Chevron Wall Part 2

A few weekends ago I finished going down the stairs on my Chevron Wall! (When I started here)Well Ben finished using his Mighty Math Powers (Woo Team UmiZoomi!) to map (math) the rest of it out. That process takes for freaking ever, then there’s taping it and getting perfect edges, then finally the easy part painting!!! I love it! It makes me happy every time I got up or down the stairs. Next up is to go around the wall down the set of stairs that go into the basement.

Ben and his lil Helper

I really love it! It took a super boring wall and made it really fun!

Tomorrow I will be back with the first few days of #MarchPhotoADay

Linking up to: Thrify Decor Chic
Spotlight Saturday

Happy Birthday Eddiekins!

Happy Birthday to the coolest big brother EVER! I can’t believe you are 31! Holy Moley! I am so excited for your year ahead! Seeing the way you are with Layla, I know you are going to be an amazing Daddy! (due 7/11/12!)

You never follow the beaten path, and are never afraid to try new things! I truly look up to you!

Eddie & Layla 4/08. I miss her being tiny!

At our ranch in CA. Were our Gandparents lived. (Our Dad still lives there)

At our Mom's house, with his Bestie Elmer

Becca, Eddie & Me, looking a little tipsy!

Your facial hair is always silly! And I threaten to shave it off when you’re not looking all the time… But really its part of what makes you, you. Here’s to an amazing life changing year for you! I am so pround of you!

Weekend Round Up!

Busy, Busy Weekend! Friday we went dinner then home to put the kiddo to bed. Then Ben started cleaning and I started making decorations. Back story tomorrow is my older brother Eddie’s 31^st birthday. For the last 3 weeks I’ve been trying to get him to make a plan for it. Although in the back of my head I always knew it was going to be at my house. So Wednesday night his girlfriend calls and asks if we can have a get together. Everything was quickly thrown together but I think it turned out well!

Anyways Saturday morning my Mom picked up Layla and I left Ben to clean some more while I went to get my hair done! Lol thanks, Benny! Here’s some shots of the decorations, nothing too fancy since I only had a few days. All taken with my celly, sorry.

Drink Area. I love my Chevron wall!

Cute 31 Banner I made

Eddie Banner

We had a taco bar, Eddie’s favorite! The food was so good! Thanks to Eddie’s girlfriend for helping with that!  

Sunday since my Mom had Layla we slept in! Till like 10am! It was amaze! Then we hurried our butts out to get her! Breaks are so nice, but man do I miss her!

Happy Monday!

Layla & #Marchphotoaday

Monday morning I had a super rough morning with Layla. I had her all dressed and ready to go went to finish getting myself ready, come back out and she has on a completely different outfit on top of her other outfit. A fight ensued getting her to change and about an hour later I felt like the biggest jerk. Why can’t she wear whatever she wants? Who really cares if it matches? She’s only young once, why can’t she pick out her own clothes? So Monday when I picked her up I let her know she could start picking out her clothes and wear whatever she wanted! (as long as it’s warm, fits, whatever) I honestly think she’s doing great! Here’s this morning’s outfit:

Also I have decided to join in Fat Mum Slim for the March Photo of the Day. Here’s a list of what I’ll be doing. I doubt I’ll blog it every day, but I am planning on tweeting it every day! (@Kristakins_ ) So follow along or join!

Happy Thursday!

The Ugliest Room in my House!

The playroom! Were coming up on 2 years in the Unicorn house and the playroom has always been ugly. It was the room I never wanted to show people… "And here’s the playroom with deep red carpet up the walls and dark paneling…" Yeah. This is real life in a 1970's house!

A couple of weekends ago we started working on it, just painting the paneling for now. Anyways, Ben convinced me that blue would be a great color for the walls. It will totally go with maroon carpet. Ha I don’t even know why I bought the paint!

Yeah not so much…

Last Friday I went and bought primer, we were going to primer the heck out of the paneling and paint it with a nice off white. Brighten the whole room up!

Literally, painting paneling is hell…

I wish I had amazingly beautiful after pictures, but I don’t. 2 coats of primer and 3 coats of paint later and were still not done. Agh! It’s really looking better but it’s nowhere near where I want it. Honestly I don’t think anything we do is going to matter if that hideous carpet is still there. Here’s a sort of during. About 5pm Sunday night I was over it! We put the room back together decided to finish the rest of the painting slowly.

Agh that carpet! The color on the walls is Behr Apricot White, it has slight pink undertones. I did use some on the blue paint Ben suggested in the closet, since its Ms. Layla’s favorite color.  At this point I’m just over it, you’ve defeated me playroom. I think it’s back to the drawing board time

Sunday Funday!

Yesterday I got to do something I’ve waited a long time to do! Since I was 20 weeks pregnant and the ultrasound tech said it’s a girl!

Layla and I went and got Mani’s and Pedi’s!!!

Ha! She looks a little frighten here!

Being Silly!

It was a lot of fun! She was so good and sat so still! (Something she never does for me when I paint her nails!) Afterwards she said it was so much fun! Daddy wasn’t too happy that she picked out red for her hands but it was a special treat so I let it slide.

And on a different note, I have perfected the Oatmeal Raisin Cookie:

Bad cell picture, but oh so good!

Weekend!

After a 4 day weekend last weekend 2 days doesn’t seem like enough. Tonight we have plans for dinner out and a stop by Home Depot for primer for the playroom. Extremely dark paneling you are about to get prettied! And I am so excited to get that room put back together! Not sure if you read Our Fifth House, but Carmel posted yesterday about a Kitchen in a Closet. Basically she put her daughters play kitchen in a closet and made it look awesome!  I might have to steal this idea, although the playroom closet is nothing like theirs, I think taking the door off and a sunny paint color would be exactly what it needs!

Saturday we are attacking above mentioned playroom! Saturday night we have friends coming over. And Sunday… Gosh I don’t know! I would love to go pick up my free armoire from my Mom so I can start painting it but we will see!

Have a wonderful weekend!! Were supposed to have a storm roll in tonight! Hoping I wake up to this:

Snowy Spokane! Riverfront Park