Showing posts with label bedroom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bedroom. Show all posts

weekend in review.

Thursday, B and I went to the library. When we got to the children's section I stopped to look something up on the computer and B ran ahead saying he was going to get books. When I was done, I walked up to the table he had found a spot at and realized that every book he grabbed was a Thomas the Train book, including one magazine! This boy knows what he likes and is obsessed.
  (though I'm not sure how he even got introduced to Thomas in the first place!) 

He sat and read through each one.
 I love my nerdy little book worm!
 By the way, have you guys tried these yet?:
(I normally don't buy cereal like this but since we are big peanut butter fans I had to grab it, and was pleasantly surprised with how tasty it is! It doesn't have as much sugar as I thought it would, though it still has more than other cereals I buy. It's a treat and we are milking it for all it's worth!)
 Speaking of sugar, I don't mind ending a long day with a little dessert.
I found a recipe for chocolate lava cakes for two.
It was amazing and was the perfect amount with a little vanilla ice cream on the side.
(I added some dark chocolate chips into the center of the cakes before I put them in the oven to make sure they got nice and gooey. Worked like a charm!)
 Friday morning B jumped on the bed like usual:
 He did a lot of coloring:
 played with trains and blocks:
 and I made my first key lime pie:
I used this crust recipe since I wanted a super thick crust, and I used this filling recipe.
It turned out way better than I thought it would, though I forgot to spray the pie dish first, so we lost a lot of valuable crust!
Friday marked 5 years since my step-dad* passed away and the pie was in honor of him,
 since it was his favorite. 
(*I really don't like that term, he was more of a dad to me and raised me with my mom since I was 4) 
We had my mom and brother and sister over for the evening to just hang out, eat good food and be together. It was a good night.
 Saturday was the last of the nursery construction days!
While B and I were out of the hosuse, I bought little brother's first diapers...so teeny:
 B was so pooped Saturday night that he fell asleep mid book:
(we give him 2 big stacks of books at night and it really helps to keep him in bed and it just so happens to make him sleepy as well. Every once in a while we will hear him run to his bookshelf to get more books but he runs right back to bed and even covers himself back up.)
 Oh and here is the nursery progress...
We now have a door and molding, both of which need to be painted.
We'll tackle that this week. We moved some of the furniture in and I'm loving how it's turning out!
I'm seriously so thankful for Chris' bro and dad and their construction abilities!
They even put custom shelving in the boy's closets:
 The shelves give us SO much more storage than we had before!
 and they even finished off the edges!:
 Sunday morning we took a belly picture:
(I'm almost 34 weeks but I'm not taking them weekly anymore)
I'm getting large and so is the baby apparently.
I'm running out of clothes and interesting outfits, but luckily my plan has been working!
and Chris made German pancakes for breakfast:
 and B discovered a love for James Taylor:
(I don't even know how many times he put the One Man Band live dvd in this weekend, 
though I can't say I mind! This kid is going to be a musician for sure.)
and we have been enjoying this book:
(my sister got it for B...instead of saying goodnight to the cow jumping over the moon, 
they say goodnight to ipods, mp3s and HDTV. Pretty funny/true/sad.) 
And that was our weekend.

Happy Monday Friends!
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on painting your house white.

Painting the entire interior of your house bright white is a huge commitment.
(see our all-white inspiration houses here)
When we bought the house, each room was a different color, which would work for a bungalow, but ranch houses are supposed to be open and each room flows into the next. 

We used Behr Ultra Premium Plus Ultra White which is a paint and primer in one 
(ie. its super thick...it's also the base of all the UPP paints).

Eventhough we used the thickest paint out there, it still took us 3 coats everywhere to get decent coverage. 
(some spots could have even used 4 coats but we were so tired of painting and we just wanted to be done)

In our 1080 sq ft house, we painted 3 bedrooms, a dining room, hallway, living room, kitchen and mudroom plus the ceiling, trim, doors and some of the closets. 
That added up to 11.5 gallons of white paint!

I would be lying if we didn't have moments of regretting ourselves more than a few times, BUT the more  progress we made, the more we could see the house coming together and flowing together.

The house feels a lot bigger and more airy since there is no longer a distinct seperation between each room.

(we didn't take the best before pictures, but notice all of the different colors)

Bennett's room before:
Bennett's room after:
(this is the only room with a color on the wall, other than white)
our bedroom before:
our bedroom after:
hallway before:
hallway after:
dining room before:
dining room after:
kitchen before:
kitchen after:
3rd bedroom before:
3rd bedroom after:
(so far this room has been a tv room and now it's a playroom. We are planning on closing off the oepening and putting a door in the hallway next spring when we make improvements to the bathroom.)
living room before:
living room after:
(the coffee table is partially covering up the most drastic change, but we tore up the slate covering the hearth, exposed the brick and painted it white along with putting a fresh coat of white on the whole fireplace.)

The only room we didn't paint was the bathroom.
We figured it didn't make much sense since we will be redoing it soon.
Plus that would have been three more coats and we just didn't want to go there.

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