We finally finished painting the downstairs bathroom! It only took me two years to decide what color to paint it. Of course, the project took a lot longer that I thought it would. I even tried to plan in extra time when thinking about how long it would take, but we overshot that too. At least it’s finally finished!

Here is what the bathroom looked like before…

The green square is there because at one point I thought I wanted green. After seeing it on the wall, I was sure I did not want green anymore.

Jesse worked so hard on getting this bathroom done. Didn’t he do a fabulous job??

And here is what the bathroom looks like now…

The hardest, most time consuming part was taping off walls to make sure out strips turned out straight. Even with the level it is very tricky to get the tape down perfectly. They make it look so easy on HGTV.

My inspiration for this bathroom came from this website a friend showed me, Young House Love. They completely re-did every room in their house. I saw the bathroom project and knew that would look great in our bathroom.

Today is my “little” brother’s birthday. He turns twenty! I remember the day he was born. I don’t remember anything about seeing him as a newborn though… I just remember getting picked up from school that day by a friend from church. I can’t believe I’m now old enough to remember something that happened twenty years ago. Weird!

We are planning a family birthday dinner for both him and Jesse (their birthdays are a week apart) next week after the rest of the family is in town for Christmas.

Here’s a quick look at how he changed, just a little, over the years. Happy birthday Andrew, hope you enjoy another great year!

After a day of nothing but eating and relaxing, we (or maybe just I) was in project mode yesterday. We finished up a couple projects off of my to-do list. Of course it took longer than I thought it would, but if felt good to get something accomplished.

Yesterday we finally chose and printed out pictures for the empty picture frames that have been hanging in the stairway for months now. It took a while to go through and find pictures for all the spaces, but it looks so much better now!

With the purchase of the new TV, we had some adjustments to do to our entertainment center. Our old TV was too deep for the back of the entertainment center to fit on, so it’s just been open to the wall until now. It was such a pain to get that pulled out to get behind there and get everything plugged in properly. But since it was pulled out I cleaned the dust off it really good and it looks great to have it put together like it was intended to be!

Then we headed back over to my parents’ house to eat leftovers and play some more Wii games. Today we are just taking it much easier. Neither of us is feeling very well. We are doing nothing but watching football and movies. Hopefully a more restful day will get us feeling back to normal.