Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Got some snow today

 We had like 10 minutes between school breaks and a meeting break to go out and enjoy it. There were like 5 deer just sauntering behind our fence and I tried to get a good picture of the monkey, the dog and the deer in the snowfall, but the monkey (not the dog) decided she wanted to howl at the deer so I only got one in the photo. It’s that small brown blob behind the fence. 



Monday, December 7, 2020

The evil ginger bread house

 A few of the people’s heads broke off so they decided to go another way with it. Look closely where the heads ended up on the gingerbread house. Things got a little dark...




Monday, November 23, 2020

The half bath after

 The monkey was commenting to me that we have a lot of boring room colors and boring pictures on the wall. She even told me she didn’t want some of her own “artwork” up because the colors were too boring. So, we went completely out of our comfort zone with this wall color. But we love it. 



Sunday, November 22, 2020

Another before picture

 This is what it looked like when the previous owners lived here. Very small half bath they updated from a full bath. They used pretty crappy floor tile (can’t really see it here) that shows every speck of dirt and is hard to clean and it really doesn’t fit with the rest of the house. Chris wants to replace the whole floor, which we probably will eventually, but for now we decided on a pretty drastic “after” for us anyway. Stay tunes for the next picture 😀





Monday, November 9, 2020

Late Halloween post

 We decided not to trick or treat but chris and the monkey did a scavenger hunt and some other games and had way more fun. She was a werewolf



Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Cute kid post

 I kind of stalled out with unpacking so I don’t have any “after” pictures to post yet. Thought I’d post this cutie pie instead




Sunday, October 25, 2020

Some before and after shots.

 These will mostly be “before” photos from the previous owners pictures. Starting with Sonya’s bedroom. The walls were a really dark blue and only painted half the room for some reason. The was one of their kids bedrooms



Friday, September 18, 2020

Funny quote

Chris: Do you ever wonder what Louie is thinking?

Monkey: You reeaaallly don’t want to hear what’s going on in my brain

Us: Oh yeah?

Monkey: It’s a fun land

Thursday, September 3, 2020

Saturday, August 29, 2020

One of our last days at the beach this year

 Weather was perfect, very little wind so the water was calm. These two clowns...




Thursday, May 7, 2020

It’s time for math...

...so that’s when this doll comes and sits with us. “She loves math and hates literacy”


Monday, April 27, 2020

Virtual belt and stripe night!

We’ve been lucky enough for the monkey to do her jiu jitsu classes virtually. It’s a little difficult, but she gets to see some of her friends there and gets a workout. The coach had a great idea to drive to each kids house that was getting a new stripe or belt to say hi and drop off a certificate. A lot of driving for him I guess, but we learned the monkey actually got two stripes! Almost to a full grey belt.


Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Not a great week so far

We woke up Monday morning to some water on our kitchen floor. No where near any kind of plumbing. Just dripping out of the door jamb. It was pouring outside so we figured we had some sort of leak. Turns out it was our chimney. That is now on our front lawn.


So we called a roofer and went about our morning. All sitting around the table, getting work done, figuring out the new school work for the monkey. And boom!  Tree on the house 

Deck is ruined. But nobody got hurt. No windows broken even though, as you can see, the branch is like 4 inches away from the window. And no gaping hole in the roof on that side of the house. Phew!

And our new swing did not get damaged. Yay! But really, this week hasn’t been very good so far. 

Sunday, April 12, 2020

Happy easter!

6:30 am wake up time! Because candy is the most exciting thing right now


Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Surprise!

It’s a frame that’s good for nothing.

I was SOOO excited to get a swing and when the box came I couldn’t wait to put it together. Then realized it was only the frame. Thanks COVID-19. I’m kidding, I can wait. Just looks so sad right here...

Sunday, March 15, 2020

Friday, January 24, 2020

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Another tournament!

Six matches this time and three medals. Still hasn’t technically won yet but she is not discouraged.


Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Some funny quotes from the monkey

“Mom, you should just just pick your least favorite day and just work on that one day.”
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“Why do adults take their coffee so seriously?”
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Driving past the Jeep dealership: “I need to have a speak with that Jeep dealership. First, we should have some heated seats back here for the kids. And also, the sensors for the seat belts. Kids need to be safe too.”