We Love Juniper Love

Nope, not spoiled at all. 

 

Heart Eyes

We Spring Break-ed in Sacramento with some of our favorite LA friends and it was such a wonderful week. The next best thing to living by these friends forever is loving each other enough to travel for adventures together forever (and mark my words, this will be the case!) Hello and goodbye to Spring Break...is it summer yet?!

 

New Floors

There were seven different types of floors visible when you walked in the front door and dang it, I just couldn't take it any longer and decided to re-do it all! We chose Luxury Vinyl Planks in a cool oak and I just love the way they turned out. The color had to be dark enough to settle our bright window room and light enough so that our dark TV room didn't feel like a dungeon and this neutral baby has been perfect. It doesn't pull red or orange or yellow or grey or green or any other hue that this picky-pants refused to love! It's water-proof and pet-proof and I. am. happy!

BEFORE:

White carpet is disgusting.

DURING:

As we pulled up layer by layer of questionable flooring choices I kept laughing and saying, "But why, tho?!" I'm sure someone will think the same thing about my decorating decisions someday!

Of course, my Dad is ALWAYS saving the day around here!

There were so many different heights so we were bringing some floor up and others down. Gosh, this was a lot of work!

The project was supposed to take two days and ended up taking six...my garage and front yard looked like this for most of that time hahaha!

Giddiness level: 1000!!!

AFTER (ISH):

I'm especially happy with how the white risers on the stairs look! I really fought for those, and was nervous I'd be disappointed (I'm not!)

My window room looking so fresh and so clean, clean!

Oh gosh, and that view down the hallway to my room!!! Still so many things I want to do around here but we have come so far and I'm grateful. Yay for floors!!!

T's birthday interview

He's easily pleased and grateful for the littlest things, including a birthday where our house was in commotion and disarray due to new floors being installed. He got a few new toys and a few good books and mostly, a gallon of the blue paint he's been talking about painting his room for months and was nothing but brace-faced smiles from ear to ear. This year he's persevered through at-home pandemic school (that btw, he's hated BIG TIME), started a neighborhood can-collecting business that has earned him enough money to buy a Nintendo Switch with all his favorite games, fell in love with Juniper Love, memorized more baseball facts and statistics than anyone can keep up with and had fun changing the color of his rubber bands whenever he gets the chance. We are proud of him and love him so much--can't believe my biggest baby is 12!!! 

New room for his birthday! He picked the color and helped me paint and was thrilled with how it turned out! Also, that Pottery Barn chair is so cute and well-used but it's brand new and possibly the noisiest chair in existence!

BIRTHDAY INTERVIEW:

What is your favorite...

Color:  Still yellow? Yes, still yellow.

Food:  I think my favorite food would be pizza…and cheeseburgers. Junk food! 

Game:  Super Smash Bros. And Minecraft. 

Book:  Ooh, that’s a tough one. I don’t even know. I think they are the Harry Potter series. 

Toy: Legos, that’s an easy one. 

Treat:   Ice cream and brownies. Vanilla.

Song: Hamilton 

Thing to learn about:  Bio-science. Like, animals, plants…biology!

Animal:  Still the peregrine falcon. 

TV show: The Mandalorian. 

Thing to wear: My favorite thing to wear is jeans and t-shirts. 

Holiday:  I juess my bnirthday doesn’t count as a holiday so Christmas.

What do you want to be when you grow up?  No idea. Period.

If someone was being mean to your brother or sister, what would you do? I would trash talk them and then talk to an adult. That’s the honest answer. 

 

Who is your best friend?  My best friend in LA was Luke but now my best friend in Sacramento is Max.

 

What is something you want to learn to do this year?  I’dlike to learn to play tennis better.

 

What is something that you are really good at?  I’m really good at Mariocart.

 

If you had a million dollars, what would you buy? Um…I would put most of it towards my savings and then get about $1000 to spend. I would just spend it on old pokemon cards, video games and lego sets.

 

If you were an animal, what would you be? I would be a peregrine falcon.

  

What do you want someone to invent? I think I want someone to invest special rocket boots that way I would never have to walk.

 

If you could have a magic power, what would it be? ESP. 

 

How many kids do you want to have when you grow up and get married? If I do get married, then two.  

 

What kind of house would you like to live in: an igloo, a tree house, a castle, a cave, or our house? I would live in our house. 

 

Who is the prettiest girl in the whole world? Mom…

 

Where do you want to go on your mission?  I’m just not going to say it, because then it won’t happen. Hawaii! 

 

What's your favorite scripture story? I like the one where Jesus heals the ten lepers.