Favorite Photo #30DoB

My Favorite Photograph and Why

If you aren't doing it start following Keeping Up with Kelsey and the 30 days of blogging challenge they are doing. I have been "gleaning" from their incredible link ups and ideas.

And lets be honest, can anyone pick ONE PICTURE! NO! 

So yeah i picked lots of pictures!

My schsister is one of my favorite people. We can make eachother laugh and cry.

But mostly we get each other, in ways i dont even understand :) 

So one year she lived with us in Illinois, and so we made this AWESOME Awkward Family Photo for our Christmas cards. Yet another perk of the professional photographer hubs!

Gotta love those outfits...

Couldn't leave my other favorite person out. I feel like these two photos just embody us. You never know when we are going to do ridiculously silly things that no one will necessarily get..

I love snow. this is back at my parents home, and our family dog. We got 21 inches in the 5 days we were home for Christmas that year, it has been one of the best Christmases to date just because of the snow and the beauty of Pennsylvania.

Home. I helped my dad build this house all through high school and partly through college.
We moved a lot (military) growing up. And that time learning so much from my dad, building, it means a great to me, still.
Its still not done and probably wont ever be finished. But its the only thing I've ever known as home.
Even though I bought a house last June, its just not the same. I dunno, I don't feel like I can explain it in words. I do wish I had this photo in every season though.

My Biggest Fears #30DoB

I read this wonderfully funny and kick @$$ blog over at Hopelessly Ever After.
I love reading K-Rocks blog. I've been quiet for a while now, but when i was catching up i reading i saw she was going to kinda pick and choose what she wanted to do from this challenge. And since, i'm completely unoriginal, i am doing the same! Good thing i follow smart bloggers :)

So today is Your Biggest Fears. Hence the title of this bloggy post today!

My Biggest Fears

1. Drowning - may seem typical, but im asthmatic and i think it has to do with suffocation. I would rather burn alive.

2. But i'm also just afraid of water. Fish are scary, oceans = scary, bodies of water = scary. I can sorta swim and keep my head above water but yeah i don't want anything in the water to TOUCH ME!

3. The Dark. I sleep with a night light on. I occasionally have terrifying nightmares, and the dark scares me. I hate coming home after dark and we haven't left the outside lights on or any lights in the house.

4. Hospitals and Medical treatment. Don't misunderstand me, I will always opt for medical treatment, but I am terrified of all of it. Even getting my blood drawn, I also faint every time from anxiety. I had an MRI last year, worst experience of my life. Sedation, always get sedated.

AHHHHHH DONT PUT ME IN THERE!

Fandom meets faith

It's memes like this that complete me.

You win internet.

You warm the cockles of my black-cold-Christian-heart with your Star Wars humor!

Finally the shower remodel post

This took me way too long to do. But its finally here, the SHOWER REMODEL

Started in August after we couldn't stop the shower walls from leaking! Ended in February.

When we looked at this house i could stick my hand up behind a couple of tiles.

I thought for sure it would show up on the inspection and then we could ask for a credit, nope they siliconed new tiles on in its place. 

When the shower started leaking into our room downstairs, i figured out that the water was leaking in through the shower walls, it was not fun.

ewwwwww is all i can say, this was after i cleaned it, and it was still gross. 

We started to take out the tile...

the back wall was soooo DAMP it came out like silly putty..

MOLD, ROT, GROSS!
Here i know you want a close up.
That's a hole in the bottom picture, under the faucet. a hole. (s)

SNEAK PEAK AT THE END PRODUCT!

Oh yes there was mold behind the dry wall! Nasty.
We put up new plastic, tar paper (roofing paper) and cement board.

Thankfully we have a wonderful retired neighbor that found out we were doing this all alone and offered to help, and bring all his tools we were too cheap to buy.
I didnt get to lay much tile, i was the tile cutter, we scored and used a wet saw.
T-Dubs did an excellent job, and we were beat as we did this in two LONG days.

I did however do the grout, and T-Dubs was the grout cleaner.

And what you are really here for....BEFORE AND AFTERS!

Yes we picked white tile and if i had to do it over i wouldnt have.
When we picked out tile, we didnt know we'd have any help and we wanted the simplest most straight forward way to do everything. I will NEVER do a tile job without a wet saw, it makes all the difference.
I also love my corner shower caddy.

I sprayed most of the hardware, ORB, however i'd like to buy a nice shower head.
THOSE things cost $$$$$! that i dont have right now.

This probably drives me the most crazy of all the things. It makes my blood pressure rise, i swear.

I'm OCD. I'll save my pennies and get a "real" one soon enough. 

All in all, if i ever do a shower again, i will own all the tools for the job. 

We could have saved so much time and patience if we had THE RIGHT TOOL FOR THE JOB. 

We ran into all kinds of problems. 

But we got through it. 

And we are super grateful for the learning experience and help from a friend!

Top Left I needed more studs in the corners after we put up cement board.

Top Right When someone else helps you, corners get cut, or not cut enough. 

Bottom Left Mistakes i didnt know i was making, should have cut down the middle of the stud.

Bottom Right And this is why there was a hole behind the faucet, there is NO support behind the faucet and the water control, so i engineered this weird set up behind it. My drill quit (i returned it) and it was all round pretty much awful to do. BUT my wall is much more stable that it was.

And thats all she wrote!