and a plush wall hanging for their room.
and I think after we get blinds for that room this weekend, I'm going to go ahead and order the valence for their room.
I think it will be cute once it's all done.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Decorating the 4th Bedroom...
We got 2 new foster placements...2 cute little girls! I went to pull out some of Deidra's old clothes so the girls would have something to wear since they didn't come with much. I found all of her old Pooh bedding and so I pulled out the set for the toddler bed and I pulled out one of the crib sets and I got to thinking that I could hang some Pooh pictures and wall art and that room would be so easy to finish up for them. So, I went and ordered some Pooh appliques,
and a plush wall hanging for their room.
and I think after we get blinds for that room this weekend, I'm going to go ahead and order the valence for their room.
I think it will be cute once it's all done.
and a plush wall hanging for their room.
and I think after we get blinds for that room this weekend, I'm going to go ahead and order the valence for their room.
I think it will be cute once it's all done.
Friday, April 18, 2008
We are SO exterminating this weekend!
We have so many of these spiders in our house lately. They're big and they're fast! The boys think it's funny to go find them and try to hit at them and stuff with their toys. I won't touch them (the spiders I mean). The speech therapist killed one for me the other day. Andy just killed one in the kitchen today. We had one that he threw out the slider door a few days ago. I'm tired of them catching me by surprise. And I certainly don't want one crawling on me. I have the heeby jeebies!
We got some Hot Shot stuff from Home Depot to spray to get rid of a zillion insects (one being spiders) and we are putting it down this weekend. I hate HATE spiders! Yes, I'll be the first to admit that I'm severely arachnophobic. I used to hate any type...now I do ok with the small ones. But, I still don't like them!
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Landscaping the front yard
We wanted to get out there and do our landscaping this weekend. After numerous trips to Home Depot and one trip to Lowes and one trip to Wal-mart we completed the front yard. We're saving the backyard for next weekend (if the weather cooperates). We're happy with how it all turned out! Here's the before/after shots.
BEFORE--Big Flower Bed
AFTER--Big Flower Bed
BEFORE--Tree
AFTER--Tree
BEFORE--Small Flower Bed
AFTER--Small Flower Bed
BEFORE--Full Shot
AFTER--Full Shot
BEFORE--Big Flower Bed
AFTER--Big Flower Bed
BEFORE--Tree
AFTER--Tree
BEFORE--Small Flower Bed
AFTER--Small Flower Bed
BEFORE--Full Shot
AFTER--Full Shot
Friday, April 11, 2008
Our master bathroom disaster...
Most of you heard that the boys flooded our bathroom the other day when they were supposed to be napping. I took some pics of the incident just in case we needed some for any insurance purposes or Andy needed to show them to work since he left early to help me gain some sanity.
I never thought two toddlers could be so quiet while making such a HUGE mess. They stopped up Andy's sink and let the water continuously flow on full blast. I was trying to clean downstairs while I thought they were napping (Baby J was asleep when I left their bedroom and I left Baby D rubbing his eyes and I thought he was quickly on his way to napping...WRONG!). Anyway, after I cleaned the guest bathroom downstairs, the playroom, and went to unload the dishwasher I heard the footsteps and a giggle. I went upstairs to find my master bathroom door closed and them laughing. I opened up the door, saw the huge mess, and proceeded to slip and fall on my butt. What I didn't see at first was all the water ALL over the floor... I got the water turned off, the boys changed and put back to bed and went to put down all the towels that I could find. That wasn't nearly enough. I went and got all the blankets that I could find...that STILL wasn't enough. By that time, I called Andy in tears and he said he'd take lunch and come home to help me. Right after I talked to him, my Mom called. She was able to get me the number for some emergency people that deal with flooding (THANKS MOM!) and they came out right away. By that time, I had taken every bin of dirty clothes that we had and dumped them all over the bathroom floor to sop up the water and that helped get more up off the floor. I came downstairs to grab my mop and found that the water had started to pour through the laundry room vent over my head. I cleaned up the water downstairs that was on the floor and ran back upstairs to make sure that I got all the major water soaked up. I discovered that Andy's cabinet drawers were FULL of water...so I quickly dumped those out and got towels in them to dry them out. Unfortunately, they have some water damage...but it's only on the inside of the drawers so he's not too worried about it. By that point, Andy was home and the emergency people came shortly after. They probed our floors and walls and the downstairs ceiling and thankfully only a section of our drywall and baseboards and ceiling had anything to worry about. He recommended setting up 3 huge fans and a dehumidifer to those areas for 3 days to dry them out. They're coming out tomorrow to probe again to make sure it's all dried up. We did wind up with a small crack in the downstairs ceiling, but I guess it could have been a whole lot worse. We'll have to putty it and patch it up and repaint.
This is the only photo that you can honestly see that there's water on the floor (reflection of the window on the floor). But, they sure had a field day in there in the 15-20 minutes that I was THINKING they were sleeping. Now, they have a safety knob on their door so they can't get out and we're installing a door alarm as well so we know when they've opened the door for SURE.
Yeah, I think the cats will be glad to have the blowers and stuff gone too. They're so loud that they freak the cats out too....
We're constantly having to yell over them too and it would be nice to just be able to use normal voices to communicate with one another. UGH!
Yeah, they completely dumped out all the contents of my bathroom cabinet and scattered it all over the place. Then they dumped the cat litter all over, turned Andy's faucet on and plugged his sink and let the water flow out all over (did I mention that the water was also on full blast), dumped our hand towels in the cat's food and water dishes, they just had a grand old time and could not seem to understand why I was just not so amused when I found them having field day in all the water. There was not a dry spot on my bathroom floor at all! They also got into some ebay stuff that was in our bedroom and they tried to throw some stuff out of the window after they pushed the screen out. Little terrors! I did learn one thing though...I'm not opening up the upstairs windows anymore...I do not want them falling out!!
One thing that I am grateful for though is that it wasn't as expensive to clean up as we thought it was going to be...don't get me wrong it was still a pricey event to take care of, but we were more concerned that we thought we were going to have majoral structural damage when we saw that the water had made it through the ceiling and so forth. I'm just grateful that we had a real emergency fund built up and that it was only a small fortune to take care of it rather than the big one we thought it was going to be. Thank You, Dave Ramsey who we're taking our baby steps after!
I never thought two toddlers could be so quiet while making such a HUGE mess. They stopped up Andy's sink and let the water continuously flow on full blast. I was trying to clean downstairs while I thought they were napping (Baby J was asleep when I left their bedroom and I left Baby D rubbing his eyes and I thought he was quickly on his way to napping...WRONG!). Anyway, after I cleaned the guest bathroom downstairs, the playroom, and went to unload the dishwasher I heard the footsteps and a giggle. I went upstairs to find my master bathroom door closed and them laughing. I opened up the door, saw the huge mess, and proceeded to slip and fall on my butt. What I didn't see at first was all the water ALL over the floor... I got the water turned off, the boys changed and put back to bed and went to put down all the towels that I could find. That wasn't nearly enough. I went and got all the blankets that I could find...that STILL wasn't enough. By that time, I called Andy in tears and he said he'd take lunch and come home to help me. Right after I talked to him, my Mom called. She was able to get me the number for some emergency people that deal with flooding (THANKS MOM!) and they came out right away. By that time, I had taken every bin of dirty clothes that we had and dumped them all over the bathroom floor to sop up the water and that helped get more up off the floor. I came downstairs to grab my mop and found that the water had started to pour through the laundry room vent over my head. I cleaned up the water downstairs that was on the floor and ran back upstairs to make sure that I got all the major water soaked up. I discovered that Andy's cabinet drawers were FULL of water...so I quickly dumped those out and got towels in them to dry them out. Unfortunately, they have some water damage...but it's only on the inside of the drawers so he's not too worried about it. By that point, Andy was home and the emergency people came shortly after. They probed our floors and walls and the downstairs ceiling and thankfully only a section of our drywall and baseboards and ceiling had anything to worry about. He recommended setting up 3 huge fans and a dehumidifer to those areas for 3 days to dry them out. They're coming out tomorrow to probe again to make sure it's all dried up. We did wind up with a small crack in the downstairs ceiling, but I guess it could have been a whole lot worse. We'll have to putty it and patch it up and repaint.
This is the only photo that you can honestly see that there's water on the floor (reflection of the window on the floor). But, they sure had a field day in there in the 15-20 minutes that I was THINKING they were sleeping. Now, they have a safety knob on their door so they can't get out and we're installing a door alarm as well so we know when they've opened the door for SURE.
Yeah, I think the cats will be glad to have the blowers and stuff gone too. They're so loud that they freak the cats out too....
We're constantly having to yell over them too and it would be nice to just be able to use normal voices to communicate with one another. UGH!
Yeah, they completely dumped out all the contents of my bathroom cabinet and scattered it all over the place. Then they dumped the cat litter all over, turned Andy's faucet on and plugged his sink and let the water flow out all over (did I mention that the water was also on full blast), dumped our hand towels in the cat's food and water dishes, they just had a grand old time and could not seem to understand why I was just not so amused when I found them having field day in all the water. There was not a dry spot on my bathroom floor at all! They also got into some ebay stuff that was in our bedroom and they tried to throw some stuff out of the window after they pushed the screen out. Little terrors! I did learn one thing though...I'm not opening up the upstairs windows anymore...I do not want them falling out!!
One thing that I am grateful for though is that it wasn't as expensive to clean up as we thought it was going to be...don't get me wrong it was still a pricey event to take care of, but we were more concerned that we thought we were going to have majoral structural damage when we saw that the water had made it through the ceiling and so forth. I'm just grateful that we had a real emergency fund built up and that it was only a small fortune to take care of it rather than the big one we thought it was going to be. Thank You, Dave Ramsey who we're taking our baby steps after!
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
House Spending Spree
Well, I had $75 to spend on the house...I went up to get the stuff for my little bathroom and they were all out of stock on the things that I needed for it. So, I figured that I'd get all new towels since we've been using the same ones since we got married and I want nice matching ones. Anyway, I got light purple ones to match our bathroom and washcloths to match and I got two purple handtowels with the butterfly print on it that matches our shower curtain.
Then, I went and got the kids all new washcloths and towels in the green that matches their froggy theme in their bathroom.
I realized in trying to listen to the "I'm hungry" and "I'm thirsty" and all that mess that I forgot to kid the frog trash can for their bathroom and a new toothbrush for Little J since the boys threw hers in the toilet. Oops! So, I'll go back for that later. I need to grab a Tinkerbell trash can for the girls room too.
Oh! And the best part...Andy will be oh so proud of me...I'm under budget!!
Then, I went and got the kids all new washcloths and towels in the green that matches their froggy theme in their bathroom.
I realized in trying to listen to the "I'm hungry" and "I'm thirsty" and all that mess that I forgot to kid the frog trash can for their bathroom and a new toothbrush for Little J since the boys threw hers in the toilet. Oops! So, I'll go back for that later. I need to grab a Tinkerbell trash can for the girls room too.
Oh! And the best part...Andy will be oh so proud of me...I'm under budget!!
Monday, March 31, 2008
House Stuff
Well, since the weather is warming up and everything is starting to green up, we wanted to get some stuff for the house and for the kids to play with in the backyard instead of just going out there and pushing their carts around and playing with their big bouncy balls or just running around. So, we got them a turtle sandbox which kept them all entertained and so occupied for hours.
We were also going to get this swingset, but we couldn't get any set answers on how big the boxes were so we weren't sure if it was going to fit in the van. So, we decided to go out next weekend instead to go back and get the swingset.
We also got the girls new nightstands that match their beds and we got them a big white wooden bookshelf for all of their books. I told Andy that I'm going to take the house envelope to Target tomorrow and get the stuff to finish my little bathroom as well. We need to get more focused on making our house a home and getting things little by little.
We were also going to get this swingset, but we couldn't get any set answers on how big the boxes were so we weren't sure if it was going to fit in the van. So, we decided to go out next weekend instead to go back and get the swingset.
We also got the girls new nightstands that match their beds and we got them a big white wooden bookshelf for all of their books. I told Andy that I'm going to take the house envelope to Target tomorrow and get the stuff to finish my little bathroom as well. We need to get more focused on making our house a home and getting things little by little.
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