Guest Bathroom

Well this project was sure a change. Usually my husband does all the tearing down and I do the putting the drywall up. This time due to his schedule and when we needed to have the bathroom done I did the tear down and his did the drywall. He always made the tear down look easy. It takes more strength then I thought. And pulling down a tile shower makes a mess! I am so happy to see that mess go!

 

 This was a piece of the original wall paper that I found.

 We still have to get some tile for the shower but it looks so much better! No more drywall falling down!

Kitchen

Our kitchen has been a long drawn out story. We have changed our minds so many times in the process that I am so glad to announce it is done!

 

The original kitchen

 

 

Phase 2 Kitchen

 

Phase 3 kitchen progress.

 

Finished product! There are a few touch ups that need to be done but it is done!

 

Trips to the store

We go to the store A LOT! When stores have fun carts like this it makes life so much easier.

Making the best of situations

At the end of last summer part of our back deck fell down. I loved how large the deck was and was really sad that it had fallen down. We kept it half caved in for a few months until my husband’s uncle had offered us his swing set that was no longer being used. My husband then took down the fallen deck and put extra support on the remaining deck so we would have room for the swing set. I was quite happy that the deck fell down now. I would have never thought to shorten the deck. Things just worked out for the best. The deck looked great smaller and we had a great place for the kids to play. I had asked my husband to save the wood from the deck and I would make something out of it. He reluctantly did. I didn’t have time to do anything with it for a long time so he started burning it in our fire pit. Well my company I worked for laid me and 17 others off due to changes in departments and eliminated my position. All of a sudden I had a lot more time. So I started making these tables and posting them for sale one face book. They were a hit. I made 6 in one week! I used the money for the tables to purchase the goats. I tease my husband now for burning so much of it.

Goats

We bought goats! I would have never thought in my life that I would own farm animals and definitely not goats! Some friends of ours have milking goats and my husband had brought some milk home for me to try. I did NOT want to try it. There was no way I was going to drink something from a goat. I started doing some research and found that 75% of the world drinks goat milk. Its quite healthy for you and babies can even drink goats milk instead of formula. After doing my research I had my husband pour me a glass of store milk and a glass of goats milk. I drank both and thought there was very little difference. After that I was onboard for buying goats. They have been very good goats. We have two milking goats and one male goat. I will have to get a picture of the male. His horns are amazing.

 E loves to help me milk them. She is quite good at it too.

 So far we have made ice cream and butter besides the normal cooking and drinking it. We get about a gallon and a half a day from the two goats.

 

Milking the goats started out as a long project. It would take me about an hour to milk the two goats. This gave E time to play in the dirt and have fun outside. C would sit in the stroller and be happy watching. Now I am able to milk both goats in about 15 minutes.

 

Busy outside...

We have been busy working on the yard. We planted a garden in the front garden boxes and made large garden boxes in the backyard. The front garden is growing well, the back garden will do better next year. :) We are growing baking pumpkins (I love pumpkin bread), zucchini, cantaloupe and strawberries.

 

My husband and his friend removed the big ugly palm trees that were in the front circle. It was a lot of work. After that my husband and I laid sawed. I love how it looks. We want to add two more fruit trees.

 

Our little tree in the front gave us a few nectarines this year. This is only its 2nd year. They were so sweet and tasted a bit like honey. Our baby LOVES them.

One more just for fun

I added curtains to our snob room.I think it tames down the yellow a little and adds a little more color. Next will be to make curtains for the front door. Since the curtains hanging have been there for a year and a half and were only supposed to be temporary. :)