Projects, Company and progress

Well, I have been gone awhile but don't worry we have been busy!! :) Not a ton done on the house BUT we had our first official company at our home for 12 days, it was Grandma and Grandpa from North Carolina!!! WE had a great time!!! and took a couple days to recover...
We tried to get our downstairs bathroom done in time, but alas it just didn't get finished so that is now our fall project, along with taking all the garden in, fertilizing our 2 acre yard, cleaning up the yard for snow, and selling some more things on craigslist...(oh and I am sure a couple more projects...as in my secret project of painting our kitchen cabinets!!) Yep, I am going to try and paint our ugly mismatached kitchen cabinets without my hubby's knowledge....We will see how it goes....(I already got the TSP, primer and sanding paper...)
Oh and I got a dresser off Craigslist for $10 that I am ALMOST finished, as in I should be done tomorrow!! I will post some pics for you all :) I think it turned out great and I got it done for $5 (the spray polyurethane can) and $5 for the drawer knobs so plus the $10 dresser it ended up being $20....
~Fawn

3 monkeys in a room

Ok, so I really don't have "literally" 3 monkeys but I do have all 3 kids right now in one room!! Thank God it is a big room with 2 closets (1 is for their clothes, the other is a walk-in called "reading room" though I don't know how much reading goes on in there.. mainly playing...) It is actually working, they go to sleep at night and the girls will take a nap at naptime. They all love sharing a room, yes they are 6 and under but hopefully they will enjoy this for a few more years until our oldest is ready to move downstairs to his own room...
I am linking this up with Cottage Instincts.

the never ending bathroom.....

Do you ever have a project that you feel are never are going to get done???? I do and it my
upstairs bathroom.....I found a deal on craigslist for a vanity and my hubby and I took a look at it this morning and we bought it..$55, it white with beadboard trim and with the new top we bought at Lowes a couple weeks ago it should be beautiful!! (now just got to convince the hubby to help install it sooner rather than later.....)
We are enjoying summer around here and enjoying the garden (I have eaten atleast a dozen cherry tomatoes in the past couple days) and even have the radio playing day and night to keep the MOOSE out of it!! The moose came in and wiped out my cabbage, broccoli, brussel sprout and collard plants...some of them are going to survive some are not!! :( Oh, well guess maybe my hubby will get the electric fence up next year....
We had a wonderful evening, night and morning all to ourselves courtesy of my Mom/Dad and sister, they took all the kids overnight so we could celebrate our 9 year wedding anniversary!! It was lovely to go out to dinner and then to B/N for a couple hours then head home..it was especially nice to sleep into almost 10 am this morning!! :)
Hopefully soon I will have some more pictures to show of the never ending bathroom and maybe a couple of our gold claim (we are headed out for a day trip tomorrow) .........
~Fawn

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY WEEKEND

We have a very exciting weekend planned!!!
1st-My sister who just graduated from nursing school in Virginia and just drove for a month back to Alaska will be here!!!!
2nd- My brother and his wife and two kids are driving down
3rd- The whole family is renting a campground with pond, cabins, firepit, etc....and we are all hanging out all weekend together!!! YEAH!!!!!!!! (11 adults and 9 kids)
4th- can you tell we are excited!!!!!
The kids have been sooo excited that it wasn't too difficult to get them to help me clean the house so we can leave the house in some sort of order :)
So Happy Independence Day to Everyone and Thank you to all who have, are or going to Serve our Country!!!
Love
~Fawn

Number 4

Well, as I type this, I have baby number 3 crawling all over me while I lay on my bed basically flat so that way Baby #4 doesn't make me puke....Yep, I am officially pregnant with Baby #4, my hubby and I are very happy and feel very blessed!! We don't know exactly when the baby will be due, but as we always have our kids in Jan/Feb..we think this one will be born around the same time :) So, as I still try to spray paint (yes I am wearing a mask) and finish painting the bathroom, my time is going to be limited if this nauseousness doesn't go away...

Though we did do family photos yesterday morning and got back the photos today and LOVE them!!! I will post a couple so you can see!! I found my photographer on craigslist, and she was the right price and a wonderful photographer!!

Enjoy!!!

~Fawn

Garage Sale Cleaning

Have to say I have a love hate relationship with Garage Sales...I love getting the money for them, but I hate the organizing, pricing, arguing with my hubby about the prices, the set up, clean up, etc....We did one this weekend..and I have to say my opinions haven't changed :) We did make a little money and got rid of some more stuff, but still have a couple tables full of stuff we need to haul to the reuse area at the dump (we accidently left everything out for the night and it decided to rain, so we are just taking the rest of it to the reuse area) So, I guess I will enjoy the money for a few minutes as we have already decided where it is going to go and be glad we are done with that for the summer and got rid of alot of stuff we don't need or use!! :) Oh and we did something fun after the yard sale, after we closed on Saturday, I put a posting on Craigslist that everything was free!! Yep, gave everything else away to the first people who showed up..did if for a couple hours and then deleted the ad, had about 5 cars of people show up and 1 family had just moved into town so they got some stuff for their new place, it was nice to give it to people who would use it and we don't have to haul it!!

~Fawn

Bathroom Saga

Well, I am still....painting the bathroom, it is taking forever, not because it is overly hard, just that the weather was beautiful so it has been hard to justify painting inside...Well, the weather has changed and has been pretty rainy so I now have the ceiling done and removed all the trim around the doors, floors,etc... so will try and finish the painting soon, though now I have a wedding 2 hrs away tomorrow, and friends are coming to stay with us until Wednesday....hmmm I think this bathroom painting might have to wait a bit once again.....oh well, I really am not in that big of hurry :) Except that I did find some Awesome artwork for the bathroom...Found a huge $10 white frame in clearance at Michaels and a cute poster at Joann's for $7 and they look sooo cute that I really want to finish so I can hang them up and found an awesome rug by Dash and Albert rug that would work PERFECT as a bath mat in there too, haven't purchased that yet, but hopefully soon :) Oh and I still have some amazing custom graphics from Uppercase Living that I really want to stick up too.....Guess I had better find some time to do some painting...oh wait, this is time I guess I should get off and do some painting so until next time......
~Fawn