4 Columns

4 Little Columns in this house almost were the death of me. Good bye birch, see ya never!

 Bye Birch!

I love the top detail being white but doing that made so much extra tape necessary. I only have 3 of the 4 done, I need a break! This project was equally as bad as doing all the trim on the top floor with carpet.

Spring Break Vacation

Ray's Grandmother passed away this year and to remember her and her love of camping and family time we planned a vacation to remember. This was the boys first time out of the country. It was an awesome experience for them; hearing people speak a different language, different cultures, food. One day we took them into downtown Playa del Carmen and Connor said, "Gosh Mom all the guys want me to buy their stuff", it was so cute. We did pick up some soccer jerseys for them on that expedition (and $4 RayBans).

Grandma & Grandpa vacationed with us. The boys enjoyed 2 more sets of ears to listen to all their ideas.

Our kids look so much alike right now I can't even tell who this is. To me it looks like Ryan but those are Connors swim trunks so your guess is as good as mine. The beach was beautiful. Ocean full of fish to watch and beach full of shells for us to collect. 

Dinner outside one night. Perfect temperature each day, 85 day and 65 at night.

We had a 2 bedroom town house with an awesome roof top deck. The boys loved the hot tub. 

My favorite part of Mexico was that we kept our phones in the room all day. The minus of that is that we didn't get many pictures, this is as close as we got to a family picture. If you are reading this and have young children I can't express enough how important it is to pick a kid friendly resort with a kids club. When you are ready to relax on the beach off they go to Azulitos to play! Money well spent. Other high light was walking through the jungle and seeing spider monkey's a wild boar and Coaties (like a mix between a monkey and a raccoon?).

Hope your spring break was full of cool memories!

Landscaping

I told Ray one of our first house projects when we bought this house in 2014 was going to have to be the front landscaping. Welp, 3 years later and countless projects later we got to it.

 If looking at our house, the side left view. We had 3 Willow bushes there. Two were growing huge and always had to be cut down, and this front one was half dead. Sorry to our neighbor's Bill & Cindy  who had to look at those eye sores for years. 

Now 3 little boxes woods. The sidewalk was removed and readjusted to be more level then the wall was re-built.

Right out front we used to have 5 spirea which are pretty boring bushes. 

Now it is 3 globe spruce and 4 Hicks Yew. 

This big ugly Juniper was yanked out, it was growing into the fence.

Now a cute Bosnian Pine, Mint Truffle. Behind it 4 new red twigged dogwoods :)