craftin'

So...the cute lil headbands that Meryl was wearing (in previous post) were created by my dearest friend, Aimee- Meryl's momma!!! She has an awesome website

http://oliveandpearlhandmade.blogspot.com

ALSO, she has a shop on ETSY!!!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/aimsshoppe



Check them out...they're awesome!!

She is ONE TALENTED lady...auhmazing she is!!

So, Aim inspired Shauna and I to get crafty the weekend of july 4th!! Here are some of our fun crafties!

ALSO, we had a fun surprise shower for a sweet friend, Lauren, from our community group who is due with her 2nd little munchkin, a little girl, Shelby! Shauna taught the girls from our group how to make stencils from freezer paper that you then iron on the onsie and paint away...genius! We had a blast and I think Lauren will have some cute onsies. We also made a few headbands for Shelby!

Crafting in sooo much...oh summer...how fun you are!

We are movin' now!

Wow...so we busted it on the house this past weekend, thanks to my AMAZING folks! My mom and dad graciously came to Taylor on Saturday to help us work on the house. We were sooo productive, it was awesome!!

What we accomplished...
• mom and I cleaned out the dining room to make it easier to continue working and took items back to storage (we refilled up our storage shed :)
• dad tore down the Styrofoam ceiling tiles and took out the stables that were holding it up in order to prep for sheet rock. So...side note...dad is super organized and clean so he was putting the staples very nicely into a cup he crafted to hang on the ladder to put all of the staples he tore off the wall. Well...then here comes D a little while later (he had to go to a plumping repair call) to help dad and he starts just ripping out the staples and throwing them on the floor!! dad was like..."if I would have known I could do that...I would have been done by now :)". I appreciated the neatness of dad, but big D had different plans...oh silly Dave!
• D opened up the door way going into the kitchen. I LOVE it...it really opens up the space.
• D widened the door to our "eventual" master bedroom
• We started skim coating the walls in the dining room (we are making the already existing "heavily textured" sheetrock smooth)
• mom was very motivated to clean up behind the boys and organize things, so that was very helpful! We cleared out the master bedroom as well so they sheet rocking can begin soon! We also cleaned up the livable living room, cleanest that room has ever been!

They sure are troopers! We could NOT have accomplished ALL of that in one day without them, no way. THANK YOU mom and dad...we LOVE you guys soo much!! We ended the evening on a fun note though!! Mike and Aimee (who just moved to Austin...we are beside ourselves about that) came to big T (taylor) to eat dinner with us and so my folks could meet their precious lil munchkin, Meryl!!! My parents were very excited to finally meet her! Meryl B is lovin her momma right now, so wasn't so sure about going to my mom at first, but she quickly warmed up to my mom, with a lil foot ticklin' She is just precious...we love her...oh and Mike and Aim of course ;)

I tried to capture pictures of the work we did yesterday, with the help of mom, BUT unfortunately all the pictures we thought we captured...we didn't. Oh how I LOVE my not so savvy tech mom...oh dear momma!!! I don't know what you did, but for some reason all those pics you took with my iphone camera are somehow NOT on my iphone...oops :) Well have to teach you those fun iphone tricks one day momma since you have now joined the world of iphoners :)

Oh...and we bought an old Chambers range for our kitch! We (especially dave) is soo excited about this. I think it is going to look awesome, although, it is in need of a DEEP clean!

Tomorrow one of our amazing friends, Aaron Mullins, has gotten together a group of guys to help D work on the house!! We are beyond excited and grateful for their help! We will post pics of that soon!

Things are a movin'...Yeah!!!

Fun Fan!

We put in this fan in our bedroom. We ended up really liking it!

Well, I know that I have mentioned my husbands mad skills, but here is another picture to prove his amazingness....

He rescued me from my smoking car :)! This is D fixing my car a few weeks ago in the Auto Zone parking lot! It is running well now, thank you Dave!

Well Hello!

Hey All...Sorry it has been soooo long since we have updated the blog. And by sooo long I mean, over a year...ridiculous. Well, we have not posted in a LONG time partly because not ALOT had changed with the house situation, but things are beginning to progress!!

Since last blog the following has changed...

-David and our very generous friend, Matt Davenport, moved the back door of the house (in case we decide to add on). They ripped out the back of the house and put in back together in no time...amazing!

- David and Matt did a little rewiring in the kitch and put in a few can lights!

- Dave is going to make our kitchen cabinets. He made his initial/trial cabinet a couple of months ago and it LOOKS amazing. I am so impressed...once again his talent confirmed! The initial cabinet made was for our kitchen sink. We went ahead and put it in...so nice to be able to wash a few dishes in a kitchen sink instead of the pedestal sink :) He is in the process of making the rest of the cabinets!

- This past Sunday, David and a dear friend, Brad Allison, raised up part of the floor in our kitchen that used to be the back porch. They busted it out in a few hours! Thank you for all of your hard work and stink...oh I mean sweat :)

- We also had the entire house rewired! We now have can lights in the kitchen as well!

These pictures were all taken from my phone, so are not the best quality. I cant find the charger to my phone. They are also out of order, but stinkin blogger is hard to deal with when imputing pictures. I have not gotten in down yet...well I guess I have not had practice in over a year. Maybe I should practice more often :) I'll see what I can do...

Great work Dave...I love you!! Cant wait for the house to be DONE. We are already planning a MASSIVE BASH for when this house is finished!!!!!