On Going Project...

So I decided to blog about our house. It has been forever and I hardly posted picture when we moved in. My style has changed in so many ways and it is taking one step at a time, hoping one day it will look how I want. When Todd and I got married my style was very modern and our furniture and decor reflects that, now I'm very vintage inspired. I love everything old, redone, and with tons of character!! I have had so many ideas running through my head that I figured maybe just maybe if I blog about it that I will have a little more push to complete it! My first big project is the laundry room/entry room. I hate that the best and easiest way to enter our house is through our laundry room. We have a front door, but no one uses it as you can't even see in when you pull in. They remodeled the home before we bought it and this is one thing they DID NOT think through, why or why didn't they move it down into the basement with lets say the water heater is a question I will never get an answer for. A laundry room is a place that usually isn't the cleanest place in the house and I try to keep mine as clean as I can (it rarely happens but hey I try,) anyways I hate it! I think I'm done ranting about something I don't see changing in the foreseeable future, with a husband that works VERY hard and isn't too handy with anything other than a vehicle/farm equipment. Well I can't find the pictures of what is looked like before I painted it grey and with the old windows so when I do I will post those until then here is what I do have.


I recently painted it (and by recent I mean SIX month ago... Shh I have two kids ok,) anyways and I just am not a big fan of the color so have been searching and searching to find something I want to do in there to make it an appealing place. It is hard with an ENTIRE wall full of appliances. UGH! Anyways, found an awesome idea over at http://theletteredcottage.net/mdf-from-true-value-in-the-house for the walls, which should be fairly inexpensive (not as cheap as paint, but hey when I have to go through 5 different gallons of paint to find a color that works in that room it will be cheaper!!)
Anyways it will just be a bunch of mdf boards painted white and hanging horizontally... YAY!!! I also have to change the flooring your can't really see the floor in any of the above pictures, but it is a horrible pebble type floor. Whoever decided on that flooring had NO intention on cleaning it EVERY because you CAN'T... umm YUCK! I would love to put real hardwood in there, but I already don't like it trough-out the rest of the house (oh yeah and it is spendy,) so I just plan to use a stick on vinyl plank that looks like wood like they used here http://www.thehouseofsmiths.com/2011/02/master-bathroom-peel-and-stick-wood.html . I just love the look of this style and color
Those are the big projects I have planned! I eventually want to put up fun burlap window coverings, put in a neat shoe bench, and some "C's" all over the wall that's in the first picture, and cover the deep freeze somehow!! Oh ideas, ideas... I plan to document the project as I go don't be alarmed if it takes a few months, but I can't wait to get busy!! Yay!

A Mess

Today was one of those days. It has been pretty yucky for a few days and Orrin got stir crazy. He decided to take his containers full of toys (neatly organized beforehand,) and dump them all onto the floor to create some type of ... well, MESS!!! Leila thoroughly enjoyed having all the toys dumped out as she was able to play with ones she usually can't reach. Orrin also managed to get two bloody noses (which I have no photo evidence of due to the fact that blood was EVERYWHERE,) and Leila cut her lip. However, I found that it was easy to occupy them with two matching water bottles that the drank out of, but watered everything in my house with!! OHH MOMMY HOOD! Today was one of those days where I was excited for bed time!!

Orrin Meets the Dentist

I decided to take Orrin into the dentist for a few different reasons. First I wanted to make sure he understood why we needed to have some strange man look at his teeth and he had some yellowing behind his front bottom teeth. Many of you may know my sister-in-law, Crystal, is a dental hygienist and a darn good one at that, but I wasn't quite sure how Orrin was going to be on his first visit and didn't want him to associate that pure fear with his aunt. So off to Children's Dentistry we went knowing they dealt with small children all day long I wasn't to worried that my child would be the only screaming one in the whole office! I dropped Leila off with my mom and decided to make this a fun day so maybe, just maybe I could get him to go again. He was so excited when we walked through the doors and there were TVs with movies playing, a pac-man table, and a little room filled with toys quickly making himself at home. His name was called and we headed on back so the dentist to count his teeth (I kept telling him you have to let the dentist count your teeth, he would say alright!) At first he was so excited to sit in the big boy chair and climbed right up, but as soon as the dentist came in he wasn't having it. I brought the camera hoping I could get more shots and boy was I wrong. Dr. Young was able to look at his teeth real quick, brush fluoride all over Orrin's teeth as well as his face, and enjoy A LOT of screaming. He let me know his teeth looked just great, but he may show a little crowding once his two year old molars finally come in. I am glad to report even though Orrin was screaming the entire time, there was a little girl (about five years old,) next to us who kept yelling, "I HATE YOU," so at least he wasn't the only kid and at least I didn't walk out of there knowing my son was yelling hatred to the dentist. We shall hope his next visit at around 3-3.5 years won't be so terrifying for the little man. I then decided to take him to enjoy one of Jamba Juice's new veggie/fruit smoothies and a trip to Barnes and Noble to pick out a book. We spent over 45 minutes in Barnes and Noble just picking out and flipping trough different books, he LOVE it.