Spiders and Trees

I have had the pleasure of watching two of the sweetest boys you'd ever meet grow up. I have been babysitting them for the past few years and they have just shot up like weeds. When I started babysitting them the youngest, Conner, was 3 and the oldest, Dawson, was 6. Now Conner is 6 and Dawson is 9. Wow, how time flies. Anyways, here lately I have been keeping them a lot because their restaurant has been short staffed. Which gives me an excuse to get to play with them again. The past weekends have been filled with lots of adventures, from spiders to trees.

One weekend as I was pulling down the driveway to take them home, I spotted a huge web in my yard. So we had to inspect, and sure enough in the middle was a nice sized spider. By the looks on their faces the boys weren't too excited to see that spider, but they thought it was neat none the less. We were all so nervous being so close to that creepy crawly thing, that as soon as it realized we really did notice him there, and darted up the web into the nearby tree, we all ran like mad to get back in the car. It was funny turning around in the car to see their ghost-like faces, just to die out laughing that we just ran from a thing that was not even on percent of our size. Another weekend had the boys learning to climb trees. You'd think living in the hills surrounded by woods they'd at least climbed a tree here or there, but since most their trees are massive pine trees with all their branches high up top, these boys had never climbed a tree. What a shame. Since I have a nice sized magnolia tree in my front yard, we saw prime "tree-estate" ready for the climbing. Needless to say, when time came for dinner, they were asking "can we please go climb the tree after dinner. Ahhh fun times, just to be a kid again.


We will have to see what adventures we can get into this coming weekend.

Cupcakes and Cakeballs

I recently attended a cooking school class with my mom and two of our good friends. We had a blast. Even though cakeballs are too sweet for my tastes, the cupcakes were delicious. Here are the cupcakes that we made. Mallie and I made the carrot cake cupcakes, and my mom and Melissa made the double chocolate cupcakes. We also had caramel apple cupcakes which the other girl that joined us in our class made. Those were the yummiest. I also tried my hand at digital scrapbooking this weekend. What fun!!

Progress

So we've made a little progress this week. We have the bathroom tile down and grouted. I painted the walls a nice color called Buxton Blue, from Benjamin Moore, and I have started cutting and putting up the base boards, and wainscoting. I love progress!!!!

Here is the tile. Beautiful! Well worth the work.Here is the beaded board and the paint color. I got a few pieces in before bed.

I will show overall shots of the room when it is done!

Where I've Been

Okay so I have not been blogging for a while, and here is my reason why.

My lovely house. The house has a lot of additions, but the bathrooms were so out of date. So this is the bathroom before. That is not before I started removing the yucky wall paper. Not only did it have wallpaper, but it had nasty carpet. So we gutted it. Out with everything. We got rid of the sink and toilet, but moved the tub to the bedroom for the time being.
Now to the part that has been taking so long, the tile. Love it! Hate the process. This picture is of the hallway, we are tiling it as well. So it is taking longer than i would have hoped, but a few more days and I will be able to get the wainscoting, trim, and paint on the walls. I promise to keep you as up-to-date as possible.