When Daddy's Away...

KC will push all of Mommy's buttons. As soon as I walked in the door from dropping him off she has been testing me.



When the weather is nice, we'll leave a door open so the dogs can go out to the backyard and play when they want. Well last night, I left a door open and KC decided to take 200+ notecards outside and scatter them across the backyard.

This isn't quite the whole pack, you should have seen it before I started cleaning it up. That black thing is a case of dominos. She was ripping the fabric off of that when I realized she was up to no good.

Where's the little princess now? Laying next to me chewing quietly on a bone. Thank goodness tonight is a good behavior night.

Deployment Day...Dum Dum Dum(b)

So...Hubby left today. I actually just got back from dropping him off. I'm keeping my mind on everything I have to get done while he's gone and maybe on another day I'll let myself mope around and whine about missing him. For now though...too much to do!

Before he left we started painting our bedroom furniture, that's going to be first on my list of tasks to complete around here. It will most likely be an ongoing project, with lots of other things coming up to interrupt it, but it will be done by the time he comes home. Maybe I'll get our kitchen table done too..maybe.

Here's a before an after of our tall dresser:

Before:

After:

I'm pretty pleased with the transformation! I'm also veeerrry excited to finish the other pieces and see how they all look together. Maybe I'll start saving for new bedding too, and make it a total room makeover by the time I'm finished. We'll see!

I'm off to run a few errands before I go to our house inspection..fingers crossed!

House Adventures

Hubby and I were driving down the street one day when we saw a sign similar to this one:

We decided to go check it out and while we didn't find anything we liked enough to take home with us, we fell in love with the house. We talked about it the whole way home, and decided to call the realtor. Unfortunately for us, the house had already sold. We decided to take a look at a few houses, and 10+ houses later we found one we wanted to make an offer on. We were beat out by another offer. Shoot. So we kept looking, then placed an offer on another house a few days later...which was accepted!

I am so excited to get in there and make it our home. We've been talking about paint colors, furniture placement, and summer cookouts in our backyard. We're beyond excited for our closing/move in day. We also understand that it's not 100% and something could still prevent us from getting the keys, so we're making these plans with crossed fingers and high hopes.

If we end up in this house, or another here are some of the things we're thinking about doing..

This is the bedroom from the oh-so-amazing John and Sherry at http://www.younghouselove.com/ . If you haven't checked out their blog yet, you need to head right over and take a look! I'll wait here. No really...go look. Those white curtains on either side of the bed are actually hiding wardrobes. I love everything about this room. We're going to use it as our guide when putting together our new bedroom, and I'm ecstatic! We're going to be refinishing the bedroom furniture we have now to save some money and give the room the look we want...before and after pictures WILL be posted!

I'll show you room progress and more inspiration pictures soon...promise!

Take 2...

I've had a blog before, but was barely keeping up with it. Eventually I decided to retire my sorry excuse for a blog, but I'm here to give it another shot.

This blog will likely cover a range of topics, from school, work, buying our first home, my husband's deployments...whatever else pops into my head. I'm hoping this stays interesting enough to keep a few readers around!


Now that the intro post is out of the way..I'm going to hit "publish post" and get to work on my first "real" entry...

See you soon!