Our Latest Projects

So, I haven't blogged in awhile, and here's why:

TABLE PROJECT

I have owned this table for almost 5 years now and have hated every minute of using it. It was broken down, busted up, and butt ugly. Finally cheap Audrey told cheap Tim that she would watch 2 children this school year and save some $ from it to buy a new table. Cheap Audrey saved all her pennies, went to the store to buy the table she wanted and thought "I don't want to give them all my $ yet. I'll take 100 of my dollars and try to refinish my old table. That will be a fun project!" Everyone said "haha, we'll see". Well you know what... it was fun! It took a super long time, but it was also great fun and I have discovered a new love. I plan to repaint my kitchen and paint the cabinets in the near future. Anyway, here's the project:

22 year old table in all it's glory

Once I got this thing sanded down to the bare wood I discovered something nice and new!

A month and a half later (more or less!) and here it is!

My friend Ashley helped me build this bench. It was my first time using any

kind of power saw. I was intimidated at first and then had a great time with it!

So, since now I had all sorts of cash-ola left over we decided to do other things around our house like:

PLANT A NEW GARDEN

and,

BUILD A PLAYROOM IN OUR GARAGE

This thing is totally awesome. It has opened up some much needed space in our quickly shrinking house and all of the toys and books have been cleared out of our regular living spaces!

and

RE-SOD OUR SIDE YARD

For some reason the grass in our side yard did not come back this year. I would like to blame it on our previously owned dog Maggie, but something tells me it's more likely to have died after 4 years of neglect. St. Augustine grass is amazingly resilient in the TX heat and has grown in lush and green each year with little to mostly no care on our part (In the side yard. We care for every other part of our lawn but this area is annoying to water it being so narrow). Anyway, we wanted to re-sod so Tim rented a roto-tiller and enjoyed a very bumpy morning digging up the lawn with our friend Kris.

Then my dad and Lillie helped Tim lay down new dirt

Here's Samuel with our beautiful pallet of new sod delivered early Monday morning. The boys thought this was awesome because an 18 wheeler delivered it right in front of our house then a fork lift actually drove onto our own personal lawn and dropped it off right at the gate! The boys were ecstatic to see such mighty truck action on our very own property!

Here's the lawn right before the sod was laid

And here's our gorgeous new lawn! This was taken just tonight, about a week after

the sod was actually laid. The roots must be taking because this is already

much greener than it was when we laid it.

So, yay for refinishing the table! Tomorrow we are rebuilding our front fence, installing 2 new ceiling fans and replacing our 2 hall light fixtures. Then my $ is all gone. Don't worry, we know where it went... Lowes