Well, I started to make a post about our weekend on Monday (or Tuesday, I can't remember!), but quickly realized it sounded very boring and I have NO pictures from it! Sooo I thought I would wait.
Last Friday our friends Ricky & Brittany came over and Ryan grilled out. We had a good time just chatting and eating. Saturday was a rushed and busy day. We had to be at soccer early for pictures and then B had his game. We rushed home after the game and ate a quick sandwich and then off to Turkey Trot. We hung out at the camper and enjoyed the nice day and then went to the truck pulls. We had supper at the camper and then B went to ride some rides. We got home about 10 I believe and I was EXHAUSTED. No more pushing myself to be "miss busy bee". I know I say that, but I am serious this time. It was just too much for me... and I am staying healthy this time (well as much as I can control it, I know I had no control over getting sick last time, but I just mean I'm not going to run my body ragged and give it any more of a reason to freak out!). Sunday we were around the house and I was trying to recover from Saturday. Thankfully I felt much better by Sunday evening. I guess now every little thing worries about me, but better to be safe than sorry. We went to my parents for supper Sunday evening and visited for awhile.
Ya'll know me and how I complain about my butt ugly kitchen cabinets all the time (I know I know, a lot of people would be glad to just have cabinets, and I AM grateful, but....). I got spoiled at our first house and had brand new cabinets that were beautiful... probably b/c my hubby made them, but ya know. It also makes it hard b/c it isn't like it feels IMPOSSIBLE to get new cabinets... after all that is what "the man" does every day for a living! Sooo we're still not sure about the buyer that was interested in our house back in the spring and said he would know for sure in the fall. We don't want to bother him so we're not asking questions. We're really not in a rush anyway... but if that does fall through we still do want to put our house for sale sometime in the next year or so... so anyway that means we're still stuck not wanting to put a bunch of money into our current house, but still wanting some updates... sooo Ryan decided he would refinish our cabinets, get a new counter top and do a new back splash... um can I get a HALLELUJAH!? They still won't be my "dream" cabinets, but I know those will come when we build. I can settle and be really excited about ones that are the darkest wood EVER w/ the butt ugliest counter tops from 1974 w/ matching backsplash! Oh girls, you better believe I can be happy about "refinished"! Sooo after all that I'm getting to what we did on Monday evening! We went to Lowe's to pick out tile for our backsplash. We got that picked out and I love it! I think it will turn out great! Ryan also had me look at counter tops b/c they sale the same brands that they have available at the shop. I also got that picked out. We're not going w/ anything fancy b/c obviously we're trying to be economical, but make it more modern! While we were at Lowe's I thought I would go over to the flooring department, b/c as you all know another gripe I have is the carpet in our front living room. Well, we are getting new carpet in there! Oh Monday was a great day in the life of Chelsa :) We got a great deal on the carpet, pad AND installation! I'm soo excited. The guy is coming to measure up today. I had a carpet fund saved up but we had never went ahead and got carpet. B/c of the odd size of the room it was going to require double the cost and it's not even a big room... well we found an odd sized carpet to fit our odd sized room and so I will even have money left over from my saved up carpet fund, SCORE! Ryan thinks I'm basically insane for being so excited, but these are two of the things that drive me crazy on a daily basis so I'm just pumped! We've done a lot of "projects" around our house and these are two bigger ones that we've put off and not done, but probably two of the ones that bothered me the most so I will be so thankful to have them done! I think they will both help us w/ selling the house when we decide to put it up for sale (since both are things you see when you walk in the front door and were about the only two things that haven't been updated since we moved in).
So ya'll probably really think I'm crazy now, but I'm just so excited (get back w/ me in a week when my house is ripped apart and we'll see if I'm still so excited!). haha
Tuesday evening B had soccer practice... and then yesterday he had his pre-school's field trip to The Children's Museum in Evansville. We had never been there, but B loved it. It was so neat! I was worn out from all those kiddos though! Ryan didn't get home from work until almost 8 last night so me and B took all my flowers out of pots and cleaned up the landscaping and got all my fall decorations out... went and got mums and planted those too. I love fall decorations :) Tonight I was dreading doing laundry b/c I try to do it every other day at least and it'd been a few days since I'd had a chance, but my grandma (who still loves to spoil me) called me this morning and asked if she could go to my house and help me out w/ laundry or anything that needed done... Seriously, how does she ALWAYS know? I know w/out my Papaw to take care of all the time she gets bored and it makes her feel good to help me out, it makes me feel good too! haha! Honestly though, I'm so grateful for her! I will now get to spend my evening enjoying my boys instead of worrying about laundry! Or maybe I can make that dreaded Wal-Mart trip so I don't have to do it tomorrow... boo :( I like option 1 better.
Brycen is doing much better w/ pre-school. No tears this week! I guess he just needed a little time. He seems to be back to his old self. Hopefully, it will stay that way! Last year he had learned his phone number at school and then we recently got rid of our house phone b/c we NEVER used it and I don't really want to pay for something we never use... so anyway, we got rid of our house phone and just have our cell phones. This is working fine, except I totally forgot this would call for Brycen to learn a new phone number! Duh, Chelsa! Well, we started working on it last night and he got it right away! He was so excited that he had learned it and I was so glad that he went w/ the flow and didn't get the old number confused w/ the new number. He ran into school this morning and told one of his teachers! He was laughing and smiling about something when I left-- makes me feel MUCH better that I haven't scarred him for life.
Tomorrow night Ryan is going to start ripping out the cabinets- sooo my house is going to be unorganized for awhile- lots of eating out I guess (too bad Pike Co. doesn't have more choices!).
Last Friday our friends Ricky & Brittany came over and Ryan grilled out. We had a good time just chatting and eating. Saturday was a rushed and busy day. We had to be at soccer early for pictures and then B had his game. We rushed home after the game and ate a quick sandwich and then off to Turkey Trot. We hung out at the camper and enjoyed the nice day and then went to the truck pulls. We had supper at the camper and then B went to ride some rides. We got home about 10 I believe and I was EXHAUSTED. No more pushing myself to be "miss busy bee". I know I say that, but I am serious this time. It was just too much for me... and I am staying healthy this time (well as much as I can control it, I know I had no control over getting sick last time, but I just mean I'm not going to run my body ragged and give it any more of a reason to freak out!). Sunday we were around the house and I was trying to recover from Saturday. Thankfully I felt much better by Sunday evening. I guess now every little thing worries about me, but better to be safe than sorry. We went to my parents for supper Sunday evening and visited for awhile.
Ya'll know me and how I complain about my butt ugly kitchen cabinets all the time (I know I know, a lot of people would be glad to just have cabinets, and I AM grateful, but....). I got spoiled at our first house and had brand new cabinets that were beautiful... probably b/c my hubby made them, but ya know. It also makes it hard b/c it isn't like it feels IMPOSSIBLE to get new cabinets... after all that is what "the man" does every day for a living! Sooo we're still not sure about the buyer that was interested in our house back in the spring and said he would know for sure in the fall. We don't want to bother him so we're not asking questions. We're really not in a rush anyway... but if that does fall through we still do want to put our house for sale sometime in the next year or so... so anyway that means we're still stuck not wanting to put a bunch of money into our current house, but still wanting some updates... sooo Ryan decided he would refinish our cabinets, get a new counter top and do a new back splash... um can I get a HALLELUJAH!? They still won't be my "dream" cabinets, but I know those will come when we build. I can settle and be really excited about ones that are the darkest wood EVER w/ the butt ugliest counter tops from 1974 w/ matching backsplash! Oh girls, you better believe I can be happy about "refinished"! Sooo after all that I'm getting to what we did on Monday evening! We went to Lowe's to pick out tile for our backsplash. We got that picked out and I love it! I think it will turn out great! Ryan also had me look at counter tops b/c they sale the same brands that they have available at the shop. I also got that picked out. We're not going w/ anything fancy b/c obviously we're trying to be economical, but make it more modern! While we were at Lowe's I thought I would go over to the flooring department, b/c as you all know another gripe I have is the carpet in our front living room. Well, we are getting new carpet in there! Oh Monday was a great day in the life of Chelsa :) We got a great deal on the carpet, pad AND installation! I'm soo excited. The guy is coming to measure up today. I had a carpet fund saved up but we had never went ahead and got carpet. B/c of the odd size of the room it was going to require double the cost and it's not even a big room... well we found an odd sized carpet to fit our odd sized room and so I will even have money left over from my saved up carpet fund, SCORE! Ryan thinks I'm basically insane for being so excited, but these are two of the things that drive me crazy on a daily basis so I'm just pumped! We've done a lot of "projects" around our house and these are two bigger ones that we've put off and not done, but probably two of the ones that bothered me the most so I will be so thankful to have them done! I think they will both help us w/ selling the house when we decide to put it up for sale (since both are things you see when you walk in the front door and were about the only two things that haven't been updated since we moved in).
So ya'll probably really think I'm crazy now, but I'm just so excited (get back w/ me in a week when my house is ripped apart and we'll see if I'm still so excited!). haha
Tuesday evening B had soccer practice... and then yesterday he had his pre-school's field trip to The Children's Museum in Evansville. We had never been there, but B loved it. It was so neat! I was worn out from all those kiddos though! Ryan didn't get home from work until almost 8 last night so me and B took all my flowers out of pots and cleaned up the landscaping and got all my fall decorations out... went and got mums and planted those too. I love fall decorations :) Tonight I was dreading doing laundry b/c I try to do it every other day at least and it'd been a few days since I'd had a chance, but my grandma (who still loves to spoil me) called me this morning and asked if she could go to my house and help me out w/ laundry or anything that needed done... Seriously, how does she ALWAYS know? I know w/out my Papaw to take care of all the time she gets bored and it makes her feel good to help me out, it makes me feel good too! haha! Honestly though, I'm so grateful for her! I will now get to spend my evening enjoying my boys instead of worrying about laundry! Or maybe I can make that dreaded Wal-Mart trip so I don't have to do it tomorrow... boo :( I like option 1 better.
Brycen is doing much better w/ pre-school. No tears this week! I guess he just needed a little time. He seems to be back to his old self. Hopefully, it will stay that way! Last year he had learned his phone number at school and then we recently got rid of our house phone b/c we NEVER used it and I don't really want to pay for something we never use... so anyway, we got rid of our house phone and just have our cell phones. This is working fine, except I totally forgot this would call for Brycen to learn a new phone number! Duh, Chelsa! Well, we started working on it last night and he got it right away! He was so excited that he had learned it and I was so glad that he went w/ the flow and didn't get the old number confused w/ the new number. He ran into school this morning and told one of his teachers! He was laughing and smiling about something when I left-- makes me feel MUCH better that I haven't scarred him for life.
Tomorrow night Ryan is going to start ripping out the cabinets- sooo my house is going to be unorganized for awhile- lots of eating out I guess (too bad Pike Co. doesn't have more choices!).
These pictures are from B's field trip yesterday!
Tyler and B
getting ready to balance
playing drums
B at the end of the slide that was at the end of the climbing thingy
Brycen and Kennedy pulling on some intestines--eww
Arri, Tyler, and B-- BOYS!
This room was probably Brycen's favorite. He was def. in his element. He was building a bridge here!
Ty and B after the water room- they were SOAKED!
10 comments:
Yeah for refinished cabinets and new carpet!! I would be just as excited as you!! I can't wait to see your finished project!! I love home improvement stuff, but Alex is not so handy, so we don't get many chances to do fun stuff like that. I hope it all turns out just the way you imagined it! Take it easy and get some rest girl! :)
Yahoo. I refinished our last homes cabinets and antiqued them. I LOVED them! Go Chelsa. haha Its fun to do that stuff. :)
Hey girl, you didn't tell me you were finally getting new carpet!!! Yeah!! I'm so happy for ya. Oh and I saw the door that ryan test painted at the shop. It will be soooo pretty!!
I get very excited when we do any improvements/ updates to our space. It's a breath of fresh air! Looking forward to seeing the before/ after (yeah, I watch too much HGTV)
Yay for updates!! Gotta love em, right?! Our new home is going to need a few updates like that too. Thanks for following our blog, I think you may be the only one!;)
Yay! Im so happy for you! Having just had my house tore apart for the new floor I can sympathize with you though. But I can also rejoice with you because I know how exciting it is to have something being done after waiting so long for it!! And the eating out isnt too bad ;-) Lol, except on the budget maybe.
Looks like a really fun field trip!
Looks like Brycen had a fun time on his field trip! I love home improvement projects, and looking for new carpet for our living room, and new flooring for the kitchen and bathrooms!
YAY...so happy for you to get going on your home improvement!! It's stressful, but always worth it :)
And S-L-O-W down girl!! This momma knows how easy it is to get wore down when you over do it!! I know it's easier said than done...but don't worry about the small stuff :)
Home improvement projects are a ton of fun! Well...choosing the cabinet colors and carpet are fun. Not so much the mess and time. haha. I can't wait to see the finished project. I would be excited just like you!!
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