$8 in paint and it looks new again....on the outside anyway!

Hubby has been dying for a full sized fridge out in the garage....must have something to do with the lack of space in my dorm fridge...

so here's what showed up last week...

a monstrocity straight out of nightmares! 

We opened it up after work that night and found food still in it! With old food, no power and closed doors brings? You guessed it....MOLD, and lots of it. Yesterday afternoon when it cooled off a little in the sun Syd and I were bored, so we were playing in the garage, and I took a bottle of bleach and the garden hose to the inside of this thing. I have to say, the garden hose worked pretty well although I'm sure I looked really foolish! 

Last night I needed to make an emergency trip for ketchup and picked up some spray paint at the same time...after an hour in the garage with a geek mask on here's what I ended up with...

not so bad after all!

He said he was going to bring a big chest freezer home too, and I very sternly told him if he did so he'd be sleeping in it, and not while breathing! I tried explaning to him that everything in our itty bitty chest freezer would fit in the side by side freezer and then some, so we'd still have plenty of room to pack a cow in the space we already had, and I didn't need any more uglies showing up! I won the battle, no ginormous chest freezer coming here, if I do get an additional freezer it will be upright, I'm sick of standing on my head to get to the bottom for something I want! 

This teeny project kept me busy while waiting for the next baby appt to get mortar to finish our little tile project. Not saying where, you'll have to wait for the pretty finished product! 

While you're here I'll show you what's growing in my back yard (I'm rather impressed)

Mr Coneflower is so unique you can't help but like him! Thanks mom for being so particular about finding one of these....we now have 4! It's not the super bright pink one I really wanted, but it was half the price! I'd have lime green ones too if the dog hadn't broken EVERY SINGLE flower off of both the plants! 

And the other pretty....these aren't staying where they are, but needed a home for the mean time, and as soon as I put them in the ground this happened! Again, I managed to not kill em, and keep hubby away from them long enough to keep them alive as well. I can't say the same for one of my pretty grasses though, it's not lookin so hot! (hubby's fault!) 

All of the plants that I love were protected from saturday's bout with weather. We had 4, yes, FOUR severe thunderstorms roll through in one day. Syd and I spent about 45 minutes cuddled up with the cat by the waterheater (under our stairs) while waiting for the tornadoes to make their way past, and luckily the only thing with hail damage is hostas on the north side of my house (they look like they've been to war but should come back fine) even though we were pretty sure the hail was coming in the house the way it sounded from our little cave! 

First severe storm in new house with minimal damage....check!

The projects just never end! 

We've been busy busy since Sunday, I won't tell you with what until I have pictures and it's finished, but I will tell you I am one very HAPPY camper!

Instead I'll show you one of my first adventures into wood that I had very minimal help with....like only using the circular saw that I'm absolutely petrified of (I want one of the small battery ones but someone say's they're pointless when he's got a big one to use) 

It's not the best picture, but the camera is upstairs, and I don't have a burst of energy right now to take the basketball up there and come right back down....so this will have to do. The best part is it's not super small, so Syd will get YEARS of use out of this, the chairs even hold me! 

Thanks to KnockoffWood....

Hello sunshine and humidity! 

Here's the baby update....I went through all kinds of horrible testing to have an ultrasound show that this baby brings kidney stones....yay for me! Ok, so they haven't been horrible so far, a few times of pain, but nothing unmanageable. The part that is getting to me is the basketball I am now carrying out front! This baby is totally opposite of Sydney, she was content to stretch out, inhale everything I ate (I definately ate for 2 with her) and sit tight.....this baby is none of the above! I have had to really start watching what I put in my mouth, at any given time I can only eat a small portion of whatever it is I've made (doesn't matter how good it looks or sounds either) and I've been snacking on fresh fruit, just to make sure I get enough of the good stuff....case in point, NONE of my maternity stuff fits from Syd, it's all way too big, clothes that were tight on me last summer (no baby) are now fitting like they should, some are a little large....go figure! I've made the decision not to look for any new maternity stuff, and just go with the flow, hoping that I can make it 'till august (or July would be awesome!) 

Now on to the mess....

Here's my basement...

Notice said water? And to think, it started as just a little wet spot in the middle of the hall...

and now the laundry room...

and the hole where my washer and dryer are supposed to be sitting....

All that mess over a clog in the floor drain that hubby managed to solve with a plunger! 

A week and a half without a washer and dryer! 

And one very LARGE mess to clean up! 

Now that everything is back to normal, and a week of watching to make sure it didn't happen again my LG's are happily back in their home and doing laundry....only managed to make one trip to the laundromat. I was dreading that trip too....hubby kept saying I needed to go wash his work clothes and I kept telling him that he should stay out of the dirt....it really didn't turn out so bad, Syd enjoyed most of the 2 hour ordeal (thank the lord!) And pregnant me decided since everything was out, and ripped apart it was the perfect time to start painting the sheetrock....oh what a project! 

Hopefully our weeks slow down from here on out!