Lonestar Lagniappe

Good evening, all! We have slowed down over here on the renovations, so there's nothing huge to debut, but I wanted to share my DIY headboard!  I am so happy with the way it came out, and it was relatively easy. Since we have been married, with the exception of the first year, we have not had a headboard.  I have always used throw pillows to dress it up and hung something on the wall ( and W hates pillows!) .   In fact, he usually quotes this scene when I ask him to help me make/unmake the bed: I still love my pillows :)  Anyway, I brainstormed and watched how-to videos on you tube for a few weeks before committing to the shape I wanted, then I ordered my fabric ( from Joann's ) and got started.  Here is what went down ( I forgot to take pictures after some steps, so I will do my best to describe each step ).  Most are iPhone photos, so forgive the quality.  W was very involved and helped in every step - so you will see a lot of "we"...

Good Morning!  I am excited to start a new 'series' - if you will - on the blog.  The new series of posts will show off our house renovation.  You'll get to see the product of all of our hard work! :)  Hopefully, you'll love it as much as we do.   Let's backup for just a second.  W and I had a hard time buying our first home ( Well, I had a hard time! )  The market was so 'hot' that every time we saw a house we liked, it had been bought by the time we tried to schedule a showing.  No joke.  Houses were selling within hours of being on the market and for way over asking price.  We knew we wanted to fix up our house, really put our hard work into it, and create some sweat equity.  Our initial strategy was to buy a that was 70% or so finished only leaving us a few projects.  Once we saw the demand for housing and lost a few houses we really liked to a higher bidder, we lowered our standards ( haha! ), and found our lovely ho...

On this lovely overcast Sunday morning both W and I are sick.  I have been fighting this since Tuesday, and W just started feeling poorly yesterday.  So, naturally, we are lying low today and resting on this 3 day weekend. While I was lying on the couch watching an NCIS marathon ( the best ) I was looking through my Bloglovin' app and catching up on the blogs that I follow when it occurred to me - I need to post something new on my blog!  Then I looked, and wowie - I haven't update my blog since April! ( but let's be honest...am I the only one that reads this? ) We have had a lot  going on, and to tell you the truth, I honestly haven't even thought about my blog.  Let me clue you in.  In May, we bought our first house, went to Hawaii for our 5 year wedding anniversary, and and soon as we got back started renovations on our house.  Every second that I'm not at work I am painting, cleaning, or at Lowe's - I am sleeping.  This is an exhaustin...

I hope everyone had a great day celebrating Easter and the resurrection of our Lord!  We usually would all go to my mom and dad's house and have a nice lunch, but this year after church, we did something a little different and went to our family ranch - Five Oaks Ranch.  We had a nice pot-luck picnic.  The weather was great - mid 70's and slightly windy - so it wasn't too hot! After our lunch, the grands had a little easter egg hunt ( of which I have no pics, oops! ) and then we  went by the oak tree that we named the place after, our Five Oaks tree, and took some family pictures.  See below!   W and I headed to Easter service. The whole gang in front of our Five Oaks tree! (L-R) Janel, Joanna, Jason, Jonah; Curt and Laura; Me and W; Lana, Libby, Justin As my mom would say #grandsaregrand ( yes, she know how to hashtag... ) The original 5 Kates (L-R): Me, Mom, Dad, Jason, Justin our beautiful oak tree Five Oaks Ranch I'm...