Really?!

Have you ever seen those soothing sound machines?

They play soothing sounds to get you to relax and fall asleep.

-heartbeat

-ocean waves

-summer rain

-white noise

-lullabies

-etc.

These would all make me pass out pretty quickly.

Then I saw this model at work yesterday. I took this picture with my camera phone, and it doesn't have a focus. Sorry for the general blurriness.

Dear Conair,
I would like to know who the person is that suggested that blaring horns and clanking metal would be soothing.
Please fire him/her immediately.
                                                                                A Concerned Customer,
                                                                                  Brittany

Mother's Day

I never knew how much you love me until I had kids of my own....

This is the woman that taught me that a woman can do anything just as well as a man.

She's also the one that taught me that it's also important to rock 5 inch heels, too.

My mom rocks!

Happy Mother's Day to all my Mommy readers out there! I hope you had a wonderful day!

Featured at The DIY Show Off (and an update!)

Hey guys!

I woke up this morning to an awesome email from Roeshel at The DIY Show Off!

She featured an old project of mine on her blog.

I'm sure everyone out there in the blog world has heard of her, but if not, go check her out!

On another note, our new dishwasher is in! It has many more features than my old Bosch, which is awesome!

My step-dad redid the plumbing and electrical. I'm glad he was able to appreciate the half-assed ways of the previous owners of this house.

=P

And the trim is 20% done in the living room. My mom is a remodeling expert, and she gave me a helping hand just when I was about to throw a hammer through the wall.

Maybe if this darn house was level....

Talk to Your Neighbors

My mom always said "Be nice to your neighbors. After all, they are the only ones looking after your home when you're gone."

Good advice!

I finally got my land surveyed for a fence.

That's awesome!

Though again, we're not sure if we will have the cash to actually erect it this year.

(This happens every year!)

Why?

While I was putting in our floors, Hubs was being a sweetheart and doing some chores.

He put in a load of dishes, turned it on, and left.

I came through the kitchen to get to my workshop, and noticed that my dishwasher was smoking!

I ran to the basement and killed the power to the entire house (not going to spend time looking for the exact fuse to the dishwasher!)

It was fried!

Here's my husband tearing out the dishwasher.

Which, by the way, took us 3 hours!

DON'T BUTT UP NEW FLOORING AGAINST OLD APPLIANCES!

I'm yelling that to the previous owners, not you!

Was it seriously that hard of a task to take out the dishwasher, then install the flooring underneath?

Ugh...

I had to cut a section of flooring out, and a bit of trim from my cabinets.

Nothing that a bit of trim can't fix!

=)

Oh, and no, it wasn't Hub's fault, our dishwasher has been acting cranky for the past couple months. I knew it would be junk soon, I just didn't think it would start smoking!

So today I am picking up our new dishwasher!

<3

So, like I said, we got the land surveyed.

In the survey, I learned that this tree is on my property:

I've always been a bit jelous of my neighbor for this tree.

It's a plum tree!

Pretty, right?

And it smells sooooo good when it's flowering!

The tree's little offspring is also on my property:

So I had to talk to my neighbor about what we were going to do about this.

Turns out, this was my tree all along!

And to think, I had been jelous of my own tree this whole time....

Moral of the story:

Talk to your neighbors. You might find out an interesting thing or two!

Greetings from the Living Room!

Yesterday was very productive.

We moved all the furniture out of the room.

Then my husband and my son did a little dance on the barren floor...

Then they started doing John Cena's "You Can't See Me."

 Then Will got home from practice, and John was still doing the "You Can't See Me."

If you have no idea what I'm talking about, you should watch more wrestling!

;)

Anyways, we tore everything out, pulled out all the tack strips, pulled up all the staples, and laid our underlayment.

This is as far as we got.

At 9:15 last night, when I was dragging the flooring in, I realized that I forgot to buy spacers.

Menards was closed.

Darnit!

So even though we could have easily knocked out most of this floor last night, it didn't get done.

Menards doesn't open again for another 15 minutes, so I'm just popping in to give you an update while I'm going crazy patiently waiting for the store to open.

"How long does it take you to paint a room?" -Hubs

"Depends on the room size" - Me

"What about a room like this size (the living room)?" -Hubs

"Mmmm...about a day, more if the trim is painted." -Me

"Alright then! You might as well paint the room since all the furniture's out already!" -Hubs

"Wait...what?!"- Me

Little does my husband know that since I'm the one that has to paint the room, I also get complete control over colors and whatnot!

White board and batten 5-6 feet high.

That's my decision!

He hates white anything, and I love it.

If you're not into whites either, check out A Country Farmhouse.

You'll change your mind!