Weekend Warriors

It seems after I post something, I always remember something else we did.  So we are still doing some little projects around the house.  When Travis had gotten the master shower all ready, he also put hooks and shelving in the "mud room".  Now, he doesn't have the excuse for not finding his keys, wallet, coat, etc. as long as he puts them away as soon as he walks in the door...Amazing how this little touch makes the house feel so much more finished when you walk in from the garage!

 He also surprised me this week by hanging shelving in our master bathroom (and cleaned too!).

 Another nice touch he did this week was adding the toilet paper holder in our master bathroom - like I said, lots of small projects are still getting done

 This weekend was a big weekend for us.  It was our last weekend off together before our vacation, so we thought we better get some work done on some bigger projects too.  Trav and his dad spent another full day rocking the outside of the house.  Trav's dad made a lot of progress and got to the bottom of the window on garage wall.

 Travis got all the way to the top on the inside of the arch.  I wasn't out there to witness, but I can only imagine how hard it was to do those cuts along the curve.  Again, the pictures weren't very good because it was getting dark, but when they finish at 7 pm and we didn't eat until 8, my stomach takes priority over pictures:)

 We had a spur of the moment decision this morning to do the backsplash tile in the kitchen, so I spent my Sunday tiling away.  After over a year off from tiling, it was fun to get back into it again.  We'll see how I feel after I have to grout though...

 I did all the walls up to the cabinets and we used a random pattern of 3 different sizes of tumbled marble and will do a different pattern as an accent piece above the stove.

 These 2x2 inches of honed travertine will go above the stove as the accent and we are going to put in some 2x2 pieces of black granite in there as well.

It already feels a lot more finished in the kitchen, so I'll be excited to see the finish product.  Notice the abundance of tile pictures and lack of rock pictures - not sure if I'm going to blame it on the lack of sunlight or the fact that I am working on the tile and am pretty proud of my handiwork...I'll stick with the lack of sunlight:)

We also made a big purchase on Saturday and will hopefully start installing pavers for our back patio this week.