Living Room/Hallway Renovation Finished!

Well it's 99% finished! While I was at work last night my hubby and brother continued working hard to finish up the flooring.  Can I tell you it must've been a pain in the you-know-what to have to lay flooring down in the hallway with all the doors and what not.  I kid you not, it probably took them longer to do the hallway (just right) versus the whole living room itself.  I think they finally finished at about 2am and they were exhausted! But I love it! It turned out beautifully.  Let me just remind you what it looked like before:

BEFORE:

Ugly Blue Carpet/White Railing

Ugly Blue Carpet Again

DURING:

Halfway done in the Living Room

AFTER:

Living Room Finished

Hallway Finished

Furniture Back In

Kesaia being naughty lol.. 

And even after working hard all day on the floors.. he still took out the trash lol.
We still haven't put the railing back up...

So we're almost done, all that's left to do is trimmings and the railing.  The railing was painted white (I don't even know how many times) but we are going to strip it down to the metal part and hopefully it's in good enough shape to leave it as is, the dark brown metal.  But now that the floors are done, well upstairs in the living room and hallway... Fehi wants to change the paint. lol. Of course right?!?! Hahaha, he doesn't think it matches with the floors.. I told him it's fine but he insists.  So I think we'll be painting again over the dark brown.  Maybe we'll go lighter, or something.. Idk. I told him it's probably because we need (want) new couches lol.  And we definitely need to change the curtains and what not.  So we'll see where this takes us.  I think it may just need a little better decorating, and we need to fill up the space more with nicer pillows and some kind of pot with shrubs/plant (I have no idea what I'm trying to call it... lol just something) I'm just glad the ugly blue carpet is out, and new floors are in.

Now onto the:

-Stairs
-Entryway
-Flooring in ALLL the bedrooms (4 of them)
-Tiling in the Kitchen and Bathrooms
-Paint in the bathrooms and 2 of the 4 bedrooms...
-Makeover of the Deck
-New Cabinetry
-New Countertops...

and the list goes ON! lol. Seriously, there's so much I want to fix in this house, but I'm content, well happily content with where we are at now. :)  Here's to less vacuuming and more mopping and sweeping.. :( lol.. then again that's an nice trade for me. :)

And I just had to leave with these pictures of my kids... They seriously made me laugh and smile every day!!!

He swears! lol.. and Look at his little sidekick in the back LOL

She's so silly sometimes! Especially when the camera is on her! :)

Renovations Part 1 :)

So you know you watch the DIY Network too much when... you were suppose to go to walmart, but instead you go to RC Willey and buy new laminate flooring for the house.. LOL. Yes we sure did. It's spring break for us, and so these last few days I've been watching TV all day long.  I've been watching those DIY shows, and shows about house renovations.  And since then my mind has been going crazy with ideas. One of the BIGGEST problems in the house that we've had is the blue.. ahem... yes BLUE carpet that ran through the living room and hall way.  No matter what decor we tried to put in the house, nothing could ever work with the carpet.  So we've been wanting to replace it.  I've looked at so many options, and decided to go the cheapest route.. and do laminate flooring. So we get home at 9:30pm last night and to my delight :) we start ripping up the blue carpet. 

Of course the kids had a blast running on the bare sub flooring, but I didn't have fun pulling all those staples up. :/ Well worth it though.

After removing what seemed like millions of staples, we cleaned the floor then early this morning we went home depot to get some supplies.  We will probably have the floor in by the end of the day (Yayy!!) But so far we have the underlay down! Well most of it... lol.

Most of the underlay in the living room down already...

The hallway minus the ugly blue carpet.. you can see it still on the stairs

And Fehi took of the railing... not sure if we'll put the same one back on our replace it...

So that's the progress of our living room/hall way renovation right now.  I'm excited to finally update these floors.  I'm pretty sure this blue carpet was here when my family lived in this house.. oh at least ten years ago. lol. So it was much needed! 

Potty Training Fail

So yesterday I attempted, or more like "we" (me and moe) attempted his first day of potty training.  I looked up online some tips about starting potty training and one of the things they stressed is making sure they're ready to take on the task of potty training.  They even said how kids will even sometimes wait until about 3 or 4 years old until they're ready.  So after reading all this, I got him out of his diaper and into a plastic undie (what they wear to go swimming) and every hour I took him to the bathroom and sat him on his toilet.  After one of the times I took him to the bathroom 15 minutes later he came back and yelled "Mama change diaper!!!" and I saw he had pee'd all over himself. lol.  I decided to stick him back in a diaper and then wait until this weather was a little warmer, or when school is over for me so that I could really be with him 24/7 to do his potty training and he could run commando outside in the backyard lol. So after cleaning him up, I pulled a diaper out he yelled "Yayyyy diaper!!!" with the biggest smile on his face. lol. So potty training will wait a few more weeks.  I really wish 99% of our house wasn't carpeted then it'd make clean-ups a lot easier when the time comes. lol.

Potty Training Day 1

So today I finally decided to face my fears and start the task of potty training.  My son is 3 years old now, and lately I've been feeling the need to potty train him, or at least start and see how he takes to it.  For weeks now he would always come to me, and say "mama.. change diaper" because he doesn't like the feeling of a dirty diaper.  So today I've decided to quit being lazy and to start putting in the work. lol. So here's to day 1 of potty training.  If I had it my way I would potty train both my kids before #3 comes along, but for now I'm just gonna concentrate on getting Moe out of diapers. I just hope he's ready, cause I am. :)

Any tips are welcomed!!!

Baby's First Day

So I've been watching a show on TLC called "Baby's First Day" and the episode I watched had a mother on there who was going through labor and birth unmedicated, a.k.a. all natural.  While watching this, I started to reminisce by own experiences going all natural with both of my kids.  When she would scream, I would remember those times I screamed. When she talked about the pain, I would remember that same exact pain.  But as soon as she pushed and welcomed her little one to this world, she cried, and of course I cried. lol.  I started to feel a little anxiety as I was thinking about how I'm going to be going through all of that again. But then I remembered how joyous it was to welcome a new one into this world.  So my anxiety has turned into excitement, I only hope that this birth will be like the others, and I'll be able to handle going unmedicated again. :)

I should name this blog "Diary of a Pregnant Woman" lol...