Let's see... since my last rambling on Paleo I haven't weighed myself, so who knows how that's going. I do feel much better! (Reminder, I'm only sticking to it during the week. Which means the Lay's and French Onion Dip I devoured during football on Saturday totally doesn't count.)

Speaking of this past weekend... we decided to keep it low key on Friday night and were planning to just sit in front of the TV. However, my parents called and wanted their date night to continue. My dad had never been to Mulligan's, so that was the obvious choice.

Darts for everyone!

After our exciting night out, we decided to top it off with dinner (around midnight or so) at the Marietta Diner. Like I said, just a casual Friday night. The best part was the next morning when I saw the leftovers in our fridge. Apparently my mom thought salisbury steak, alfredo sauce and asparagus sounded like the perfect meal. GROSS.

Saturday we lounged around for most of the day, then headed over to Chris and Alysa's to watch the Ole Miss game. (Adam's favorite, UGA, had a bye week - so we were able to hang out with our Hotty Toddy's).

Sunday was another busy and productive day. After church, we headed over to my parents' for brunch. Mamabear was joining us and it was the first time I'd seen her since she moved into her new Memory Care home. She was in great spirits! And seemed to realize she was supposed to know who I was. We finished just in time to watch the Falcons beat the (I'm sitting here pausing because I can't even remember who they played...let's try Google...ah!) Saints in OT. Then back home it was - Adam promised me he'd have the office finished by Sunday night, so he had some chores to attend to.

Finally...after 7 long months - technically almost two years... our office is FINISHED! (Famous last words, I'm sure I still have some changes to make.)

Before...

After!

Adam built me these shelves - aren't they awesome?! I may have him move them a little lower, though. (Sorry, honey!)

Bulletin board... finally!

Adam has so much baseball memorabilia, we had to incorporate it. (Believe me, there is a ton more in the attic.)

I even organized all of my samples for work in the closet so they no longer take up half the room.

Quite a difference from the ladybug wallpaper and shiny walls! Three cheers to Adam for doing this complete overhaul by himself! (And you too, Dave!) We love it!

the last big home improvement hurdle... for now

When we first moved into our house, oh - 18 months ago, we did a lot of painting and such immediately. And in typical Baker fashion, we did a little bit of this and a little bit of that, but haven't actually completed a real project project, yet. Until this weekend!

Our office served as the previous owners' baby room, and you would have thought it would be the first room we would repaint - the walls had a ladybug border. Unfortunately, the paint was oil-based (or something shiny and slippery looking), so we saved it for a rainy day. One hundred rainy days later, we finally decided to tackle it. I'm working from home the majority of the time now, and I was getting real sick of working at our kitchen table or bar. Papers were everywhere and I felt like work was staring at me at all times.

We decided to paint the walls navy and do a white beadboard. I thought we were well on our way to completion when we painted the room the first week of February (actually the day of our Olympics party, because who doesn't want to attend a party at a house that smells like paint fumes?), but little did I know. Turns out you don't just Elmer's glue beadboard to the wall and say "voila!" - you have to cut it and angle it and measure it and remove the floor trim and add ceiling trim and replace the floor trim and paint and blah blah blah. HUGE kudos to Adam and his dad for doing 99% of this work. Honestly, this was Adam's baby. I told him I wanted to do navy walls and white beadboard and he ran with hit. I love the room and am ready to start decorating (ha! Want to start taking bets on when that will actually happen?).

Some progress pictures...

February 8 the paint is on. Silly me, I thought we were almost done! (By the way, the paint color is Indigo from Sherwin Williams.)

Beadboard and floor trim are up!

As of the wee hours on Saturday, March 15 - it's done!

This will actually become the baseball memorabilia room/office. I won't even bother guessing how many baseball-related items we have. (Disregard all the mess. I'll tackle that....eventually.)

So there you have it - our first "remodel" of a room!