Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Before and After



We had a wonderful experience this week. We offered up our house to be used for a staging class. There were about 10 women and the teacher here on Tuesday. They did all of this in only 4 hours. We spent a week cleaning our house in preparation! It was worth it. I love the new set up and I feel so lucky to have had this opportunity. Thanks Jessica and Trish!

 Marcus 'helped' while I was taking before and after pictures -  so he's my little 'where's waldo' in some of the pictures.



 
Basement 
Before we blocked the fireplace with the tv.

The twigs on the shelf and fireplace are from the tree
 in the front yard. Clever!


I love where they put the skis. They used trimmings
from our pine tree out front.


Desk before


My desk is so clean! Unfortunately that is because they put all the
 extra stuff outside in the garage.


Guest room before

Guest room after


Living room before.  Toy central!

Living room after! Wow, adults live here!

That is the dresser from our bedroom.

Our bedroom before.



Our bedroom after. The dressers are gone. One is in the living
room and the other is in the garage. So Matt's going to the
garage to get clothes...haha


Our bathroom after. I guess I forgot to get the before.
Marcus' room before. Stuffed animal anyone?


Marcus' room after


Dining room before


Dining room after.


My little helper. He was hovering around
during the picture taking. He kept hanigng on my leg so I
thought I'd get a quick picture of him.


Kitchen before. (We had already cleaned off a lot of stuff)


Kitchen after. They placed the dishes so nicely! I always
struggled with how to put them up on that shelf.


Sunday, March 20, 2011

Various pics

Sitting in the chair like the big kids. No high chair!!


Bubbles with Mom



 Matt is grilling dinner and we're playing
 The chalk is wet and really messy




 Now he sits in his booster seat. No more tray at dinner.

New planting area in the back yard.

Matt dug up the rose bushes a few months ago. Last weekend he dug up the old plastic retaining wall and put in wood. He used the left over posts from the fence project. Marcus liked helping.





Thursday, March 10, 2011

New Hair Cut

I really wanted to grow out his cute curls. But the longer it got the bigger it became! So, when Laura offered to cut it today when she was cutting her son's hair I went for it. I love his short hair. He looks like such a big kid. I think we'll keep it a little longer than this - just not as long as the huge thing it was :)



before


After


Friday, February 25, 2011

The most super awesome work bench ever





 Playing with Aunt Amy




Steeler undies.