Happy Wednesday!!

This is what I want to be like when I am old. I will have to learn to play the piano... but this is what I want to be like nevertheless....

Boog Man

You might be a little boy...

But you are still my baby.

Buffing the Red Oak Floors

We are finally a couple of weeks away from moving in. We're going to start moving some furniture in this weekend and getting the bedrooms ready to live in. It feels so good to be at this point... seeing real results, having things clean, moving out all of the trash and using the house as a house.... not a construction site. I'm so excited to have our BIG kitchen to cook and bake in, our new bathrooms to use just as we planned them... and finally, are big yard for Grady to run and play in all day.
This past weekend we got on our hands and knees and did some of the final floor cleaning. Apparently our floors have been refinished before.... you can see some of the marks that previous owners left in the wood while sanding, etc. But who knows how long ago that was. All I know... is that we needed a good polishing when we bought the place.... but now six months later, tons of trash, dust, pieces of tile scattered all over the wood... and anything else you can imagine... the floors looked downright damaged. We even had tons of stripped paint and chemicals all over the hardwood. Thank goodness.... thank goodness.... all of the spots came up.... and thank goodness.... due to some old fashioned elbow grease, floor wax and a buffer.... this is how our floors turned out.
The look incredible. They are so slick and shiny... we literally almost slide while walking barefooted throughout the house. Grady will be hilarious in there. I'll have to get him socks with tread on the bottom! HA

Guest Room

Grady's Room

Master Bedroom

We also buffed the hallway and den, but I didn't take pictures of those rooms.

Some of the rooms still need to be painted. The walls are going to get banged up anyway.... so some areas we'll just do after we've got it all in. :)

Dear Hank,

Today we've been married four years and I love you more than I did the day I said, "I Do". You have been a wonderful husband and a fantastic father... and I feel so blessed to say that you are MY husband. I prayed to meet someone like you and the Lord truly heard my prayers and blessed ME with YOU. You are my very best friend and I look forward to many more years together... watching our babies grow.... turn into "people" (yuck)... and hopefully, one day, sharing grandchildren together. Maybe we'll be the old couple that others see sitting on the front porch swing holding hands... and they even kind-of look alike (not so sure about that part). Anyway... thank you for being the best husband ever and I love you with all my heart.

With that being said..... could you please forgive me for this???.......

And this?...

And.... this?

I promise that it did not "sit" in the car.... I had the air on FULL blast. I mean, the cupcakes that Grady and I ate didn't look like this... even though we ate immediately... but who's being so picky on timing. And.... the icing is your favorite part anyway... so it will taste the same at least?? I'm sorry. We are supposed to be celebrating how we love each other anyway... not cake. Right?... Right?...

P.S. I love you.

Loves water.... anywhere...

The weather has been so nasty lately and to keep Grady occupied for a short amount of time I let him play in the hot tub. I dump all of his toys in there, add bubbles and turn on the jet... and still... he's mostly obsessed with playing with the faucet and literally shooting water all the way across the bathroom! He cracks me up.....

And he's also obsessed with drinking from faucets or water hoses.... maybe it's a "boy thing"??