Well, after hearing from multiple people what a HUGE pain in the butt it is to remove wallpaper, David and I decided to just put up a new border in our bathroom to give it a tropical theme, rather than remove wallpaper and paint it a tropical blue.  This is the walpaper border I just […]

So, I did two coats of primer in our hallway tonight.  I thought that the hallway would be easy, its probably only 6 feet long by three feet wide.  However, I didn’t think about the fact that it has four doors, a smoke detector, the doorbell chime, a lightswitch, and the thermostat.  It was all […]

So, I slaved over making a fancy lunch today since my parents, Erin, and Janelle were coming over: baked brown rice, ratatouille, cajun beef, and beet and feta salad.  Well, I wasn’t particularly thrilled with any of it!  The rice was fine, the ratatouille was fine but somewhat boring (its basically just layers of onions, […]

This was just before we went hiking today.  Sadly, by the end of the hike both kids were crying hysterically.  Note to self: go on hikes AFTER naptime, not just before.
Yesterday we went to David’s parent’s house for a celebratory dinner - Katie got an awesome job! - and then we went out and played […]

I haven’t been posting many pictures of the kids lately, just of the house.  Well, here’s a few gems from the past week…
I love this picture of Ellie, it seems to really capture her personality. 

These pics were taken when we went hiking at Rocky Knob last Sunday.  It was a beautiful day, and […]

Well, David insisted that we make good on our promise to Killy that after we moved to Virginia we could buy some fish.  Killy seemed to have forgotten all about it, and I was fine with letting it go…
Anyway, here are our new fish, Harry Bucket (the gold) and Dorothy (the speckled).  They are kind […]

(Thanks for bestowing that title on me, Carina!)
So, while David’s been reading Harry Potter to me, I’ve been sewing curtains. Behold:
(master bedroom - I designed the pattern for these curtains in my head while I was biking the other day and was able to sew them right up when I got home that night)

(sewing/exercise […]