August 27, 2010

I have two backdoors. One is our glass slider (top picture) and the other a regular door. Here is the view from each door. Since they are right next to each other the pictures are pretty much the same.

Every Friday night my In-Laws have been watching MJ for a few hours so James and I can get some time for each other. This week instead of going out shopping we are spending the evening organizing our Basement storage areas. Here are the before pictures. The first one in in our furance room and the second is in our laundry room.

August 26, 2010

I made this bow for MJ to wear with this dress. She and I were heading to the doctors' office for my 6 week check-up. She got to spend a couple of hours with her great grandma.

August 25, 2010

These letters hang in our living room behind our TV. They hang one below the other. But I couldn't get them all in the picture if I took it straight so I had the camera at an angle. These represent my family. J-James S-Sam M-Mackenzie

August 24, 2010

I forgot to post a picture of our pool after we drained the water out of it. So this weekend we took the sides down and let the liner dry out a bit more. This is what it looked like. We are cutting up the liner and throwing it away on Trash Day this week. I'm so excited to see this pool gone. The only bad thing is we were gonna put a patio out there, but we don't have the money for it this year. Maybe if we get a big enough tax rebate we can get new windows and the patio done.

August 23, 2010

I really didn't feel like taking pictures of my laundry because it just reminds me that I need to be actually doing the laundry instead of taking pictures of it. So I took a picture of my upstairs half bath. My husband finally let me put some ducks in it instead of having it all white. A little background information: We bought this house in October 2009, we fell in love with it right off the bat. We didn't notice some of the minor details of the house, like the upstairs half bath had one wall that wasn't drywall it was more wood like. We were painting the house in November after we closed on it and I was upstairs trying to strip the wall border off the wall so we could prime and paint it. I was going to be allowed to put my ducks in this bathroom, since my husband didn't really want a duckie bathroom he let me have a half bath full of duckies. As I was peeling the border off I notice it a brown color behind the border on just one wall. That is when we discovered it was wood and not drywall. So his mom ended up taking over in the bathroom and got most of the wall border off and fixed the walls up somewhat and we just primed the bathroom because we knew we would have to fix the wall before we sold it.

So fast forward to months later and James finally let me put some stuff in the bathroom since we had to put all house projects for the most part on hold until I go back to work.

August 22, 2010

My favorite piece of furniture was an easy one for me. It's my glider sitting in MJ's room. I have always wanted one of these since I was a teenager. My freshman RA had one in her room and I was so envious of her. Once I got pregnant I knew I would get a glider. I have spent many of hours in this glider before MJ was even born talking on the phone and reading my pregnancy books.

August 21, 2010

I didn't travel anywhere really today that had cool architecture. But the one thing in my house that I couldn't live without are my bookshelves that my Father-in-law and husband made for me in April. This room is our newest project perse. It is the one room in the house that has nothing on the walls yet. My husband gets the whole basement of our house as his man cave and all I get is this one room so I'm having a hard time picking out pictures and what to do with this room.