Back and continuing the challenge!

So I'm back from our trip and I already starting doing some fun projects at home. I'm at work now, but will post pictures of the things I did from yesterday on here later tonight. Check back soon!

Day 10

For what I did on this day, check my regular blog... it's all there.... and I will be on hiatus while I'm gone this week. I will continue the challenge once we return! Enjoy your week!

Day 9

Today I did a little rearranging of our family room and a couple other things. There's this shelf piece of furniture that I've been meaning to put out in our family room, but I wanted to put some furniture pads on the bottom so it doesn't scratch the floor. I of course have been too lazy to put those on, so this shelf has been sitting in our office, waiting for a home. So I super glued some pads on the bottom, and dusted it all and put up some pictures. I also switched a few things around in the family room. Here's the proof

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Day 8

Unfortunately I was really busy yesterday and didn't have time to do a challenge :( I had to run down to Provo after work so I didn't even get home until like 7. So today was a rest day, I will do double duty today, or something on Saturday. I did clean out my garage like a week ago, so maybe that counts?

Day 7

For today I did a whole smorgasbord of things to pick up the place. I first tackled the bathrooms and did a nice thorough cleaning of those. I scrubbed the bathtub, the floors, toilets, counters, wiped the mirrors down and put up clean towels. It smells so nice and clean! Can't really see a before and after because they didn't look gross, but you could tell is was a little grimey.









Next thing I did was do the dishes. They've been piling up for a couple days and I can't stand when the dishes aren't clean. That's one thing I hate to go to bed without doing, yet it still happens sometimes.





Lastly, I made our bed (which sadly to say doesn't happen very often) and I folded another load of laundry. I didn't however put those clothes away yet :) But I feel like I got a lot done and I was still able to watch the entire episode of Biggest Loser! Can't wait to see what tomorrow has in store.

Day 6 pictures

Here are the pictures of Day 6's wall hangings.

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Day 5 & 6

DAY 5 - For Friday's activity I was pretty busy that day so I ended up doing some of our laundry too! (Seems like it was a trend for everyone to do their laundray) Being that there are only 2 of us, we only had a couple loads including a load for our towels and sheets. I definitely think folding/putting away laundry is my least favorite chore. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's the fact that we dont' have enough dresser space for our clothes, so I dread trying to find a place for it, or what, but I HATE IT! I don't mind actually washing them, that's the easy part. You put it in the washer, dump some soap in and you're done! You just have to remember to switch the loads and dry it so it doesn't sit over night and you have to wash it again :) (Can you tell I've done that many times before).

So anyways I tackled some laundry and I'm lucky because Josh usually does the laundry, but neither of us are good at folding or putting it away. So we usually dig stuff out of the basket until we need to do another load again. So for this challenge, I actually folded the laundry and then put it away! I know it sounds so easy for many of you, but I hate doing this, so it was nice to get some clothes finally put away. Put as I write this there are 2 loads that need to be folded still... maybe I'll do that this week :)

Day 6 - For yesterday's challenge I did some more decorating and hung some pictures up in our hallway! It really makes things look nice. I took some pictures but when I tried to upload them yesterday our internet was being stupid. Or should I say our neighbors internet because we haven't signed up for our own yet, haha... soon enough. But we hung up our framed pictures of The Proclamation to the Family and The Living Christ. They look great! I'll attach pictures this evening.

Day 4

I didn't have a lot of time last night, but still wanted to keep on track and make sure I continued my challenge. I still have a lot of bare walls and decided to put something up in our guest bathroom. Things are slowly looking more like a home and more cozy. So here is what I put up:

(These are pictures Josh took awhile back, really cool, I love them)

Day 3

Well last night I had so many plans on things I could do, but we ended up tackling the rest of our floors... which is definitely something that needs to be done and fits perfectly in this challenge! We finished almost one side of the hallway, so we'll hopefully do more of that tonight. I can't believe we're finally almost done. This project is the one I'm most excited for to complete! Here are the pictures I promised... we haven't really mopped the floor yet of all the sawdust, but that will happen when we completely finish this part of the floor.

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Day 2

Today I decluterized some of the easy places to clutter in my house. I started with a spot on the counter that gets easily clutter, then moved to this hallway counter and lastly cleared off our office desk. It feels so nice to be clean again. While I was in the mood to clean, I even swept and mopped the floor! Here's the proof.

Day 1

For the first day of this challenge, I decided to do something simple, but that I've been putting off for awhile. Funny story before I post the pictures and tell you what I did.

When we moved into our place they had an alarm system all set up with motion sensors and everything. All we needed to do was call to activate the service. Since it's just Josh and I we decided not use the service, but keep the stuff there so when we sell later down the road, someone may want it. One feature on the main alarm box though was to have it chime every time the front door was open. So I thought that might be nice to turn on at night just in case, and that didn't require any activation, so why not. Well it got annoying so I turned it off.

So one night I went to bed and all of a sudden the alarm goes off... like full on. The noise was sooooo loud. What happened was Josh thought he was turning that chime thing on but instead accidently pushed a button on the alarm pad which activated the alarm. We didn't think that could happen because we never paid for the service, but don't worry, it was going off extremely loud late at night.

Long story a little shorter, Josh ended up ripping it from the wall and we took the back up battery out and it finally stopped. Well when we ripped it from the wall, it left some screws and a hole from where the cords went. So that was my project, put something nice on the wall to cover it up :)

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May Challenge

Home Improvement
Every week day this month, do something to better your home!

Some ideas could be:
- Organize and de-clutter something: a drawer, cupboard, closet, pantry, make-up bag etc.
- Touch up those dings in your walls with some touch-up paint
- Hang some pictures
- Re-arrange your furniture
- Give a good deep clean to something you don't get to regularly
- Re-decorate a room
- Wash those "decoration only" towels hanging in your bathroom
- Dust your ceiling fans, light fixtures and blinds
- Give a good scrub to those hard to reach places- behind your toilet, the corners or your grout, baseboards etc.
-Wash and polish your door knobs (who ever does that?!)
- Clean out your closet and donate unused clothing

... that was just the list I made in literally 2 minutes. If I had another 5 minutes, I could think of a ton more!

This doesnt have to be a huge "Home Rennovation", just keep it simple and you will feel great!

So who is in?!?!?