2015 in Review

2015 was a year of growth, laughter and utterly fabulous!  As we look forward to a new year, let’s first look back at all the fun of 2015.

January: I spent a really fabulous week in Kansas City with Bre, Coach Husband and I watched a lot of high school basketball and didn’t eat our the entire month!

February: I learned the power of Watermelon Mint Scentsy, Coach went to a coaches Conference over Valentine’s Day, and had a legitimate snow day in Texas!

March: The month of March we took a mini-vacation to the Ozarks in Northwest Arkansas, attended the Texas Food Truck Showdown with our best friends, and welcomed our puppy Duke back from bootcamp.

April: We sent my youngest brother off to his junior prom, celebrated my sorority’s 30^th Anniversary on campus and took a multitude of walks through the bluebonnets that popped up throughout Central Texas.

May: We had double date night with the besties, survived spring football, almost died multiple times in barre class and sent CH’s best friend off to the Canadian Football League.

June:  June signaled the end of the school year, we celebrated Coach Husband’s birthday on the Carnival Triumph during our cruise, and I started the Master Reading Teacher certification program.

July: Quite possibly my favorite month of the year!  4^th of July with family and my new annual patriotic trifle, we celebrated two years of marriage, it was a month of birthday celebrations!  We closed on our first home and began remodels and moving!

August:  School started back and with it came a brand new football season!  This month we {finally} had carpet installed in the new house and with it came furniture.

September: I took the Master Reading Teacher certification test, Coach Husband coached a lot of high school football games {I never thought khaki pants, red tennis and a baseball hat could be a precious as it is on him} and had a surprise visit from Lanear.

October: High school homecoming game with our god-daughter and her precious family, day trip to Houston to see Bre & Tyler and watch the Royals play in the post-season, and celebrated a bye-week at the Dallas Arboretum with my family.

November:  November brought the end of football season with a sad loss in the playoffs, had Thanksgiving with my family and decorated our first home for the Christmas season.

December:  Coach Husband was selected Teacher of the Year, Bre & Tyler came to town for a long weekend, we had a mini family reunion with my sweet grandparents, had a family photo session, celebrated three Christmases and had a two week break from school.

Happy New Year friends!  We will be ringing in 2016 with my parents demolishing our master bath for a re-model

Till next time y’all,

Paint Saga

#project007 was in full force the past two weekends & I am not ashamed to say that I am exhausted.  Mentally, emotionally, physically.  Mom & I have painted {almost} all 2300 sq. feet in the house with mom focusing primarily on trim this weekend.  Y’all, that woman is a rock star.  Someone described her as a hummingbird going a million miles an hour and I feel like that is so descriptive!  She is an expert painter and has made it possible to have an interior that is not this weird blue-grey color with really terrible baseboards.  Our house was vacant for the past nine months & the fresh coat of paint really helped the house feel clean.  Well, that and the six bottles of ammonia we have used since move-in day.  My daddy painted the ceilings and currently we have one room left to “cut it” & paint trim and then the bathrooms!  It looks like the major bathroom overhauls will be happening over Labor Day Weekend, which is super exciting news.  Currently mom & I have big plans to rip out a bathtub...

Coach Husband was wonderful concerning the paint color!  He gave me free rein to choose any color that suited my fancy and then stepped back from the process.  I thought I knew the exact paint color I wanted so while we were still under contract Home Depot had a huge sale on 5-gallon buckets of paint!  I went in and purchased 10 gallons of base, to be tinted at a later date and mailed in my rebate this weekend.  It was another small but mighty acknowledgement of God’s goodness!  When we closed I tested the paint on several different walls in the house, and as much as I wanted to love it, I did not.  It took FOURTEEN paint samples and one random putty-colored bracket we found in the house to finally arrive at a color that spoke to my heart. 

this is not all of the samples #refusetosettle

Behr’s Bungalow Beige.  I had a vision to paint our entire house one color for continuity.  As the painting portion of #project007 is nearing completion I am still so happy about that choice.  The rooms flow from one to another very seamlessly and have the same color throughout gives it a sense of cohesiveness. 

Behr’s Bungalow Beige Color Swatch c/o: Home Depot

My mom {currently being referred to as Queen Painter} taught me so much the past two weekends about painting!  While I am nowhere near her skill level, and am totally fine with that, I can now paint a pretty fabulous closet or bedroom door, am an expert at painting closets and can identify missed spots like it’s my superpower. 

Enjoy a handful of photos depicting the new paint job!  If you know my mom or see her anytime soon, let her know what a fabulous job she has done.  Not just anyone can cut in ceiling paint and along trim WITHOUT using painter’s tape. 

before paint.  I just love the brick wall in our master

we don’t have carpet but we do have a canvas

after wall paint but no trim paint quite yet in this picture

Does anybody else go through a multitude of paint samples before finally settling on the one?!