Job!

I got a job! Whoo hoo!!! I will be teaching 4th grade Science... It's actually a school that Zach will be rebuilding! So cool!

How wonderful it feels to get that out of the way. I can move there this Wednesday knowing that all I have to do for the next month and a half is relax! Well, and take wallpaper down... oh, and paint... and stain concrete... Aye Aye Aye! What did I get myself into?

The Well Appointed House

I just looked back at this last post and realized how shady the house looks! It just looks really bad because it is in demo-phase right now....We pulled up carpet and all the vinyl/linoleum flooring so we can stain the concrete. Once we do that, we'll finish taking down the wallpaper, skimcoat the walls, primer and paint. It will look good--she just needs a little TLC right now!

The house is actually a really great house with lots of potential... The design phase is "my thing." I feel like Zach and I are pretty good at being able to look at something and see it for what it could be, as opposed to what it is... Some girls are good at fashion, shoes, or accessorizing... I'm good at making a house pretty :)

"The personality of a house is indefinable, but there never lived a lady of great cultivation and charm whose home, whether a palace, a farm-cottage or a tiny apartment, did not reflect the charm of its owner."- Emily Post (1873-1960), The Well-Appointed House; 1922

Sayanara!

Wallpaper is forever banished from my house...



Shown below is a close up of the kitchen wallpaper... baskets and jars of grapes... peace out!

Fame! I wanna live forever...

Zach was interviewed for a Beaumont ISD PR (as in Public Relations) newsletter... He is really enjoying learning the ropes of his new job. He gets to meet a lot of different people and take pictures with a big huge backhoe. Life can't get any better!
Here are a couple of pictures:

Grapes of wrath

So excited that we finally own a house again... Now the work begins... Stay tuned :)

p.s. I'll go ahead and give you a little hint of what we get to work with... And to answer your question, no-they aren't birds on the wall. They are grapes. Yes, grapes.

The New Me

Here are a couple of pictures from the last week of school that show off my darker hair. I still look in the mirror and go- Woah!

Happy Birthday Sadie Lou!

I can't believe my Bugaboo is 4 years old!!!