Happy Friday!!!

I am so glad it’s almost the weekend!! This week has been weird! My days have gone by really quick but my week has seemed to drag… Does that make sense? We have hardly any plans this weekend! It’s pretty awesome. I want (ha! need) to get caught up on laundry and I need to play outside with the kiddo! Today and tomorrow are supposed to be almost 60! That’s pretty amazing for March in the Inland Northwest! I’m also thinking of painting our family room ceiling fan… while it’s still on the ceiling.

Have a fabulous weekend Loves!

March Photo A Day

Just 8 days into March and I’m realizing how hard this is! It is nice to take a picture everyday though, I find myself thinking ahead and looking forward to it. So far I’ve only missed one day. #4 bedside. But really my bedside is not every interesting, at least 4 nail polishes, 3 glasses of water and a bunch of other junk.

#1 Up: On my way to work, a pretty sunrise!

#2 Fruit: My apple a day

#3 Neighborhood: Kind of cheated on this one, this is out my back porch but these threes are all over my neighborhood.

#5 A Smile: Layla Lou and Elmer

#6 5:00pm: No explanation needed  

#7 Something you Wore: Something I wore, which tuned into a boob shot…

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