Long Hiatus…

Hey everyone! Well once again life happened, and we have been so freaking busy our heads are spinning. I can’t believe it’s already March! This year is flying by – it’s insane how fast it’s going. Our year started off with a bang! A banging of our heads against the wall. We found a foundation leak in our laundry room when we got back from our Christmas break at my moms house. We ended up having to tear up the tile and concrete to get to the leak and then couldn’t repair it for two days. It was ridiculous. We did most of the work on New Years Eve and didn’t finish fixing the pipe until New Years Day evening. Long story short, it was horrendous. But Tommy finally fixed it and in the process we decided to make lemonade out of lemons and remodeled the laundry room. There’s always a silver lining. =) Needless to say, we are happy it’s done and I love the final results. The funniest thing ever was when Grandpa came over and saw it and said completely exasperated, “ARE YOU GOING TO RENT SPACE OUT IN HERE!!??” Hahahaha! That’s how nice it is. 😉

Our year has been going well so far. I have so much to catch you all up on…but it will take time. Please have patience and know that I am trying my best! Just to update you on the fam – Henry is a brain at school – he loves it and is doing very well. William is the terror of the household. He pretty much destroys whatever he touches so we are constantly having to keep and eye on him which is exhausting. Tommy is working his butt off at Raytheon like always and has taken on some new projects around the house. His new passion is welding and he was able to fashion a gate for us on the back of our property which is beautiful. I’ll take some pictures for you guys. I’m always surprised at what talent he has. I don’t know why though…he has proven himself to be amazing at anything he picks up. How lucky am I!? I’ve been busy with a new home business I started. I love it but it takes up a lot of my time. It’s going to do great things for us in the future though and I’m so excited to get my momentum going! We’ve been faithfully climbing at the rock gym and I have picked up running on Tues/Thursdays. Our neighborhood is so gorgeous and it is perfect for running around in. It has also been good at de-stressing me. =) Anyway, that’s what’s new with us! Hope you are all well. Hugs and kisses to all of you and I will try and keep you all better updated. Talk soon!

Hole dug up to expose leaky pipe...you can see how our laundry room is pretty vanilla...
Hole dug up to expose leaky pipe…you can see how our laundry room is pretty vanilla…
Closer look at hole...this was such a mess!!
Closer look at hole…this was such a mess!!
Hole in guest room that was unnecessary...it's a long story. :(
Hole in guest room that was unnecessary…it’s a long story. 🙁
Ok, painting walls a different color. I wanted some life in this laundry room...cuz I'm constantly doing freaking laundry!!!
Ok, painting walls a different color. I wanted some life in this laundry room…cuz I’m constantly doing freaking laundry!!!
We got a new cabinet. Didn't have one previously. Just two dilapidated shelves.
We got a new cabinet. Didn’t have one previously. Just two dilapidated shelves.

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Putting up my favorite part...these are plastic faux copper panels from Home Depot.
Putting up my favorite part…these are plastic faux copper panels from Home Depot.
Beautiful!
Beautiful!
Panels, cabinet and shelves up!
Panels, cabinet and shelves up!
All done!! Well, except for a skylight that we will put in eventually. ;)
All done!! Well, except for a skylight that we will put in eventually. 😉