Greetings from Couchville

This month we celebrate my 40th birthday and our 20th wedding anniversary. The guys at work were very insistent that Keith needed to do something BIG. I have wanted new couches since we moved into this house almost 5 years ago. Our current couches were bought 11-12 years ago. Considering they have been through 3 (4 if you count going into storage) moves and 5 kids, I guess they held together pretty well.

Notice the holes. One of the foot rests doesn't go up anymore.  Another foot rest has been repaired by Keith more than once. During the move to this house, the fabric on the big couch got ripped in two different places. Julie, my SIL had to teach me how to repair them.

I wonder where the stitching for the center cushion went.

If you are squeamish as all, you might want to look away. This is the under world of couchville. It is a very scary place to be. We clean it.... sometimes.....

 No, we don't keep the little girl in couchville. She is trying to scavenge treasures.

Clean carpet!  Please don't be disgusted by the carpet in this picture. Consider this a "before" picture. Im pretty sure this is the original carpet in this 16 year old house. The people that lived here before us kept their dogs inside. Needless to say,  we are getting wood floors in May. There is a high possibility Keith will come home from work very soon to find half of the carpet ripped out.

Keith got a bonus at work and he really came through with the BIG birthday/anniversary gift. NEW COUCHES!  Happy birthday to me! Happy Anniversary to us!

Please note the new couch rules.
1) No eating on the couches if you are under 40.
2) No sitting on the couches if you are under 40.
3) No pencils/pens/sewing needles, scissors, hair pins, legos, fruit snacks, hair elastics, or combs near the couches if you are under 40.
4)No touching of the couches if you are under 40.
5) No looking at the couches if you are under 40.
6) No anything else not mentioned in #3 on the couch if you are under 40.
7) No flash photography of the couches if you are under 40.
8) No diapers on the couch if you are under 40.
9) No animals on the couch if you are under 40. (This includes stuffed animals)
10) No couchville in these couches. If you are from couchville, you just got moved downstairs.

I noticed that several rules have already been broken. We will have to think though some of them. Heaven knows I don't like dictators. Go ahead, relax. If you don't understand the couchville reference, you are obviously NOT a Studio C fan and I will have to re-examine our friendship. Go to youtube and look up Studio C couchville.  Thanks Keith for the couches! These are the things a 40 year old gets excited about. It might be sad and pathetic, but Im ok with that.