show me all your moves

Now, I will show you all of my super cool moves.

starting with this one:

Beat that sucka!

Easter Weekend

I love Easter. Great church messages, family and friends and lots of treats.

This year we went to a cabin with friends. Paige played her little heart out with the girls and Tyler did his best to avoid the girls. We grilled hamburgers, played frisbee golf and played several revealing rounds of "Things." Tyler decided he was old enough to join in with the adults. I'm pretty sure he learned a lot. . . way too much. We Easter egg hunted and pigged out on candy and cookies.

pics

I love it when I have the opportunity to take great pictures of my kids. Good Friday was just the day. I had a senior shoot with Kenzie and the kids came along. They were great and while Kenzie changed outfits I had a chance to snap some of the kids. Man are they growing fast.

the cone of shame

Ferb has undergone "the procedure." Bob Barker would be proud.

Paige says that she feels bad for him because he has to wear "the cone of shame."

Morgan says that he doesn't like that hat.

He gets it off on Friday.

Friday is the day when he will be able to scratch his ears again and fit underneath the table through the chairs.

I'm sure he'll feel like a new pup.

Apothecary Media Console Finished!

We've been working on another one of Ana White's amazing plans. The Apothecary Media Console. I originally wanted it in green, but after the amount of work that I forsaw with the painting, I went with a safe antique white. I don't regret it. It's a lot easier to change accessories than to repaint a massive piece like this.

Shane modified it to fit our needs. It's longer than Ana's plan and the center cubby in the top is wider to accomodate a sound bar in the future. Also, we went with 4 cupboard all the way across, mostly because he didn't want to tackle drawers. He used wood and mdf. I love that the top portion is hardwood so that we had the option to stain where the baskets and sound bar will go. The top is made of 4 beams stained to match the interior.

I painted the outside with white paint that matches our baseboards. The glaze made it look a little more creamy.

The faux drawer fronts were painted, then lightly sanded. . . this process repeated twice and then twice more with the polycrylic. They're as smooth as butter!

Take a look at the pb version, then ours. Can you tell the difference? I can't. This project took so much more patience than we expected. It payed off.

I love ana-white.com!

He’s at it again

He’s building again. It’s a beautiful thing. Here’s what he has done so far,

and here’s what we want it to be when we’re done. I say “we’re” because I will do all of the finishing work when it gets to that point. The color won’t be the same.

image from potterybarn

image from ana-white.com