Spring House Progress

I love spring at our house. Flowers that I don't even know the names of are blooming. My kids bring me boquets almost every afternoon and Makayla has to give the bus driver a daffodil almost every morning.

It has been a long time since I have posted any house progress and that's because there doesn't seem to be much to see. The office/spare room is done accept for a built in cabinet we would like to do. The downstairs bath is complete, although we will probably add a built in vanity at some point just to allow for storage and more counter space. The deck is finished and we LOVE IT. It is so nice to have that extra space off the main floor. The view is nice and I can't wait for some warmer mornings to go out and have breakfast on the deck. The laundry/mudroom still needs be be finished although it is functional it just isn't pretty. I would like to have a built in bench coat rack area for the kids to hang their stuff and a place for their shoes. . . you know like Pottery Barn type I am sure you have seen them before. Michael is going to build this for me when he finally get's his wood shop set up. Then we need to do some new flooring and are going to do a full pantry in there with some cabinets over the washer and dryer and possibly upgrade the existing utility sink to a built in type. I am anxious for the finished product but we have so many projects around here that we just are trying to decide what needs to be done first. That being said, the master bath has been put on the back burner. As much as I would love to have it done and enjoy a nice soak in my tub that sits without a faucet hooked up to it. . . . . I guess it will have to wait. My poor husband can only do so much on his days off. He has been such a great husband and father and has been doing his best to balance his time between projects and family to make sure that the projects don't take over his life. When we bought our house we both said, "we have YEARS to do all these projects around here". Problem is that we both get such satisfaction out of it being done that we don't know how NOT to work on a project.

The backyard and looking up to the deck. The grass is coming in!!

We are so excited to have grass and not mud in our yard! It is still pretty thin but we didn't get it planted until the end of September and didn't have much warm weather left for it to really take off so we are pleased with the progress.