First Projects

Sorry I haven't updated in a while.  We've been busy around here with the house and the new school year starting up for me!  I'm going to be a busy girl this year.....I'm teaching day school and doing night school a couple of times a week.  Also, my principal asked me to be the MEAP coordinator for our school so I'll be super busy making sure all of our freshman get tested and I'm sure I'll be up to my ears in paperwork!  But so far, I have loved all of my new students and I can't wait to see what will happen this year!  

Anyways, reading some of the blogs I follow inspired me to quit being lazy and update you all on our progress.....haha! :)  So here we go.....

Our first big project was to cut down the crabapple tree in our backyard.  It was ugly, dead looking, and not necessary.  Who wants to pick up crabapples?  So Brandon and his brother Neil went to work on that the weekend before Labor day weekend.

The Crabapple tree - before

Another angle

It's almost kind of creepy :)

The future home of firewood.....

 While the boys worked outside, I worked inside.  I made some mean meatloaf burgers and set up inside decor while they worked.  WAAAY more fun :)

This girl knows how to make a burger!  YUM!

Meanwhile, Brandon was making progress on the future home of the firewood.

My lovely cow and pig that welcome you to our home :)

Prepping for amputation.....lol

Project:  Put the magnets on the fridge......super hard.  We collect magnets from places we travel.  You can see some here are from England, France, Niagara Falls, and Bubba Gump's Shrimp Company!

My cute little wire basket I got at an estate sale :)

My pig peeps ;)

I picked up this wonderful rug in Mackinac Island!  It's an indoor/outdoor material so it's super easy to clean!

I may or may not have snuck in an episode or two while the guys were outside.....hehehe

Finally got my rug to fit in the bathroom!  If you put it the other way, you can't open or shut the door!  Super annoying!

 Meanwhile, back at the camp........

Scary!

TIMBER!

What a mess!

Now to clean up......

 Brandon and I spent the next few evenings cleaning up the brush and cutting up the logs.  Below is more proof of my ability (though rarely seen) that I can work outside.

Trying not to cut any of my fingers off

Snip, snip, snip

Rockin' the husband's clothes!

Boom.  Done.  (Well almost)

 So that's about it for the tree.  We still have some small sticks around, but it's cleaned up enough that Brandon was able to mow the lawn again. :)  Now for some more projects that took place inside the house:

First, I needed to organize our hallway closet.  Now when one thinks of a hallway closet, you may think of a place to put guests' coats, or a place for linens, or games.  Well, in our house, it's everything.  This is the only closet in the house (besides our bedroom closet) that is available for storage right now.  The upstairs closets are not finished being painted yet.  So, this closet not only stores extra items, and cleaning supplies, it also stores all of our sweaters and sweatshirts (because they do NOT fit in the bedroom closet) and all of my bathroom stuff that cannot fit in the dinky cupboard under the sink.  So, I had pinterest dreams for this closet that were slightly dashed, but I still think it turned out alright.  :)

Hallway Closet

 The other project that Brandon (thankfully) took care of was downstairs.  We needed to get the duct tape off of our venting and furnace (apparently it's flammable) and seal all of the cracks with a tape made for metal.  I don't remember what it's called, but we can refer to it as very expensive, stinky tape :)

Ah, isn't that nice ;)

 The basement is also home to my laundry area.  Not ideal, but I'm making it work.  :)  My old kitchen rug is now down there.  Eventually we will build shelves down here, but we are going to paint it first.

My "laundry room"

The ceramic owls are going upstairs in the guest room which is starting to come together.  Pictures will come when the painting is finished. :)

 Fall decor will be coming soon!!!!!  And it's football season!  We will be in Detroit tomorrow for the first Lion's Game of the season!

Go Lions!

And finally, my favorite thing to do in the new house, relax on the couch and listen to our beautiful wind chimes.  I love them :)  But I can't relax for long.  We're going shopping for all new blinds and shades tonight!  Ours are all busted.  More to come on that!  Enjoy your sunny day!