Category: General

It’s sort’a like a junk drawer thing… No other place to put it.

My Parents Arrive

My parents arrived this evening. They will be visiting us for about 2 weeks!!

Early in the day Isabel made Grandma a necklace out of flowers however in the heat of the day it didn’t last for long…

Isabel has been counting the days down until they have arrived. We are hoping the weather is warmer and not so cool as it has been. So glad they are here! Looking forward to getting out and seeing some new stuff!

We took them out to eat after they arrived. Grandma is deciding what to order while Isabel is drawing on the table.

While waiting for the food to arrive, Isabel and Grandma drew together on the table.

A group shot of us at the table taken by our waiter. We ordered a Pepperoni pizza and Chop! Chop! Salad to share with Grandpa and Grandma had something with chicken and a salad. It was yummy!

Finished Room

So we finally got her room all done, it took a bit longer then we were expecting but it turned out great. However there are a few more little things that I need to do but otherwise her room is complete…

Welcome to Isabel’s new room…

We took the risers off her bed which took away the storage underneath but I was able to find a container to fit under the bed for all her babies.

With the risers gone she doesn’t really need the steps but she likes climbing up them and the top step opens for storage for her pj’s during the day.

Need to get the decor back up on the walls but need to purchase a few new things.

The Closet Gets Organized

Yesterday Gino worked on getting the closet organizer in, while the paint dried on the baseboards.

The closet beforehand was just a simple shelf and rod to hang the clothes. However it really wasn’t that practical since the rod was divided with spacers, causing the clothes to be spaced apart. The new organizer has a “floating” rod which makes room for more clothes to be hung. Also, the whole closet space is used rather then the upper half. Love it! Love it! Love it!

Anchor mounts mounted.

While Daddy’s working on that, Isabel plays with the plastic wrappers from the mounting hardware.

She’s more the happy with her new room… she’s all smiles!

The top shelf needed a trim and then was placed into position.

The rod was trimmed down too and the rest of the organizer was easy to add.
So much space!

Now there is a upper rod and a lower half rod with shelves for clothes.
We ditched the dresser and are just using the closet!
I love this organizer so much that I told Gino we needed something like this in our “master” rinky-dink closet.

In With The Wood

Gino began the flooring today.

I like it already and it’s not even done.

That looks so good!

Daddy’s little helper, at least she has all the right tools.

Tapping boards into place.

Close up of her new flooring. So different from the den floor, which has more red in it .

Looking north into the closet.

Finished flooring… well almost. We had to order 1 box because we ran out. So we wait…

Out With The Carpet

We had to wait a few days for the flooring to arrive which was nice because the room was able to air out from the new paint smell. We just opened the window and shut the door!

Out comes the carpet.

Carpet and padding gone from half of the room.

The carpet completely removed.

I’ve got to get to work removing all those staples in the floor from the padding.

After prepping the floor, Gino lays the floor padding; for tomorrow he lays the wood!

We went with the same flooring that we used in the den 2 years ago just a different color; Almond Hickory. It really tones down the purple that was starting to cast purple out the hall and down the stairs! Yikes!

Isabel’s Room

Isabel has been wanting a purple room ever since the day she could talk! OK not since then but since she’s been out of her crib. So we decided with graduation from Preschool we’d remodel her room!

We began with choosing a wall color that was close in color to her existing curtains, bedspread and one that she actually liked. She chose “Orchid House”. The day before we started painting Isabel and I cleared out her room by placing everything in the guest room. Her bed, we placed on the floor of our bedroom and the dresser stayed in the room covered in plastic and was used as a catch-all for tools and such.

Looking south easterly; finishing a few things after all the prep work was complete.
(Note: the purple line on the wall is not the final color of the room)

We removed everything except the carpet (it came out later) and the door to her room (which remained in place and remained white). The room was a blank canvas so to speak…

Looking south westerly.
(Note: the purple line on the wall is not the final color of the room – it was some other paint but decided against it because it was to dark.)

She’s excited!!! She begins painting on the north wall by the closet. Her room will be purple before the day is finished.

Looking south easterly. It’s PURPLE alright!

Looking north into the closet.

After working around the room (with Gino and I following her to spread out the paint) she begins the closet bottom half.

Working together in the closet to get it done.

Bunny Part 2

Our bunny that I mentioned last Tuesday that has been hanging around our yard had baby bunnies!

Yesterday while we were working in the yard, I bent down to pull some weeds and about touched the baby bunny! Gino and Isabel came over to see our little wildlife neighbor as it sat up against the house. Looking around the side yard, Gino found another bunny tucked up in the weeds along the fence. So cute!

This is the first one that I found and it stayed tucked up against the house the rest of the afternoon while we hauled dirt to the backyard.

This one was a bit harder to get a picture of since I didn’t want to scare it to much and it was hiding so well in the weeds.

Later in the evening, just before Isabel went to bed, I stepped outside to see if they were still around and they and disappeared. Hopefully I didn’t scare them to badly.