B. B.

red brick rambler love

2:29 PM

Young House Love - AFTER

I have been searching for ideas to improve our curb appeal. I have been thinking about this of course since we moved in and have lots of ideas. I found this awesome site called Young House Love. They also live in a red brick rambler and I just LOVE their style.

This site is also full of tips and tricks when it comes to revamping your home. I am in love with their backyard. This is definitely my style.

Young House Love - BEFORE

What a difference some paint, a chain saw, fertilizer, plants & flowers and a lot of TLC can do!

sarcasm

now this could make any rainy day perfect...

3:22 PM

sar

Yeah yeah, I know it's easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle...

But this car is pure perfection. Someone at the gym I go to owns one of these and I have parked next to it a few times only to admire its sleek black and chrome exterior. Huhhhh....

So if I ever have $91,000 to drop on a car I will get a black Mercedes-Benz ML63. I have a feeling this is a decision I won't have to think about anytime in the near future. ;)

Free Printables

free printables...i live for these

7:30 AM

As I was browsing some of my favorite graphic design blogs I found these free printables here at How about orange who found them here at Download & Print.

I love free printables, I am sitting here thinking if there is anything I could use them for? Just download onto your computer, put in your own information and print!

weekend yard-work (so grateful to have yard work)

8:01 AM

We had this weird ivy patch in our front yard, I think it was intended for decoration. We dug up the ivy and will place weed barrier, bark and perennials in here.

Our goal last weekend was to get things cleaned up. We have a forest/jungle in our front yard that we tamed somewhat.

We have 20 trees, yes twenty trees in our fromt yard alone. There are about 5 varieties that my dad pruned for us. We have 6 trees in our backyard. That is after we cut down 5! But that is one thing I loved about the house, the mature trees (that are in bloom right now and very pretty).

We have ivy taking over the front yard area so my mother in law, my mom and I took out a small section near the entryway where I am going to plant perennials. We also had a big pine tree that was growing roots into our 70 year old clay plumbing pipes. My dad and and Steve's dad cut that down so hopefully that will help.

My dad pruning the trees in our yard. It kinda looks like the "grove" not to sound sacreligious, but really it does!

Here is just half of the the stuff we got rid of. We rented a uhaul truck today to take it to the dump.

Now it's time to plant and landscape.

sarcasm

what, how, why mom????....

4:05 PM

"A University of Michigan study found that preschoolers ask info-seeking questions as 'why?'and 'how?' at the mom-boggling average rate of 76 an hour".

- Parenting Magazine

Thank you Parenting mag, this statement is one of the many reasons why my brain feels tired at the end of the day yet I feel like I slowly grow dumber....

fab weekend! food-family-fun

10:38 PM

I must say, after moving from Salt Lake City it is much more fun to go into the "city". We had a wonderful weekend with our Idaho family. We had the "troops" helping us fix up and clean up our front and back yard. I can't wait to download the pictures and see all that we did. I am so amazed at the progress we all made and how hard everyone worked.

p.s. my mother in law is one amazing woman!!! Together we got a TON done, although she did about 70% of the work...I tried to keep up.

On Saturday night our family, Kent, Kathy, Dave and Hilary went to Bucca di Beppo for dinner. It was delicious! Dave found a piece of paper in his meal and got us all free desserts. Woo-hoo, thank you Dave and thank YOU tiny piece of paper!