Nursery Painting Complete

Jared finished painting the nursery earlier this week!  I did help a little because we were able to open all the windows in that room.  We also bought a nice fuzzy rug, and moved our old dresser into the room.  That will also serve as the changing table.  Now we need a crib, and the rocking chair.

Here are some pics!  The beautiful red quilt was made by Mom.  Love it!

 

Flooring Complete

We finally have our house back!  The floors were finished up yesterday afternoon, and we absolutely love them.  Below is a before and after of the back room.  Take a look back at this post to get a reminder of what it looked like before, and what we went through with that room.  Yikes.

Entertainment Center

We got a new entertainment center a month or so ago.  Jared put it together.  It is so much nicer than what we had going before.

Before.

First shelf is in.

TV stand is in.

We're good to go!

Dogs Colors and Our Paint Choices

You know what I just realized?  We painted one room for each color of dog!  How ridiculous is that?

I want to go with something green for the bedrooms, although I'd love to work that terracotta color in somewhere.  We'll see.

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Grey-Blue Sitting/Dining Room

I will eventually upload some nicer pics to the blog, these are from my camera phone. Jared has done such a good job painting!

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Brown Living Room

I love this as well! Jared picked this color.

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Yellow Kitchen

I love it! The funny thing about this color though, we actually picked the one on the FAR RIGHT in the picture below.  As you can see, it looks nothing like that.  Weird.

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Painting the Kitchen

We were able to easily decide on paint for the dining room and family room, but the kitchen is giving us trouble. Too many choices!

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Spring!

Our bird is back! Has spring already sprung?

Houston Winter Weather

Winter weather in Houston is normally not very wintery. However, the first two winters I have lived here, it has snowed! Also, it got into the teens for 3 nights in a row! Record breaking winter weather, I just can't get away from it!

Here are a few pics of our snowy Houston home.

Our Wedding Videos

I am now mourning the loss of our wedding videos. I wanted to post a few today, but they are not on either of our computers, our external hard drives, or the camera. Very sad.

UPDATE:
We found the wedding videos about 6 months after this post!  They were on Jared's school computer for some odd reason.  Neither of us have any recollection of putting them there.  Thank goodness though!

No More Carpet!

We FINALLY got around to taking the carpet out of the back room. It was horrible. The previous owner left a dog or two in there, so the carpet smelled from day one. Kirsche and Tancred didn't help the situation. The carpet is gone, and our house smells fantastic!

Sorry, this is pretty gross. Tancred was sick for a couple days, and couldn't hold his liquid poo while we were at work. We tried to clean it out of the carpet, but it wasn't working. That was what inspired us to finally rip the carpet out. To help the smell last night, Jared cut the gross parts out of the carpet.


Here is the carpet before we started tearing it out.


We got the carpet out easily. The hard part was pulling the boards and nails out. I will surely be sore tomorrow.


Here is what we found under the carpet . This was a spot we thought was clean!


Here is the carpet we knew was dirty. No wonder we could never get the smell out. Disgusting.


The dogs watched us from the other room. These bars were installed because Tancred ate his way through the wood slats. I hope I'm not discouraging anyone from dog ownership! They are wonderful animals.


What a dusty mess. I swept, vacuumed, then mopped.


And we're done! It took us two hours. It doesn't look super nice, but it looks and SMELLS so much better than before. We'll install some type of cleanable floor within the next year or so.

King Size Bed

We finally got a new bed! We let the dogs sleep with us, I don't know why we waited so long to get a bed big enough for the five of us.

Birdie Update

Our nesting bird finally hatched some eggs! Unfortunately, one of them has already gone the way of the dogs. I hope the other two make it.

Aren't the cute?


Here you can see where there nest is located. It's electric!

Outside House Pictures

I've shown most folks pictures of the inside of our house. Here is the outside!

Here is a panoramic of the front. We have much foliage.

Here is the front door.

Here is my car with one of our magnolia trees.

Here is the front sidewalk. We should probably trim those plants back, but I like them!

Here is the side of the house. I want to get a real gate put there.

Here is another panoramic of the back area.

Here is the backyard.

Here is Sundog, doing his favorite thing. He will sit outside for hours and hours. Notice the boards and chairs shoved under the fence. He also loves to escape.

Here is the bird that lives on top of our fuse box. I feel bad for her because I'm pretty sure she's sitting on an empty nest. More than one egg has fallen out, the dogs then eat them. It makes me so sad!!

A new bookshelf

Our office is still quite a mess. I will post some house pictures this coming week. We bought a bookshelf so Jared could work on organizing the room during his two weeks off before his ExxonMobil Chemical internship.

This is what I did the entire time he worked on this. Bad Ernie!

Here is the bookshelf in a box, and Kirsche stretching.

The parts are out of the box.

Jared screwing stuff.

It's starting to look like a bookshelf!

Yay, we have another bookshelf! Now hopefully our last cluttered room will be clean!

Here is the art work we put up this week.

This one Jared ordered from China through ebay.


This one is also from ebay. And you can see Jared putting the milk away.


I love this one. Jared got it off of ebay as well.


This is one of my favaorite paintings Yvette has done. It was a birthday present in 2004.


Jared got this while he was in Asia back in 2003.


My mom found this cute metal dog in Door County.