Thursday, December 3, 2020

6 years!!

Happy 6th Birthday Bug!

We love you so much.

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Friday, November 13, 2020

5 on Friday AKA June through October

We're here.
We're alive.
I had to pick and choose what I multi-tasked, and this blog lost out for quite a while.

Thank you to my extended family for asking for updates!  Let's play catch-up, shall we?

1.
Summer House Projects

Besides the fence, we did quite a bit of landscape work.  We removed the sod along one side of the house and put in rock.  This is where we store our trailer the majority of the year.

I also spray painted all of the oil rubbed bronze fixtures brushed nickel.  I really love our nook light, but I couldn't find anything I really liked for our dining room, so spray paint it was!  I also bought new globes for the lamp.  I think it turned out great.



Enjoy the messy house!  I was busy cleaning out the bar cabinets during this project.


We also changed the sink light to a brushed nickel one.



We also have new countertops, sink, and backsplash.  But they aren't fully complete......update soon!

2.
Summer Activities

We lived in our backyard this summer.  The new playset was a HIT!
I created a 'truck wash' for them and filled their pool with water beads :)  Anything to keep them busy during the work day!




3.
Daily Walks
My mental sanity was dependent on a daily walk.  It wore the boys out (the very tiniest bit) and let me get some alone time to work when we got back.




4.
Big Boy!
I already mentioned that #biggywiggy potty trained this spring, and he recently moved to a full sized bed.  He also had his FIRST dentist appointment (only rescheduled 4 times since April.)



His new comforter and shams arrived last night!

5.
What is time?
We were under quarantine during Halloween.  Due to Covid we had no plans to trick or treat anyways.  We spent the day painting pumpkins and watching children's Halloween songs.

Then in the afternoon we headed into the backyard to pick up the summer toys in anticipation of the coming snow storm.  While the storage shed was open, we pulled out all of the Christmas decor (to set up on November 1st).  Then the oldest ask if we could pretty please put up the tree. 

Of course, the answer was YES!!





P.S.
The FUNNEST indoor winter game : Indoor Snowball Fight.
My mom found these and sent them up with our Christmas presents and they are THE BEST.








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Wednesday, November 11, 2020

PreSchool!!

The Monday after Kindergarten stared, #biggywiggy started Pre School!  
We decided that since big brother was in school, we would send little brother back until the schools closed down again (Spoiler Alert: which would only be two months.)  #biggywiggy missed his friends and was ready for some more structured play.







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Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Kindergarten!!

This year school looks a little different.

Thankfully our private school elected to do in person education 5 days a week.  It is a tiny school and was able to implement social distancing easily.  #wiggydiggy had been looking forward to going to back to school since we let out in March.  He's a trooper and has no problem wearing a mask all day.  He LOVES his new teacher and school.






It was a tad chilly at drop off.  Someone was cold and wanted to go inside!





He was oh so politely telling us to GO AWAY so he could hang with his teacher! 




 

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Monday, November 9, 2020

Five on Friday - This is super late

Summer is here in all of it's glorious mood swings.  Cloudy, humid mornings lead way to sunny and hot afternoons.  Some days we are socked in with rain and others are a cool breeze that beg you stay outside in the sunshine all day.

I spent a rainy day looking through photos and realized I never showed some new updates.

1.
FENCE!!

After a LONG week (only because the boys couldn't go outside) our new fence is done!!!




2.
New Couch

I finally found new couch for our TV room.  A tiny bit of whining to Justin and he agreed, so we traded out the mammoth rust colored couch for a sleek gray one.


I sold it on our local Buy/Sell facebook page


This is our couch.  We bought in store when it was on sale.

I'm hopeful I can get the artwork we have framed and hung this summer......only 6 years later!  Haha.

3.
#biggywiggy is potty trained!!

No photos for this ;)

4.
New Office Space

*This actually took place in the late fall, but hey, this blog post is only 5 months late*


Bonus - You can see we finally framed and hung those prints!

After a few months of working at our dining room table, my back couldn't handle it anymore.  Justin and I had ordered a printer/scanner a few week prior (for personal use) and it needed a home.  I figured it was time and bought this desk from Overstock.  My chair is from my office.

My work FINALLY supplied us with laptops and various equipment in September.  Better late than never.  Justin was lucky enough to bring home an extra monitor from his office.

Of course the kids already decorated my "office" so I would think of them while I was working. 
I love my boys!

5.
Another Big Boy Bed

#biggywiggy wanted us to lay with him in his toddler bed every night.
He tried to sleep with #wiggydiggy in his bed often.

I bit the bullet and bought a full sized mattress and bed spring in October.

His crib converts to a full size frame, but I want to keep him close to the floor for now.  His quilt and shams arrive this week, so I'll take nicer photos soon :)



Their new favorite place to play!  I find them hiding under the covers all the time!

I moved the glider out to the living room and recovered it.  This is my favorite place to sit now.  You can find me here reading a book almost every eveing.






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