A little house updating!

Over Labor Day, we got rid of all of our old furniture that we had been storing for Chris' cousin since we got our new couch in May.  We bought a new ottoman, and now our main room feels really grown up!  Its funny, when you buy one new piece of furniture, it always leads to buying more furniture to match everything else.  I already want to buy something taller to house our tv, but patience, right?

Dardar photo bombs

On Thursday night, Chris figured out that our sink hose was leaking, so we were in need of a new sink faucet.  Saturday morning we all made a family trip to Home Depot and picked out a nice new fixture.  It totally modernizes our kitchen!  I took the girls grocery shopping while he installed it, so there would be no girls distracting him, and he sent this picture out to me and a few of his family members.  I bet you didn't know Dath Vader could also be a handyman!

Simple and pretty!

April Fun

I'm so glad April is over.  It was the busiest month of my life!  I prepared my students to take the STAAR test and I accepted a new position at a private school.  More on that later though.  Sarah and I did the Color Run!  When I came home the girls could not get over how crazy I looked.


Squeaky Clean before



Colorful After



A rare night out sans kids- Edgefest!

My mom came to visit during STAAR week.

My tall girls helping dad update the playground.

Annoying

So our reno is pretty much done, but there are a few annoying projects left before it is picture in a magazine worthy. We still have to install lights and mirrors, and stain the drawer faces and cabinet doors. Those are the big ones. The other projects are just downright annoying. They include finding and installing thresholds so we don't have this:

Sorry about my toes!

Touching up along the sides of the vanities where some stain dripped on the walls. And when we took the painters tape off, it left this:

The white spots mean it was stripped down to the plaster, so that means I have to go back, prime AND paint. Oh joy.

And one last thing. Remember these lamps? Well, the person who sold them to me must have switched out the lampshades and taken an important connecting piece so it is virtually impossible to make a lampshade stay upright. Grrr. Chris is going to have to basically rewire them so we can put a proper shade on it. Annoying, right?

You would think that we would have been able to knock out quite a few of those projects on this lovely 3 day weekend, but nah. We had too much fun doing other stuff. Weekend wrap-up to follow!

A Labor of Love

So the AWESOME playground is finished. And by finished, I mean ladders and siding is up and it is finally safe for G to play on. Chris still has plans to add a steering wheel or two, a roof and maybe even more levels. but for right now Gianna has a little house area to play in, 2 levels to climb on, and a slide to go down. Elia of course loves the slide too. Chris has been working on this playground nonstop for the past week- coming home and going straight outside, and weekends, etc. And Uncle Patrick helped a lot too! This is what my mom would call a "Labor of Love." Here are some pictures! Enjoy ;)

A month ago

Last Week

Up Close

View from the porch

And here is the view of the new picnic table:

Projects

A leaky faucet. New toilet covers. Cornhole boxes. A picnic bench. A new playground. These are all projects Chris has finished or is currently working on. And Gianna LOVES to help daddy with all of his projects. I am sure that Chris could finish these projects in half the time without her "help," but it makes her so happy and excited!

They took this outdoor coffee table:

and turned it into a kid sized picnic table:

Gianna helped measure everything else and I think her favorite part was helping "paint" (stain) the wood once he put it all together. It will be perfect for when her friends come over and want to eat outside!

Next up is the playground he is working on, complete with a slide! As soon as he finishes, I will put up pics as well.