Backyard Remodel

So this came on really fast. Mike found someone that would clear out our backyard for $10 and that happened a couple weeks ago, and then we decided to do the patio and Sod super fast because the next couple weeks are super crazy, and then we are in to July and August and that is too hot to lay sod, then we are in Fall and Mike is leaving for training, so it was now or never. Now we have a back yard. Hopefully the sod doesn't die, and we have a nice back yard to sell our house with next year.

If you don't remember what the backyard looked like before we totally scrapped it out, here is that post, with a lot of tumbleweeds. So here is a photo gallery of our back yard doings.

Old Boy's Room Remodel

This should be a 2015 blog post, but oh well. So after we moved the boys out of their old room, we moved the computer into their room and made it the office/computer room/craft room/movie/book room, all of thee above room. So we painted it so we wouldn't have to worry about moving everything out of it to do that before/if we move. So here is the before and after!

It was a baby blue color

We painted it a Mint Green Color

TMNT

We have been going through a bunch of crap around our house lately to get rid of stuff and to get ready for our yard sale. We have found some fun things.

We found these TMNT Masks

And this Roots Beret from the 2002 Olympics

And all our board games that we sat down and played!

It has been fun going through all our stuff and finding all these things we have just hiding out. We have a lot of crap to get rid of too!

Food Storage

We have so much food storage and it was all just sitting on the floor in our basement. Well you all know that we have been cleaning up and rearranging stuff and fun things like that, that we needed to do something about our food storage to get it off the floor and all in the same place. Mike decided to build food storage shelves and we finally got them put together and got all the stuff put on it. It looks so much better in our basement and we have a place for food storage now!

Moving

So now that Mike and I have moved downstairs (See previous post), we had a LOT more space upstairs to spread out! So, this is what we did...

New light in the dining room (kinda blurry...)

No more toys in the Living room!

The boy's old room is now our computer room...(More details to come)

The boys are now in our old room, and Garett is in the crib!

And the boys in their new room now. They are all in the same room

We are still waiting for the baby monitor that we ordered yesterday to come, so I can sleep better downstairs knowing that I can hear them and help them if needed.

Next for our little house, moving the desk, computer and movies from the dining room into the boy's old room and now the new office/craft room and then cleaning out the other room that is done in the basement and setting it up to become Gavin's room (he is SO EXCITED to move down there with us!)

Downstairs Remodel

We have been trying to get some rooms in our basement done for a couple years now. The last couple of tax returns were spent on buying "new" to us cars and paying down some debt, but this year, we felt that we needed to put our tax return money toward the house instead of debt. So we did the wood floor in the Kitchen and Dining room and put the rest of the money toward the downstairs room (and vacation :)) So here is our Downstairs bedroom remodel...

This is how it started

After spackled, painted and starting carpet

Carpet is put in!

Us moving in!  YAY!

Dining Room Update

We bought a new dining room table that we could all sit at and that wasn't ruined for our new dining room. We took everything out of the dining room and now have the table and 6 chairs and a new smaller desk for the computer. It is still a work in progress, but it is coming along.

New Chairs

Home Depot

Since we have been remodeling the Kitchen, Dining Room, and Downstairs bedroom, we have been spending a lot of time at Home Depot.  We were there again this last weekend and Greyson and Garett were making the most of it.  Gavin wasn't feeling good, so he sat in the cart the entire time, but I am sure when we go again in the next couple weeks, he will be joining in on the fun.

Dad had drill this weekend too, so Garett was helping dad by holding his hat

Kitchen and Dining Room Remodel

We are on a Remodel Roll at our house...

We got our tax return at the end of February.  At the beginning of March we set out to find some wood flooring that we liked and that wouldn't break the bank.  We ended up at Lumber Liquidators and found the perfect flooring that was only $1.29 Square Foot.  It is a discontinued flooring, but that's okay.  We ordered 270 Square feet hoping our math was correct and we would have enough.

The wood came in on Friday the 13th of March, so we went to pick it up and started our demolition.  On Saturday, we started laying the wood at about 1 pm and stapling it into the floor.  Thanks for the help Chuck and Glen we finally finished the kitchen at around 9pm Saturday night.  On Sunday we started in the dining room.  It went a lot faster in the dining room and we were done with it about 7pm on Sunday.  Then we had to put everything back and clean up.

I am so proud of us for doing this.  We did it all on our own with a little bit of help and we did it all in one weekend with 3 crazy boys to entertain.  At the beginning of the year, I told Mike that I was sick and tired of moping my kitchen floor because it didn't ever get clean.  So we made the plan to update our floor, and we stuck with in and did it.  And it only cost us about $600.  I love my floor now!

Before Kitchen

Demolition

After Kitchen

Before Dining Room

After Dining Room

New Living Room

So a couple posts ago, I mentioned that we are doing some remodeling.  We did some furniture remodeling in our living room.  We have had our couch for 9 years and it was on its last leg.  We needed something that we could all sit on and still have room and grow into, that was comfy too.  We found a sectional from some people who used to live in our neighborhood and bought it for $400! (GREAT DEAL)

We bought a Wii U for the boys for Christmas because in July our Wii crapped out on us and we lost all of our games and stuff.  When we went to plug the Wii U in to see if it worked before Christmas, we couldn't plug it into the TV, because we have an older than sin TV.  Seriously, the TV was probably about 8 years old.  And everything is moving to HDMI and that fun stuff now.  So the day after Thanksgiving we drove up to Hill Air Force Base to see what deals they had on a TV.  We bought a 50" Samsung Smart TV for $400.  It sat in our hall for 2 months until we finally bought a stand from Walmart and set it all up the Saturday before the Superbowl.

So we have a new TV, TV stand and couch in our living room.  YAY for new stuff!  Now to remodel the rest of the house ;)

Baby Gavin's Room

This Post will mostly be pictures because of all the stuff we did to get his room ready. As soon as Mike got home, we cleared out the room, painted it from the Yellow to the Blue & then set everything up. We still don't have everything up in there yet, but we are getting there slowly. Enjoy his beautiful room!