Tree House

A few weeks ago I spotted a pile of old wood that was for free on the side of the road, and then I did the logical thing and called Andy so he could go pick it up. Thankfully he was the first one to claim it, but then realized it was pretty run down and wasn't good for much. And then he hatched the beautiful plan of building a tree fort. And if you know Andy, once he has a project, he has to complete it as soon as possible. So he started and finished in two days. He used all of the wood that was free and only added a few pieces to really make it sturdy. It is awesome and Charlie loves it. We have since added a bucket and pulley system and it works like a charm. I always wanted a tree house growing up and I'm so glad that we now have one! 

Yards are where it's at

It's the freakin' weekend!!! And this weekend is going to be crazy awesome! We've got baby showers, photo shoots, and hopefully some pumpkin patches in our future and I couldn't be more excited. So, due to the celebration of this weekend, here are some photos of our kiddos playing in the yard when it was warm enough to play in the pool.

This girl is turning out to be so much more mischievous than her brother. We were definitely not expecting that.

Nothing like airing out in the sun :)

This guy. He's awesome.

Our New House!!!

We bought a house! We first started looking at houses at the end of June and this was actually the very first house we looked at! The selling point of this house was the three large windows to the backyard and the open-ness of the living room to the dining room and kitchen. We knew that we would be doing work to any house that we bought to make it ours, so it wasn't much of a deterrent when we looked at this house. After a long process of declines, acceptances, inspections, papers, loans, and a mess of other things we finally got the house! We got the keys on Friday, July 31st and got straight to work. Here is a daily list of what we did:

Day 1: Removed drapes and prepped for painting

Day 2: Painted walls in all first floor rooms

Day 3: Painted ceilings and trim 

Day 4: Continued painting trim and started pulling up carpet

Day 5: Finished trim and pulled up all carpets and linoleum

Day 6: Used adhesive removers, paint strippers, scrapers, and a whole ton of elbow grease to remove             all the glue from the floors

Day 7: Finished removing the glue and sanded edges of rooms

Day 8: Sanded all the floors

Day 9: Prepped floors  

Day 10: Put finish on the floors

Day 11: Painted bathroom, put up curtains, and re-seeded the yard

Andy and Liz are a powerhouse of a team and they knocked out these floors so fast. I am amazed at the speed of what they did. Seriously. Those floors were no joke and stripping all that gunk off of it was ridiculous. I don't think they'd ever want to do it again, but maybe they're proud that they did it once? Maybe?!? All I know is that I am SOOO thankful they did it! The floors look awesome and I can't wait to move in! So here are some before and during photos. After photos will be up when we've moved in!

Huge thanks to everyone for helping paint, watch our kids, or let us borrow kitchen utensils!!! We couldn't have done it without any of you!

 This is the front entry

 Living room/dining room

Hallway

Bathroom

 Nursery

 Charlie's room

 Our room

 Backyard patio

 Pulling up of the carpets!

First pizza party! And you can barely see Charlie under the table

Pip decided to start army crawling the day we got keys

 All the laminate and glue is removed

In the nursery there was cork under the carpet and it was a beast of a project, but it looks so good now!

Left is halfway through the scraping and right is after it's been removed but pre-sanding

Just putting on the last coat and Pip slept right on through it