Before and After - Hagood House & other ramblings

I’ve been wanting to document our biggest project to date at the Hagood house, but I’m just slightly a year and a half behind on this post. I am still thrilled with how it came out and am so thankful that my hubby is handy and that we could hire his handy friend to do the paint job. So here’s the before, a little overgrown jungle-y and yes an entire window is blocked by a tree.  Notice the columns & rails were had were very colonial very bland color pallet.

Well here she is with her new coat of paint, columns replaced, shuttered built by my handy hubby and painted a nice Homestead brown. Wood rails replaced with rod iron spindles, bushes removed (you might just be red neck if you remove bushes with your hubby's Jeep), large cedar cut down. Yay I couldn’t be happier with the results. We've been super busy, this past weekend, the handy hubby rented a super powered pressure washer and completely brought back to life our deck I swear it looks like it did when he built it. Those pressure washers are amazing, we even pressure washed cushions, wood bench, patio funiture, the outdoor rug, it'a amazing. There's still lots on the to do list: new roof $ yikes, paint the bench and rocking chairs, plant lots more flowers.

A side by side for good measure....

In more important news, this boy is loosing teeth like crazy, he's totally snaggle toothed and I love it :). 

We've also discovered Colby's an artist, very proud that his catepillar art was on exhibit at the Shelby County Art show, had no idea but apparently it's quite an honor to be selected.  I'm one proud momma!  Next week he will round out his kindergarten year, we're very please with his progress and can't wait to see what 1st grade has in store for us, he's reading at level E and there's nothing better than the sound of him reading!

 

That'll do it for now, more projects around the corner.

Houston is 4!

I can hardly believe this guy turned 4 yesterday.

He’s my sweet boy, he doesn’t mind giving mommy hugs and kisses, he still loves to snuggle and he’s full of deep thoughts and questions. I say it all the time, he's got a mature soul, I can’t describe it. We keep warning Colby, he’s going to catch up with him before long, he’s solid.

He loves his brother, sure they fuss and fight but deep down they are best buds.

  Opposites in every way, and we love it!

I wish I could say I planned a magical birthday party but I didn't, no party.   And you know what, it’s okay, he had bat man cupcakes with his buddies at school and doughnut birthday breakfast and then we lugged him to our home away from home aka the ballpark to watch big brother.  His wish was to go to the lake and the beach and before you know it we'll make that wish come true.  Until then, we’re going to spoil him rotten all weekend long, this weekend is all about him (aside from Colby’s 9 a.m. championship game tomorrow, fingers crossed they bring home the victory).  He goes with the flow and I love that about him. 

Here's to you birthday boy, your our little ray of sunshine and we are so blessed to have you!

Catching Up

Whew, I think this has been a record breaking fast year for us, I've probably mentioned that a few too many times on this ole blog, but it's so true. Wow that was a run on sentence, yay me. Let me recap the past few months, in true Hagood procrastination style.

FINALLY had some professional photos taken this year. Wow family photos are hard to come by and I'm so thankful for these. We will treasure those pics and am thrilled that the boys did smile and they boys did get their dollar tree prize afterwards, as promised. We've got some handsome boys, if I do say so myself... Files are so large, I'll share one of my faves, I simply photo shopped the Merry Christmas banner to the established year so it could be used in our house all year round :). Moving right along, we had a wonderful, relaxing Thanksgiving, with only one house to eat at, that was a change, but so nice not to have to stuff our self twice. We've decided it's only fair to alternate years, so this year was the Krininger house. A day full of playing with cousins, eating, and a lot of sitting around digging through the sales ads planning the attach of black Friday. Did I mention it was a serious warm day, didn't even feel like November. Used the trusty tripod to capture a big family shot. Poor Colby....

We were so PROUD & SHOCKED that Houston learned how to ride a bike with no training wheels over the Thanksgiving weekend! What a big boy at only 3, but he's bound and determined to keep up with big brother.

Then we blinked and it was December.... Then came a magical night, with a visit to the North Pole, Polar Express style. They had a ball! Wished the "north pole" had some fake, snow it did confuse a certain 6 year old who has asked a lot of good questions this year. But you could see the magic and excitement in Houston's eyes, he loved every minute of it! Well, that's a wrap, be back soon with more Christmas festivities.

Halloween 2011

Lots of fun the week of Halloween! Houston was Dash from the Incredibles and Colby managed to only swap outfits twice, he was Batman and Wolverine. They had a ball trick or treating and have way too much sugar in the house!

Pumpkin Patch 2011

Fun time at the patch again. Highlight of the day was the real Indian that was teaching the Indian sign language and dances. Colby was amazed, he's learning all about Indians in school right now. Did you know there are 500 Indian tribes in the U.S. ? He taught us how to sign "good day" in a universal sign language that all any Indian tribes would understand. Colby's favorite song from school is "...we are the red men feathers in our headband, down by the den man, mmm pow wow, mmm pow wow." So this Indian appearance was a real treat!

RTR 2011

As you can tell I am emptying the camera this weekend, doing a little reminiscing of weeks/months ago. We took our little annual trip to T-town homecoming weekend. We always love the parade and all the excitement in the air. We enjoyed some yummy BBQ nachos from the strip! Bumped into Danny's high school sweetheart, that was nice! We also got to visit with Kayla, which was a the highlight of the day! Another fun moment was when ESPN videoed Danny pushing the boys in the double jog/stroller, we didn't see it on TV, but camera man said it would air sometime that day - the boys first few seconds of fame ;). We couldn't have asked for a more beautiful day. The boys were tuckered out as soon as we got back to the car.

Go Giants!!