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Big Day

Yesterday was a BIG day around here! Daddy didn’t have his normal sale so we all loaded up and headed to North Platte to have a family fun day. Wrexy sold some calves for good money and we needed to spend a few of those dollars at Menards to make some barn repairs AND my sweet hubby wanted to treat me to a pedicure. How could I say no to that?!

I’ve been talking about wanting/needing one for quite some time…since, I don’t know…Wryder was born?! Seriously, it’s been a while. Sweet Sawyer has been in my camp, too. She loves getting her nails painted (which I do for her twice a week) and she loves warm baths so the combination of the two was right up her alley!

I had been telling her that I didn’t have my first pedicure until I was 20. Yes, 20! She’s 4…I think we have time. Plus, I didn’t think she was tall enough to reach the water. Regardless, I told her she could get her nails painted but she couldn’t stop talking about this “peck-iture.”

We walked into the nail place and went to pick out some polish. I turned to show her the purples but she wasn’t there. I turned around and she was on the floor taking her shoes and socks off! I looked up and they had a pink chair that looked like a bear specifically for little girls and she already had them filling it with water! How could I hardly say no to that cuteness?

She was one happy camper, yall! I don’t think she stopped smiling and giggling the WHOLE time! She loved the hot towel on her feet and legs and loved to watch the water change colors…

She ended up getting dark green with silver sparkles and they even put fancy flowers on her big toes!

It was a fun little memory for us to share and her sweet delight was so worth it!

We took a spin on the little merry-go-round before we left…and then we called the clinic because brother’s eye seemed to be getting worse by the minute. He woke up with it kinda crusty and then it decided to leak yellow and green mucus all day. (Yum, I know). By the time we were done with our pedi, it was swollen and red.

We took him in this morning and he sure enough has pink eye in BOTH eyes! This is a first for all of us, for sure. Poor little thing. He doesn’t feel bad other than his eye so we got some drops and I ~~put them~~ wrestled him down and got them in. Thankfully, daddy will be home for the next dose.

He’ll be contagion free in 24 hours – yay! Little guy looks like a prize fighter right now…

If You Give a Wife a Paintbrush

If you give a wife a paintbrush, she’ll go to town and buy a gallon of paint.

Then she’ll ask you to take four doors off of the hinges and set up a painting station in the garage.

The garage will be too cold, so she’ll ask you to dig some heaters out of the basement.

Once the heaters get turned on, she’ll want to shut the door to trap the heat inside.

Now that the door is shut, she’ll need more light to be able to see to do her painting.

When you set up more lights and the garage is nice and toasty, the flies start waking up and dive bombing her work, so she’ll ask you to run interference with the air compressor.

As she paints more and more in the closed up garage, the fumes start to get really strong.

She’ll ask you to you help her finish…and you happily oblige.

The story of my Saturday…

Our Humble Abode: Kids’ Room

As much as I love our bathroom, I love the kids’ room even more! It started out just as Sawyer’s room, obviously, but we decided we’d like for them to share a room for a while so we could all be upstairs together. (Our home has two bedrooms upstairs and two bedrooms downstairs.)

One of Wrex’s biggest desires for our home is peace…and the room sharing didn’t really result in a lot of peace. Wryder is a really light sleeper and no matter how much training we did or rules we had, it just wasn’t working out. He was waking up a lot, which would wake us up, which would then wake sister up and peace was hard to find. We separated them for the time being but hope to revisit the room sharing thing soon.

Before:

When we moved in, this room was probably in the worst shape. Between the paint job and the fact that the previous tenants put carpet upstairs by gluing it to the hardwoods, meant that we had some work to do.

View from just inside the door. See the glue tracks from the carpet?

And, again, that paint job... — And, again, that paint job…

Closet and it's paint job. Are you seeing a theme? — Closet and it’s paint job. Are you seeing a theme?

After:

We put in wood flooring and painted everything pink, of course. The walls in this room are thin and strange and the ceiling had a lot of visible joints, so we added faux beams to break the room up a little and hide those seams.

***This room has changed a bit in the three years we’ve lived here, so some pictures are older, while some are newer, but you’ll get the idea.***

Ta-Da! Told you it was pink! This was when it was just Sawyer... — Ta-Da! Told you it was pink! This was when it was just Sawyer…

One of my favorite parts of the room is this little chalkboard. This door is the entrance to the upstairs crawl space and looked kinda silly just hanging out there, so I added some chalkboard paint and the paint cans as chalk holders. (This was prior to the last can being hung).

We decided to take the closet doors off and leave it exposed and I really like how open it is and how it turned out. The dresser is one of my favorite things in the house. I painted two drawers and mod-podged maps on the remaining two – cute and easy!

Who doesn't love maps!? — Who doesn’t love maps?! And shoes, for that matter…

The rest of her room is just lots of pink and colorful things that we love and cherish.

Shelf with things she's made or things people made for her... — Shelf with things she’s made or things people made for her…

These books were two of my mom's favorites when she was growing up which she then gifted to Sawyer... — These books were two of my mom’s favorites when she was growing up which she then gifted to Sawyer…

Artwork from her Aunt Dessa; an interpretation of one of her 3 month old baby pictures... — Artwork from her Aunt Dessa; an interpretation of one of her 3 month old baby pictures…

I love this sweet little rug... — I love this sweet little rug…

Glider and friends...how cute is that bear pillow I thrifted?! — Glider and friends…how cute is that bear pillow I thrifted?!

My mom's baby blanket...another treasure. — My mom’s baby blanket…another treasure.

This little rocker was my mom's, then mine, now Sawyer's... — This little rocker was my mom’s, then mine, now Sawyer’s…

I bought this baby quilt at an auction. I LOVE all the colorful, vintage fabrics!

The ceilings upstairs are really pitched so I knew I needed a really shallow light fixture. I had Wrex shape me one out of wire and then I took strips of scrap fabric and ribbon and started tying it on.

Once Wryder moved in, we didn’t want the poor boy to have to live in a totally pink room, so I painted his half white!

I made these from some thrifted frames, spray paint and some scrapbook paper.

Love my little WD... — Love my little WD…

We used these old grain elevator cups as storage... — We used these old grain elevator cups as storage…

These little guys were in Wrex’s nursery when we was a little guy – awwww!

If you haven't read the Little Blue Truck you NEED to! — If you haven’t read the Little Blue Truck you NEED to!

There are soooooo many fun things in this room (to me) that it was hard to know where to stop and start for this post! Sawyer told me her favorite part of her room is her bed and Wryder, well, he replied in Cantonese and I’m not sure exactly what it meant.

What’s your favorite part of their room?!

Our Humble Abode: Bathroom

When the Lord provided our little house on the prairie here on the eastern plains of Colorado, we were thrilled to have a place to call home…but home needed a little work. Mostly paint. It’s so…what’s the word…interesting?? the paint colors people choose and the previous renters had chosen some interesting ones for sure. Ahem.

We painted every space, put in new flooring in three rooms and spiffied up the others, built shelves and got creative and just had a grand ole, exhausting time!

Today, I thought I’d give you a little before and after tour of our bathroom. It was the smallest and easiest for me to throw together this morning. 🙂

Before:

401131_10151093863015335_384611980_n — This flooring was just stick on tile…

377159_10151093863225335_793408659_n — See that nice paint job?!

379498_10151093862685335_1666869381_n — Yes, that’s duct tape…

As you can see, it needed a little work. We replaced the flooring, bath tub, sink and painted the walls. As weird as it may sound, it’s now one of my favorite rooms in the house!

After:

We’ll start at the bottom and work our way up. We chose a vinyl flooring that was water proof, not just water resistant. We kinda figured we might have a little splashing in here from time to time. This is my favorite flooring in our house, hands down.

We replaced the old sink with one with a much smaller vanity that takes up far less room and hung a new mirror.

We painted the walls a pretty, Tiffany blue and the wainscoting a soft, creamy white. I found these super cute printables and framed them and Wrex made the mason jar storage.

Our bathroom isn’t huge and there’s not a lot of storage so we’ve had to get creative. Wrex made these barnwood shelves for the short wall and I love this hanging system from Ikea; cheap, chic and functional!

We replaced the bathtub and then got to work on the shower walls…they are the best part of this room. I had seen one similar in a magazine one time and I fell in love. Thankfully, Wrex agreed to give it a try and we both love how it turned out. It was far cheaper (and easier) to install than tile and much more unique; it’s quite the conversation piece.

We are so pleased with how it turned out! It’s been almost three years and the colors and shower walls still make me smile every time I see them. Let me know what you think about it! Log in later in the week and we’ll take a peak at another transformation we made…there were a few! 😉