I'm 3 yrs old now!

And here you thought I was done having my picture taken. I couldn't let Cole have all the fun. So much has happened over the past year. The biggest thing was finding out I'm allergic to peanuts. We also moved to a new house and I started in a Montessori school. I'm also totally potty trained. You'd think because of that, I would have gotten my new iPhone but sadly no.

Block walls

Another thing on our list of home improvements was to stucco our walls. Here you can see the walls before the stucco but after I had our painter apply some dry lok to prevent water seeping through. You can also see the orange stucco that the previous home owner had done.


Here's the after. We stuccoed over the orange stucco because the finish wasn't the same as the house.


Here's another view of the orange wall.


After picture.


Before


After


Here's all the pool equipment open to the sun.


Here's the wall to hide and protect the equipment. The brown stucco is because they touched up those areas with stucco from my neighbor's walls. My neighbor had the foresight to have them color the stucco whereas I didn't know that was even an option. We have to paint the house anyways so not a big deal.


Here's the tight opening to get in.

Dark chocolate dipped strawberries

Happy Mother's Day!

More storage never hurt anyone

Our new house didn't have any garage cabinets so that was one of the first things on our to do list. Once you have cabinets, you can't really go back. This time around we used advancedgaragesolutions instead of spacesolutionsaz. They basically have the same product except advancedgaragesolutions has adjustable shelves in every section and includes a shelf in all the uppers. Plus they were a little cheaper.



Here's the before picture.



Here's the other bank of cabinets. Overall we have 25 feet of cabinets plus a 4 foot workbench.


Here's the before picture.


Here you can see some of my handy work to wire an outlet at the work bench and upper cabinet (for future under cabinet lighting).


Finished picture of the electrical.