Garage

Our garage was needing some organization. Reed gets off work at 10 on Fridays so we decided to tackle it this weekend.

We were building some shelves in a little room in our garage. I'm so disappointed I didn't get some before pictures of the old, gross, falling apart shelves in this room. We were just too anxious to do some demolition. Reed even touched up the paint in this room since the shelves kind of ripped up the walls.

 First thing first we made some hangers for our bikes.

Then started on our shelves. Reed built these before in our last apartment and at his mom's house so he is a pro by now.

 Almost done.

Saturday we organized the garage and put everything in its place. Makes us realize how much junk we have when its all organized like this. We got rid of stuff we don't need or use but we still have a lot left. It doesn't help when we have a bunch of stuff for our corn roasting and equipment for almost every sport outdoors.

 Our next project will to add some good shelves in this room for some food storage and other items.

 It feels good to be organized.

Pallet Wall/ Office

Last weekend I was looking at pinterest as Reed and I were sitting on the couch. Reed looks over on my iPad and sees a pallet wall. He looks at me and says "lets do this". I said "okay!" Then we literally got up and started hunting for some pallets. This is the tutorial we followed. http://www.bowerpowerblog.com/2010/02/nursery-news-accent-wall/

We decided to do it in the bedroom that we are making the office. This is what it looked like last weekend. 

We found some pallets and got to work.

We took the boards off the frame and this definitely took the longest. The more we took off the faster we figured out how to do it. We realized we were doing it the hardest possible way and figured out easier ways to do it.

 My job was to sand them all down and organize them into piles of similar widths.

 Reed screwed plywood into the studs of the wall.  Then it was super easy to use his nailer to nail the boards into the plywood.

The more we put up the more excited we got.

 Finished!

 Reed made me this shelf out of pallets to hang my bag and whatever else I need for school.

 Then he put together some shelves to put my books on.

 Reed's mom gave us these boxes she had from Reed's little sister's wedding reception.

 And this is how the room looks so far.

We absolutely love it! I still have some ideas of some artwork I want to make for the other walls and I have some touch up painting to do but it has been so much fun for Reed and I working on this together.
He even made me this H for our living room. We just aren't quite sure where to hang it yet but it is super cool!

Home Improvement

As I promised here are some pictures of our House. This is what it looked like the day we moved in. Just a mess. I didn't want to put things away right away because we planned on doing some work on our house.

Reed was out of town for work the first week we lived in the house so as soon as he got back we got to work by tearing up the carpet in the living room and hallway. The owners before us had cats and we weren't fans of the smell it left behind. We eventually want to re carpet the bedrooms just not right now.

Then we got to work by laying our laminate flooring. Reed did an awesome job and it went pretty fast. Despite he only had a few hours after work each night.

But it turned out pretty awesome!

Once we painted and got some nice new trim up it looked and smelled like a whole new house.

We now have furniture in our house but I need to do a few more things before I post some after pictures.

The next project we started on was adding another bathroom. This house is a 4 bedroom 1 bath house. We definitely wanted a bathroom in our room and there was space for it since we had two walk in closets.

This is what the closet looked like before. The previous owners wanted to put a bathroom in here and had it partially plumbed but never went through with it so we got to work right away and got our bathroom going. It looks pretty small and it isn't huge but it will be perfect for us and will be just the right size for this home.

It kinda looked like this for a while and was a huge mess.

But we slowly made progress. This is the ceramic tile we choose that looks like hardwood floors. We absolutely love it and Reed did an awesome job for his first tiling job. He did this floor in one day while I was passed out after getting my wisdom teeth out.

...and this is what our shower is looking like now. We also added that new window, it needed it for sure.

We have a few things left to do in the shower and then we will be able to put the toilet and vanity in. Reed has been gone a lot for work so we haven't been able to get things done as fast as we'd like but we are getting there. 

 

Reed had training in Denver last week and I was able to go with him and hang out and shop. We had lots of fun and we went to IKEA and got some furniture for our bedroom and living room. We are super excited to finally have a house of our own and put our time and money towards something that is ours. More pictures coming soon...

March.April.May

Okay I've been the worst blogger ever! A lot has been going on with us lately, and that means a lot of good. We have been so blessed the past few months that we've been so spoiled. Things never happen when you want them to, but when they are supposed to. This has been a hard lesson for us to learn but we are learning to go with the flow. Anyways, here is some of our recent happenings.

In March we took Livi and Clara sledding with us with our ward. They had a blast, especially Livi. Uncle Reed would take her down on a sled and she would lay on his back and hold on for dear life and they cruised down the mountain. I would be scared if I were her but she loved it. She later told her mom that her and uncle Reed were going so fast that they were almost on fire.

Reed saw a picture online as I was looking at pinterest and said "Why don't you do your hair like that, that looks so easy I could even do it." So I said prove it and lets just say it did not turn out like the picture at all. But he gave a good try. :)

A month ago Reed started a new job which he absolutely loves! It is pretty much his dream job and he couldn't be happier, which makes me happy for him. He loves what he does and who he works with. Its been a long time coming but he is finally where he wants to be. 

Then in April I found out I was accepted into the Dental Hygiene program for the fall! Woo hoo! Its going to be a tough two years but it'll be worth it!

The beginning of May we had a yard sale and sold lots of stuff and most of our furniture because....

On May 10 we signed on our first house and moved in a couple days later!

The house didn't NEED any work done just only things we wanted to do. We started working right away and I'll post pictures soon of our progress.