Loving Here

A Chocolate Chip Cookie Themed Party – Will’s Sweet 2nd Birthday

For Will’s birthday, I always try to fill the celebration with his favorite things. This year, that would be all things “Cooo-kee!” Or specifically, chocolate chip cookies. So, we went for a cookie themed party birthday for his 2nd birthday celebration. I printed some cookie images and made some fun little banners, and we even had a little cookie shoot and used those photos to decorate a bit more. I mean, this happy cookie-eating kid is

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July 24, 2017
Loving Here

Summer Home Goals Update

It’s time to fess up and share a sort of non-update in the form of a yearly home goals update. It’s summer, and that means it’s time for the halfway point panic, right? Well, read on for what we’ve done so far, what we still have to do, and how I’m learning to cope with the realization we can’t always do everything we want. 1.Finish the basement family room. This isn’t finished yet, but it’s

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July 19, 2017
Loving Here

Debuting our Craft-Art Wood Countertops

**This post is sponsored by Craft-Art and we received products in exchange for sharing our opinions with you, but rest assured all opinions are our own!** Ok, friends and family, I know we’ve been a bit MIA lately, and life has been crazy. Like–Wyatt has been at work until 6:30 or even until 7:45 a few nights and then comes home and sits at the kitchen table with his laptop as soon as Will is

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June 14, 2017
Family Life

Weekend Rewind: Family Mini-cation Edition

It’s been a long time since we’ve shared a weekend rewind with you all, but since I had several photos from this weekend, and some things to document and remember (the ride down was pretty eventful), I figured I’d go ahead and share everything here with you all, too. We have been planning a little mini vacation to Branson for the past month of so, mostly because I thought Will was old enough to have

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May 24, 2017
Loving Here

The Plan for our Family-Friendly Basement

Well friends, we have been WAY TOO LAX in posting updates for you all. Between late work nights for both of us, a huge garage sale, a mini camping trip, and more, we’ve just been behind on blogging. But we have made some progress on a few things, so I’m hopeful we’ll have a few blog posts to share this week and next week. All that apology/excuses stuff behind me, I’m excited to share something

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May 18, 2017
Garden

The Current State of the Garden (Spoiler–it’s sad)

Well guys, this time last year we were working on the garden. (HERE’S THE POST on that if you want a refresher.) It was completely planted by May 4, and I can tell you that isn’t going to happen this year sadly…mainly because the garden beds need some work. We lined them with plastic to avoid any stain or chemicals leeching into the soil, and to help slow down the rot on the sides of

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April 26, 2017
Inspiration Station

Wednesday Wish List: Throw Pillow Therapy

Hey friends, I’ve been doing a lot of online window shopping lately as I’m working on choosing design styles and organizing my ideas for the basement family room. We haven’t decided on a couch yet, but have one we’re planning to go look at and sit on soon, and to hold myself over, I spent some time looking for bright throw pillows at Target (online, because I haven’t had a chance to go browse the

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April 19, 2017
Family Life

2017 Home Goals Update

1.Finish the basement family room. This isn’t finished yet, but it’s well underway and I’m confident we’ll finish it. We’re almost ready to start looking for furnishings and get into the “fun part” of designing a space. The hard work (paint, trim, built-ins) are getting closer to being finished. Here’s a little list of what is currently underway down there: baseboard trim (painting and installing) new doors for bathroom and stairs closet touch up paint

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April 3, 2017
Loving Here

Built-ins for the Basement

I realized a couple of weeks ago that we haven’t even really shared the plans for the basement. And that might be because we hadn’t fully decided on every detail, but I have found that talking things out with you all tends to help me make decisions, so today, we’ll start with what we do know, and go from there in the future. The first thing we had to decide was how we pictured ourselves

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March 23, 2017
Loving Here

Some Unfinished Updates

This post contains affiliate links, which means we will receive a small commission if you make a purchase after clicking on our direct link. Don’t worry, it doesn’t cost you anything extra.  While in the middle of this basement renovation, we actually ended up with a few other small projects also in progress. To be fair, both rooms (my office and the bedroom) were sort of in progress before the basement project began. But, while

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March 15, 2017