Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day was lovely again this year - not super eventful, but sweet! The kids decided to make cookies as their school Valentines, so that was quite the project. We made hundreds of heart-shaped sugar cookies. The kids flooded them with white and pink icing and wrote names, initials, or just decorated them. They came out great!

Valentine's morning the kids woke up to notes and some candy. This year they had found some cardboard and made Chris and I mailboxes, too! It was very sweet.

Dressed in pink!

We had french toast for dinner per our tradition...this year with pink whipped cream!

And then Chris and I actually walked down the street to do appetizers with some of our neighbors while the kids watched a movie. Happy Valentine's Day!!

Renovation

Since December 1st we've been in the midst of a renovation. It has been quite disruptive and busy! We decided to add a bathroom/bedroom to the first floor in the front room. Currently Eleanor and Jane share a room and Ben and Rosie share a room and we decided it was time for Eleanor and Jane to have some of their own space:

Day 1

Day 2: they started cutting the wall open because we were putting in a door (rather than just an wide opening) and we found a Hardee's cup in the wall from the 1980s when the house was built!

They also started framing in the bathroom at the back of the room.

Doorway/closet:

Day 3:

Day 4:

Day 5 - they started putting in electric and plumbing:

Week 2: cement board went in for the tile.

Dry wall started going up:

Then tile started going in:

The doorway started:

More tile:

Cabinets:

Countertops:

Fixtures:

Lights and mirror:

Videos of in process:

What started the renovation process though were our upstairs bathrooms...so those are currently underway! More on that soon.