Just letting you know new photos are up at Shutterfly!

And That's The Show....

Brent had yesterday off soooo he took the day off from house-ly duties and watched the baby. Mom and I decided to paint the front room, previously known as the wood room because it had wood floors....buuuuut since we now have the two rooms with wood floors it is now being called the front room. Did everyone follow that?

Anyway so we decided to paint the room like I said, Brent and I had already picked out the design we wanted as well as the paint colors. So we prepped the wall and stained the naked pine trim, mom also patched the fist sized hole in one of the walls (we bought it that way). Then we ran to Lowes and gazed at the PACKED parking lots and people shopping, luckily not a whole lot of people were Christmas shopping at the hardware store. We picked up our paint, Spackle, nails, and chair rail..and some other things, cause I managed to spend over 100 bucks. I'm like a kid in a candy store. Anyway I'm putting the second coat of paint on today and we are putting up the chair rail tomorrow. After all that home improvement-ny-ness we went out for some Mexican!



CiderToddy & Fragrant Cloves>>>





The colors look a little different in person, it was hard to get a really nice picture in person.

Gobble Gobble.....

Ok so it isn't turkey day yet....but who isn't excited already and looking forward to it!? Hopefully everyone had a nice weekend! We did especially with Illinois winning the football Saturday against Northwestern.

Saturday we visited a little with Grandma Vicki before heading over to Rental City (when you need it now, not eternally, just rent it, yeah that is the song.) to pick up our floor sanding kit. It came with the drum sander and an edger and PAPER, three grits. We started sanding the guest room at about 5:30 or 6-ish and finished for the night at 2am. At that point we had our first coat of poly on. Don't EVER EVER EVER glue carpet to hardwood floor, please. It took us forever to get it off, we just sanded it off because we didn't want to do it by hand, 6 coarse grit papers later, it was almost off. We did find out however that mineral spirits did a pretty good job of getting it off. I managed to accidentally drop the can of it, leaking about 1/3rd of it on the floor. Sunday we put two more coats of poly on the guest room floor and started on the wood room floor, we started about 11am and finished the wood room at 6pm. So we have two coats left to put on the wood room floor.
Grandma Vicki and Chris came over and babysat Makenna for a little bit while we polyed (haha, new word) the floor and then we went and had some pizza to celebrate the sore bodies we have today.

Here are some before and afters:



The Guest Room







The Wood Room



I've posted new photos on Shutterfly, just follow the link like usual. We have more photos of floors on there too if you are interested!

These boots were made for walk'n......

Ok, so she isn't wearing any boots, but doing some walking none the less!

Soooo, I've been messing with the look of the blog. What does everyone think? It is it easy enough to read? Let me know I can change the font color if it isn't. You will also notice to the right there is a little message board where you can post a little message for us!

Tonight we went to dinner with Grandma and Grandpa Taylor. Of coarse we had to have some Famous Daves because it is just sooooo goood! Sweet and sassy is running through these vains! Sunday we were able to meet up with Aunt JoAnn, Caleb and Colleen for some mexican, to make a long story short...Makenna ate a whole bowl of quacamole...seriously. Last weekend we also went to Danville for EmmaLee's birthday party! We got to see Jon and Aubrey's house for the first time and were able to catch up with a few friends that we hadn't seen in quite a long time! Makenna had fun playing with EmmaLee and we had fun visiting with Jon and Aubrey! Beforehand we had went to have some dinner at O'Leary's and afterwards visited with Jan and Pete! Yes Makenna met a lot of people these past few days that had met before but didn't remember!

Does anyone else think it is CRAZY that all the Christmas stuff is out, I mean I feel bad that I don't have the tree up yet. Really. Actually it is up..shhhh..it's in the chapel..cause we never took it apart following last Christmas, lol. Maybe that is what is next...Christmas crap all year long, they will stop putting it away all together!

Uhhhh...sorry I don't have any new pictures posted yet, because...I don't have any...I know don't hit me! I'll make it a priority to take some.

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween!

Hope everyone had a nice one! Last night we went to Grandma Vicki's for some dinner and then some trick or treating! Luckily we didn't have to trick anyone! Makenna was a little kangaroo this year, the costume even had a little pouch with a joey!

I'm still recovering from my wisdom teeth extraction, still taking some advil but other than that I am doing pretty well. The extraction didn't take long at all..I was in and out in 45 minutes. I went with the local anesthetic but also indulged in a little nitrous oxide, ie-laughing gas, to calm my nerves.

It is so hard to believe that it is November already! The year has really flown by! The weather is finally a bit more fall like and I finished planting all my bulbs! Hopefully the squirrels keep their little mitts off!

Last week we tore the carpet out of the guest room! Yay, unfortunately we now have some holes to patch or find bigger more original floor registers, booo AND the previous owners decided to GLUE the carpet to the hardwood. THANK YOU! Luckily the floor looks to be in really nice condition under the glue. We are hoping to have both the guest room and wood rooms floors refinished by Christmas, but we'll see how motivated we are. Last weekend we made our way down to PACA (the old house store) and found a screen door for the front door. Old wooden screen door, it was really nice, the screen can be swapped out for a glass panel portion, and it was only $15 bucks! Haha, love it!

Makenna had fun trick or treating and mostly eating her candy. Favorites would be peanut butter cups and anything sour. She got the peanut butter fixation from Brent and the sour fixation from me, lol. She isn't quite walking yet and must hold your hand even though she doesn't really need it. In fact now Makenna will come up to you if you are sitting on the couch, grab your hand and start walking, so now you have to walk around with her, hehe.

New pictures are up at Shutterfly!