frosty + rock star= HALLOWEEN!

Is that his real hair?!?!?! :)

Every time I looked in the mirror I thought I was a mime :) Carter thought I looked like The Joker from Batman!

Don's Dilly Beans

Our brother in law Don makes some world famous Pickled Dilly Beans. Last Saturday we picked up some fresh green beans from the Farmers Market. Tonight we attempted to follow in his footsteps and make some of our own!

Carter cutting the ingredients to size.

Putting the beans in the sanitized jar.

Pre-canned.

Post-canned :) Hopefully we did alright!

ta da!

The final product! Carter did an amazing job. I wish the camera did justice to his paint job. He did a color wash of one color and two glazes and it is beautiful!

We moved the towel rack behind the door.

The tile floor and threshold.

The artwork we chose for above the toilet.

The towel ring, medicine cabinet and new light switches.

The same view showing the added storage space of the cabinet.

Thanks for checking in!

PS Check out a couple of posts below for "before" pictures of the bathroom! WOW.

We are goofy!

So the bathroom took a little longer than we would have liked, but here is a series of pics that Carter and I took once the last "major" piece of the bathroom was complete. The recessed medicine cabinet was a major hurdle for us because the old cabinet was way bigger than the current standard cabinet. Therefore, much wall repair and coats of paint later, we were finished! I wanted to get one last pic of Carter working, and I just couldn't get a normal smile! :)

what a goof.

Ready? Get Set! Remodel!

Carter and I have been given permission from our landlords to remodel our bathroom. We took a couple of "Before" pictures, along with some pictures of us taking off the wallpaper from 1972. :)

Carter contemplating where to start.

The wallpaper goes around the entire bathroom.

The vanity and flooring that will be replaced!

Carter working on removing the paper. The paper took about 10 minutes to remove. Next we get to work on getting the glue off. Should be fun! We'd welcome any advice!

Attack of the Killer Tomato (Worm)

Carter and I planted a fantastic garden this summer. We even protected the tomato and pepper plants with netting. When we returned from California this past weekend, we checked on the plants. To our dismay, our tomato plant was missing branchfuls of leaves. D'oh!

We thought it might be an animal getting through our netting based on the large grenade shaped presents left for us at the base of the plant.

After a few more branches were eaten clean, we got FED UP. So at dinner tonight I Googled "What eats tomato leaves?" It turns out, an insect does!!! It also turns out it camouflages so well with the plant you often don't see it. We had to go out for a second look, and based on the size of this Tomato Hornworm, I can't believe we missed it the first time. It was the size of a finger and it totally blended in with the plant!

Carter was brave enough to endure my shrieks and dump the worm in soapy water (it doesn't bite, but that knowledge didn't deter my skittishness). Carter even pulled the worm out of the water so we could get this last image. 

The enemy is DONE.

Long live the tomato plants.