Posts under ‘Home Improvement’

89 flowers, 18 bushes, 200 ft soaker hose, 10 bags of mulch, and one bottle of Advil…$1,000.Time with my mom…priceless! My mom came down this weekend and helped Ryan and me finish planting our front yard. It took us about 18 hours total from start to finish, three trips to the nursery, and two trips [...]

…with the tree in our front lawn. It is a beautiful crab apple tree in the spring, but a vicious man-eater in late summer/fall when it grows out. We haven’t pruned it since we moved in and this year it grew over the sidewalk, towards the front door, and onto the roof! Ryan’s mom Julie [...]

Ryan and I went to Hobby Lobby Saturday on an errand, and ended up purchasing two very large picture frames that were 50% off. The smaller of the two we used to display five of our favorite Japan photos, and the larger one to show off the wedding photos. We’ve hung both in the living [...]

We finished painting yesterday! Well…almost. We still have some touch up on the white trim before we can say that we are completely finished. Today was the first day in nearly a month that we could use the kitchen island! We kept it completely clear for about 20 minutes, just admiring it. Ryan hung the [...]