Home Improvements

We have lived in our house for almost 3 years now (whoa!) and have been slowly but surely making improvements. We have painted the entire interior of the house (since it was completely white when we moved in), landscaped the front yard (it was completely dirt and after only living here a month we got a citation from the city for it!), put in all new blinds, added crown moulding, had a concrete patio poured, built a patio cover, built a retaining wall and tiled the upstairs bathrooms and laundry room.

Around the holidays are always a slow time for my hubby for work, so he has taken advantage of the down times and worked on our house. Here is the picture of our front room after we rolled up the carpet...


and here is the front room, newly tiled! I forgot to get one before we moved the furniture back in, so the next picture is a closer one of the tile.
We plan on tiling the rest of the downstairs, but we have to take it one room at a time for now!

We have also been working on our backyard and over the weekend, my hubby enlisted the kids to "help" with putting dirt behind our retaining wall to make it a little more even (and not so sloped).








Cutest child laborers ever!