Around the house...

Jimbo and I have been very excited to work on some things around our new house. Unfortunately, we have had some bumps in the road since we moved in 2 months ago. Car trouble, me stranded in Florida because of the car trouble, more car trouble (see a trend?), and Jimbo having to spend a lot of time in the field with work. The last two weekends, though, we have been able to work on a few things and we are so excited about them!

The first project we completed was much needed! When we first moved in, we had to quickly come up with an idea to keep our dogs contained since we don't have a fence around the backyard yet. This has been frustrating since they are crazy dogs who can jump over or dig out of just about anything. Also, it has been a HOT summer. HOT. And dogs have to use the bathroom from time to time. And we are trying to keep them out of the house since they are usually filthy because they wrestle all. day. long. You see my dilemma?

Some days (104 degrees outside type of days) I caved and this is where they hung out for the day:

Inside.

But most days they spent outside on the porch where we rigged it so they were blocked in by a piece of plywood across the top of the stairs. It gets really technical around this house. This picture is lacking the piece of plywood, but you can see where we had to block off so the rascals don't run away. 

Anyway, we built a gate! So now we don't have to slide the plywood back and forth to let the dogs out. It's seriously the small things that make my day :)

It's awesome! My husband does some great work. And he has a pretty great assistant too ;)

The next project was done this past weekend and it was a pain! We painted the half bathroom downstairs. It was a pain because it is a tiny room when you're trying to fit a ladder and two people, while trying to balance paint trays, while your feet are sticking to the plastic drop cloth. It really wasn't that bad. We picked out the color "Honeybee" and we really love how it turned out.

Before

Sink before painting

Our awesome way of protecting the  toilet

Tools

Everything removed

Our very safe way of rigging the light fixture, ha!

After primer and paint

Finished product!

After (with a shelf my honey hung for me!)

Clearly we still have to decorate, but we're so happy with what we have so far! The color is kind of difficult to capture because of the lighting. There is no natural light that gets into this room so these pictures will have to do :) We look forward to doing many more projects around our home. Jimbo already has plans for painting the dining room...I'm still sore from this job! Ha!