Entertainment Center

As we were refinishing the ceiling and walls in the Family Room I keep thinking of the changes that I would like to make to the room. I pulled out the ugly vertical blinds and the large black shelves. The room started to open up so I looked for more changes that I could make. I refinished the coffee table and pulled a small book shelf out of Colin's bedroom and painted it white, but I was still faced with our large entertainment center and with very little money to replace it. Then a miracle happened ... a friend and neighbor offered to build me what I wanted. So with the help of my neighbor I designed this amazing entertainment center, he built it, and I sanded, painted, and finished it.

 I am one lucky girl! Thanks Mark S.!

 This is what I found when i went to pick it up from his garage workshop.

 I had to pull it apart in order to finish it.

 At this point all it needed was the backing.

All for the price of materials.

Reagan's Birthday

(As dictated by Reagan)

I woke up to my family singing Happy Birthday. Then I ate a yummy breakfast of cinnamon rolls and glazed donuts. After my siblings did the dishes, I opened my presents. They were a coloring book, a box filled with candy, a dress for me and my doll, a Build a Bear workshop gift card, silly bands, doll clothes, number magnets, a hair thing, and the American Girl Doll, Kaya!

At church we did the primary program. After church we had the Sinicropes over. We had a wonderful dinner of crapes. The Cooks played with us. Then we had Death by Chocolate and opened the Cook’s and Sinicrope’s present. After that they left and we went to bed.

The next day, we went to Build-a-Bear, were I built a cute fluffy bunny. I named it Honey –Bunny. She is a cute ball of fluff.

Funky Coffee Table

Last Spring Mark and I stopped by a garage sale and found this sad unloved coffee table. I say sad because it had obviously been in someone's garage for some time and was full of spiders. (yuck) I knew that it had potential, so I talked Mark into paying the $10 for it and it moved from someone else's garage into ours. After many months of having to squeeze by it I moved it into the house and sanded it down. It then looked something like this.

I thought about painting it a nice black, but then I was over come with the idea that I needed more color in our house, so it became green.

But painting it a nice bright green didn't seem like enough color, so I sorted through my paper collection and came up with this. ↓

With the help of a little Mod Pog my table now looks like this.

Mark's Ouchie

I found this picture on my camera. I guess Mark wanted to document this painful sprain on his second to smallest toe. He stubbed it on my elipital and is very proud of the colors it is changing to. On the plus side he gets to wear sandles.