Back To School!!!! Yippie!

So it's back to school today!!  I'm so excited i hardly slept last night.  Just kidding I slept but I'm still so excited!

We were running a big of  a gong show last night so we ended up getting to bed a bit later,  But that did not inhibit the kids ability to set the alarm for 6:45.  Yikes they were up before me!  Brody was so nervous he could not even eat breakfast.  So they were ready by the door by 7:20. 

Knox wanted a book bag like the big kids so he borrowed Paris old book bag.  Blaze actually does not go back to school till next week i think but he put on his back pack for looks.

Brody did awesome!  He walked right into his class and sat by Ethan and was fine,   Paris,  Like last year,  took a few minutes to get comfortable.  It did help that she had the same teacher as last year.

A side note,  We"ve been having a bit of a power struggle with Brody and  his hair.  He does not want anyone to cut it.  It sticks to his head and it's been driving his father Crazy.  So finally I had it with the nasty hair.  I sat down with him and asked him what was up with the hair.  I said what are you wanting it to look like??  finally with little tears in his eyes (he's our sensitive boy)  He said " Mom i just want it to look like  (i can't remember the name) from his '86 interview with Don Cherry!"      AHHHHHH  he wants hockey hair!

So funny, so we practiced and got it just the way he wanted it, (i said no Mullets) We put a few Highlights in  and there you go,  Brody's version of '86 hockey hair.  Don't ask me why he watches old hockey interviews ( i would say he got that from his cousin).  Anyway here is his hair now!!

HAPPY BACK TO SCHOOL EVERYONE!

Week of work

Ok not really a week of work,  But Brad got his big summer vacation this past week,  he took 2 days off!  I know it sucks but he got Thursday and Friday which if followed by a Saturday so it was like he got 3 days off!

Anyway we used those three day's wisely. 

Thursday he got the shelves in my craft room built,  then he spent the rest of the day installing the new DVD player in the van.  (I've got to say we've lived 7  months without one,  But I'm sure glad to have one back!)  Meanwhile i spent the day working on the little boy's bathroom. 

This is the before pictures  (i know they are bad but i was to lazy to change lens to get a whole shot but you get the idea)

I Painted, Fixed there shower curtain, painted the stool. Soon after that i was off taking pictures so i didn't get it finished.  So today was the day to finish this project!

I used old wood from another Pallet to make the towel bar.  So i was pretty proud of myself,  I got all the hooks attached and the whole thing attached to the wall by my self.  Anyway  This was  a great project.

Here is the after... (excuse the boy in his undies but on any given day that's how you would find him.)

Here is the breakdown of the cost for my gee whiz file.

Paint we had leftover from the hallways-free

Shower curtain-

Frog one was on sale at Target for $8

I purchased 2 brown shower curtains from walmart for $12 each

I had the argyle fabric already (a yard)

shower curtain hooks came with the house (they are so cute)

TOTAL FOR CURTAIN $32

and it took me 2 hours to sew!

Towel Bar

the Pallet was free

The hooks came with the house- Free

I used my handy Dandy Silhouette and cut out the stencil for the frog's and the words - Free

TOTAL FOR TOWEL BAR- FREEEEEEEE

Oh except i purchased 2 towels on clearance for $5 per towel so

10 but free sounds better

Little frog stool-

I got this at a garage sale for $1

I printed off another stencil from the handy dandy silhouette for free

Total for frog stool -$1

Frog Rug was $12

So the grand total for the makeover wasssss..................

$55

Awesome!!!