The Cast -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lindsay: The Mom... Kevan: The Dad... Colton: The Kid... Lillian: The Princess... Jarro: The Dog...

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Latest Renovation pictures...

So we've been taking quite a break from renovation and decoration with everything that we've had going on, but we're back at it!!! We have been really busy this weekend and it shows (for once!!)

We are almost done with painting the living room/dining room and then Kevan will be laying the hardwood floors in thre once the painting is complete. And then it's time to buy (another) living room set. I never would have guessed that 'd have to have three separate living room sets, but that's what it's turning into with the basement turned into The Pub, and the Family Room and then the formal Living Room. My plan for next summer is to turn the covered patio into an outdoor living room and put up curtains and really do it up... I might have to kill the dogs before then so that they don't mess it up... <<whistles innocently>>

Anyway, we really made progress on the Playroom and also (finally) on our room and put the almost-finishing toucheds on Colton's room. The only thing that still needs to happen there is to put up the pictures of him in frames that we have, well, we have the frames, not the pictures...

Sooo here are the latest pictures of the house!!! Enjoy!

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This is the closet in the playroom that is fabulous bc I can put all of the toys away. I still need to make a curtain to hang over it so that you aren't looking into the mess all of the time. It will be out of the same fabrc that I just made the curtain out of...
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closeup of the curtain that I made
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The shelf with Kevan's knicknakes on it
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I still need a bedskirt for this daybed..
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The picture hanging in my laundry moom via my mom's house
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Check out the lampshade that I made!!
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You can see the picture underneath the bandana in this picture , but you can't see it when you're looking at it... It also doesn't look lumpy when you're looking at it (I guess the camera does really add 10 pounds.. sorry lapshade...)
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I still need to put up the valance
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Our new bedspread
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A messy view of the new Black Velvet curtain that is between tour bedroom nand our dressing room'bathroom area
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A view of the bedroom. I have to iron the black bedskirt and then it will be on there tonight. We still have to put up pictures and other decorations... Yeah, our bedroom still has a long way to go, but at least it doesn't look like a complete shell anymore...
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Thursday, September 25, 2008

I finally figured it out!!!

So driving home from work today, I had some choice curse words about people that just don't know how to drive... I was bemoaning the fact that NO ONE knows how to merge and it drive me batty...

Then I had a revelation... Maybe people think that Merge is french (Mer-jay) and they don't speak French, so that's why they don't know how to merge... Maybe if more people in America spoke French, I wouldn't be cursing up a storm on the roads, because people would know how to merge...

Just a thought.

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

The Rocky Mountain Showdown... v. 2008

We drank one for our MIA cousin Jaime... But Andrew, Stefan, Kevan and I met up for some tailgating and some Rammie pride. Well, the smart people had Ram pride - the Hippie had to be escorted in and out of the parking lot.
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I have absolutely no clue why I look like I'm 1/2 their size in this picture, but I'm pretty sure that I was standing up straight...

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Kevan and I went out the night before the game with Joey, Clint, Justin, Jimmy P and Tiny and some other friends. It was an absolute blast.

After a rough morning, we made it home and I perked up in time to head down to Invesco for some tailgating action. The kids stayed home, we had some amazing friends watch them while we headed down for the CSU v. CU game. After we met up with my cousins Andrew and Stefan in lot Hank the Tank, we went down and got together with Joey, Clint, Emele, Adam and Bobby. Oh wait, before we left the fam, Kevan decided that he was Picaso and painted CSu about my tank top on my chest/neck. I intentially put a lowercase u in CSU because he made a HUGE C and S and then had about 1/2 an inch for the U... It was comical. He then painted his forehead in a war stripe. Okay, continuing on with my story of the rest of the day... They (the noncousins I mentioned above) were hanging out in the boring lot, so we started wandering and found some fun. We ended up on the lawn in front of the stadium. It was a kick back to high school...
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After we went into the Stadium, we found our totally amazing seats in the Club Level... Obviously our seats were in the drinking section. Because seriously, how can you go to a football game without drinking during the game??? The beers were absurdly overpriced as usual, but it was awesome. The club level is seriously amazing and it has bars everywhere and it felt like an airport instead of a football stadium.

Here I am with Adam and Emele
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I snuck Stefan and his friend in so they could sit with us and we had a blast. I have to say. I love the man that Stefan has grown up to be. He was always my little cousin. Then he was my little cousin that towered over me... Now he's a friend. A great friend. I love when you watch someone turn from being a kid to being someone that is just awesome and so much fun to be around. I am so beyond happy that we moved back to Colorado and got to be closer to my cousins. They're all so amazing. I so wish that Jaime was back here with us. We need our missing link back!!!!! FREE JAIME FROM NYC!!!!!!!

Monday, September 01, 2008

A Gator Family...

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Perfect is definitely her middle name
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Our little Gator Cheerleader
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Her new favorite trick
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A family that cheers together... stays together
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The Gerber Family

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I am a working mom of two trying to stay sane in the midst of our first house renovation. I am obsessed with bargains and making something fabulous out of a boring find.