Projects completed!

Since we moved into this house Memorial day weekend, 2008, we have had a dream.

#1- to have a fence to make our yard safer (we live on the corner of 2 streets) and to 'keep up' with the kids better.#2- to finish the basement, or part of it.

July of 2010, my wonderful husband finished project #1.

He built our lovely fence all by himself and did SO much work, but man has it been SO nice to have!!! It is so nice to know the kids are safe... and not have to worry about them running out of my sight. This isn't the best shot of the fence, but you can get the idea :)

Our dreams for the basement have always been to have a playroom, media/'man cave' room, extra bedroom and bath (and of course a unfinished storage area).Valentines weekend, 2011, we finished a project we had been 'slowly' working on as we had extra $$.... the basement playroom. Chris also worked dilegently on this as well, doing most of the work himself. Due to some wonderful finacial blessings of refiancing our home for a lower interest rate last fall, we were able to speed up the process and complete this room. It is SO amazing, and I think we love it even more knowing that #1- we did it ourselves- #2, its paid for!

Here are a few pictures of our wonderful addition to the house! The kids have LOVED this playroom... and love going down there. We also have our 'workout' equipment in the back of the room, so we can use it for that as well (I even run on the treadmill now on some mornings while the kids play or watch cartoons...which is a GREAT thing!)

One of my favorite extras out of this- is I gained a dinning room!!! When we first bought the house, I was so excited to have a 'dinning room' as I've always thought it would be cool to have one and have the extra seating for entertaining.... but the week we moved in, we discovered #2 aka Michael, was on the way and therefore the dinning room became the playroom. Which was GREAT for the first 2 years while the kids were small.
However, I am in love with having a dinning room. I think I like that it makes my home seem 'grown up' now. . . yet the kids still have an 'amazing' space.... its just not the first thing you see when you walk in my front door now! ha ha.
I found this amazing dinning room furniture set on craigslist for only $450 and it fits my room and style so perfectly! Can't wait to have people over to eat on it!!!


So... what is project #3 you may be thinking..... NOTHING! We are taking some 'project' time off and enjoying the fruits of our labors for a while. We do hope to eventually finish the basement completly, but not at the moment.

My sweet boy- Michael

I can't get over how fast kids change and grow. Its amazing to me that my little boy is now 2 years old, and has changed so much in the last few months especially.
As most of you have probably noticed in recent pictures...he does wear glasses now. In October he was diagnosed with a lazy eye and fitted with glasses. He has done AMAZING wearing his glasses. I know they are helping cause he will ask me for them in the mornings. We go back in June to see if his eye is making progress or if we will have to be more agressive and use a eye patch. I think he is absolutly adorable in his glasses though :) He looks like a little man and is so cute. Although its only been 4 months with his glasses, I can barely remember him without them. He is such a cute little man!