Just because

The many faces of B...

         
              Our goofball...                                                                  Our diva...

                                                                  Our explorer...

Our sweet Bellamy Jean! 

The last few weeks we've had some time to just hang out and enjoy some of our favorite family hang outs.  It's getting to be so fun to go out explore some of Will's favorite places and experience them all over again through Bellamy's eyes.  

Here's the big guy giving his little sister the run down on the dinosaur exhibit.  

Checking out the cool weather exhibit at the Science museum.

B and Daddy checking out the Elephants on a beautiful zoo day.  

Enjoying a little backyard relaxation with some favorite friends.  It's so fun to see these two grow up together.  If they love each other even half as much as their bigs, we are in for some interesting times!

Seriously.  This is a gorgeous time of year here.  If you are thinking about a visit (and you should be) this is when you should do it!  

This old house

Soooo....we're in a new house. Which to us means, a whole new building full of projects. ;) We love a good project around here, and this new house has ton of potential for all kinds of them. Enter the stairs. When we bought the house we knew that the carpet needed replaced. And in the way that I do (that I'm sure Todd loves...) I started searching for solutions not long after getting settled. We don't love carpet (dog + kids = dirty!) but I also knew I didn't want to spend money on wood floors quite yet. Sooooo...I might have pinterested a few thoughts....and I might have suggested we paint the stairs. How hard can it be, right? Here are the stairs before. Gross carpet. Pictures don't do the nastiness justice.

   

And here's what we found when we pulled the carpet off. Awesome surprise! Actual wood plank risers and treads, not plywood. This actually might be successful!

   

 Todd the handyman hard at work, sanding. And sanding. And...well you get the idea. Once we realized that the wood was in good condition, he really took care to try and refurbish it and get all the gunk off.

   

A quick pick of the landing before Todd did his handiwork. After further investigation we found out that these planks are under all the gross carpet upstairs. I hear potential, don't you? :)

   

 So after a whole lot of sanding and a little bit of paint and stain, here they are! We are super proud of them. Our temporary fix actually looks pretty good I think!