Weekend Rundown

Who else agrees that Super Bowl weekend needs to be a minimum of three days?!

Despite the lack of three days, I made two work just fine. Today is definitely a Monday though, whew!

Some friends and I started with weekend off early with Happy Hour right after work on Friday. We headed over to Serranos for their HH. $2.50 margs and nacho bar, score! I told Scott before we started that I wasn't going to be out late and his response was "sure." Haha Needless to say, we were out until 12(that's late for me). Lots of laughing, dancing and singing for us.

Excuse my extremely red face, I was a little toasty on account of alcohol. oops!

Courtney and I got in on some impromtu karaoke fun. We saw an open mic and knew what we had to do.

After such a fun night Friday, I took it easy on Saturday. So did Melvin. That silly dog LOVES his kennel.

 While Scott was out running errands, he came home with some pink boxing gloves! Can't wait to try them out later this week.

Scott and I did some major house cleaning and finally "remodeled" our bathroom. I put it in quotes because all we did was change out the mirror/medicine cabinets and change out the light fixtures. $200 well spent, I tell you! I posted before pictures in this post, but sadly forgot to take another picture before swapping them out. But here is the finished product. SO happy with these improvements.

Sunday was spent doing lots and lots of errands and prepping for our Super Bowl get together party. A small get together, turned party. I was happy though, there was a great turn out. But maybe next year we will attend one instead?!

Super Bowl means good eat, treats and football! Wasn't that game awesome?! I really wasn't sure who the winner was going to be. Glad it was in the Ravens favor :)

 Happy Monday!

How I painted a horizontal striped wall

I didn't want to say "how to" paint a horizontal striped wall because, I soon found out, there are SO many different ways you can do this! I just wanted to show you a step by step procedure on what we did and what worked for us.

We had just finished priming and painting the guest bedroom and I was really anxious to try painting a horizontal striped wall. First we decided it would be an accent wall, so just one wall would have stripes.

We chose the wall that the bed will be against, kind of like the one in this picture:

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(Just to be clear, this is sadly not my house, just an example of a striped wall.)

I also knew I wanted it to be neutral, so I went with Behr Sail Cloth and Behr Casual Khaki.

Before we began taping and painting, I measured from floor to ceiling and decided on how wide I wanted the stripes to be. I found out that our ceiling wasn't exactly level, but about 94.5 inches. We went with 8 inch stripes with the bottom one being a little more narrow.

We started measuring from top to bottom 8 inches all the way down.

We used a laser level for this project and let me tell you, it was a life saver!!! I read different reviews on how to paint a horizontal striped wall, and a lot of them suggested we not use a laser level. uhhh I'm not sure how we would have finished this project without it.

Basically you just follow the laser with the tape and put it either above or below the line, depending on where you will be painting. This part is very tedious, and trying. You must have patience.

Oh, before I painted, I used a credit card to smooth out and bubbles, or creases to prevent the paint from bleeding through. 

Now for the easy part, painting! I just simply painted about the tape first, then used a roller for the middle part. Super simple and quick! The little pieces of tape are just a reminder for me not to paint in that area.

Next, I removed tape and marked errors and a little bits of touching up. 

p.s. I changed that electrical outlet and 3 others, because I'm that handy

Lastly, the finish!

I have feeling I will be spending more time in this room.

I so wish this wall was in our bedroom, but I guess that mean we just need to repaint ours.... Two rooms with stripes? Too much? nahh!

Happy Monday!

Good morning friends and Happy Monday!

I'm actually not upset that it's Monday because it's really like Wednesday for me. I have a short week this week because I'm leaving town on Thursday. I'll let you know where I'm going in a different post ;)

This weekend was pretty eventful! It was spent with some friends, some family, the couch, and olymipic games. 

Friday started off right when I received the rest of my Engagement pictures! I posted about our teaser pictures in this post,  but if you'd like to see all of our pictures, click here to view the full gallery.  

Disclaimer: Some of them are ...uh...funny. You'll see for yourself. They aren't 100% but they'll make you laugh and say "aww". We aren't always the most photogenic or graceful people. :)

Shortly after I got home, we were off to the movies. We went to flix-brew house which is a lot like Alamo Drafthouse, where they serve food and drinks during the movie. I prefer Alamo, but our friends live so close to flix that it's really convenient. We saw The Watch. It was a funny movie, but I don't know if I'd recommend it...

Saturday morning I slept in until 7:30, which is two hours later than when I normally wake up. It was niiiiiice! Of course I couldn't let Scott sleep in, so we both woke up, ate cinnamon rolls and watched some Olympic games. I gave Mac a bath then got ready for my dress appointment. 

L:Macdroogles after his bath! He get SO crazy and charges the towel like he's a bull. Cracks me up!

R: All tuckered out laying in Scott's lap being a cuddle bug.

My future SIL met me for lunch before joining up with my dad and his family for the "buying of the dress". Ok, is it just me, or do wedding dresses run small?! They took my measurements for bust, waist, and hips and OMG I had to buy a dress 5 times my regular pants size because of my hips... talk about depressing!!! haha 

Saturday night I met up with some girlfriends from Texas State. We ate at Z Tejas on 6th. I was so happy to see them, especially our preggers friend Courtney! She's due in October and look how small she still is. I can't wait to meet her baby boy!

me, Maegan, Courtney, and Rachel

Maegan, Rachel and I headed down to W. 6th for some after dinner drinks that turned into a night of partying. I'm not one to go downtown very often so when I do, I make the best of it. W. 6th is the place to go to see people dressed like they are going to a slutty prom, and douch-bag guys... too harsh? But really, it's pretty bad! We had a great time people watching ;)

Sunday I took it easy. I was super tired and dehydrated from staying out until 1am. I was pretty worthless until about noon. While I cleaned house, Scott chopped down the rest of the tree(s). The plan was to cut down 1 dead tree in the backyard. 

 

L: 1 dead tree

R: What I came home to. 3. 3 trees gone! It looked like a war zone. 

Scott was very busy cleaning out all the branches and tree stumps. We've still got a lot of work ahead of us! We hope to plant an oak tree in the dead trees place.

As sad as I was to see our roommate move out, I was so happy to clean the bathroom and get it prepared for upgrading. Here's a picture of it currently. We aren't going to do a huge remodel, but we plan on getting a new medicine cabinet/mirror, repaint, and put up my bathroom set. It will make our guest bathroom look SO MUCH BETTER! The color in there is so dark, and the paint is starting to peel. I can't wait to get a fresh coat of paint in there.

Stay tuned for the "remodel" and have a great week!