Weekend house projects!

We strayed from our ongoing to-do list over the Winter. This weekend, we started back and actually completed 1!

We also got some Leyland Cypress from Costco that will be planted in our back corner this week.

We are repainting and remodeling the laundry room. This includes painting the door that we come in from the garage, and the garage closet doors black. We are repainting the laundry room the same color but will be switching out the light. Lowering or replacing the shelf and adding some art and storage bins.

 The current state.

 

When our HE washers die, I am going back to top loaders. Not a big fan of the HE washers.

With that said, I love this shelf right behind the washers. Somewhere to sit detergent, a lamp and some pretty stuff. The only negative with our room is our security system 'brain' is right behind/above the dryer so a shelf going all the way across wouldn't work. I would love to be able to hide that brain though. 

love these as detergent dispensers

Replacing the light with something like one of these..

We also painted the door leading into the house from the garage black.

The other project that is now completed is our crawl space door! We worked hard the past couple of years on the landscaping border. This weekend, we picked some square and rectangle stones in the matching color. Put them in, topped with paver sand, bought some more border rocks and mulch and ta-da! Now to paint that door black to match everything else...

Landscaping, done!

Ya'll, we finished a project! We now have landscaping mat, black mulch and landscaping rocks all around the house! With the exception of flanking the sidewalk with them and working under the deck overhang, we.are.done!

 It is on the list to add a border to the inside of the sidewalk..

now to pressure wash that stain ..

 Yes, it's supposed to not be a straight line....

Maybe a new sandbox should go on the wish list...

And now the wish list to finish up right around the house.. because I love a good wish list.

flanking sidewalk rocks(only on the mulch side)..

and a/c cover of some sort

a hose holder for both sides of the house

Projects on the immediate list:

- painting the back doors black and the trim white. Hopefully starting this week.

- working on wallpapering the dollhouse that we have. More on that to come :) 

- getting ready for Madison's 5th(!!!) birthday party.

Five on Friday - House things and a busy Summer

A lot going on! This is a long read ;)

(one) I can't believe preschool starts back in right at a month. This Summer has flown by! We have had lots of play dates, library/splash pad meetups and the girls are all around getting along and playing so well together. They will go play in the playroom for bits at a time so I can get stuff done!

(two) We finished up Bloodline Season 2. It was really good and I'm so glad they decided to make a 3rd Season. If you're looking for a Netflix show, watch it. It does have cussing but the plot is great! Season 2 was so very stressful and a nail biter! When the last episode was over, we both just sat there and looked at each other like "Well, what do we do now?!" While we wait on Longmire to return for Season 5 in September, we started 24. With 197 episodes left, I think it may get us to September ;) It's pretty good and has picked up some action.

(three) We have been working hard on our yard! Adding landscaping fabric, new mulch and putting in landscaping rocks and river rocks has made a huge difference. It may be taking us forever, but we are aiming to be completely done by next week! Then we will be working on painting the back door black!

Been working on this side of the house for the last couple of weeks. You can't really see them, but there are 3 pink plants behind the Iris. I'm hoping they grow thick enough to cover all of those boxes on the house!

Going from this...

hard to believe this was less than a year and half ago!

to this is a drastic change..We just put down river rock under the a/c pipe and the gutter spout. Now to get a hose holder and this side will be complete!

The green bushes in the back are all gardenias and doing very well.  

The little ones in the front are pansy.

(four) We have started party planning for Madison. We decided that since she had so much fun on a water inflatable slide that a friend had rented(she slid for 3 hours straight!), we would go that route this year. She's been begging for another Pump it Up party but we made the decision for her. I mean, why have one 2 hour party when you can rent this for 3 days?! She mentioned it again and we finally told her and she was excited! Whew! She's also requested the theme be PJ Masks(a Disney Junior cartoon that has 3 superheros on it)

(five) I have recently fell back in love with Pinterest. I've always loved it but now I'm on it at night pinning yard/house ideas, PJ Masks party ideas and whatnot. It feels so good to pin something, do it and go back and delete it. Maybe that's just the OCD in me ;) Also found my love for Amazon wishlists again. I'm constantly adding things to our House wishlist. Easy to add when I'm thinking about it and that way I can go back when I want to buy it and it's there!

 

 

It's garden time!

I promise this blog has not turned into Madison-land. I will try my best to post about things other than our little girl! She has just taken over and everything interesting lately has revolved around her! It's already started and she's not even here yet!

So after weeks of basically begging Alan to till up the garden, we decided the best option would be a raised garden. With my growing belly and our ground being red clay, we feel that this will be easier for me and will also produce more veggies! Here he is digging out the ground after he had already put the frame up. We decided to do an 8x6 frame and the boards are 12" wide.

Measuring the corner pieces so he can attach some support beams..2 trips to Lowes, 20 bags of manure, 27 bags of top soil and 2 bags of Miracle Grow later....
Ta-da! I helped clean up a little bit and raked the bags out while he emptied them and then planted the plants but he did all the manual work! Thanks again babe! You're the best :)

3 tomatoes plants on right, a cucumber plant and 2 rows of sweet onions in
middle and 4 okra plants on left.
Okra

Onions
Cucumber
Tomatoes
And the 2 worst helpers ever. Wilma
and the neighbors dog, Dakota.

Thanks to my dad too, who every year reminds me what brand/type of plants I need to get and answers all my crazy questions. I will learn soon enough!

Yard goings-on. Is that a word?

You know you are married when a night out means a trip to Lowes. Alan worked all day Saturday in the yard cutting grass and spreading seed. It looks really good. While he was doing that, I went to the Farmers Market with his mom. Then we had lunch and went shopping. I then had to go to the grocery store after I dropped her off. I pulled in our driveway just as he was weedeating around the last tree. Timing couldn't have been better..... The yard looks great and with these weekly trips to Lowe's, it's starting to look better and better. Here's some of the Workman happenings in the yard.

 Aren't these gorgeous? We went to Lowes to get a stake for my 5 feet tall cucumber vine. As we were talking, we saw a buggy with 2 of these bushes on it. I stopped and sniffed and patted it and looked for a price and of course nothing. So I walked around trying to find them on the racks. Couldn't find them. 15 minutes had went by at that point and the buggy was still sitting there so we took one off to see how much. $3.50 the lady said and I told Alan to grab the other one. They are so pretty and I'm in love. This one is out by the road and the other is in the landscaping in front of the house.

 Lowe's also had their trees 50% off so we snagged this Redbud...

..and this Maple tree

I was excited to see this tiny tomato sprouting! Yay!

 And my hydrangeas! It doesn't take much to get me excited, people! We transplanted 2 plants from my dad's last year and I'm glad to see some blooms so I know that we didn't kill them both!

And lastly, a picture of supper tonight. It was so good! A sausage and egg mcmuffin with bacon, hash browns, blueberry muffins and tomatoes from our neighbors. Yum! It hit the spot!