HAPPY BIRTHDAY PINK SATURDAY

Happy 2nd Birthday Pink Saturday!
Bev at
http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/
is hosting another beautiful Saturday packed with pink goodies and loveliness!!!
I love waking up each Saturday and pouring over the many pages of beautiful pink posts and pictures and I have made some nice friends too!!
Everyone is so creative ! I wonder if I am the only one who studies all the pictures and wishes I was in the middle of all that pink!!!
In case you don't know pink is my favorite color (along with green)!!
To celebrate this special occasion we baked some cupcakes and made special drinks. Ok- chocolate milk and whipped cream!! Yummy!!!
It even take better in my pink polka dot mug!!

We set the table .....

And welcomed in new and old friends to spend the beautiful weekend with!!

So come on in....the cookies are still warm and there is always a fresh cup of tea, or chocolate milk to be enjoyed with the best of company!!

Happy Birthday Pink Saturday!!

We love you!!!

Hugs,

Jenn~

P.S. We are posting early as Saturday AM my family and I are hosting a benefit garage sale/bake sale for our kitty Snap who needs surgury!

Wish us luck please!!!

Howdy

Nervous and excited too!!!!

Tommorow I go for another sonogram and we should find out if the little bean is a boy or girl!!

I am very excited!!!

As soon as we find out- I will post to my blog!!!

Did I mention I hate my foyer floor?

As we are working around the house, something will get fixed and cleaned and other things happen!!! Bad things!!!
Like you find more work that needs to be done and more things need upgrading, which leads to more money!!!
The whole house has wood floors and I love them!! But my foyer....... now in my opinion it should all be matching. Hubby at first, didn't want to put the wood there because of the moisture by the door, but I guess my constant bickering about the floor is getting him to change his mind.
So now one weekend he will lift up the 2 layers of linolium and break the ceramic tile underneath, level the floor and put down the wood.
Now we run into a small problem.... I bought the floor at Sams Club last year and I need to make sure they still have it!!!
So thats my job right now.... off to Sams to find my floor and hope they still carry it!!!
I'll update you all on my adventures!!


So the weekend we finished up with touch ups and I got a great idea for the foyer doors. We have our front door and the garage door here and I wanted crown moulding, but as we all know that can be pricy.
So I - yes- me, myself and I- came up with the idea to make our own crown moulding for above the door.
At Lowes I bought 1"x 4 and the pretty blocks and we made our own.
How do you like them?



I think they add detail and a more custom look to the house.
After we finish the floor in the foyer, then I am on my way to find a new front door.
Going to any home improvement store would be too easy for me!!!
I am going to set off to save a few dollars and look on craigslist and thrift stores with building materials to find my perfect door!!
A beautiful door with an oval window !!!!
Can't wait to replace the door!!! I'm sure it will look great!!!!
So off I go to on my adventures of making our house a home!!!
Jenn~

Pink Saturday

Welcome to Pink Saturday here at whinenroses.
Another fine weekend and I can not wait to surf all the lovely blogs to see all the pink pretties of the day!
Isn't this little book so sweet? It is written by the Dutchess of York Sarah Ferguson. I plan on putting together a little tea party with my little one and reading the story to her. We can dress up and eat some pink and white pastries and enjoy our chocolate milk!!


Here is a picture of the window in my dining room. I found the valance at a thrift store for 2.00 and fell in love with it. The sweet pink roses fit my decor so well. Had there been two available I probably would have put them in the little girls room.

Angels...angels....I have them all throughout my house. You can never have too many angels in your house!!!

I just love this pink glass bowl!! I found it at Goodwill for 5.00 and knew I had to have it!!

I don't know much about it, but if anyone does feel free to leave me a comment so I can start looking for other pieces like it at local thrift stores.

This week has been another hectic week. We are painting the trim around the whole house little by little. Only two of the bedroom were already done so we still have a few more rooms to go.

Our master bathroom and bedroom are finished, the small hall leading to the master, part of living room and the foyer are just about complete!! Yipee!!!

We only have the dining room, kitchen, living room, hallway, and 1 more bedroom and bathroom to finish!! Almost there!!!

I am getting so tired easily these days and we found out I am now 14 weeks along in my pregnancy. Hopefully next month or so we'll know if our new bundle of joy will be a boy or girl!!!

I am so excited!!!!

Well finally I would like to say a big Thank you to Beverly at

http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/ for allowing me to be a part of Pink Saturday!!!

I would love to be in it every week, but life has been a little crazy lately and I am trying to not spend as much time on the computer and more time on the house and with the kids before the new baby gets here!!!

Happy Saturday!!!

Love and hugs,

Jenn~

Oh what paint can do!!

Master Bath Before

Before pics Master Bath-

It's amazing what a little bit of paint can do!!!!

I have a small maste bathroom and I try to make it as cozy as possible.

I love the green walls- I have alot of green all over the house and the dark stain is orginal to my 1987 stucco home.

After many years of discussion about the dark trim we finally decided it was alot less time and money to just paint all the dark trim!!!

Right now with a new baby on the way two things we lack are time and money!! LOL

So now each weekend we (actually hubby) will tackle one room in the house and paint the trim and all the doors white.

It is so amazing what paint can do!!!

Here is the after pic of master bathroom!!

It looks so much brighter in there!!!!

I can't wait to finish all the rooms!!!

Little bit a time(the Arc wasn't built in day!) we will get each room done!!!

A house is a never ending array of projects!! Always something to be done and my house will never be finished!!!

For now I will just enjoy my bathroom since I have been spending alot of time in there this pregnancy!!

We hope to get my master bedroom done this weekend, but we may decide to hang out with friends instead....you know.....enjoy life.......

it's not all work......

we must play too!!!

Enjoy your playtime!!!

Hugs,

Jenn~

Sping Break 2010

Another Spring Break has come and gone and in less then 2 months summe vacation begins.
I have been sick on and off and very tired by the end of the day.
We have a new due date and as it turns out we are having a thanksgving baby!
I am now due November 28, 2010
so as I expected as I was not as far along as orginally thought.
Yes it will be a long hot summer!!
We kept very busy over Spring Break. Easter was rather quiet as there wasn't any family down here to visit this year. We took the kids to an indoor inflatables fun zone! The kids had a blast!!
And during the kids week long vacation we went to Chuck E Cheeses and the beach.
Every year I take pics of the kids at the beach!! We had alot of fun and the weather was perfect!!!
Now on to preparing for summer break and a new baby as well. It is still too early to decorate or shop as we have no idea if we are having a boy or a girl and probably wont know for another couple more months. Until then I'll make my list and browse blogland for some great baby ideas and projects.
Happy Weekend!!
Jenn~

Miss Rhea's Easter Basket Swap

If you read my blog then you know how excited I was to participate in Miss Rhea's Easter Basket swap!!
http://sweetnshabbyroses.blogspot.com/ Please visit her to see her lovely blog!!
I had so much fun making them and LOved what I recieved from my sweet swap partners!!!
Unfortunately I forgot to take pics of the baskets I made them!!
So here are the lovelies I got for Easter this year!
Lorena at
http://rosechicfriends.blogspot.com/
Made me this pink egg and it was in the prettiest of baskets. There were a few treats in there as well.

The pink basket is so pretty. Just my style too!!
It's obvious how hard everyone worked on thier creations!!
Thank you Lorena!



These next bundle of goodies is from Jonnie at

http://tabascoschiccottage.blogspot.com/ I just love the yellow!!!

That is my favorite spring color!! It just brightens everything up!!

The pretty basket and the sweet bunny. I just love all the treats in the baskets!!

Isn't that sweet?!? I put both of the baskets on a shelf above my computer. They look so pretty together!! I am all ready for Easter for sure!!

For my baskets, I had so much fun I made each my partners 2 baskets!!!

I made some faux treats and other goodies as well.

I hope they love them!!!

Thanks again to Rhea for putting this together!!

It was alot of fun!!!

Happy Easter and may God bless!!

Love,

Jenn