Jeff is 30!

My Mister turned thirty yesterday.  We celebrated with pizza, strawberry cake, scotch, and a zombie movie.  We're total grown ups, yah know?

Oh You Know...

We've been super busy doing this.....

and this.....

more to come!

Happy Birthday Jeffy!

Today is my husbands 29th birthday and I can't be more excited for him.  Today, not only is he enjoying a day of his favorite meals and a homemade strawberry cake with cream cheese frosting, but he was accepted into KU!  I'm beyond thrilled.

Tada!

It's FINISHED!!! My lovely husband completed our banister last saturday. We spent last night reorganizing and sweeping the deck. Isn't it purdy?

Here's a shot of our beautiful backyard. It's taken us a LONG time and a lot of moola to get it this green. I'd like to point out the lack of dandelions as well. Feel free to compliment and say nice things.

Here's my man of the hour with his hard work!

Mr. B is hiding, can you find him?

The next step is to do some minor landscaping and container gardening. We are incredibly happy to have the hard part of this project done! It helps to marry a handy guy. (Remember that all you single girls!)

Happy Tuesday Night!

Update: The Banister

Today I was thinking: this blog is officially over a year old and I'm not sure I ever introduced you to my DH Jeff.

So here he is... Blog meet Jeff, Jeff meet blog.

I made him take a photo standing with his newest project, our banister. He doesn't like having his photo taken, but he didn't have a choice. Neener neener.

This is the part where I brag. My husband designed and is currently building this beautiful banister! I'm really really proud and honestly, I think I'm the luckiest girl in the world. (Oh, he also built me that little rolling garden box.)

Mr. B and Shadow are pretty excited too. They're now allowed to spend more time outside since we can trust them to not jump off the side of the deck. See how proud they are of their Papa?

Have a lovely Monday!

New Goodies!!!

So at the end of last week I acquired some new chairs! My amazing Mother-in-law found two rocking chairs that work perfectly in the house. I'm excited about my new projects!

Take a look:

I also purchased two of these chairs. I found them at the local Habitat ReStore. I believe they're from the KU campus because I've seen a few scattered around the libraries and such. They will be painted to match the last set.

One more thing! Today is my second anniversary with my lovely husband Jeff. It's been a fantastic two years and I couldn't have imagined that I'd have it so good. We're off to the Country Club Plaza for dinner tonight and hopefully I'll have a slew of photos to show you tomorrow!

Happy Monday!

PROOF!

See I can do manual labor!! (besides painting and common household chores that is)

Jeff wrote this in the concrete.. What a sweety. <3

Small Updates

Yesterday Jeff spent the day scrubbing this patio as many of you know. The color difference is astounding! Today he is filling in cracks and resurfacing the entire thing...

So we can get rid of spots like this!

I have officially started the living room project. Jeff tore off the awful warped mantel and helped me remove that brass glass door. I scrubbed it and sanded it down tonight, tomorrow I hope to prime and maybe start to paint. Oh! I picked the color to the left, top row. It was a more subdued version of the bottom color, and honestly, as much as I loved that bottom color, it scared me a bit. I don't want my house to look like a cartoon, and that color was.... cartoony

I also will have to spend some time filling in the holes around the brick! Look at that space! No wonder we have spiders all over the place.

You can kind of see the outside in this picture. There is an obvious gap here and you can see through the wall. I'm ready to fill that in for sure.

The Deck Project

So we have this giant deck, right? You can kind of see it in this photo. The railing was pretty much rotten and unsafe for anyone to lean on! So Jeff has started a project and removed all the white rails you see above.

Now they are on the ground, and look like this....

And this...

And my new grill and patio furniture is here...

He has spent the day with the power washer prepping the concrete for refinishing. It has been tedious work and I'm positive he's tired of it already.

I mean, imagine doing this for a couple of hours...

But look at the difference in color from where he's washed it and where he hasn't! Talk about black and white! It's kind of gross actually.


Updates coming soon!