Another Project Complete

I've had my wicker furniture for several years now and since I got them I've said I was going to recover the cushions and pillows. However, I could never find material I liked or get myself really motivated to find something and do the work to recover them. About a month ago I happened to just be browsing the fabric at Walmart and found the perfect material (don't even ask why it took so long to get them done if I found it over a month ago - Walmart makes me crazy sometimes). I recovered all the cushions (they were hunter green w/ flowers before - out of date) and the pillows. Kurt is almost done touching up the furniture with white paint. They look great again!

Sidewalk Rosary!

Landen and Amelia both love the DVD we got them for Christmas - "The Best of Little Children". It includes the rosary for children and it's watched almost daily here because they love it so much. For the past few days Landen has been begging for us to make a rosary in the driveway like they do on the DVD. You'd think when I child asks you to do the rosary you'd jump right up and do it, right? Well that has not been the case. Yesterday though the kids and I made one while my feet literally burnt to crisps from how hot the driveway was. We kept running back and forth to the pool.

OooOoohh we got a hot tub!

Yes, you read that title correctly - if you hadn't already guessed from my - soaking under the stars - comment last week, we got ourselves a hot tub. Thanks to my sisters boyfriend Jake who found us an amazing deal and helped us put it in and all that jazz, I get to relax, whenever I want out in my sanctuary/patio with a hot tub. I'm loving it and can't wait to have friends over to enjoy it with me. Here are a few pictures of the process -

Here are the horrible rocks that covered the area. It took 5 trucks and a trailer load just to get all these dreaded rocks of out of here. Never go with rocks! It was awful and we had to hand shovel it all out of there. Lots of work and at the time made me think it might not be worth it.

All the rocks gone - a lot of leveling needed to be done. Kurt worked forever out there and got all these patio stones (sorry, no pictures Amelia was sick while he was putting them down) in and looking amazing.

Tah Dah! Here we are relaxing. The kids love it and we're not keeping it really hot so the kids can have fun and enjoy it too.

Here you can see it from the door; nice patio stones and around the fence we're going to have dirt and mulch with big plants. I have some plants out there, but still a bit more work to do.