New Year's Project

I have dreamed of having a fire pit for quite some time now and my wonderful husband finally made it a reality for me. :)
He started New Year's Eve off with making a list and going to Lowe's to buy some things to do around the house and my fire pit was one of them.

He had watched a video online but we kind of did our own thing in the long run.
First we laid out the brick and decided how big the fire ring needed to be, marked it off with some spray paint and took the bricks away.
We dug up the grass and laid sand down on the dirt.

Put the bricks back where they were to begin with and find out we made it one brick short, oh well we weren't changing it now.

Then the gravel went in, here the boys are smoothing them out.

Later that night we had our first fire and burned the old wood from the swingset.
Of course we had smores too. :o)

Happy New Year! May 2011 bring nothing but happiness to your life!

Coming soon will be my one small word that I have chosen for the year. :)

Coming Along...slow but steady

This is what we started with. Back in 2001 when I was pregnant with Tyler we painted the front bedroom a bright yellow for the nursery. I even stenciled the bugs around the windows, light switch plate and down the middle of the closet doors.

April 1st we started cleaning out the room and prepping to paint. Reed helped us wipe the walls down.

My mom was here during spring break so she was put to work as well. Here she is vacuuming the walls.

We painted the next day...I was too busy painting to take any pictures of that. {opps!}

This weekend I ordered this chair railing online from Lowe's and Eric went out and picked it up Sunday afternoon. He tried to go pick it out, but wasn't having any luck. I wasn't able to go with him because Tyler was sick.

Our corners do not match up so now we need to fill in the corners with caulk or whatever manly thing Eric can find to make it look nice.

Anyway we are going to bunk the boys in one bedroom and this room is going to become the kids playroom. I am so excited about this room for the fact that I can gain control over the TV again {not that I am not in control, I just give in to the kids and let them watch their shows} and the kids will have their own domain to play in and not my living room. Maybe it will be completed before school lets out, but I am not holding my breath. :)