About 2054 Miles

In February 2007, my husband and I packed up all our belongings, drove 2054 miles and moved from California to Iowa. This blog is about my and my husband's adventures, which mainly now feature our two boys- 5 year old Rex and 3 year old Wyatt.

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Shelby
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I have a wonderful husband and two awesome little boys. I love being able to stay home with them and am always trying to do something to our house.
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Nothing. Well, Maybe Something.

Nothing.  That's what it feels like we have been up to lately.  January is now officially now as "Flu Month" and it went by so slowly.  And now February is almost gone too but this time, I don't know where the time went.  One thing I have been doing lately is getting ready for lots of house projects when the weather gets warmer.  I want to do the boys' rooms so I've bought them new bedding and I'm picking out paint colors. Here's the bedding I picked.

For Rex-



For Wyatt-



I love them both so much.  I got Wyatt's bedding with his name on the sham (like they did in the photo) and picked up the "R" pillow to go with Rex's bedding. We were at Lowe's last weekend and I found two gallons in the same gray color (a color I really liked) so I picked those up for Wyatt's room.  $28 for two gallons of the Valspar super-duper primer + paint was a great deal and I couldn't pass it up.  I may mix it up a little with something else to try and get it darker or I may use it as is- I haven't decided yet.  I'm still trying to pick out a color for Rex's room.  He tells me wants green but all the ones he picks out are of the neon/super-bright/burn-your-retinas variety.  I'm fine with green but I think mommy will make the final selection.  I came across this today and am going to pick up a paint chip for Benjamin Moore's Spanish Olive because that looks like what I am imagining.

Also in painting news, I hope to finally get the living room painted.  If you recall, I bought the paint last spring and the walls somehow never got painted.  The hubs promises that it will get done this year though.  I also need to try and figure out how to get him to build this for me in our living and dining areas because it would be perfect there.



The bottom cabinets are the unfinished ones that are ready to go at Lowes so that saves a lot of work. I badly need the closed storage area they provide to store serving pieces and seldom used kitchen appliances. Finally I have one more request, I think, for Rob.  Right now we have one bedroom set that is kind of split up between both boys' rooms and I would like to use it all in Wyatt's room. Wyatt will be turning 3 soon and it is time to move him into a big boy bed and out of the crib.  So that means Rex needs a new bed and I have this in mind.



If I come across something else cheap in the meantime, Rob is off the hook.  But I have a hard time finding boys' beds that I like even a little bit and I like this bed a lot. And if Rob could make it, it sure would save us a lot of money.  I guess that is all for my redecorating ideas at this time- I will be sure to share as we get into the painting/constructing/decorating phase and out of the dreaming-about-it phase.

As slow as the last 2 months have been, March is shaping up to be totally crazy and busy.  I think we're going on a weekend trip out of town so Rob can see a friend of his.  About 2 days later my sister, brother-in-law and niece arrive for a weeklong visit- so, so, so excited about that!!!!  The day after they go to the airport to go back to California, we will be dropping Rob off at the very same airport, headed to California as well, for a long weekend trip to go racing.  Two days after he returns, my mom and dad will be here visiting for a week- also very excited and looking forward to their visit!  Then in the last few days left in March we have my birthday and Easter. Whew.  That's a lot.  I guess I ended up having more to talk about than I thought I did- I suppose that could happen when you only blog once in the last 6 or 7 weeks!

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