Day 265

Progress! Here is the bathroom! Even if it's just baby steps, it's still moving in the right direction! 

Day 264

Since we have been working on the bathroom upstairs Richard and I have been using the shower downstairs. I lecture Avery to be careful when using the soap dispenser (picture above). I would remind him each time he got in the shower. While in the shower tonight I went to use the soap to wash my face. I swear I was careful when using this but the moment I touched it the dang thing fell off and broke into a million pieces! I was able to put it back together but still, here I am telling the 8 year old to be careful and I touch the dang thing and it breaks! Also you will notice how "level" it is, once again I am awesome with projects! Go me! On a side note, Avery hasn't broken it once or made it fall off but in this past week I have managed to do it 3 times! Good grief! Epic Fail? I say so!

Day 263

When I came home from the gym I walked into our living room where she was sleeping (she hangs out with Dad while I go to the gym) to find her sleeping like this! So relaxed! I have a picture of myself doing the same thing, I want to copy both and do a comparison! Love this little girl!

Day 262

I live just a mile away from Home Depot in Riverdale. I went there today to buy a few random items. They were nice enough to give the kids some plastic hard hats. They LOVE them and wear them everywhere! After that we went and grabbed some lunch! Yum!

Day 261

Meet Wesley Spencer Hendrickson! A mouthful I know! My newest nephew! He was born today at 5:08 this morning! He is the 2nd child of Rudy and Cindy Hendrickson. Rudy is Richard's youngest full brother. He as a BIG family! Rudy and Cindy also have a little boy who is a few weeks younger than Evan named Troy. They live in California!

Day 260

My back was still bothering me today, so I stayed home from the gym to give myself a rest day. It's feeling better tonight so I am glad I took the day off. Here is a picture of my typical morning. Evan likes to go potty in his potty while watching TV. He only wants to go first thing in the morning. Baby steps! My goal is to have him 100% potty trained by the time he is 3!

Day 259

Take 1 guess as to who over did it yesterday with all of the projects she wanted to finish? Yeah that would be me! I felt like poop and pretty much did what Daisy is doing here all dang day! I hate back pain! It is horrible!

Day 258

Today was a BUSY day! I went and helped my Mom at the Doctor's office for a few hours. While I was there she was trying to find someone to help her with some yard work. She has a HUGE yard and she is very busy with her business so she pays people to do the huge products. We moved pond muck (yeah it smelled awesome!) We had to move it from the side of the pond (see the top picture) and the move it to the other side the yard. It easily took 35-40 wheelbarrow trips. And since it was wet soil it wasn't light! Richard and I did it and I am so proud of what we did and my Mom said we did a great job! Yay!

While we are moving the muck the kids ran around (or in Alice's case just sat there) and played outside. Evan decided he didn't need clothes, silly boy!

Then thinking I am superwoman I went home and worked on the bathroom some more! 

Day 257

We have lived in our house for 4 1/2 years. We moved in when Toby was just a few months old. It was very much so outdated and needed some repairs etc etc. We kept putting it off saying we would do it later, and never do it. So I had enough. We needed to finish the upstairs bathroom. We replaced the bathtub with a shower/tub combo 3 years ago and never finished it. We have older than your grandpa high traffic carpet in the kitchen, hallway and bathroom. Yeah I have 3 boys that make messes and when you have carpet in the kitchen it's just not a good combo same goes with the bathroom and carpet and little boys. They tend to splash in the tub, enough said! So we kept putting off replacing the floor thinking it was going to cost WAY more than we thought. Then we did the math and realized it was going to cost 1/2 of what we thought! What!??! Ya I was thrilled to say the least! We had to pull the flooring out clear down to the baseboards because the flooring below was just too old to reuse! We started the project tonight you can see the old nasty looking floor! I can't wait to post updates as for the next several months the house is getting a make over! Once I have the bathroom finished I will replace the fugly pink carpet in our room and Alice's room. Then I will re paint the upstairs rooms. After that is finished we are going to finish Avery's room and the downstairs bathroom along with painting/putting in carpet in Toby and Evan's room. By this time it should be spring time, and we will order a dumpster to clean out the backyard. We have the tools/seeds to re seed the backyard so we will be doing that right before winter comes so it will be ready for spring! Thankfully I have awesome parents that have a TON of tools and most important the knowledge to finish all these tasks. Thankfully it shouldn't be a lot of money. My goal is to have all these projects in the house for less than 1500. So far I am track to doing this! Paint doesn't cost a lot of money but makes a room look ten times better! My biggest expense will be carpet and the wood to re do Avery's room. I am watching KSL and Home Depot for the best prices with everything I am going to need. I also learned from my Dad the best places and where to watch to get the best prices for Sheet-rock! My big goal is to have a HUGE party for Alice's first birthday. Plan on having it on Saturday June 1st. So that gives me 9 months to get the house & myself looking uber awesome! And I love that I have my blog to capture this awesome journey!

The Bathroom right after we started pulling up carpet

The Bathtub after we got the compound and the sheet rock put up

Richard pulling up the flooring in the bathroom

Bathroom (on the left) and the hallway

The color of the fugly carpet see how it's on the baseboards, yeah I know it's UGLY!

This is the hallway and the closet

This is the kitchen (Don't you just LOVE my drapes!?) after the carpet was pulled

The kitchen from the hallway and the creeper cat!

Day 256

Been doing the coupon thing lately. I am still learning and collecting but here is a small picture of my collection! It's nice to go "shopping" in my own home! Wanna know more? Just ask! It's SOOOO simple!