Home Improvements

Yay we finally got a patio poured in the back and one on the side of the house by the door we always use. We then had to cut the stairs going into the house off and the kids thought the stair we cut off made a great bench for them to sit on.


I also repainted the living room a much lighter color. I was very tired of the dark chocolate brown it just made the room seem so dark. I like it so much better!

Recovered the dining room chairs with a washable fabric! Much easier to clean up kid messes.

Made new pillows for the living room. This year I painted every room in the house except Cade's and finally have the whole inside of the house painted whew!

More fence around the yard!

Rance has been busy on another project outside, more fence around the house. He put in most of the posts today and hopefully will soon have the rails up. I am excited it will look so nice. The fence is already up in the back of the house and the front along the road.
More pictures to follow!

Painting

I took this week off of work to paint the interior of my house. I have been wanting to paint ever since I moved in so this was very exciting. Sunday I started taping everything off and while the kids were at Landa's I painted the kitchen on Monday. Cade loved the tape up on everything he thought it was very pretty. "WOW, pretty" The kitchen is now a brick red. A lot darker and much more dramatic than the white it has been. I have had two years to think about what color to paint it and was still very much undecided when I bought the paint. I started with a light green and put some on the wall Sunday. Hated it. Called Wynne to get a third opinion (maybe I was being paranoid about hating it) Nope she hated it too. After looking at some samples I had brought home we agreed the red would be neat. So Monday morning it was off to town to get more paint. Avery's room is going to be green now. I bought the brick color and just started painting, luckily I LOVE IT. It is a very warm cozy feeling. I don' t have any before pictures but you have all seen my kitchen.

Wednesday I painted the living room and Cade's room and today I am cleaning and touching up the paint job. The living room is a dark chocolate pudding and cade's room is "latte". For now I am done painting, but I still have Avery's room, my room, the two bathrooms, and the utility room. I will have to take off another week to get those done. I am pretty over painting for a while though.

Plus Cade got some cool cowboy decals to put on the wall

After the lawn mower and fence.

Rance has been really busy outside and it shows. He put up more fence in the back and mowed and ran the weedeater around the place. It looks great!

Before the lawnmower and Fence

Rance has been very busy this weekend mowing the lawn and building some more femce in the backyard. It looks really nice and makes it look like more of a home instead of a house in the middle of the field. I will be posting after pictures by the end of the weekend!

The Dirt Hill Goes Away

After living here for about a year and a half we finally got the dirt pile leveled out and planted with grass. Rance did a great job with it. I sure don't miss looking at it. I am so ready for a lawn! Although I think the dog misses sitting up there and looking around. Slowly but surely we are getting this place all put together. It sure takes a lot of time and money. Which we don't always have a lot of either as we have two darling children now.

Also in the above picture you can see our dog Cisco and one of her many legs! She seems to have an affinity for dead legs. I have found deer legs, calf legs, and even a rabbit leg. I guess you could even count fox legs because she drug a dead fox into the yard also this winter. YUCK!

Friday I gathered up the kids and we spent the morning over at Aunt Jami's. Cade had quite a time trying to stay steady on the trampoline. He didn't do to bad by himself but had a lot of trouble when Carter was trying to jump. He liked it best when Mom held him and we jumped together. He also got to ride on a swing and ho got to go down the slide on the swing set. He thought that was pretty cool.

The #1 Reason Why My Pantry Is A Mess

I'm not a super organized person or a neatfreak, but I do like to have things a little bit in order. I have a great pantry, Cade thinks so too. As he has grown I have had to modify what I keep on his level. I am beginning to think nothing is safe. If I put cereal boxes on the bottom shelf he pulls the bag out and gets cereal everywhere. I don't put cans or jars there so he can't drop them on his feet and hurt himself. Paper plates gets scattered everywhere. He has figured out how to open closed boxes of food. Bags of tortillas gets opened. It's a mess! I know I should just start a no Cade in the pantry policy, but sometimes it is cheap entertainment for him while I am trying to finish cooking dinner. One of these days I will get tired of stepping on Cheerios and grains of rice and institute the policy. Probably for sure by the time Avery gets big enough to be a helper in there too!

Here is a rare picture of Avery sleeping and not being held! She is starting to like sleeping in the swing better. As a newborn she didn't like it very well and it seemed to make her throwup. Not good. She sleeps by herself for at least three or four hours at night the rest is in bed with me. Sometimes I just find it easier in the middle of the night not to fight with her on the issue, though later I may regret it.

I ran into my Dad on the way down to Landa's this morning so Cade got to go feed bulls with his Grandpa this morning, I bet he thought that was pretty cool.