The Honey-Do's are becoming Honey-DOES!!!

Okay so the other day I was feeling very sleepy and thought since the house was clean, baby was nappin', and Mat wasn't around to see, I would take a quick little power nap. I was pleasantly surprised to be woken up by the sounds of possibly someone attacking my house. :) I followed the lacquer smell up the stairs to find this! I got a base cabinet in my upper laundry. Miracles do happen! Not only did he do it, but I only waited a few days (we will pretend that I didn't ask him to do it when we built the house and he told me it wouldn't fit).
For my birthday (which was only last month) I asked for somewhere, anywhere, to hang all of my necklaces. I get pretty frustrated untangling them in the drawer every time I go to wear them. Go figure. Anyways, he made me this awesome board for all of my bling.

This is also a birthday request. We have this little flat-screen in our bedroom. When we originally built the house we had the t.v. connections wired in a different spot. So we may have put a few (unfixed) holes in the wall when we decided we didn't like that spot. I've been wanting something to cover up the holes desperately and finally have a cute little frame for the t.v.. Now if I could just clean it. lol

This is the BIG thing that I've ached for since we built! When we talked about our house Mat asked me to cut out things in magazines that I liked and start a folder with everything I wanted to incorporate in the house. Who needs a folder when I remember EVERYTHING? One thing I really wanted was wood windows with grid. When we priced out the windows I wanted they were going to be 3 times the cost! Needless to say we opted out. Mat however, had reassured me that I could have grid on my transom windows along the back of the house and on the front door. After being in the house a year I threw a small...okay BIG fit that the windows needed to get done. Mostly because they still had the raw wood exposed. After 2 years in the house half are completed. My front door however has been a sore spot for me. There was no tint on the windows so we were quite exposed to the outside world (not good for someone who likes to hang out in their skivvies in the morning) also, the wood in the front entry has become drastically bleached. Not to mention that I love the look of grid! This week Mat finally got around to installing (at least the front part) the grid on the doors. I seriously LOVE it! I smile every time I walk by. It also works pretty good when the "doorbell ditchers" (aka the boys that are in love with Bailey) come around. Now we can stand right inside and watch them come up the walk, jump out and Bailey can chase them doused in her perfume yelling at them to stop. (She LOVES it by the way).

Back to school!

So summertime has run its course and school is back in session. Can I get a big WOOT WOOT?!!! Not that I don't adore my kids and love everything that summertime brings along with it, I just have a hard time with so many kids, and so very often. Plus, my kids and I just get along better when we are on a schedule somewhat. I love fall too! I love to watch my boys play soccer, cheer Bailey on at cheer, and I just love the feeling in the air. This is the kids 4th day back to school and I love it. Peyton and I get to play all day and I feel like I am actually reclaiming some of my sanity back.

Bailey's first day of school look. She actually had a "friend" tell her it wasn't cute. Please!
Always need some pics of Peyton too!

Aren't you supposed to dress up the baby and take pictures while the older kids are away?

My little stud Caleb. He's such a hottie.

My boys.

Easton's first day of 1st grade. He was so excited to start back at school. So sweet.

Two more weeks...

I love my yard. I spend at least as much, (if not more) time on it than I do on the inside of the home. I love everything being lush and trimmed. I love to reap the rewards of the veggies in the garden and feel totally self-sufficient when I open one of the cans of food I've done myself. I have one problem with my yard however. I can only do so much. Well, I've been overwhelmed lately with Mat working a ton of hours and trying to get through the summer and all. The yard needless to say has suffered. Suffered from not only my neglect but from Mat's as well. He works really hard on building beautiful additions to the yard and planting our awesome garden he has a hard time with finishing up the project or ignoring problems before it's too late. He's promised that in two weeks our lawn will be lush and green again and he will have more time around the house. Of course that was a week ago and the only work on it has been done by me. I guess whatever works huh? I spent the good part of Saturday, watering, mowing, and trimming and made some progress. Yea! I mostly wanted to post this so that I can look back in a few years and see how much the yard will have changed. (Hopefully by then I'll have the mister system that I got for my birthday over a year ago in place and the broken hammock will be fixed.) :)Peyton helping me water the lawn. :)
My Mother's Day present a few years ago. One of my favorite places ever.
Those poor little dry spots. :(
From far away it doesn't look too bad eh?

The more "productive" of the two gardens. I love that we can grow corn!