Home Projects

2016 has been a really great year! Shaun and I both lost 30 pounds, we landscaped our backyard, and we got other little projects done around the house. Here are just a few of our DIY project results.

With the help of our wonderful sister missionaries, we painted the upstairs bathroom. A little before, during, and after.

Our cute sisters.

I think it turned out pretty great!

And speaking of painting bathrooms, we also painted our half bath on the main floor. Shaun and his dad did this one! And then Shaun installed these really great shelves I found online at Etsy. 

When Shaun's parents were here they also helped us install crown molding in our office. Shaun says he's never doing it again, but we will see about that. 

See he is smiling while installing it at least. 

It is amazing how something so small can make such a difference. 
 

But why stop there? In December Shaun and I both felt like it was time to let Ella have her own room. That meant taking Alex out of his crib, which I wasn't quite ready for, but we felt like Ella needed her own space more than Alex needed his crib. So he and Amelia share the pink room now, and Ella has this.

Ella helped me pick out all of the decor for her room. Ella choices, mother approved. Amelia was a little bummed she doesn't get bunk beds, but on special occasions we let them do sleepovers in her room. 

She has her own little reading nook too where she can go and chill, read, and play. 

We even added lights to make it fun. 

And sometimes you have to share your cool new reading nook with your siblings because it's just too cool. 

So that's about it for now. I have a list of other things I'd like to do, but really if we never get to those I'd still be very content. We've actually been talking a lot about moving in the next 2 1/2 to 4 years. They will fly by, and we are very aggressively trying to prepare financially for such a move. I found my dream home on line one day and then it was off the market. Turns out it is owned by a family at church that we know, and they took it off the market because the timing wasn't right. So who knows, maybe one day they'll be ready to sell and we'll be ready to buy. This is the house. 

Well even if it never works out it's important to be saving for the future! In the meantime, our house (though I love it dearly dearly), is a bit like a frat house. I never know who's going to wake up next to me. The bedrooms are small and every night everyone gets up and switches beds. One night I came home from mutual and absolutely no one was where they were supposed to be. If I didn't know better I'd highly suspect alcohol 😂😂😂. But other than the fact that Alex now has no bedroom, and that no one sleeps where they are supposed to, it's pretty fantastic! Wherever I live I always try to make it a place I love to come home to.