A New Adventure

I am so freaking excited right now, I can hardly contain myself.  By the time this posts, we will be super-surprising our boys with this...

 

They have no clue.  They think we're going to the beach for a few days to wrap up spring break here. HA!  We've had so much fun dropping hints today.  Walker, my oldest, asked what hotel we were staying at, and asked if would have a cool water slide....uhm heck YEA.

Then, the little stinker wanted to know if he was going to have to walk a mile to beach from the hotel...no, i don't think you can get any closer to the water my boy!

This will be the very first time we will have pulled off anything of this magnitude on them (except for Christmas of course!)  See ya soon....



Look, I said this wasn't going to be quick.

It has taken forever to get this post done.  I actually finished the bathroom (ok, MOSTLY finished the bathroom) a few weeks ago.  But life, as life does, has really taken some unexpected turns in the last month and brought me along for the ride.  So, the bath got pushed to the back burner.
 
BUT.... let's get to the good stuff - the finished product.

Here is where it was...remembe this post?.kind of...ick....
 

and...let's not ignore the other eyesore...the opposite side...remember this?




and....here is where it is today...thanks to some gentle prodding...and friendly inquiries from Megan (no, i didn't fall off of the planet - but a lot of stuff did happen)

It's come a long way and i'm really liking the way it turned out...and i am in love with the little stuff - the green glass knobs, the TJ Maxx rug, and the Edison lightbulb fixture.  

We did the beadboard a few months back, and trimmed out the door frames at the same time - kind of 'chunked' 'em up.  
and then it sat dormant for MONTHS.  

Then, my grandmother died.  And grief is a weird thing for me.  I cry, and i do stuff.  clean. organize. in this instance, I sanded.  then painted.  then glazed. and cried some more.


And i worked through it.  And I think I'm going to be ok :)


I'll post some more pics of the opposite side of the room next - becauseI still have 3 things to do - add shelves above the toilet - and swap out the faucet as well as the Marilyn Monroe light fixture above the mirror.

Linking to my friends that i haven't seen in a very long while -  Vanessa and her sis at the Picket Fence for Inspiration Fridays.  Click here to see everyone's awesome works this week! You might find me at A Bowl Full of Lemons too!