Plumbing Upgrade

Old plumbing:

New plumbing:

I've never appreciated copper piping as much as I do now!

House Happenings

Here's what we've been up to lately!

Garage shelving installation:

TV mounting and cord concealing:

Before adding cord management hardware.

While adding cord management hardware.
This is what it looks like under the cord covers.

The finished look!
And no, we don't watch The X Factor - it was a commercial.

Flowers on the front porch:

Tile decisions:

The tile we've chosen will look similar to this!

And so much more, but we'll save that for another day.

Good Hair Day

Before:

After:

Free toupee for the first person to comment:

CA / FL

While J was presenting at a conference in California, A had the pleasure of vacationing in Florida!

J didn't take any photos of the conference, but if he had they might look something like this:

Unless, of course, he had taken a photo during his presentation:

A, on the other hand, did take photos.  Try not to be too jealous of the beach:

Fort Pickens

Pensacola Lighthouse

Overlooking the Gulf of Mexico

In front of the cannon at Fort Pickens.

It was a rough week going to the beach, eating delicious seafood, and shopping, but it had to be done!

Planted

Before:

During:

After:

Yoshi

Our first landscape addition is home and ready to be planted!

Meet Yoshi, our Yoshino Cherry Tree:

Since we live in the DC area, we were thrilled when the landscape designer recommended a cherry tree to give us some shade in the front yard.  While I was at Lowe's buying bath hardware today, I found the exact variety of cherry tree that was recommended for our yard!

I called J and he was so excited that he came to the store right away and rented a truck to bring the tree home.  (Side note: it only costs $19 to rent a truck at Lowe's for 75 minutes - what a deal!).

Driving the tree home tested my nerves a little, especially when we drove under power lines and low tree branches.

But Yoshi made it home safely!

I think he likes our yard already.