Dining Room on a budget

Before

After



Ever since I moved into this house I've been slowly redecorating/remodeling one room at a time. The dining room is the latest thing I've done. It's been bothering me because it was still the original paint from the last makeover in the 70's and the color didn't match any other rooms nearby. Now I feel so much better because it flows, and makes me happy. We don't have much money, so I felt like design on a dime. I made the curtains and chair cushions. I re-painted the table which I don't have a "before" picture of. Then I repainted the room and cleaned the light fixture. Here are the before and after pictures. It isn't quite as good as I wanted it to be, but what can I say when there are limited funds. Plus Braden thinks I'm a little hard on myself--I am slightly perfectionistic.

Ketchup packet--phone--same thing

I know that probably every baby goes through this phase, and our baby is probably not exceptionally cute for doing it, but we thought it was the funniest thing. Jonah will hold everything up to his ear and talk into it as if it were a phone. The craziest thing he did this with was a ketchup packet as you can see. We think he IS exceptionally cute!!!





This was our first trip to the beach with Jonah as a family--except for last year when Jonah could only sleep and poop. He loved it!! He gets so excited around water.

What's the big deal?

This is a picture I took from my phone while I was at the mall with Jonah. I could not believe my eyes. This is worse than Disneyland! If you look really closely you can see that the line of people extends from the left side of the picture and makes a "u" over to the right side. That wasn't even the full line. What is going on? Then I realized that today was the day that the new iphone came out. They started at the apple store and that is the line! Come on people!! I don't understand why people can't wait for a few more days or even a month to buy it. I've always favored pc over mac anyway, but am I missing something? Does the phone come with a genie that grants you wishes or something? If I'm going to stand in line for a phone it better come with a maid, nanny, and a trip to Europe! Didn't the first iphone come out not too long ago too? Really if someone could explain to me why apple has such an effect on people I would like to know. I'm truly baffled.

What? A coyote in our front yard?

This is a picture of our front yard at 4:00 am that was taken by our neighbor on her way to work. Yep. That's a coyote! It looks like it's eating something. Braden and I went outside to the front yard as soon as we saw this picture to see what the coyote was munching on. All that was left was a few tufts of hair and a small bone. We thought it looked like cat hair. We were just glad that our cute little Bandit stays in the house! Well a week later there was a posting for a missing cat hung right outside our house on the lamp post. It said that the cat was missing the day before we got the picture of the coyote. We gather all the evidence and put it in a plastic bag like they do on CSI--we've seen a couple episodes. We examine the hair and then compare it to the picture of the lost cat. The hair looks like it came from a tabby cat and the picture was a tabby cat! So sad! Now we have to make the dreaded phone call to the owners of the lost cat. Braden called and let them know the story and invited them to come look at the evidence to come to their own conclusion. Poor little Leo! He was only a year old and mostly an indoor cat. He was just going outside because they didn't have him neutered yet.