Jeff's been busy

This weekend Jeff laid a giant cement slab in our front yard...we're talking 88 bags of cement! This will later become an awesome front yard patio, which I will be posting more about this week. Big thanks to Jeff's buddies, Brent and Eric, for helping him pull it off.

Next, Jeff made serious progress on our faux fireplace. It looks so good already, I can't wait to put the finishing touches on it.

And then, just for kicks, he baked a pie. That's right, a pie. A yummy Apple pie. Not so manly of him, but I think he gets a pass considering the hard labor he did do this weekend.

What did your husband do this weekend? Haha.

faux fireplace?

So with Christmas approaching, I was getting excited about decorations, and then I got sad that we don't have a fireplace. boo. So then naturally, my next thought was "Jeff, build me a fireplace." Not a real one of course, just the shell so it looks like we have a fireplace. Jeff wasn't sold at first, so i showed him a bunch of pictures of other people who have done this in their homes.
Here is some of my inspiration:




via Pintrest

via Pintrest

via Pintrest

via Pintrest

via Pintrest

via Pintrest

via Pintrest

I was torn between the crisp clean white fireplace and the awesome stacked wood ones.  Plus, Jeff has some old wood he "found" that we have been thinking of projects for.  So I think we are going to make a stacked wood faux fireplace and paint it white.

Jeff says he can do this for me before Christmas!   Yay, I cant wait to hang our stocking from it.