Happy 3rd Birthday Winston!!!

Winston celebrated his birthday today!! He will officially turn 3 on Monday.

Garage door

We got our garage door installed today!! I love it!

more Eva Pics

EVA

our new puppy Eva

This is what our front door is going to look like, minus the side lite on the left
and this is very similar to what our garage door is going to look like

Playroom Take 2

Update

Well we used the homemade laundry detergent all week and I can't tell any difference between it and the tide, so I would say it was a success. As far as the vinegar, we could still smell it, but I did put it in a little late so maybe it didn't get rinsed out as well as it should.

Homemade Laundry Detergent

So I found this recipe for homemade laundry soap, it is suppose to work as well as Tide or better and way cheaper, someone said for a family of four with this recipe they spend about $2.00 a MONTH! I will let you know how it works. Also I read that you can use white distilled vinegar for fabric softener, just fill up your fabric softener dispenser on the washer with it. When the clothes are dry they are super soft and don't smell like vinegar, it also doesn't leave a wax on your clothes like store bought fabric softener.

Aunt Ruthie's Sugar Pie Farmhouse

I just had to post about this new site that I have found Aunt Ruthie's Sugar Pie Farmhouse!

It is a great site for homemakers, she has posts about decorating, recipies, stories, family life just about everything. Her site has links to her product reviews, a forum where you can talk to other Sugar Pie sistas, lots of great stuff and all her posts on the blog have tons of great photos. You can find a link to it here under my favorite links.

Playroom

I am working on the playroom, and since it took me 7 hours to get this far, I decided to go ahead and post a picture, because who knows how long it will take me to finish. The backdoor I have painted a black chalkboard on, we are going to put a small trim around it hopefully tonight. The reason it is taking so long is because the walls are a really rough wood and the grooves are deep so it is a lot of painting with a brush. So you will have to stay tuned to see how it comes out. I really am happy with the color though, it really brightens the room up.

I Peed in the Grass!

I Pee in the Grass, I Pee in the Grass.....

This is what Winston yelled all through Kroger's the other day. We are potty training and it seems he prefers the great outdoors to the potty. This could be due to the fact he fell face first into the potty when his step stool slid out from under him. But I think we had 1 1/2 successful peeing on the potty episodes today, the half is because I found Winston flushing the potty and saying he went in it, but the only evidence was a puddle on the step stool (different step stool than previously mentioned). We had a busy day of yard work today and by we I mean Dave, mowed and pruned and planted some Azaleas. The yard really is looking nice around here, and we are hoping to build a new deck this summer.

Easter

Bristol and Winston's Room

Kites, and Crown molding...

Well we had some wind here today.....but before the big storm Dave took the boys out to fly their kites. They had a blast.

Here is the crown molding we installed yesterday. I painted it today. It was really hard to install! but it looks great we are really happy with it. I still have to paint what we put up in the kitchen.