Getting inspired...

So a friend of ours refinished this piece and has it for sale. Guess what?! We are buying it. I love having a mirror by the front door and think this piece will look great. Now I get to work with decorating around it.

I have been trying to think of something clever to do with the old doors that were on the house that we removed. I am thinking that when we put the wall up where the opening to the kitchen is this might be fun to do with one of the old doors so guessed have a place to put their things when they come in.

 Evalyn has moved to a big girls bed. I am still trying to figure out what bedding I want to do. I am debating between the shabby chic patchwork and the pottery barn inspired ruched bedspread in gray.

I am still not the biggest fan of a sliding pantry door for this reason... This little girl can get in the pantry way to easily and get into things.

Uh-Oh

Evalyn and I have been playing outside with chalk lately, and I think she decided that chalk and crayons are the same and can be used inside on anything too. She decided to color on the TV, walls, doors and some toys.

 Well if you do the crime, you do the time. lol. She actually wanted to help me clean up the mess. She thought it was fun. I love magic erasers.

Yard work

Our house had been empty for about 1.5 years by the time we moved in. I have been so focused on the inside I haven't cared much what the outside looks like. Now that the weather is nice I figured I better get to work. My job has been pulling weeds while my husband figured out the half way done sprinkler system that was put in. 

awww!!! So much better!

 Once my husband figured out where the sprinkler lines were we started digging new trenches for grass we want to put in. We spent a while digging and took a break. My husband then got a great idea... Use the dirt bike! It's very red neck style but it worked and saved us hours and sore muscles.

Just for fun...

Evalyn continues to make me laugh. She loves hats and boxes. She was playing with this box while I was working and it broke. She stood there and looked at it for a minute then excitedly exclaimed COUCH! and sat down in it. Thats the positive way of looking at things.

Evalyn does not like wearing shoes. She takes them off as soon as she can, but she also doesn't like walking on rocks. This was her inventive way of getting from one side to the other without having to step on the rocks.

This was all dressed up for Easter and ready for church. Don't mind me, I am 5 months pregnant and instead of getting a belly I tend to gain weight everywhere!

Snob Room

The picture quality is very poor in these but you can get the picture. For some reason our front door was brown. The side windows were painted white, but the door was never painted. I thought this looked bad so we now have a painted front door.

I am still working on decorating this room, I took the pinterest idea of taking a pallet and turning it into a shelf. I love it. It brings the country look into the room. The yellow is a bit bright for me, my husband loves it. The pictures make the color look lighter than it is. Its growing on me. I have a piece of furnture picked out that a friend of ours is selling that he has painted. He does some great work!

I am still trying to figure out how I want to decorate the long wall. I have figured out that I no longer like the black picture frames that I used at our old house. Next to the yellow it reminds me of a school bus. :)

We still have some work to do. The wall on the left still needs to be sanded and textured then painted.