Wordless Wednesday

Still working on those chairs - I'm telling you there were a million pieces and it took a while to stain everything. Then everything got rained on. So we had to let it all dry. Now it needs to be poly'd. So hoping they'll be done by the end of the week. 

But for today - some pictures of the 2 wee little people I took this past weekend.

looking out at the rain

Max playing in the rain

I like that it looks she is saying, "ssshhhhh"

HUGS

the Max man

Miss Piper

CHEESE!

Max got to go "camping" in the backyard with daddy

Max helping Piper stand up and hold on to the rocking chair

Hope everyone had a great weekend - I know we did!

Wordless Wednesday

Some pics of the Piper

inspecting the ground

inspecting the roses

spies mommy...*squeal!*

flowers are more interesting though

hmmm....I'm pretty sure I could get those snapdragons...

*squeal!*

grabbing for the camera

And a couple of Max

He *mowed* all day with daddy on Sunday

Literally beside his daddy while his dad mowed - Max walked with his bubble mower

He was very proud of himself...but very tired.

He said later that night, "Dad, we mowed a lot today, didn't we?"

:)

Happy Wednesday!

Wordless Wednesday

Sand and Water tables are BIG fun

Mother's Day

Dining room previews and cat food

What?

Yep, that's what I named this post. Why you ask? They are the two things that have dominated my past week...

Seriously.

Wait - I'll explain.

Ok, so here are some preliminary pictures of the dining room - which is the first thing that was in the forefront of last week for me.

I stress again, preliminary.

The furniture is not moved back into place, there are no window treatments up yet and NOTHING has been hung up in there. Yet. I hope you can get a feel for the color. It really is a chameleon shade. Sometimes it is more green. Sometimes more yellow/gold. Sometimes much more gray. It is Burlap - Sherwin Williams.

Here we go...

This is the wall next to the built in China Cabinet. See - the radio is still sitting there from when we were painting. Must paint to Classic Rock. 

Next to one of the windows. AND some fake window treatments. It is a sheet. I was trying to get a feel for a White window treatment. I liked the feeling I got. A lot. 

Just another shot of the room - the corner between the two large windows. And part of the ceiling. And my $17.99 clearance lamp from Hobby Lobby. hee hee. Love me some clearance stuff - especially when it was originally marked $89.99. 

These are of the other corner of the room. Oh, I love this color so much more than the RED. It isn't YELLING at me anymore. It was angry before. Now it is much more calm. Peaceful. Serene even - even with all the mess. Ok, sorry, I went off on a tangent. I'm back. 

The second shot also has the other China Cabinet in it - the one I want to move to the kitchen and PAINT. I got no responses on that one...maybe the jury is still out. 

Looking out through the Dining room french doors into the living room. You can also see the door leading into the kitchen on the right. And Piper's sippy cup sitting on the table. 

Oh, speaking of Piper....

here she is....with the second thing that dominated my last week

See that? She's getting a handful of cat food. 

Yep.

I feed her ALL THE TIME real food, yummy food. And every.single.time. she is on the floor anywhere near the kitchen...she makes a BEELINE for the dang cat food. 

And does this

always before I can get to her. I am continually digging cat food out of her mouth. I know. 

 *shudder* 

I can't even talk about it. Which is why I'm blogging about it I guess. *shaking head*

All I can figure out is that it must be good because she will refuse Banana. But loves this stuff. 

At least she hasn't discovered the litter box. Yet.

I love the smell

of a newly painted room. Don't you? Is it just me? Nah, I think there's more peeps like me out there. I like that it says new to me. I also like that it is filled with possibility. It is a room that is about to be something more.

And that is just way cool.

So my dining room isn't actually painted yet. But it IS finally, completely, primed. The red...it is gone.

Buh Bye.

And that is really OK with me. You know you have made the right choice when you walk into the room and it just has the gray primer on the walls and it already feels better.

I even like the gray primer on the walls - how's that for funny? It is already so much calmer and soothing in there to me. Well....it's calmer if I'm ignoring the clutter and the mess and all the furniture scooched around and out of place. And I am doing that - I'm totally ignoring that for right now.

I'm hoping that we'll get it painted by this weekend. But if not - then hopefully by the end of next week.

I primed that entire room by my little ol'self. And while that is not such a big deal...it becomes a big deal when you remember that I'm doing all that while dealing with a 10 month old crawling baby girl AND a 3 yr old who wants desperately to "help mama paint!" The whole priming thing didn't go as fast as I would have liked. I had to go most of it in 30 minute or 1 hr intervals - read while the short people were napping. BUT I finished it today.

some pics of the process

I had just started priming

That is the end of the Red room.

I'm thrilled and relieved. Now I have to start thinking about the slipcovers, the rug, and the window treatments...

OH and I used Sherwin Williams Multi-Purpose Laxtex primer. It only took a little more than half a gallon, 1 coat and it covered that BRIGHT red totally. That stuff ROCKS. I highly recommend it!!!!

More to come on the Redo soooooon!

Wordless Wednesday

A look back at our Easter weekend

outside enjoying the Sun

Piper

Max

Alec

getting sleepy

This picture cracks me up - it looks like she's trying to grab a beer!

my first attempt at the "artsy" photo...lol....table place setting for Easter dinner

Easter Ham! Yum!

artsy one of our China

Pip

Pip trying to get into the dog's bowl

 2 very tired kiddos  :)