ok this post has been a long time coming! We actually finished our 2nd bathroom makeover a couple weeks ago, I've just been hoping to find a mirror before posting the after photos, but i haven't found one i just love yet, so i'm going to post what we have done now, which is still amazing!

When I moved into this house in the summer of 2014 it was definitely a cowboy bunkhouse/hunting lodge to say the least! We have torn out everything except the drywall & started new! It's been a 4 year process & we are still not done, probably because i like to change things all the time, ha!

So in the original bathroom from the 70's was a few layers of linoleum flooring that was chipping away, and the floor was actually falling in, in front of the sink, so we had to completely scrape each layer of linoleum up & then replace the joist underneath the house & then the plywood base, from there we put in these dark wood laminate snap together wood flooring through out the house, i have a love/hate relationship with them, love that it's not the old flooring, hate how much they show, and how big of a pain they are to clean! anyway, so after we fixed the floors, or before we put in the flooring we scraped all the popcorn ceiling down, ripped out the vanity & started new!

We actually painted it the dark grey that it has been for the last 4 years, which i have liked but was ready for a change. We then moved onto my favorite part of the whole room, the vanity! I get people asking me allllll the time about my baby blue farmhouse sink! It was actually the sink from my great grandparents house, it was the sink my grandpa used growing up. The house he grew up in is ran down into the ground now, so my family & I went there a few years back just to see if there was any cool junk we could find, and i found this sink half way sticking out of the dirt & dug it up! My family all thought I was crazy to bring a sink home, & asked what i was going  to do with it. At the time I had no idea, but i knew i would eventually use it, and here it is! We built the wood vanity around it actually! With the first wood vanity it was supposed to have a shelf on the bottom, but that hasnt got done in 4 years, so with this new remodel i actually stripped the bottom shelf base off & stained the wood a darker brown to match everything, i'm sooooo madly in love with it!

Soooo here we are to the newest remodel of the bathroom, the facelift! Out with the grey, in with the new! We SHIP LAPPED! Ya! Added some new decor, stained the trim & vanity & called it good, it makes the room feel so much homier & brighter, & cleaner! I love it, Zack loves it, & the boys love it, it is their bathroom after all!


products:

Horse painting: Hobby Lobby
Ladder: Old found on the ranch (use as a towel rack/magazine holder)
Cactus Shower curtain: H&M from 4 years ago
Horse picture: found at a boutique years ago
books on shelf: random finds throught out the years
candle on toilet: bass pro shop
flowers: were my wedding bouquet, picked out my favorite fake flowers from hobby lobby
long mirror: target
light fixture & light cages: Lowe's

original bathroom 

first remodel

newest remodel

Little Buster Toys

Guys!

When i was approached from Little Buster Toys, about working with them, i about died. My husband & I have been eyeing their stuff for years! Long before we had babies, we always talked about how we couldnt wait to have babies, & how one of the first things we would buy them, would be Little Buster Toys!

They are seriously the best, scale sized toys of actual ranch life, rodeo life, ag life, the rural, western lifestyle. For us, the ranching toys worked best for our life, and were exactly what we were wanting, not only for the babes to play with, but honestly for Zack & I to play with, ha!

We love using them to strategize with, hopes & goals we would love to achieve with ranching personally, play "dream ranch" and build dream work pens, talk about cattle, practice dr'ing cattle, and learn more about each others different ways of ranching.

Zack & I both grew up ranching two different ways, so me moving to West Texas on his parents cattle ranch has been a new learning experience for me! It's been fun & interesting to see how different parts of the world ranch.

The really great thing about these toys is it gives us an advantage of teaching the boys this lifestyle at a young age! Right now they are still so little & curious there is no way we could just let them run wild in the cattle pens, although that time will be here sooner then i would like, this is a way for me to keep them little, a little while longer all while still keeping them involved in our way of life.

Right now they're still a little to young to really understand exactly what we are talking about but you would be surprised at how much they actually do pick up, they say right now is when the brain learns the most, so why not start young! Our favorite activity to do with the boys right now & the toys is putting the hay bale into the hay ring, and vice versa on the hay trailer. They throuroughly enjoy that. We then like to point out the different breeds of cattle & point out colors, & play the "what does the cow say?" followed by a giant, "MOOOOO". We are showing them how to drive the truck & back up a trailer 😂  it's never to early to start dreaming!

Basically what i am getting at is we LOVE these toys! Not only are they built to withstand two twin boys, made out of actual materials, and built to scale, they are beautiful & amazing! I could not be happier to be working with such a wonderful company!

Even better! They are giving all my followers a 10% OFF coupon to use whenever you want! use code

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One last thing, they pack up so easy! i throw all of this stuff into a little toat, and dont' have to worry about it breaking, and i can take it with us to Arizona so the boys can play with it there, i can take it down to the pens and throw them in their play yard to play with if Zack & I are busy doing something, all you rodeo moms out there looking for a good travel toy to entertain your kid with, this is it! You'll be seeing a lot more from us about Little Buster Toys

Thats all she wrote folks! Seriously don't miss out on these! Christmas is only 23 weeks away, it doesn't hurt to start shopping early.

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getting back at it

Hi guys!

Long time, no talk over here. Honestly, i want to be so much better at blogging then i am. More so for myself, i want to write down memories, so my old feeble mind can look back on this one day & read memories i can keep forever. Like Townes first word, which was "Thank you" just started saying it clear as day, lately he's a little bird & really trys to mimic a lot of the words we say, especially "no-no" which he tells his brother a lot. I have just been so absent minded when it comes to my blogging & really need to put in the effort to just come here, to my space, and let my thoughts flow & transfer them into words.

Sooooo, heres to me and trying to be better at something for myself.