Another Successful weekend of Crafts

I believe that Jim and I are getting the hang of redecorating on a budget. We've been wanting to do so much to our house but never really figured out how without spending a whole ton of money! Well.... tadaaaaa! Figured out the trick. Spray paint and sand paper. There is a lot you can do with spray paint and sandpaper. Case in point.... One of my good friends gave Jim and I a desk that he was no longer using. He knew that Jim and I were into redoing furniture and stuff and wanted us to go to town on a desk that he was going to throw away. Once Jim and I picked it up, we could hardly wait to get started. As soon as we put Kade to sleep, Jim and I spent 2 hours outside. I was over the whole sand papering crap after a good 3 minutes! That part is not fun! Then came the fun part.... Spray Paint.... and a pretty color at that!

                      This is a picture of the before. As you can see, nothing is wrong with the desk.

And the after picture! I have to say, I think we did a FABULOUS job if I do say so myself! It makes it look like a whole new desk! The desk we had our computer on was nothing special at all. So once we got this new one in, we did a lot of rearranging in our computer room, off of our kitchen. The wall that the computer is on now had a couch. So, we moved the couch to the other wall, where the computer once was.

So, this is a picture from far away. Ignore the filing cabinet in the middle. That is being moved somewhere else, just not right now. Our backs are a little shot from all of this. It won't hurt anyone leaving it be for a little while.  This room now looks so much different and bigger!


To end our weekend, Jim and I took Kade to the beach. We haven't been able to go in several weekends due to the weather being so horrible, so we were extremely excited about going. We even got up early for it! Good thing we did, because not even an hour after being there the weather was horrible!

We had to bust it to get out of there before the bottom basically fell out. It was thundering and lightening so bad that it was beyond scary. This is a picture of us driving home right before it rained cats and dogs. Then I pulled up the weather on my phone and it said we were under a significant weather advisory for a severe thunderstorm and possible funnel clouds. Then, I saw this picture below that someone had taken just north of us!

UMMMMM..... Yes very very scary. Waterspout just north of us! Slightly scary... just sayin'. Anyhow, at least we got one good hour! All in all, it was another fabulous weekend with my family! Not excited about going to work tomorrow, that is for sure! Love!!

I promised Sim if she would do the blog i would contribute to help keep each other motivated so we could give family and friends more than just a bunch of Facebook photos and keep every-body up to date on the family that is just a little to far away.  I have lost a lot of motivation for blog writing since it feels much like a journal.  But i owe it to Slim to continue.  I'm glad she is excited about doing projects around the house because its so easy to just give up at the end of the day and try to relax after Kade has gone to bed.  I really respect parents with multiple children.  I really do.  I tried to be Mr. arts and crafts dad my self recently and failed.  i don't really know of many father son things besides building and Kade isn't quite there yet, if anyone has ideas for his age. I tried to make glow in the dark bounce balls but the mold broke and I instead made glow in the dark balls that looked like VHS tape left on dash of hot car ( showing age).  I worked at Video Warehouse in Albany and always laughed at those tapes.  So i am interested in ideas that me and Kade can do together and proudly show off to family. 

Gettin' My Arts & Crafts On!!

From time to time, I will get in this kick of wanting to DIY everything, Pinterest Style! I've been getting all of these HGTV magazines, thinking, what can I come up with today. Kade's bathroom has forever been a project of mine. I got really excited and painted his bathroom in stripes a long time ago. After about 2 hours, I was over it. And I mean over it! I half did the last part and it looked sloppy, making Jim come in and touch it up. Well, ever since then, I haven't really had the desire to do anything else in the bathroom. It took too long, colors didn't turn out like I like, and I couldn't come up with anything cute. So, this past weekend, I figured I would give it another shot. Here is what I came up with.

This has to be my favorite canvas that I printed. I absolutely love Hakuna Matata! I mean, I even have a tank top with the saying on it! I've been dying to paint it on something and well, I finally did.

When Kade was a baby, we would always sing Splish Splash I was Takin' a Bath and he absolutely loved it. I mean, it kept him giggling non stop. Don't know if it was the song that kept him laughing or me singing it since I can't sing at all. I'm just going to go with, it was the song that kept him laughing!

I painted four different things. 2 canvases and 2 frames. What I thought was only going to take me 1 hour to do last night, ended up taking 2-3. I was about to get to that point of having enough of it again (catch a pattern? Just like the bathroom painting fiasco? If it takes longer than expected, I'm over it!) Thank goodness I didn't hit that point, though! Love the poopoo potty picture? A girl from work gave me the idea of blowing the picture up and framing it for the bathroom. I loved the idea! He will hate me for it whenever he gets older though! LOL Don't care though!

This is part of Kade's bathroom now. Notice the green little shelf thing at the bottom of the picture? It used to be black. Got my spray paint on again today! I think that it definitely adds the much needed color in the bathroom. The bathroom is still not completely finished. This is just the motivation I needed to finally finish it. I need to get him a new shower curtain, etc. Maybe some kid towels, who knows. If anyone has ideas, I am definitely open to them!

This is a picture of something I did for Kade's room a few weeks ago! I spray painted two HUGE canvases. One orange and one lime green, and free handed quotes on them. Well, you can see that from the picture. One says, "I Yam What I Yam, An Thas All I Yam!" -Popeye and the other one says, "Today you are you that is truer than true, there's no one alive that is youer than you!" -Dr. Seuss

I don't know why, but I have a feeling that shortly I will have painted every furniture, every frame, every possible thing I can! I think I'm beginning to watch too much HGTV!! NOT you can never watch too much HGTV!!

Weekend of PooPoo Potty, Artsy Fartsy, and Naps!

As always, the weekends are well anticipated and when they come, they are very short. I unfortunately had to work on Saturday and have been sick since I had to stay home with Kade last Tuesday when he was sick. I am still not over it. Nevertheless, the weekend was still good. Got to see good friends, hang out with Kade and Jim and Boogie, and sleep. Here are 3 of the highlights from this weekend.

Kade sitting on the potty. This was funny because of how it ended up going down. See, we were anticipating some of my friends coming over so Jim was vacuuming and I was hanging out with Kade until he got done so I could mop. I walked into the kitchen for one second and next thing I know, Kade is running down the hallway with all of his clothes off and his diaper half off saying "Mama, poopoo potty." He ran into the bathroom, scrambled to put the small thing on top for him to sit on and asked me to put him up there. However, I am not sure if he did anything because everytime I tried to get close to look, he would put his hand in my face and say, "stop it mama!!" Then he grabbed the toilet paper, wiped his butt and flushed the toilet faster than I could look in the toilet to see if he did anything. I ran and grabbed Jim while Kade was on the toilet so he could watch too. It's funny how we get so excited when our kid poops and pees or even just wants to sit on the toilet! Jim was high-fiving him on the toilet and I was screaming and clapping saying good job, unsure if something actually happened but for the fact that he was just wanting to sit on there! 

This is one of my favorite moments because very rarely do I get to cuddle with my 1st little boy, the hound dog! (Notice the orange nails. This is Jim's doing. Everytime he goes to get groomed, Jim has them paint Boogies nails a different color!) So to cuddle with the hound and get a kiss from my sweet boy.... Great Moment!! Then asleep I went! (Remember I'm sick. Kade had it too so I wasn't concerned with kissing him)

This was one of Jim's brilliant moves. Not too often will I incorporate Jim and brilliant in the same sentence but here I do. (JK Love for whenever you see this). Jim has this old stool that he painted all one color. Well, Jim got all artsy fartsy and decided that it would be fun for the 3 of us to paint on it. So we put down painters mats, got out the acrylic paints and brushes, stripped Kade and went to town. It was fun for about.... 5 minutes before Kade got bored. He messed up mine and Jim's lovely drawings, put his belly all over the stool which in turn got paint all over him and then wiped the paint brush all over this face. We never got finished because we could see it starting to get out of control. So, this project is a To Be Continued....

All in All, it was a great weekend. Hate that it is already over and I get to start another 6 day work week. YAY. Another week that I don't get to see Jim and Kade very much.

Daddy Time:
Had a most awesome time this weekend with my momma Marry Marry.  Got to feed giraffes at  Lion Country Safari. One day  Kade man and I went to Bounce House while Slim and Mom got fingernails done. Of course the best time was just spending family time. I'm so lucky to have such an amazing mom, I'm so glad her and Kade Man got to spend time together.  I got Slim to come down to South FL for me to have a better chance at enjoying my work, and to experience something new.  We both knew it would be tough to be away from family, but you really don't understand how you feel until so

many opportunities go by that you wish they were there.  I'm just happy we live in a time that we can share Kade Man through IChat, Skype, and all that other stuff.  As Kade grows older i realize the importance of family more and more.  More time with family is the reason i took my current job.  I just want to take this opportunity to thank my family, everyone.  i really am grateful for all you do and putting up with me and not being mad for having Kade Man so far away. 

Cleaning.... No bueno!!!

Why is it so nice to have a clean, orderly house that doesn't smell like a dog 24/7 but so hard to get? There is nothing I hate more than to clean. Close in second is cooking. I am by far the complete opposite of a domestic housewife! I did not come by it naturally because my mom, my mom's mom and my dad's mom and even my sister are all about having a clean house (and their house is ALWAYS clean) and cooking a nice, healthy meal. I am the complete opposite. I don't mind a little mess, a little dust and a little laundry here and there and I certainly don't mind McDonalds, Chili's, and Boston Market (if I'm craving something a little healthier). Don't worry though, I make sure my son has fruits and vegetables from Fresh Market and there is nothing he loves more than Broccoli, Strawberries, watermelon, etc. He just has that along with the aforementioned! Anyhow, back to the cleaning ( I get sidetracked really really easily). I hate cleaning. Like absolutely DESPISE cleaning with a PASSION!!! I will put it off and put it off until it makes the cleaning even harder and take that much longer. Like, a bathroom shouldn't take over an hour to clean, right? Well, I guess it does if I like to have a little dance party while I'm cleaning.

Jim walked into the bathroom the other night and found me dancing to Hanson's MMMBop and then breaking it down to Come on Ride That Train while I was scrubbing the shower in rubber gloves (I just did my nails) and an awesome hard core sponge! After taking this picture, he just walked out shaking his head at me and told me that I must be on drugs! lol. I will not even tell you the last time I cleaned the shower prior to that so I had to make it fun or I would be really annoyed at myself! But it took me an entire week, basically my whole vacation, to clean my house. Fast forward to tonight, Jim and I cleaned the house a little more since his mom is coming to visit us for a few days starting tomorrow. After Jim vacuumed, he got up on the roof to finish fixing the leak and I had to mop. Well let me tell you, it is not smart to wait a long time to mop your house when you have a dog, a 2 year old and a husband who works outside for a living. Our white tile was only half white. So as I'm mopping, I have to stop every so often because my arms are hurting, I'm panting and I have sweat dripping from my head! Last time I checked, mopping was not supposed to be labor intensive. It would be nice to just wiggle your nose like the lady from I Dream of Jeanie (however you spell it) and poof, your entire house is clean. Like you can see it sparkle because it is so clean. But since that will never happen, I should just suck it up and clean or hire someone!