran, I kept a lot too!)

*** Carter's ZIT hat from Tech Drumline days... I think there was stuff growing inside it. Gross. Nasty. Ewwwww!!! He was ecstatic and started googling how to wash a baseball cap without ruining it.

*** Speaking of Carter's stuff... we found these two lovely items which I had to share. He and I laughed so hard when we found this t-shirt among his collection. My how times have changed!







And this collector's item also made us laugh... considering the events of the past few weeks. This was from the inagural game of the Big 12 (Tech vs. K State I think) which Carter attended with the band.