Back at the end of May, Little Brother turned 3 years old! I cannot believe how fast the last few years have flown by. It was 3 years ago exactly that I first introduced him here on the blog. His birth and pregnancy was quite an ordeal, but it was soooo worth it! He’s grown into…
When we first looked at our home, we could easily tell that the former owner was crazy about roses. They were all over the backyard and there was even a fenced in area that looked to be mostly roses. I love flower and roses, so I loved the idea of all the roses. When Spring…
For a long time, I’ve dreamed of having a huge table. I wanted something that our whole family could fit around at holidays and birthdays. Big tables are pricey though! Then we came across the idea of building a table. The cost was considerably less and we were able to find detailed instructions via Pinterest….
We moved in early December and have quickly discovered our new hobby…our new house! We knew coming into it that it needed a lot of updating, but we fell in love with the house nonetheless. It has the perfect layout for us and is in a fantastic neighborhood. We started work on Day 1 and…
With 2 boys in our family, we have an obsession with all things that go. So when it was time to convert our nursery into a “big boy” bedroom, a transportation bedroom was the natural choice for a theme. Bye, bye, cute nursery… Hello Big Boy Room! Little Brother has become obsessed with trucks, cars,…
Sharing our laundry and vanity area last week got me thinking about a couple other things we’ve done around our house to maximize space. The first area is our oldest’s bedroom: We knew moving into the house that it was a small space, so from the beginning we made use of the vertical space by…
When you live in a smaller home like we do, every little bit of storage space is needed. Our master bedroom closet is shaped like an “L”, but the lower part of the L didn’t have any closet organizers in it when we moved into the house. Wasted space! Since we don’t have much space…
We have a large wall that runs the length of our living room that was just begging for something to fill it. Big pieces can get pricey, though, so I got creative. I printed a favorite photo that I took myself in the Colorado mountains and printed a 20×30 poster size of it at Costco…
Where do you put your kids’ art? The refrigerator is a great place, right? In our house, though, the front of the refrigerator is not magnetic, so we needed another solution. Tape on the refrigerator would work, but I decided it’d been fun to use their art as decoration. We use little clothes pins to…
I like to try to celebrate and do activities as we approach Thanksgiving. It’s the perfect opportunity to teach our kids about gratitude. This year we wrote down several ideas for “gratitude activities” and put them in our Thanksgiving Activities Jar. We’d like to do one activity each day, but we’re doing them as we have…