Hello Spring!

Well....it's finally here! SPRING!!!!!

Proof. Our first glimpse of grass:

We had winter weather advisories right up until Spring Break this year, but, the snow has finally melted! And that's good because Zoey was going a little stir-crazy! Haha!

Sorry, I can't help it....we love her too much not to take an obnoxious number of pictures! You're lucky I don't share them all. I should start a dog blog. Do those exist? 

And here are a couple of pictures from Zoey's first birthday party back in February. :)

She had a great time with her dog friends! Okay, enough about Zoey. (just wait until we have kids...photo explosion! Hahaha!)

We've done a couple of things around the house these past couple of weeks. First of all, we needed new screens. The previous owners cats must have used their ninja skills to rip holes in EVERY screen on our main floor! What talent. 

 Proof.

So Brandon, being the fine husband he is, took all of the screens out so we could take them in to get re-screened. :)

Nothing like your wife yelling "Smile!" through a closed window while you're trying to get something done. He loves me ;).

While we waited to get them back I finally put away all of the winter decor and put out my Spring and Easter stuff. Woot! Nothing makes my heart happier than sunshine and pastel colors! Okay, that's a lie....I may or may not have told Brandon that I'm already ready for Christmas again. I'm a Christmas girl through and through. He may have even caught me singing a few Christmas carols this week. What is wrong with me!? (Fa la la la la)

Anyways, Spring. Which I really do love as well!

(Print via Jessica Garvin @littlebabygarvin)

With all of this WARM weather (40's and 50's and now 60's WHAT!) we decided it was time for some more outdoor home improvement. We decided to replace our crappy storm door (or screen door, like I call it). We have grand plans to take down the GIANT pine tree in our front yard....but I told Brandon the front of our house needs a facelift if we're going to expose it like that. So, step 1, new storm door. Here is a picture of the old one:

Chipped paint, didn't latch, broken parts....blah blah blah

So we got to work!

New door!

Goodbye old door!

I was able to help too!

After we got the door up, we ran into a hiccup. The frame was smaller than our door frame by a tiny bit. So there was a bit of extra work that had to be done by Brandon and my dad to make it perfect. I LOVE the final result!

It looks so nice! Zoey loves being able to lay by the door and watch things go by. Oh, and the new screens are fabulous too!

Next on the agenda:

-Re-Paint the wood areas around the front door

-Fix our poor lawn (again)

-Redo the concrete steps up front (if you know someone who does this...let us know!)

-Buy a new front door (would anyone like to donate? Haha!)

-Hang our wind chimes

-Get flowers! :)

  

I hope you all have had a nice beginning to your Spring! The most exciting thing I did this week was book a CRUISE for us in August! We are SO excited! This will be my secnd cruise but Brandon's first! We cannot wait!

Our ship! This is going to be epic!