i did TONS of house shit

its true. ive been sucked into a vortex of house cleaning and repairs. if you were wondering how many times ive been to home depot this week, the answer is five. yes. five. its an insane amount of times to go anywhere, let alone the middle aged mecca that is, home depot. but, i gotta say....my house is lookin SNAZZY!

we decided to paint gray and after days of pouring over color samples, we finally picked one. my concept of colors is pretty much limited to what was available in my crayola crayon box, and the fact that there were over 40 shades (maybe even 50 lol) of gray was daunting. dont get me started on color names because thats a whole other rant of ridiculousness. we settled on fashion gray (see?). fashion. look ma, im fashion-able :)

hindsight is definitely 20/20, because if i was on my A-game, i wouldve taken before pictures to go with my after pictures. but im a spazwad and didnt, so i had to go through shanes facebook like a stalker and steal photos that showed the room. good news was that i found some great before photos, but they are primarily of weezy jumping to get treats haha. i recommend pausing to look at the cute puppy, and then looking behind him at the sponged peach walls, and the love-l-y maple leaf decoupage wall.

we spent lots of time prepping and getting ready. look how handsome he looks painting!

and after three days of taping, mudding, sanding, vacuuming, wall washing, and painting....we finished! and it looks fantastic! now if i could only muster up the willpower to start painting my bedroom....

i thought we were over the big hurdle of home remodeling after the painting was done. yeah turns out, the devil is in the details. and its those damn details that made me go to home depot for more stuff. you know youre getting old and lame when buying new outlet covers is cool. we also found a wicked cool plant at the depot (you can see ole planty in the background of the bottom photo. pretty snazzy eh?). since most plant life chooses to wither and die under my care, shane offered to take care of it. long live the ficus!

during my initial cleaning (exorcism) of the kitchen, i found mouse poop in some of the cabinets. by all means mouse, feel free to use my cabinet as your personal toilet. NOT! ugh so gross. after convincing shane that the poop was recent, and that mice were likely cavorting all over our kitchen, we went back to home depot and got all the supplies for an official mousepocalypse. we bought 5 different types of traps and got these fancy things you plug into your outlets that emit a high frequency sound that repels rodents! how cool is technology these days? it was highly entertaining to watch shane bait the traps. if i could recreate the scene, it went something like this...peanut butter for me, peanut butter for the trap, peanut butter for me, peanut butter for the trap. peanut butter: delicious for boyfriends AND mice lol. his baiting skills worked like magic cause we caught not one, but two! apparently mousevegas was underneath my kitchen sink. but not anymore! mwahahahaha

my crazy cleaning and organization have not been limited to the inside of my house, but have been inflicted on the backyard as well. shane built this amazing stone path up the hill to our patio, but after 5 years of dog dirt frolicking, it needed a little bit of love. look how good it looks!

aaaand....indy got a present from shane....a swimming pool! (for those of you who havent met indy, he loves water almost as much as he loves sniffing butts). we spent the evening with the hounds and basking in our backyard. i have to say, life is pretty good :)