Bathroom shots

The before shot

This is the shower curtain-cats of course!

This shows the new light fixture and the wall with the picture of the girls at the beach

Yeah! Karl easily fixed the towel bar, but was impressed. Emily apparently was really hanging on it as the screw in the wall was completely bent! Wow she is a sturdy little thing.

So here it is! Introducing a much tamer milder baby blue bathroom with cats & dogs. So much nicer than the alarming bright green before shot. I haven't painted the cabinet or put in the drawers in there, but that will happen soon. Maybe next week. But at least it doesn't blind you when you enter the room!

Projects are getting finshed-and new ones begun

So I was about to take a really cute picture of the girls bathroom to show recent updates in there since I painted it a few weeks ago and had not posted anything yet. But right as I went to get my camera, Emily pulled on the towel bar climbing out of the tub, and crash, the bar broke out of the wall! Oh well! Hopefully we can get it fixed.

We got the cabinets on the all above the desk in the kitchen. We haven't put up the crown moulding, but we are getting there. Doors & shelves are the next step. We also bought more cabinets this weekend for the other wall. We had talked about just a base unit or 84" units. We got two tall units, so I have lots of painting to do!! Yikes. They will allow us to get all our stuff put away that is sitting in the bookcase in the kitchen (the bookcase goes upstairs for my little bookworms. They have outgrown the one they have), and get the food storage out of the garage so the humidity does not ruin it before we get to it. Karl has already lost a sealed package of Oreos due to extreme humidity :)

And the best news of all, the painting in the living room is finally finished. Karl & I painted the trim edges yesterday. I did as much as I could before I turned it over to Karl. It was just too high up for me! Even Karl was nervous about falling.

We are excited to finish the rest of our projects here and just enjoy the house and living here.

More pictures

garden two weeks ago

Garden this week



So check out Flickr for even more, but as promised, garden, and princess shots.

August Update

Recent shot of Virgina Cousins

Hostile takeover by cucumbers


Garden shot from 1 month ago-it is totally different now.
I can't believe it has been over a month since I posted anything! Yikes.

Anyhow, here is the latest and greatest with us. I finally got rolling on a few more painting projects today. I did the front door, and primed the new kitchen wall cabinets. I also started working on painting the master bathroom cabinet too. I tried doing some creative spackling, so we will see how well that goes. Did I mention we got the desk installed in the other side of the kitchen? That is working great! The cabinets I am working on will go right above it, and I hope to get another standing unit for the other wall and then we should be done! Yahoo!

The garden is growing like gang busters. I have flowers galore which is so fun. My sunflowers are lovely, will post pictures soon. The veggies are doing well too. The cucumbers have attempted a slightly hostile takeover of the area, but the pruning job went fairly well there to stall its progress. The watermelons are also slowly growing. Oh and I actually have baby corn growing. I can't believe it worked and the things grew. The are adorable right now. We put some bird seed out in the hopes that the birds will take care of the undesirable bugs in the garden.

Emily & Sydney are doing well. They have discovered dress up and I got them each princess costumes which they love.(but Emily wears tights and a shirt so it doesn't touch her skin even though it was the softest dress I could find.

A friend gave them her old Barbies and they are enjoying playing with those too. I dusted off some patterns to make some clothes for the dolls as well, call me crazy but it sounds like fun:)

Emily seems to actually be mastering riding a bike. She got the thing rolling today, and didn't crash into anything or hit me whith faulty steering. She rode all the way down the street and came back. Sadly the camera was in the house at the time, but we will try and capture that again soon. Sydney can't reach the pedals on her bikes comfortably, and get really easily frustrated. I think I will have to break down and get a tricycle for her. Drat that lady who stole the one out from under her at the garage sale last month!

We are looking forward to school and have had fvun shopping for school supplies and meeting with the school to arrange things. Orientation (for kindergarten:) ) is the last day of the month. I think that is more for me, but I hope it helps get her acclimated to the new routine/environment.

And wonder of wonders, she actually tried on a pair of shoes that had been sent to her for her birthday and wore them without complaining and fussing. And on Sundays she wants me to put things in her hair and she leaves them there for 3 hours! Shocker. I even bought some ribbon and made some cute little hair things to match their dresses.

However, Mom, the dress you got for her birthday is not soft enough and she had to wear a shirt underneath it.

I will try and get more pics up on Flickr and the blog.