Having fun

We are having a lot of fun with JJ.

We have played at the park.

Picked some flowers.

Took some scenic photos.

Tried to get the boys to take a photo with the JJ, but Romeo decided he was too good for pictures.

We rode on carnival rides that went way too fast for Mommy's taste but the boys LOVED it.

I have also learned something new about my boys.

Before I married Mr. Genius I told him that through our life together he will always have two jobs. Take out the garbage and kill the bugs.

I HATE bugs. They completely freak me out with there freaky million legs and their ability to jump up and crawl on my body.

Just thinking about it makes my get the wiggles. Yuck!

One thing I have learned about my boys this week. Is that even though they love to wrestle and crash hot wheel cars into each other, I have passed on this hatred of bugs on the them.

We went to the pool and some their toys went into the skimmer. We opened it up and there were 3 frogs in it. My boys were just happy looking at the frogs and telling people about the frogs. There were two other boys at the pool. These other boys really LOVE frogs. They ran to the skimmer stuck their hand in and picked up the frogs!

This completely freaked Wild Man out to the point was screamed like a girl while running around the pool and jumping up and down like the frogs chasing on him...coincidentally I was doing the same thing. Romeo stood far back watching the whole incident while shaking his body and hands like he was shaking the frogs off of him.

I have made sissy boys.

I take complete responsibility for this.

Yes I do realize the frogs are really not bugs. But my fear has no bias of whether they are bugs or amphibians...they still freak me out.

Only 6 more months til Christmas

My mom is in town! My mom is in town!

As soon as she arrived, the boys bombarded her and then ran around in circles screaming in delight announcing to the whole world of her arrival.

Once we put them down for naps then it was my turn to bombard her and run around screaming.

I heard of a festival in our downtown area where all the shops mark their stuff 50% off and have a sidewalk sale.

We were totally there!

Don't you worry, we didn't leave the boys at home alone. Mr. Genius was working from home.

When we arrived at the festival, we walked passed a couple of booths and then we got to one that had Christmas items.

It was like a moth to the flame.

We went straight to it.

One thing you should know about my mom and I.


We LOVE Christmas decor.

It is an obsession really.



Some people collect dolls, figurines, furniture.... we collect Christmas decor.

So I was really excited about my find!

I got 4 stockings!

I love the the fringe, the polka dots and the stripes!

I love it all!

But the best part was that this was the price tag on the stockings.

Yet I only paid $7 each!!

6 more months til Christmas and I am already itching to get the decor out.

Seriously?!

I have to admit I check Craigslist daily...ok hourly.

You just never know what you will find in their free section.

I dare you to try it out yourself.

I promise you will be surprised what people are giving away for free.

Sometime good surprised sometimes bad surprised.

Yesterday I came across this ad on Craigslist.

Just in case you can't read that is says:

Partial remains of a Unicorn.

Would like to trade for any items of your choosing.
downtown, Thursday, June 24th, early evening.

You do not have to disclose what you would like to exchange for the bits that are left of this mystical beast!

Really?!

Please tell me no one believes this!

But I have to admit I wish I could go downtown to where they will be to see if anyone took the bait.

Have you all seen anything crazy on craigslist?

It's a start

I am sure you remember this light. I have mentioned it a few dozen times.

Well I cleaned it up as much as I could and painted it.

I was that close to almost forgetting a picture.

You can see where I started priming it.

If I haven't mentioned it before I will mentioned it a million times.

Oh how I love spray paint.

I used heirloom white paint. I have heard of a lot of ladies here on blogland use it and loved it. I will have to agree it is a beautiful creamy white color.

Now before I show you half one-eighth done bedroom.

Remember our old bedroom.

And also before you look at my bedroom, picture a white upholstered headboard with brown, white, and steel blue pillows.

Picture it in your head.

You got it?

Ok now you can look.

I got this bed at.... you guessed it, Craigslist. It was my Christmas present.

It is a perfect place for my boys to play.

We also never know what we will find under there because of our little offsprings.

But back to the lovely Chandy or aka The Sun as Mr. Genius calls it.

I think it really helps to dress up our room and with 8 bulbs compaired to the two we had before...it REALLY brightens things up.

We do have one problem though.

It is too low.

When your two year old and reach up and play with the chrystals...it is too low.

That is a good rule to live by.

But alas, it will stay that way cuz it is Father's day and I am feeling generous. ;)

But atleast our room is looking a little less like a dorm room and more like a dorm room with a chandy. But we will get to that room one day.

I am posting to these parties.

When Details matter

So I got up the other morning and learned a valuable lesson that I thought I would pass along.

Just because it looks like milk, doesn't mean it is milk.

Wild Man wanted cereal for breakfast and being the ever loving and joyous person I am at 5:45 in the morning, I leaped over to the pantry to get my good son his breakfast.

Yeah right, I believe I asked him when he thinks he will be old enough to get his own cereal so momma can sleep or something.

Wild Man replied "You're so silly mom...now please get me some cereal."

I drug my body over to the pantry to get the cereal. Opened the fridge to realize that we were out of his milk.

*Side not here--Due to Wild Man becoming more like insane man when drinking

milk. He now drinks Almond milk.*

So I went to the pantry to just check to see if I bought an extra box of Almond milk. 

And lo and behold there sat one!

I patted myself on the back and told myself how wonderful I was for planning ahead.

Poured my sweet boy some milk in his cereal and then promptly collapsed on the couch.

A second later Wild Man came to me to turn on the TV and said something about the cereal being yucky.

Whatever it was too early to care that my 4 year old's taste buds were being fidgety.

*Now fast forward to after dinner.

Mr. Genius opened the fridge. "Wow I didn't know they made free range, grass fed, organic chicken broth. Where did you get it?"

Me: "Huh?"

Mr. Genius: "See?"

Me:" HOLY CRUD!!! I thought that was almond milk!"

Yes, people I fed my son chicken broth for breakfast.

Yum.

But to prove that I do have a little bit of sanity, I want to show you how close in resemblance they look.

I give you exhibit A (This is the angle I saw in the pantry)

See? See?

and exhibit B

So in true American spirit...I blame Pacific Natural foods.

I mean really could they not spring out a little extra money to find someone to design the boxes a little more different.

Geez.

To justify future endeavours

Sometime this week, I am hoping to show y'all what I did with this chandy.

But then it hit me.

In order to show you what I did with this, I will have to show you my.... dum, dum, dum....bedroom.

AHHHHHHH!

Now my bedroom isn't horrible. It is just that we haven't done a dern thing to it.

My priority has been the rest of the house.

Our poor bedroom has always been the last thing we decorate.

So I decided before I show you our empty barren bedroom, I will show you our old decorated bedroom in TN that we only go to enjoy for 6 months before we moved.

Now we lived in our house for 5 years. We built it... well we picked everything out and someone else actually put the wood and stuff up, but I stressed over those details man. I think that counts for something.

Our bedroom was downstairs, it only had 8 ft ceilings. So we paid a little bit more just to get a recessed ceiling.

I loved that ceiling. (These were taken during our final walk through, late at night)

It was a tiny room but it was all we needed.

When we first moved in I had a thing for red and gold and lots and lots of pillows.

And apparently only taking pictures in the dark.

We got tired of the look and color of everything so for Christmas of '08 our Christmas present to each other was to redo the bedroom.

And all my gifts from everyone was decor for the room.

The main thing that I wanted to do to the room was make the ceiling stand out more.

I love the look of beams on a ceiling, especially the ones that make a grid pattern.

Well we made a poor man's version of that.

I miss that ceiling.

Such love and sweat and Bayer from our backaches, went into that ceiling.

We painted the whole room a tan, and put molding on the walls and painted inside those squares a darker tan.

You may also recognize the bed as the one from our guest room under my now green frames. 

My college roommate called me very concerned as to where we were sleeping since that bed is now in the guest room.

We have a bed...I promise.

I am sure that it will come to no shock that I got it off of Craigslist.

Honestly, we would have nothing in the house if it weren't for Craigslist.

The very next month after completing our bedroom. Mr. Genius started interviewing for the job he has currently.

So just 6 months after all that hard work someone else is getting to look up at that ceiling.

But I think it helped to sell our house in 19 days. So I can't really complain.

Plus we can always do it again... *insert evil laugh here* Mwah ha ha

Peek a Boo cabinets

Unfortunately with this project I do not have a before picture.

I started these cabinets preblogging my projects seriously.

Do you forgive me?

I can describe them for you.

Picture some tall cabinets that are about 30 to 40 years old and that have been in a garage for about 30-40 years and possibly the last 10 years they haven't been touched.

All the ooze and dust and spider webs you would want in them.

But picture $35 for 2 of them!!!

Then you can look past the nastiness and see them painted white with crown molding to top!

Now remember that you are the only one that can see this vision and everyone at the house sale including your husband thinks you are crazy for even wanting these in your house.

Here is a picture of one of them with already 4 coats of white on it.

See how tall they are! That is why I loved them.

We have tall ceiling on our main floor and it would look funny with just little cabinets.

Here is our laundry room before we moved in.

Sorry Mr. Genius was more focused on the fact that there is a utility sink then the high ceiling.

This is what our laundry room looked like after having 12 people stay in our house for a week.

Just realized I still didn't show you a picture of the high ceiling.

Boy I am not being a good blogger today.

Maybe I will just go ahead and jump to the after picture.

You like?

You can see that one of the doors is cracked open.

I want to show you what I did to the inside of the cabinets.

Because they were completely disgusting. I couldn't get all the stuff off. When it was painted white you could see where the sides weren't completely smooth.

As you can see form the picture. I painted the inside of them blue for something a little unexpected and to hide all the imperfections.

Then once I painted them I modge podged the shelves with wrapping paper.

I really do wish I took a before picture so you can really appreciate the after picture.

Oh yeah I almost forgot.

I also spray painted the back part of the knobs.

Also remember this light fixture?

I painted that too.

Nothing is safe when I have a can of spray paint in my hand!

Then I took the top doors off.

Why?

Cuz still after 8 coats of paint the cabinets were still not the same color as the molding on top. A little frusterating to say the least.

Yes I was painting with the same paint. I do not understand why it was doing that.

So I took the doors off and went to the dollar store and got the turquoise tubs.

Speaking of laundry does anyone know how to get a dry erase marker out of a sweater vest?

Ah the joys of motherhood.

Hope you had a great weekend!


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