Christmas in July, and a Bathroom Update!

We had a Christmas Party at our house last weekend! McGee and his friends have a tradition of getting together for a Christmas Party, and this past Christmas nobody was able to meet up during the holiday season (and Fro lives in Massachusetts). So, we all decided that we'd do Christmas in July this year! We offered to host at our house since a few people still hadn't seen our house yet. We did some decorating (just some Christmas lights inside our house and a few other random items), and we had Mexican food (that seemed appropriate for the July part of Christmas in July). I meant to take some pictures of the festivities, but I was having too much fun and totally forgot! Luckily Timmy had organized one group picture, so I have that! That's about it though... 

Mike and Leslie Sprandio are on the left, then Fro is holding the duck (McGee's dad made that duck!), and Juliff is right behind her... then me and McGee... and Timmy is in front of us. Ashley (Juliff's fiance) is next to Timmy in the red hat, and Big Mike is behind Ashley, and that's Big Mike's girlfriend (Jen) between him and McGee! 

In somewhat related news, we made some MAJOR progress on our downstairs bathroom!  McGee did a lot of work on it while I was in CA, and we worked on it the week leading up to our Christmas party too. We wanted to have it in working order in time for the party! We still have a bit more work to do, but a lot of the major stuff is done. All we have left is some caulking, some paint touch-ups, and of course we have to put up our ceiling. Oh, and paint the door (it was painted green by the previous owners). I'm REALLY happy with how it has been coming together though!!  I'll show you two "Before" pictures again, just in case you forgot: 

Before!

Before!

And now here are a bunch of how it looks now!: 

It's definitely a tiny powder room, but it's functional now!  Oh and I found a small metal piece of art for above the towel bar, but it hasn't arrived yet. 

You can see most of the bathroom in this one... 

There's still a glare, but I tried to get a clearer picture! We cheated a tiny bit because we haven't actually been to Rocky Mountain National Park yet, but we'll be there in September!  So, close enough, right? We thought the colors worked so perfectly with our dusty blue wall color. 

Last night we had a visitor in our yard, and I was actually able to take a picture!! We get a lot of deer roaming through our yard, but they're usually too skittish and run away long before I can even contemplate getting a picture. This one was just chilling, though!  At one point it stood up to stare at us (we even had Guinness with us), but it never ran away.  Shortly after it stood up, we quietly and slowly went back inside the house so it would feel free to calm down and lay back down. 

There she is! 

She's so cute! She's just chilling. 

This was after we'd been standing out there for a few minutes... She got nervous and started to stand up.

And here she is standing up! We went inside shortly after this so that she wouldn't be nervous anymore.

This weekend we have a Surprise Party to attend for our friend Juliff. It's a pool party, and I kinda hate pool parties... but hopefully it'll be fun. Juliff's mom is organizing it, and it's at Juliff's sister's house which is about an hour away. The bummer part is that it is supposed to be really hot this weekend! The temperatures are supposed to get right up to 100 degrees, plus some crazy humidity (and the humidity always makes it feel worse). Keep your fingers crossed for us that we don't pass out or overheat or anything! Haha :)  And we don't really have any other plans for the weekend, except maybe going to see the new Star Trek. I think all activities aside from the surprise party will be indoor activities with lots of air conditioning!

I hope everything is going really great for all of you!!