This weekend we celebrated Quinn's 2nd birthday with a special party with her friends.
Party pics and details to come...
Sunday, February 24, 2013
little mouse.
Our little birthday mouse.
This weekend we celebrated Quinn's 2nd birthday with a special party with her friends.
Party pics and details to come...
This weekend we celebrated Quinn's 2nd birthday with a special party with her friends.
Party pics and details to come...
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
12:58pm.
At 12:58 pm, you officially turned two sweet girl.
You are curled up in your bed with all your blankies and stuffed animals napping right now, but we are so excited to continue the birthday festivities when you wake up.
(more birthday posts to come...)
You are curled up in your bed with all your blankies and stuffed animals napping right now, but we are so excited to continue the birthday festivities when you wake up.
(more birthday posts to come...)
Monday, February 18, 2013
it's here.
Birthday week is officially here, and in 26 hours and 43 minutes our sweet girl will be two!
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
soaking up the sweetness.
We are rounding the corner into the big birthday week.
And we are soaking up every little last drop of one-year-old snuggly sweetness.
And capturing the tiny toes, the little fingers wrapped around "lamby", the hair that still has yet to be cut, and the soft baby skin.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
six months in.
We have officially been in the new house for six whole months.
half a year.
In that time we have watched a 17 month old grow to an almost 2 year old.
We have watched her run through the house, learn to go up and down the stairs, move through several different dance styles, say many new words, switch from two naps to one, jump in leaves in the front yard, go sledding in the backyard, go trick-or-treating for the first official time, open presents under the Christmas tree with our family, and giggle and snuggle and smile all the way through.
This house already has six months of new memories.
A lot of memories.
It became our home in no time at all.
A little project I made this past weekend.
We have done many little projects in the last six months...
* Painted the playroom, guest bedroom, main bathroom, family room, kitchen, master bedroom, master bathroom, laundry room, and extra bedroom upstairs.
* Built a board and batten wall treatment in Quinn's room.
* Put in a beadboard treatment in the downstairs main bathroom.
* Repainted old frames a new color.
* Created 8 different wall art projects.
* Cleaned up tons of landscaping.
* Took out the hideous post that was in the middle of the backyard.
* Hung blinds and curtains in most of the house.
* Built a play kitchen for Quinn.
* Built a new present for the birthday girl.
* And lots of odds and ends of cleaning things up, organizing, fixing, and replacing.
Of course there are always many projects that will be on the to-do list. When there is a little bit of spending money to make our home a little more homey, then we pick something else on the list. But we wait until then, its fun and special and we love and enjoy doing every little project. And of course you know that we are thrifty and build and create things for the cheapest cost possible. Most importantly, we love looking around our home and seeing things we created, there is that much more of us in the house to make it our home. (And much of that is the little artwork touches Quinn adds as well.)
What is next and waiting on the to-do list?
- building a tufted headboard for the master bedroom
- building a rustic plank headboard for the guest bedroom
- building a farmhouse table for the kitchen
- painting the vanity in the master bathroom
How do we find the time?
It is all about balance, and creating a child that sleeps and sleeps and sleeps. We are grateful for her 4 hour naps. :) Otherwise, we just take our time with a project and we make as much of our time available to playing with Quinn as we can. No, we are not typically up all hours of the night after she goes to bed when we are working on a project. We like our down time to relax a bit too. When we are working on a project, we work together well, and we are just that efficient I guess. :)
Any larger projects in store?
hmmm.... well if we won the lottery tomorrow there would be a big kitchen renovation, with white cabinets, a backsplash, a new light fixture over the table and knobs added to the cabinetry, AND we would build a deck in the backyard. But more realistically.... no, there are no larger projects in store for quite a while. :) We do love our home as is, and we know that we have many years to continue to make it more our own.
On another note, we have survived our first six months as landlords. yea! It's not as scary as it was initially, but renting out our old home still would not have been our top choice. We are thankful though that we even had a choice in this housing market and that we did find wonderful tenants, AND that Todd has only been called over there once. It's not exactly how you ever dream of owning two homes, but it's working and we are glad for that.
We are in love with our new home. We know without a doubt it was the right home for us. We had jumped on it quickly and only looked at one other home, so it was meant to be and we are glad that we still feel that way (even so much more so now).
Some things that we have fallen in love with: our lot location on a very quiet street and no backyard neighbors, our new town (it was one of two choices and we have not second guessed it at all, in fact we are so grateful we selected this one over others), central vac in the kitchen (our floors are swept way more because it's that much more convenient), the direction we face (we get great light in the windows but never a straight on light into your face. this is also great on our driveway as we get great sunlight that helps melt the snow, our neighbors across the street aren't as lucky), our general location in town to downtown, shopping and all of the schools, the general friendliness and kindness of our new town (love it!). We love the flow of our house and how usable all of the space is. We love that even though there is lots of space it still feels cozy and warm (so important to me). The playroom is fantastic, the kitchen counter tops scream for more baking, the master bedroom is transforming into a little retreat, and the bonus room is a makeshift movie theater with pillows and blankets thrown across the floor.
It's home.
Everyday we find ourselves feeling so grateful that it is our home.
And with that a little teaser of our latest fun project for a very special soon-to-be birthday girl. ;)
half a year.
In that time we have watched a 17 month old grow to an almost 2 year old.
We have watched her run through the house, learn to go up and down the stairs, move through several different dance styles, say many new words, switch from two naps to one, jump in leaves in the front yard, go sledding in the backyard, go trick-or-treating for the first official time, open presents under the Christmas tree with our family, and giggle and snuggle and smile all the way through.
This house already has six months of new memories.
A lot of memories.
It became our home in no time at all.
We have done many little projects in the last six months...
* Painted the playroom, guest bedroom, main bathroom, family room, kitchen, master bedroom, master bathroom, laundry room, and extra bedroom upstairs.
* Built a board and batten wall treatment in Quinn's room.
* Put in a beadboard treatment in the downstairs main bathroom.
* Repainted old frames a new color.
* Created 8 different wall art projects.
* Cleaned up tons of landscaping.
* Took out the hideous post that was in the middle of the backyard.
* Hung blinds and curtains in most of the house.
* Built a play kitchen for Quinn.
* Built a new present for the birthday girl.
* And lots of odds and ends of cleaning things up, organizing, fixing, and replacing.
Of course there are always many projects that will be on the to-do list. When there is a little bit of spending money to make our home a little more homey, then we pick something else on the list. But we wait until then, its fun and special and we love and enjoy doing every little project. And of course you know that we are thrifty and build and create things for the cheapest cost possible. Most importantly, we love looking around our home and seeing things we created, there is that much more of us in the house to make it our home. (And much of that is the little artwork touches Quinn adds as well.)
What is next and waiting on the to-do list?
- building a tufted headboard for the master bedroom
- building a rustic plank headboard for the guest bedroom
- building a farmhouse table for the kitchen
- painting the vanity in the master bathroom
How do we find the time?
It is all about balance, and creating a child that sleeps and sleeps and sleeps. We are grateful for her 4 hour naps. :) Otherwise, we just take our time with a project and we make as much of our time available to playing with Quinn as we can. No, we are not typically up all hours of the night after she goes to bed when we are working on a project. We like our down time to relax a bit too. When we are working on a project, we work together well, and we are just that efficient I guess. :)
Any larger projects in store?
hmmm.... well if we won the lottery tomorrow there would be a big kitchen renovation, with white cabinets, a backsplash, a new light fixture over the table and knobs added to the cabinetry, AND we would build a deck in the backyard. But more realistically.... no, there are no larger projects in store for quite a while. :) We do love our home as is, and we know that we have many years to continue to make it more our own.
On another note, we have survived our first six months as landlords. yea! It's not as scary as it was initially, but renting out our old home still would not have been our top choice. We are thankful though that we even had a choice in this housing market and that we did find wonderful tenants, AND that Todd has only been called over there once. It's not exactly how you ever dream of owning two homes, but it's working and we are glad for that.
We are in love with our new home. We know without a doubt it was the right home for us. We had jumped on it quickly and only looked at one other home, so it was meant to be and we are glad that we still feel that way (even so much more so now).
Some things that we have fallen in love with: our lot location on a very quiet street and no backyard neighbors, our new town (it was one of two choices and we have not second guessed it at all, in fact we are so grateful we selected this one over others), central vac in the kitchen (our floors are swept way more because it's that much more convenient), the direction we face (we get great light in the windows but never a straight on light into your face. this is also great on our driveway as we get great sunlight that helps melt the snow, our neighbors across the street aren't as lucky), our general location in town to downtown, shopping and all of the schools, the general friendliness and kindness of our new town (love it!). We love the flow of our house and how usable all of the space is. We love that even though there is lots of space it still feels cozy and warm (so important to me). The playroom is fantastic, the kitchen counter tops scream for more baking, the master bedroom is transforming into a little retreat, and the bonus room is a makeshift movie theater with pillows and blankets thrown across the floor.
It's home.
Everyday we find ourselves feeling so grateful that it is our home.
And with that a little teaser of our latest fun project for a very special soon-to-be birthday girl. ;)
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