Man, it has been quite a while since I've made a post. Between my last post and this one my hard drive died and I had to send it back to Gateway to be replaced. I lost everything on the hard drive, unfortunately. But since mourning the loss of my beloved lap top, Paul & I went on Vacay to Miami for Memorial Day weekend to celebrate being married for 6 years. We celebrated 6 years on Monday, the 28th. Time flies when you're having fun!
I started rebuilding my hard drive from the bottom. Trying to replace thousands of music files isn't easy. I'm also still in the process of installing all my old software, bookmarks, programs, etc. It's gonna take a while, I'm sure.
I just wanted to make a quick post to let you know that I'm still alive & kicking. ;P I'll be back with a detailed post of our trip to Miami, a post about our garden (I added flowers!!) & lots of others good things to come. Thanks for continuing to visit & send in emails & comments. I appreciate it so much! I'll be returning emails by the weekend, so stick with me! :)
May 30, 2012
May 4, 2012
Gonna get Dir-tay!
Phew, it's been awhile since I've updated hasn't it? Sorry about that! Life has been busy. Tracking back to my last post, Paul & I drove to Orlando last Thursday to pick Gracie up from my parents who took her to Disney for a few days. She of course had a blast! Since then we decided we're going to have a Birthday Getaway for her in November at Disney. Breakfast with the Princesses, going to the Princess Salon, getting to pick out a Princess dress in the boutique, the day at Magic Kingdom. Should be lots of fun for all of us! They are even currently building a new wing in Magic Kingdom that will feature Belle's Castle from Beauty & The Beast called Fantasyland and will be done by her birthday, so we're excited to see that too!
Other than that we have been doing things around the house here and there to make it better all the time. This week I finally got off my booty & painted the Ikea shelves in the Dining area that were cut to size to fit my wall, so they had some wood showing on the ends. You can see that here...
Luckly, I've had black paint laying around for over a year so it didn't cost me anything to paint it. Win!
And all painted!
Looks good right? Can't even tell I painted them!!
I also got an amazing surprise gift from my parents this week. Of course it's elephant related!
It's a bamboo plant in a elephant planter! Seriously, how amazing is that? Made my day.
Yesterday we got busy in the front garden & cleaned out all of the weeds, overgrown grass, leaves, bugs (yuck!) & dead plants. It only took us about 3 or so hours to get it more than half way finished. I'm pretty proud of the work we got done. Sunday we're going to finish up out there. I still need to move 2 trees. Yeah. I'm THAT hardcore. ;)
Here are a few before shots...
Can you even see anything? So overgrown!
See that tall tree? That's being moved to the right, in front of that fence. The palm tree next to it will be moved closer to the big tree in the garden. You'll see! I'll share pictures when we get that tackled.
See the wood fence to the right? That's where the tall tree is going.
This is the view from the other side, looking toward the driveway side.
And of course as soon as I started removing the bricks, Max had to jump into the holes and lay down. Silly kitty!
And some afters or progress pictures...
Check out my fellow landscapers! ;)
So the to-do list includes, moving two trees, adding some color to the garden, mulch & maybe some decorative goodies as well. All in due time! Jordan spotted that the new layout of the garden is actually shaped like a B. I was pretty impressed that he noticed that because I didn't! But I was happy when he pointed it out, being that we are the house of B's! ;)
Also, in the next year or so I have plans on changing the front of the house from the screened in porch to something a little like this...
Amazing, right? I figure not only would it be beautiful but it would just be something else to add charm to the house for when we move in the future, being that this house is only our first home, not our permanent place.
I also dream of adding a front porch swing. Perfect for those warm summer nights!
Other than all that I'm also currently in the process of building a business website for someone, preparing for our Vacay to Miami in three weeks & continuing to work on this house, being a mom & just rocking the shit outta life! :P Have you been sprucing up your yards for the Spring & upcoming Summer? It's definitely a lot of work but it's such a great payoff when it's finished!
Other than that we have been doing things around the house here and there to make it better all the time. This week I finally got off my booty & painted the Ikea shelves in the Dining area that were cut to size to fit my wall, so they had some wood showing on the ends. You can see that here...
Luckly, I've had black paint laying around for over a year so it didn't cost me anything to paint it. Win!
And all painted!
Looks good right? Can't even tell I painted them!!
I also got an amazing surprise gift from my parents this week. Of course it's elephant related!
It's a bamboo plant in a elephant planter! Seriously, how amazing is that? Made my day.
Yesterday we got busy in the front garden & cleaned out all of the weeds, overgrown grass, leaves, bugs (yuck!) & dead plants. It only took us about 3 or so hours to get it more than half way finished. I'm pretty proud of the work we got done. Sunday we're going to finish up out there. I still need to move 2 trees. Yeah. I'm THAT hardcore. ;)
Here are a few before shots...
Can you even see anything? So overgrown!
See that tall tree? That's being moved to the right, in front of that fence. The palm tree next to it will be moved closer to the big tree in the garden. You'll see! I'll share pictures when we get that tackled.
See the wood fence to the right? That's where the tall tree is going.
This is the view from the other side, looking toward the driveway side.
And of course as soon as I started removing the bricks, Max had to jump into the holes and lay down. Silly kitty!
And some afters or progress pictures...
Check out my fellow landscapers! ;)
So the to-do list includes, moving two trees, adding some color to the garden, mulch & maybe some decorative goodies as well. All in due time! Jordan spotted that the new layout of the garden is actually shaped like a B. I was pretty impressed that he noticed that because I didn't! But I was happy when he pointed it out, being that we are the house of B's! ;)
Also, in the next year or so I have plans on changing the front of the house from the screened in porch to something a little like this...
Amazing, right? I figure not only would it be beautiful but it would just be something else to add charm to the house for when we move in the future, being that this house is only our first home, not our permanent place.
I also dream of adding a front porch swing. Perfect for those warm summer nights!
Other than all that I'm also currently in the process of building a business website for someone, preparing for our Vacay to Miami in three weeks & continuing to work on this house, being a mom & just rocking the shit outta life! :P Have you been sprucing up your yards for the Spring & upcoming Summer? It's definitely a lot of work but it's such a great payoff when it's finished!
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