HGTV Watch Out continued!

The pictures are crappy but oh well. The explanation for the pictures are in the previous post!

Watch out HGTV!

Boy have we been busy! As Rich gears up to leave again, we have have been super busy working on the house. As many know, when it rains at our house, it pours. No really, when it rains, people couldn't even walk to our front door because we have officially the WORST layout when it comes to bad weather. In our entry way, there is a small opening in the roof so all the water from the room comes flooding through the opening, creating our own personal waterfall. Not anymore!! We finally got gutters put up! We had some very nasty weather today so we got to see first hand, and sure enough, no more waterfall.

In addition to gutters, Rich and I spent ALL day yesterday (Sunday) planting 5 trees, shrubs, extending the gutter outlet thingy, etc. In the front we planted a super cute Rosalinda Indian Hawthorne and in the back we planted 4 Bradford Pear trees. After recieving numorous citations for our trash can being in view of other lots (don't even get me started) we built a little fence particion and planted two Bougainvillas that will hopefully fill out sooner than later. Oh and did I mention our lawn is flourecent green after a little fertilizer? In short, you can't miss our house driving by!!

I still haven't even gotten to the exciting part!!! On one of our billion trips to Lowes, we checked out the laminate wood flooring as we often do. We have wanted to put in floors since we moved in. However, as many know we have a very open floor plan so that is a lot of square footage. We have been doing awesome saying "no" as we have been doing our best to keep to the budget. Low and behold, it was worth the wait. Lowes got in a new floor that 110% perfect for our house (matches the cabinets, lots of color variation) and the price was right! We now have around 100 sq. ft. of wood flooring in our garage. While Rich is gone, I am tackling the wood floors and tile in both the bathrooms. YAY!

Orchids

Rain Rain....

Rain Rain don't go away, please stay a while and make my yard look fantastic....that is how the song goes right?  Well apparently the April showers could not wait until April.  The past week we have been getting dumped on.  It has been great for our yard as mentioned before but everything else is suffering.  Rich has one more flight for his upgrade and hasn't been able to complete it due to the weather.  At that, he will most likely need to start "spinning up" or whatever (flying more, getting back into the grove) before he leaves again.  Mother nature has other plans.  Oh well, I do love rainy weather so I am not complaining.

The pups have been doing great.  Bella keeps finding new ways to be cute and definitely has both Rich and myself wrapped around her little paw.  Vance still has his moments (ate soap again but it was Dial....he only gets sick off of Ivory) but he has been really great.  The other day Rich took them swimming in the sound and due to the weather, the water was still high and choppy. So, Vance of all dogs wanted Rich to hold him up in the water!  No, Vance is not a pansy, he was working that hard in the water. I have never seen him so tired in his life!  He couldn't even scarf his food like normal. He had to sit there bite for bite.  Like I said, he has been very cute of late. 

I have been stalling to take pictures of my orchids as I am waiting on one (my fav) to open. I think it will be a little while so I will post pictures in the next couple of days!