Dining Room is finally finished

OUR DINING ROOM IS FINISHED! I'm so excited. I'm really happy with how it turned out. Tell me what you think.

Here is the before picture:


Dad is the one who really got us going on the room. One day he came over and the next thing I knew wall paper was coming off the walls :





Here is the final product before things get put back into the room.




And now... The finished product!!!

Frustrated

I am quite frustrated. My computer decided to completely crash last night. I am at the Ball State Library right now because I had to take my computer to the icare corner to see if there is anything they can do. They are currently wiping everything off my computer and reinstalling the operating system. Hopefully this takes care of the problem. Bad things is two days ago I took pictures of my entire house to post on here of before and after pictures so I could update everyone and they are on my computer and I'm not sure they got backed up on my external hard drive before all this started. Good thing is... those pictures can be taken again... it isn't like they were wedding pictures or something. Ugh. I hope that it isn't a hardware problem where I will need to send it back to apple. ugh. :) I guess things could be worse.

Before & After - Bathroom (master bedroom)

Here is a picture of what our bathroom (the one off of our bedroom) looked like when we first moved in our house. One thing you can't see is the ugly flooring. it had mauve colored roses. Ugh.

This is Brooke working on our new flooring. YAY. Looks a million times better!

Here is the finished product. What do you think?

Water fun

The other day Mason as picking things in the garden and I decided I need to water it. In the process I accidentally sprayed Mason with the hose on the leg and then things got crazy. We decided to play in the sprinkler like kids. It was so much fun! Here are some pictures....

I just found out that I can update my blog via text.... wow this technology driven world is crazy!

This Past Weekend

Brooke came down this weekend and we put carpet in the sunroom. It looks so much better in there we still need to put a boarder up so that way it will cover the ugly glue spots left by the people who lived there before. It is so much nicer in there. She also helped up make the trees in the front yard beautiful. We got some stone things and put around them and put down mulch. They look 100% better.



Then on Sunday I was very productive. I painted the closet and then hung up pegboard in the garage, hung a shelf in the laundry room, and went to the old house to clean it up so we can be free of that house. Mason and I hung shelves in the office so we have a place for all our books. It looks really good. Now the office isn't stuffed with boxes. :) Hurray for getting things done.

The Weekend

The weekend started off with Mason and me having Friday off. We spent a lot of the day relaxing and just enjoying the day. In the morning I had an interview with JCPenney and got hired on the same day! Very exciting I think. Not the best job in the world, but with these economic times I will take what I can get until I get a teaching job. On Saturday we got up really early to get the outside of our house to look nice. We went to Lowes to pick up a lot of supplies, including our new lawnmower, hedge trimmer and much more! Then we went to Rural King to pick up fruit trees to put in our backyard. We are going to have green apple, peach and red apple trees. We also got blueberry and raspberry bushes to add to our garden. Later in the afternoon we went over to my parent's house to have Easter dinner with them, Aaron, Amy and the kids. Today, we went to church with dad and went to Grandma and Grandpa Conner's house to have an Easter meal with them. The rest of the day today Mason spent getting lesson plans around and I got a few things done around the house. Still things to get done around the house but we figure that might take a little longer than expected to accomplish. Happy Easter!

Graduation & Garden

I have 32 days until graduation. I'm very excited about that. However, this is the time of year where everything gets crazy. I have lesson plans due every day it seems like and I also have some group project to work on every other free moment. I just have to keep reminding myself that I only have 32 days.

Mason and I worked on trying to get the garden ready this past weekend. The spot that we are going to be putting the garden is the same place where the previous owner had a swimming pool. They took the pool but left tons of small rocks that we have to take out. Which it taking forever. However we got a lot done before the rain came. We should be able to finish it this coming weekend.

Living Room

These are the curtains that my grandma let us use to hang up in the living room. It is nice to have something covering the window. That way not everyone and their brother can look into our house. We haven't done anything to the actual room yet. This is one of the stupid rooms that has wall paper on the walls that we plan to take off this summer. Why do people put paper on the walls? To cause people head aches later?


Here is how we have the rest of the living room set up. Not amazing but it is alright. :)

Update

So things have been continued to be busy. I was hoping to be able to update this daily but apparently that just can't happen. It reminds me of every year since I was about 10 on New Years I made the resolution that I would keep a journal and the longest I think that has lasted without me missing a day was about 4-5 days. Pathetic! Oh well. I have decided that I'm not going to give up and I will continue to post.... Is my life really interesting enough to post something every single day? lol probably not. Mason and I have continued to work on the house. We have all the rooms painted with the exception of the dinning room/hallway, and living room. We haven't completely decided what we want to do in the dining room so therefore we can't decided what to do in the hallway because it is kinda connected to the dining room. We have some wallpaper in the living room that will need to come down but we won't work on that until this summer. So for now our house is coming together besides those minor things. I'm excited. There is still so much to unpack. Life is good though. I'm so happy with Mason. I'm glad we finally have our own house! :) Pictures coming soon... Promise!