Deck PaRtY coming soon!!

Well..... As I sit here waiting for the snow.... I figured this would be a perfect time to update you on our projects around the house.  At our old house, our yard looked so pretty.  It was just like I wanted it.  I love spending time outside and our yard is hardly what I would like for it to be at our house now.  We have planted shrubs in the front yard and laid some sod since we moved in and it looks a lot better.  BUT.... our backyard is in dire need of some help.  We started with the half of a barn/lean to that was there.  We knocked down the lean to, painted the barn, and Matt added the other side of the barn to make it look better.  I must say, it looks a lot better than it did.  Just recently we had a friend build us a deck.  Matt usually is the one who does our projects around the house, but it would have taken him a lot longer working on the weekends and after work.  So it is finished now.  I am excited to be able to enjoy it.  We have our furniture on it from our old house, but I can't wait to add some flowers and other seating in place of our chewed up rocking chairs (Thanks Cash).  Now we have a place to sit outside.  I'm looking forward to a few deck parties.  Here are a few pictures. Right now I am going to enjoy the snow.... but I look forward to spring and summer where I can enjoy relaxing outside!

 

We also have been painting our upstairs bedroom.  We have done a lot of work downstairs, but haven't touched the upstairs.  It still looks like 1960's /70's up there.  We want our guest bedroom upstairs and our  nursery downstairs with our room. So Matt has been working hard to repair the walls and get the upstairs bedroom painted.  Now all we have to do is move the furniture and then we will have an empty room downstairs that we can begin to paint to prepare for our little one.  Hopefully it won't be too much longer.  We have been waiting almost a year  (in April)~ we pray nightly that God will answer our prayers in his time, but I want to be ready when we finally get "the call". I think the bedroom looks so much better, you can't really appreciate it as much without seeing the before.

 

Not the best picture- I tried to do a panoramic view of the room.  Sorry- but you get the idea.

 For now,  I plan on getting some fun snow pictures, eating some yummy beef stew, and possibly watching a movie tonight! I love cold snowy days!  Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!!