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Weekend plans
I’m so happy to get this crazy weekend behind me. Not coming home from camping till Tuesday really threw off everybody here. We have a pretty tame weekend this weekend though. We’ll be heading out to a Kane County Cougars game tonight and that’s pretty much all I have planned. That being said, I have a few house projects I want to get done this weekend.
I’ve got two blogger friends of mine coming next weekend to stay at my house for a conference. (One is coming from Wisconsin and the other Michigan. I live about a half hour from downtown, so it doesn’t make sense to spent the night). That being said, I want my house to look good. Great, even. SO I’m embarking on some big projects. Last night I painted my outside porch. That was in desperate need of a painting. It needs a second coat still but when I’ve got that done, I’ll post a picture. It looks pretty sweet. However, I made that project twice as much work as it had to be 
. I painted more white than I needed too and ended up having to paint over that. I painted the bathroom a couple of weeks ago. The problem is that even though I did two coats, it needs a third. For as much as I love to paint, I hate painting bathrooms. My third project is actually the easiest of them all. I’ve been rearranging my kitchen. Yesterday, I turned my Kitchen dinette set a different direction. I’ve got a lot of floor space in there, and I thought it was time for a change. Now, I just need Bill to move the camping totes out of there and back into the shed. Then, I can see what it really looks like or if I need to start looking at Steve Silver Company dining sets or Linon nook sets. I’ve got a bunch of cleaning and blogging to do too.
It’s only suppose to be 90 today, so I’m not sure how much we are going to get done or if we’ll just head over to Grandma’s and go swimming until baseball time. :)
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Yardwork
I am beat. Bill and I spent the day outside working on the yard. I started painting the fence. Bill borrowed his parent’s powerwasher, and he is trying to get the paint off the garage with that. I think we may have bit off a bit more than we can get done. I wanted the garage painted by Friday. There is no way that is going to happen. My body is still hurting from all the work I did over the last two days. I don’t even want to think about how stiff I am going to be in the morning.
Weekend Update
Yeah, I know it is Tuesday, and I am finally getting around to post about our weekend. We had a busy weekend and got a lot done. We spent Saturday morning shopping for a new tub setup (The tub we have now is flaking). We found a Whirlpool tub that he liked and in our price range, so I think we will be getting that. We also decided to do a plastic surround instead of tile. Since we are doing this on our own and this is my only bathroom, I had to go with what works best for us. If we did tile, we are looking at a 4 day job. By doing the plastic surround, we are looking at 2. It won’t be as pretty, but it is a bathroom.
Bill finally got the pantries that we bought up. I am going to take some pics later and post them up so you can see my wonderful organization skills. 
I moved all of the appliances like the smoothie maker, the Foreman grill, etc. out from under the sink (which was a pain in the butt place for these items) and into the built in pantry in our kitchen. My kitchen looks extremely organized. Hopefully, we can keep it looking this way.
We also finally moved the computer desk out of Madison’s room and put it into the living room. We moved her TV out of the toyroom (which is becoming the nursery) and into her room. She now can watch movies in there and Bill can watch his TV in the living room.
Bill moved the dresser from the garage into the nursery also. I just have to get all the toys out of there, and we will be ready to put up the crib.
We did a ton of yardwork too. Bill mowed the lawn and I finished weeding the side of the house where my flower bed is. Last fall, I didn’t bother to rip out all the dead stuff. Well, it looked like crap. Now, it looks pretty (except for the fact that all my tulips are dying). We also replaced the sand in Madison’s sandbox. Bill started scraping the garage too.
This coming up weekend will be another busy one. We are hoping to get the rest of the garage scraped. We will then start painting the garage and the fence.
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