growing up too quickly....

Can anyone tell me where the last two and a half years have gone??

Bug is now 2 1/2!

sniff...sniff....

Bug driving his "tractor"

And my Mister Squish is 5 1/2 months.

Where has that time gone?!

At night when the house is quiet

and the chaos of two little boys

is tucked away in bed

I think of how lucky I am to be a mother to two boys! 

Pardon our dust...

There has been a lot of construction going on around here.

Some you'll see below...

AND

Some going on behind the scenes of the blog

 (more on that later)

Here is some of the beginning of the 

construction even though it looks like the end.

I can't explain how the sight of this makes me sooo happy! 

 

Hmmm....I wonder what the colors will be?

The ol' Daddy-o had a wild idea last week

that lead into the photos you see above. 

Usually, when we decide to tackle

a project like this

we'll hem-and-haw

and then we'll

hem-and-haw.

Not this time!

You see--I didn't even

know that remodeling not

one BUT two

rooms were on the

agenda.

And like I said...

Daddy-O had a wild idea!

The two rooms in question were the collect all rooms.

One room belonged to the dog and the other to my husband and his crap office. 

The first room in question is a tiny bedroom that has never received much love since we bought the place in 2003.  This room has since received even less love when my husband moved his office and shop home. 

We have always talked about the potential of this room but given the crazy dog situation that we have going on we decided we wouldn't do anything to these two rooms until the dog situation was resolved.

Well, the dog situation isn't solved but with the addition of this little beauty....

and with the need to do something about this...

Daddy decided something had to be done and he could no longer wait.

So....this has been happening.....

We were a few sheets of drywall away from gutting both rooms. 

I wish I had before pictures.  Although, I am pretty sure I wouldn't have posted them because I am far too embarrassed about how the one room looked before.  The after is all that will matter.

Daddy's office is becoming the "Hunter's Lodge" as I like to call it

AND

That small poorly neglected dog room will become my new crap crafting room!

I cannot wait to share the after photos with you all!

Thank you daddy for all the hard work, sweat, and blood you are putting into these rooms.

Only a kitchen, dining room, master bedroom, hallway, guest bath and master bath to go!

A quicky....

I spent too much time on the Internet tonight

drooling over the Bernina 350 sewing machine.

I think an upgrade is in my future.  

Dear Hubby has been threatening me with

a new machine but it seems

my price point didn't line

up with his.

Then the conversation turned to the

rifle he bought last Thanksgiving

or the truck that he just bought

that now needs wheels to go

with the new tires.

I know my price point didn't line

up with his on those items

and he still bought them.

To give him credit though....

He made up for buying the rifle

by buying me "Fancy"

my Canon Camera

AND

I did encourage him to buy the truck....

but not the wheels.

You see he needs a fancy rifle, and a

fancy scope, and fancy wheels

to get him to the deer and elk

AND

I need a fancy machine to get

me my quilts. 

Now...do I splurge and get the

Bernina 350

OR

do I save a bit and get the

Brother NX 450Q???

Oops, I guess I just

"Dear Diary-ed"

you all.

I know you are here for the

kids and not my

ramblings so here

they are....

This was the Zoo last week.

 We specifically came here in hopes that

Bug would play in the mini

water park but no such luck.

 All he wanted to do was play with

the pump until the kids showed up

and then he went all shy on me. 

 In my family it's almost always

impossible to get a good

family shoot.

 We were only at the

zoo for an hour before

it became too hot. 

Ice cream would be the

cure for the heat.

Sorry for the semi-boring post.

I am tired!

Off to bed I go.