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Saturday, March 2, 2013

Fireplace Remodel by my husband

We moved into our house in June 2008 and kept putting off remodeling our fireplace. Our house was move-in ready, but definitely needed a facelift. Majorly. lime green and yellow for our living room. Yeah.

We finally were forced to tackle the fireplace when my FIL asked for the tile saw back that we had borrowed from him for this project, but it had been over a year of it sitting here. I'm actually thankful, because the end result has changed our whole room.
This is what we were starting with people. Yikes. I would like to blame this on being 1980s tile (when our house was built), except this isn't original. Someone with bad taste lived here.
 
My parents came to visit the first weekend of February, so with extra help to watch the kids, the husband knocked this bad boy out in two days!


and the final result.....
I'm in LOVE. We bought all tile and supplies at Home Depot, and it came out better than I expected. I was very smart to marry a guy who worked as a carpenter while he was in college :) he he
The kids love modeling on it and think their daddy is the best!
 

 

Friday, February 22, 2013

A little life lately post.

Upon getting an email lately that my bestie sent me, I realized I told her about 
a cute saying that Kate has been saying that I've completely forgotten about lately. Why am I not documenting these moments to look back at years from now?

Without further ado....

 
Ben's favorite things lately

Show: Team Umizoomi (he says it's because Katie like it)

Book: The 12 Days of Christmas

Store: Toy Store

Colors: Blue and Yellow

We're working on writing out numbers. He can count to 30+, count backwards and all, 
but writing them out seems to be an issue.

 
Kate lately

"Benny, stop it! stop it!"

"Benny, bad girl!" 

"Mama, Puppy! I clean!"

Show: Team Umizoomi (she calls it, "zoomi zoomi")

Book: What is Christmas? (they must miss christmas a lot!)