Friday's Letters

Dear THIS weekend, You officially started yesterday and I love that! I am so excited to spend this long weekend with some great people celebrating LOVE!

Getting to spend a WHOLE weekend with this lover face...is one of the best things EVER!

Dear Sierra & Derek, Thank you for dating, falling in love and for celebrating that love with all of us this weekend! I am so excited!!!

Dear month of July, Why are going by so fast! I can't keep up! I seriously can't believe summer is already half over (or almost). It's crazy. Please slow down...I enjoy my Summer Shandy and that is only a seasonal beer...

Dear Husband, I am so glad you had a GREAT birthday yesterday. I am also so happy that you are back to being only 1 year age number from me. I know you LOVE to point out for the last month that I am 29 and you are 27...well the fun is over, for now :)

Dear Dermatologist, I hope that all my moles look fine and if any have to be removed, they are not cancerous. Fingers crossed...

Dear Mya, You have officially been diagnosed with ADD. Tate has always said, 'like mother like daughter' (I have never been diagnosed with ADD...but one would think so). Please continue to learn and pay attention to me during class...it's very difficult to tell you what to do when you are looking at the other dogs and wanting to play with them!

Have a great weekend everyone!!!!

First 'HUSBAND' birthday

Happy Birthday to my FABULOUS husband!

We've shared many birthdays together.

6 dating birthdays, 2 engaged birthdays and now...our first married birthday!

Our first photo as a couple

I love you more today than I did yesterday! I feel so BLESSED to get wake up  next to you everyday and kiss you every night before falling asleep!

I love that you get my CRAZINESS and WEIRDNESS...even if you just pretend to get it ;)

I love the way you push me to do things you know I can do...I love the way you believe in me!

And most of all...I love the way you make me laugh and smile!

I look forward to the MANY years of birthdays we have ahead of us!

Love you so much!

Out with the old...in with the NEW

I love all the new projects going on in our house...I feel like we are getting a whole new house!

We have recently updated a few things in our upstairs living room.

This papasen chair I bought when I lived alone right after college. Very dated and needed to go! Sold on Craigslist!

We updated this area with this nice recliner chair!

We also sold this entertainment stand on Craigslist on Monday! This was also bought when I lived alone right after college also.

I've wanted to get rid of this stand from the day we moved in. I FINALLY found something I could re-do and put there...

Bought this off Craigslist for $40.

I transformed it into this...

I painted it black and distressed it only in a few places...I didn't want to over due this piece.

 

I took out the top drawer and made a shelf. We also had to drill a hole in the back for the cords to be able to go through.

The drawers are filled with DVD's and VHS tapes...yes we still have VHS tapes. We actually still have a VHS player...but have not used it since living in this house. What does one do with all their old VHS tapes?!?!

We are loving the updated look! Now we need to find things to hang on the wall. I'll be revisiting my pinterest boards for ideas!

Productivity...my kind of weekend

Seriously...if we had nothing to do this summer and a bank account full of money, we could get this remodeling/updating done in no time! The last 2 weekends have been GREAT since we didn't have anything to do so of course, I thought of a MILLION things we could do :)

We watched the movie Safe House with Denzel Washington (my favorite actor of ALL TIME) and Ryan Reynolds. Very action packed and good. Tate had already seen it but was OK with watching it again since he liked it so much. I would definitely recommend it.

I followed my training schedule for my triathlon and biked for 45 minutes on Saturday and ran for 40 minutes on Sunday. That is the farthest and longest I have ever ran. I'm not really a 'distant' runner. The most I had ever done was a 5k so I felt like I had to mentally prepare myself for Sunday's run...I survived (obviously...since I'm posting) and actually didn't feel like I was going to die @ all during.

Oh...it helps when this is your view while running

We posted 8 items on Craigslist to sell. We have many things that we don't use from when we had our apartment or from when we lived apart and it just sits and collects dust in our 4th bedroom. We had been meaning to post it for awhile. Well, I finally posted around 10pm on Saturday night (I know...fabulous Sat night) and we had already sold half of the items by the time we went to bed...SCORE!

Goodbye...so long...farewell

We ran many many errands. Buying wedding presents, baby shower gifts, weddings shower gifts and shopping for counters. Oh the joy...who knew that counters could be so difficult to pick out! Seriously...when it comes to this stuff it's hard for me to make a decision. So many types...so many colors, my head was spinning. We did learn a lot and now just need to make a decision for our kitchen, bathroom #1 and bathroom #2.

We ended our weekend with some golfing. I could seriously just do projects and housework all day...but the husband makes me go have fun too! He keeps me sane...

We also had to check on the dogs that we watched last weekend and I also did more work on bathroom #2 project!

I'm glad we got lots done this weekend because we have stuff going on for the next 4 weekends! I'm hoping you all had a GREAT weekend also!

Mya is featured

Hi everyone,

This super cute pup...

is being featured on my friends blog for her Blogger Pet Profile.

Go check it out and if you want your pet to featured, email Lindsey @ harvestmydesign@gmail.com.

Thank you Lindsey for featuring Mya!

Happy Birthday to....

My beautiful sister!!!

I love that I've know you my WHOLE life! I love that there is someone out there that is just as crazy and weird as me...even if you hate to admit it :)

Your growing up to be a fine young woman and I think 26 looks good on you!

Love you very much! Happy Birthday!

Also...Happy Birthday to America!

 I hope everyone has a safe and happy 4th of July!

Bathroom #2 remodel has begun

Our downstairs bathroom is the only room in our house that had not been touched since we bought our house 3 years ago. The only time it is used is when we have guest so we were not always reminded how it needed to be updated.

View from the door. Still gold everything.

Gold mirror will be painted. All wood in bathroom is knotty pine.

The vanity and tile floor. All the wood and floor will be kept as is.

Paint swatches that we picked up. Going for a blue/gray color. We thought we picked one out, then I picked up some more swatches from another store. Decisions decisions...

We have removed all the wallpaper which was NOT FUN! I plan to do a tutorial soon on how to remove wallpaper. I think it would be very helpful for anyone out there planning to remove it and to share some things I found helpful.

Wallpaper removed

(lamp is our light since we removed all the fixtures)

This was the first strip that we did and learned many things from it. So next on our list is to fix this problem area from ripping too much of the wall off. Learning experience! Glad this was the ONLY area that this happened to.

So that is where we sit. Wallpaper removed and next up is to fix the holes/problem areas.

Our plans for this bathroom are:

- remove wallpaper

- fill holes/problem areas

- paint walls

- change all gold to a bronzed brown

- new counter/sink

- paint mirror frame

- decorate

I'm glad we decided to do this bathroom first because it's the smallest remodel project in our house. We are very excited to see how this project turns out!