Oh, Defense....

"You were my favorite hello and my hardest goodbye" 

Last Friday (4/23) we made the heartbreaking decision to let our boy go....I have been trying to work on this post all week but it's hard to type through the tears...

The pain was too much for him and too much for us to watch him in it... I took the time to go back through the blog with all the post tagged "Defense" and I'm so happy for the posts back when he was younger... 

and it made me remember all the times when he was in the THICK OF IT! Or leftover evidence of where he had BEEN.....OH, Defense....

and then I just need to leave these here.... because I can't see my monitor anymore....

Defense, You were kinda a pain in the butt all the time buddy but you loved us and you took the best care of my babies.... we loved you right back aside from your personality some days ;) and I hope you felt our love everyday... from bringing you EVERY.WHERE., walks on the road and in the woods, to snuggling and putting up with your annoying paw to the lap so that you could check in to see if TODAY was going to be the day that we let you be the boss (too bad it never worked...) We miss how much real estate you take up, your moochy-self cleaning the kitchen floor and how your are not begging with your eyes every time someone opens the cheese drawer... 

Poor Discus is having a rough go because her built in home-alarm system doesn't go off anymore and she has taken to sitting in this window watching for you to come home which breaks all our hearts....

You were ours and I hope you felt the love.... 

"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard" 

Winnie The Pooh

Gal's Room Renovation

 A couple of weeks before April vacation I had been tossing around renovating the gals room. In my "head" it wasn't going to take long at ALL ;) I just needed to convince Husband.....he came over to the dark side and agreed to freshen it up. It has been almost 20 years since ANYTHING had been done to this room. Original paint, ceiling paint and carpet since we moved in.... thankfully it was neutral so it worked for a long time but it was definitely time to let the gals have some say to their space.... 

 

BEFORE: 

I had some major pieces that I knew were not going to change so we had to work with the darker wood ceiling fan....

and the blue pieces of furniture that I refinished back HERE

My gals are pack-rats....I know.... 

So on Saturday we hauled everything out of their room and set them up for a cozy sleepover in the den for a few days... talk about a fire hazard....

and Husband got to work ripping up carpet and padding and making trips to the dump while it was still open....

Miss B and I started tackling all the staples that were buried in the floor... one at a time... it probably took us about an hour to get them all up... 

 

and clearly she was thrilled about it....

On Sunday morning Husband brought the coffee nice and early and I started in on the ceiling... I got ALMOST all of it done and my shoulders just could not take anymore so my knight in shining bball shorts came in to finish it up strong....

When we got home from church I ran to get the paint in the color the gals had picked out. "Tame Teal". (Here's hopin' ;) On Saturday night my friend Jess had texted me and said "let me know if you need any help".... I immediately texted back and said "I need help. BYO paint brush" Lucky for me, her Dad is the one that did our living room and she is WELL versed in painting.... she ROCKED the edges and the ceiling and we were DONE... two coats and everything picked up in a little over 2 hours.... AWESOME!

On Monday Minnie and started sanding and priming the beds before we went to do a 5K with our friends... I was REALLY hoping to get them all primed before we left but we were just a LITTLE short on time....

Meanwhile.... while we were outside Husband was tackling the MOST AMAZING FLOOR! I LOVE IT SO MUCH! We are going to I'm trying to convince him to put the same thing in our bedroom once we are on summer break... I think it looks so amazing! He did SUCH a great job! And SUPER quick!

On Tuesday afternoon I jumped back into the beds.... All I had was white ceiling paint so I'm not a HUGE fan of how they feel and I might do a top coat this summer of something with some sheen but for now they are clean and white and MATCHING!

Ready to go on the finished floors....

On Wednesday morning Miss B and I went to Target with CountryMum and picked out these rugs and comforters.... in the afternoon we piled into my car with MIL and CountryMum and headed to Hobby Lobby for signs. This was a two pack...the gals both loved them and I love the character traits....

I'm so so so HAPPY with how it turned out and LOVE it when a project is COMPLETE!!!! So thankful for Husband and good friends coming alongside to get it done!

The Weekend Report

Cuz pretty much nothin' to report during the week... ;) (but still dealing with the dog and the kidney stone so laying low is not a bad thing)

Gals snagged a sleepover with their buds (and the pooch who thought he was going to be able to snuggle the whole night but Daddy made him get on his OWN bed)

It takes them about 30 seconds for the playroom to look like this....but so happy to have this space for them and I LOVE when they use it! 

Miss B let me do double-buns for church on Sunday and I feel like these days are so short so I had to snag a pic ;) I LOVE ME SOME DOUBLE-BUNS!

I have been wanting to paint the free table that I got to go under the deck on the new cement pad since I got it....and even though I really LOVED my yellow bench it just didn't show up against the siding and I wanted a pop of color under there. We went to Lowe's on Saturday and the gals picked out the colors ;) 

AND they did the painting!!

I think it came out so cute! They did a great job! I'm going to grab another can of the coral because the table def. needs another coat but I am so happy with how they came out :) Fun for sure!

I kept the fire going....

While Husband hung the NEW SHED DOORS HE BUILT!!!! SO AMAZING! Productive and fun weekend for sure!