Built In ... Before

One of my awesome projects that I did was to redo the built in bookcases on the side of the fireplace. 

Originally they were a brown and didn't really stand out.  I'm not a fan of all of the brown and wanted to paint them white to  help them stand out.  I painted the back panel a light grey to add some more interest as well.  I think it turned out really well!

If the shoe fits!

Our little Chica is not so little anymore.  Her last pair of tennis shoes were from the boys section so when it was time to go find new church shoes I didn't have a clue what size her feet were now.  Looks like we have graduated into the women's section ... 7 and a 1/2! 

I remember when I had the same size feet as my mom... (I was about 13).  I guess we will see how long it takes her to pass me up!

Investigating ... Armadillo?!

We have been planning on remodeling our kitchen, but we weren't sure what is happening at the corner.  The time had come to rip a hole in the sheet rock to investigate! 

Time for the pry bar and hammer!

We were glad to get to figure out some answers, but weren't happy with the results.  It turns out the beam doesn't go all of the way to the corner so we need a new beam.  It also turns out that the other wall is load bearing even though the house was built with trusses, they filled in that truss space with a spacer. 

When Jeff was bringing home Talmage from Seminary there was an armadillo in our yard.  He finally crossed the road in front of the car on his way to the neighbors house. 

Kind of a cool surprise at 7 am.  We have seen a lot of wildlife around our house!

Happy Labor Day!

We have been getting together with the Hughlett Family over the summer during holidays.  This time I actually remembered to take pictures!!  We love getting to share our pool and food!  Then we try to sneak in a movie night of Fast and the Furious while the kids watch a kids movie upstairs.  We sure enjoy keeping some friends from Mansfield :)

Grant and Talmage

Lacey

Celebrating!

Owen wanted to do something fun for his birthday with our kids.  Time kept moving and we finally found a time to get together and play!  The kids played and then they had a water balloon fight!  Too much fun :)

Getting the balloons

 The fight is on!

War is finished!

Little projects

The kids can be a great help!  Here are a few projects that the kids have been helping out with!

The kids helped take apart the fireplace bricks from the library.  They worked all day!  The last bricks were stuck in there good so Daddy helped finish that part up.  They did a good job!

We have a small fountain out by the swimming pool.  Unfortunately we can't figure out how to run the pump so it sits and grows mosquitos.  The girls were a big help emptying out the nasty water! 

Clark helped trim and also take care of the piggies :)

Talmage and Grant help with the yard work ... mowing and weed eating.

Daddy and Bug!

There is always something to work on.  It's nice to have lots of helpers around to help get stuff done!

Color me Purple

Time to say good-bye to the baby blue living room.  We had decided to go bold with a purple.  After several samples we found our match!  It is a striking difference to the light blue!  Two of the walls are a grey neutral while the purple is on the walls with the windows.  The half purple that I'm painting will be white on the bottom with some wainscoting to add some detail.  The back wall with the hutch will also have the white bottom with the wainscoting... unless we end up putting cabinets along that wall.  The house is starting to feel more like home!

I still need to paint out the windows with white.  

We know it's a pretty bold color, but we love it!  We still have plenty of things to change, but we are moving in the right direction now.