End of the crazy day recap

It's a two blog post kinda day. It has been a crazy weekend, one that would make Kanye West jealous. This morning I wrote about what we planned on getting accomplished. Getting the metal off and getting the siding prepped for paint. Well, we got a little bit side tracked. And by we, I mean ME. We DID get most of the metal off, but while blowing the gutters/roof of the garage I kept looking at the stupid, ugly, dilapidated, creepy "arbor" between the house and driveway.

As we went to Home Depot for some supplies for the siding, we realized it was only 10:30 am, and we had already done pretty much everything on our to-do list. This is really unheard of for us. We've been so dejected and depressed, thank you Tom, we didn't really ever get started until about 2 pm after hurricane Tom. I should also mention the extremely funny conversation we had in the store. ~ it needs just a little bit of backstory~ when we fist started our renovation we used to say "man, can you not wait until we can be those people who go to Home Depot to just get light-bulbs and filters?" So we were strolling the aisles of Home Depot getting odds and ends like, WD-40, bug spray, big gap filler, brillo pads, screws, a galvanized steel plate for the squirrel hole in our siding and whatnot.

Our conversation:

Bailey:  oh sweetie - we need some light bulbs and filters!
Preston: laughed and said, well, we don't have any arms to carry them. (we didn't get a cart).
Bailey: okie dokie hokey pokey.
Preston: Let's just order it on Amazon. I don't even use stores anymore. (in his most mean girls, Regina George voice).
Bailey: *laughing so hard in the aisles of Home Depot with people looking at me like I escaped an insane asylum.*

*ahem*

Bailey: okay.

Back to normal brain function. On the way home from the Depot we started driving to look at other peoples painting jobs. As we drove around here is our conversation:

Bailey: hmm. that one is kind of cute! I don't know about it though.
Preston: White siding with black trim around the windows; that's like mascara for your house.
*driving around looking more*
Preston:........actually...on second thought....it makes your house look kind of slutty.
Bailey: yeah, you nailed it. It's like dark houses need white mascara and light houses need no mascara.
************The jury is still out on the colors for the house, but we're pretty sure which way we're going. Tune in later for the reveal.

After a little bit of driving around looking at other people's paint jobs, we went home and decided we needed more time to decide the fate of our colors.

Then, Preston went to get the big ladder from his parents house, I got started demoing the ugly arbor. I was on a good role, but then I heard something buzzing around my head - having been in absolute war with wasps several times before, I froze and got to the driveway to check things out. ~PS. I had officially declared war on wasps 4 years ago..... (Preston informed me while he was showering the day off, "knowing your tract-record i figured the ugly-ass arbor would all be gone by now" Luckily, I noticed the buzzing because on the board next to the one I was ripping off, was covered in yellow jackets. ~ notice, I said yellow jackets, not the paper wasps we had been encountering in the house. Yellow jackets are mean little bastards that get mad if you mess with them and come after you with a vengeance. Just ask my sister Shawna on this one. She got stung by 42 yellow jackets. Trust me, they're mean.

When Preston got back from getting the ladder, we ate the yummy pizza his dad got us (so sweet :-) ) and got to the massacre. With wasp spray cans in both hands we started spraying like we were at the Texas State Fair in the midway, playing one of those water shooting the red circle games that you get the whatever to the top. ~ As a fun side note, Preston proposed to me 5 years today in front of Big Tex at the State Fair of Texas. <3 <3 <3

To make a long story short in the ending, we killed a ton of yellow jackets, finished demolishing the arbor and sat in the grass for about 20 minutes basking in our awesomeness, and went inside to watch the Cowboy's kick some butt. Today was a great day. Enjoy some pictures. #micdrop.

Preston's quote of the day:

"if a building could be held liable, this one should be."

<3

the ugly white lattice with some vine-y bull-honkey taking it over is what we destroyed today

my goodness, can he be more wonderful? seriously. God broke the mold on this man. 

Dead yellow jackets. *please note, not all of them made it into the picture. 

Preston here; Bailey is showering the crazy off. I took this awesome picture today without the ugly arbor we had. We are so pumped that the Cowboys won the game. What a great weekend. Stay tuned to for the next week for some amazing updates!!!!! Isn't our house cute????