Door Makeover

I loved our colored door in Green River, and decided our new house needed a colored door as well.  I settled on a shade of green that went well with the yellow and brown.  I believe the name of it is Napa Valley.  Looking at it alone on the paint chip, I probably never would have chosen it, so I am glad I brought home a whole stack of cards.

Here is the before:

and the after:

Much better!  Gives our home a little personality. :)

John's mom made me laugh the first time she saw it.  "You had to move away from GREEN River to ORANGEville, and paint your door GREEN!"

Guess we'll always have a little bit of Green River in us. :)

September 24, 2014

Coat Rack

I had been wanting to do something about our coat rack behind the door for some time.  My original thought was to put lockers along the entry way wall, one for each kid, but I've never been able to find them or be able to get them home with us if I did.  On to plan B!  After talking it over with John we decided to put a row of hooks along the wall.  What we had just wasn't working!  With 8 of us having our jackets hung on the hooks behind the door it was almost impossible to get the front door open all the way.  The coats stuck out too far. Plus, it was hard to find your own jacket or backpack without going through everything on the hooks.  They would fall off and be on the floor.  It was a mess!

We bought our hooks online, and then bought a board from the local hardware store.  I painted it and marked where the hooks were going to go, then turned the project over to John.

After the hooks were attached and glued, it was time to hang it on the wall.

Yea!  I was so excited to see it hanging up!

Ahh, now isn't that much better?  A hook for each child. John and I still keep our coats behind the door, and it's working so much better! Yea for home improvement! :) April, 1st, 2013.

Backyard Upgrade

Our past week has been preparing the backyard for Sod!  John was looking at the Sutherland's ad and found that it was on sale.  When he called to ask about it, they told him that it was even cheaper than the ad he had seen.  We decided that we've been talking about doing it for a few years now, so we would go ahead and get that project off our "things we want to do to improve our house" list. :)  John spent alot of time evening out the little hills we had going on in the dirt, and watering it so that the ground would be wet underneath the sod when we layed it.

 Thursday morning John's dad was available with his truck and trailer to go get the sod in Price.  Thank you!  They got back to Green River about 9:45am, and we set to work.  We had a great crew of helpers.  Besides, John, Ian, and myself, we had Grandma who entertained Lindey and Eli, Grandpa, Melinda and John's nephew, TJ.

 Getting closer to being done...we actually had to stop and rewet the sod and the dirt.  It was so warm that everything was drying out too fast!

 We calculated several times how much sod we would need, and still ended up with enough left over to do two rows more than we were planning.  Sorry kids, your sandbox will be a little smaller than we planned!  The picture below is about where we intended it to stop, maybe minus one row.  Now it's a little closer to the slide, but the kids can still go down it and not be on the grass, so it worked out okay.

 It took us about two hours to finish, so it wasn't that bad.  We finished off with a little edging, and now that project is crossed off the list.

We so appreciate everyone's help (we treated them to lunch at Burger King afterwards)!  It looks great! :)  So excited to finally have lawn back there!  I can't wait until we can play on it.

Gravel

   The City of Green River held true to their word, and once the road was paved, they replaced our gravel in the front yard. Yea!! :) The boys had a great time helping Grandpa and Dad spread it out. They loved being the "weights" on the back of the 4-wheeler. First it was John, Ian, and Zander. Then, pretty soon all four boys were on the back of there.

Thank you Green River City! We are looking forward to a non-muddy winter (in front of our house at least!)