Spring is HERE!!!

We have been pretty here at the Bybee home! Here is an update: The house is coming along really well. We still have a lot to do but it's really coming together. We have been so blessed with the opportunity to buy a house and make these improvements. We're hoping the basement will be ready to rent out in a month or so. One of my favorite updates is my new ceiling fan in our master bedroom. We still have to replace the windows and put in a floor but it's nice to have it in.

Spiders are NOT my Friends....

In the midst of my busy day that consisted of homework and cleaning I found this little guy on the bathroom floor!!! Spiders make me cringe! It's not the best picture because I wasn't going to get to close, but at first I thought it was a black widow! It had red on it, freaked me right out. Looking at it closer I realized it's not shaped like one, although I still think it's gross! I haven't seen one spider since we moved in until this guy. After staring at it for five minutes I knew I had to get rid of it.I did find that phone books are useful for more than just looking up phone numbers. I'm sure where ever you were at the time of this incident you heard me scream when I threw the book at it.Aside from that funny story I had to post a picture of what we are doing to our upstairs bathroom. We decided to go with a Venetian theme and I love this tile we picked out. I'll have to post before and after pictures when it is all done!
Now that you are done reading you may presume laughing at me:)

My Dad's 50th Birthday

The Tractors
The Stash
I'd probably be in trouble if my dad knew I was posting this, he he. His birthday was the last week of February and he turned the big 5-0. Chris and I went up to my parents house on Saturday and stayed over. On Sunday we had a birthday dinner and opened presents. It was nice to spend time with the family. We gave him 50 presents to try and making turning 50 not so bad. I hope he enjoyed it as much as we did:0 He got a ton of his favorite treats, some new ties, a jacket, and a few toy tractors (he's been wanting to buy a new tractor so we thought it would be funny to get him a toy one). My dad is such a wonderful person and I don't know what I would have ever done with out him. He is a great example to me and I love him so much! Thanks dad!!

Love Day

I hope everyone had a great Valentines Day. The pics are of a flower bouquet that Chris actually gave me about a week ago just because! He's so sweet:) For Valentines Day we went out for a nice dinner and shopping together. It's just nice to be able to spend time with the ones we love!

Master Bedroom

This picture is kind of dark but there is not a lot to see other than it was very outdated.
The house has some really interesting closets but they are very unique so it makes it fun. Don't worry we are eventually replacing all of the doors and windows through out the house.
You can also see the lighting they had from before.
The walls had a lot of blemishes so we decided to do one of the new texture techniques, one of them is called holy smooth, I love the way they look. You can kind of see the texture if you look close. Anyway the pictures don't do justice for them. But we really like the colors, it's just a chocolate brown and tan, the chair rail adds a nice accent and we are also going to put in crown molding. That's why we didn't paint the top of the walls by the ceiling.

I painted the inside of the closets and put new hardware on the drawers so they look a lot better now. I haven't had a chance to paint all of the trimming yet though so it still needs work.
I should probably mention that our life revolves around our house right now so if you get sick of us posting our update pictures then I apologize in advance.

Small Updates

I don't want to post to many pictures until I have the complete before and after. It's been a work in progress remodeling our house but it has also been a lot of fun. The whole upstairs needed painting, and the ceilings were just plain and we wanted them textured. My dad has been down helping us. He textured the living room and kitchen ceilings and my mother painted them. (Thanks again so much mom and dad!) I textured the hallway and bathroom, and Chris did the master bedroom and painted them all. The rest of the ceilings in the house had already been textured so that was nice.
They also had some really weird lights and in order to replace them we had to get a certain type and size in to cover up the rectangle holes from before, unless we would have wanted to rebuild a ceiling around it which would have been a pain. We looked everywhere and I couldn't find anything that I liked that was the right size, until I found these and I absolutely love them. I have to mention though that putting texture on a ceiling is not the easiest thing I've ever done.
As you can see in this picture we haven't painted the walls yet, but it gives you an idea of what we got ourselves into and the progress we have made!!! If anyone had any fun ideas while we are remodling let us know. I would also be very open to some fun decorating ideas:)
We also decided that with all the remodeling we might as well put in a fire place, interesting that there wasn't one already. But we found that in order to vent it out we would have had to put it in a spot that wasn't very usable and that would have also been a lot of work. So we opted to buying a vent-free gas fireplace. This picture is obviously not the end result but like I said it's a work in progress. Chris and I have been really busy with school and work, but we hope to have to basement ready to rent out by spring break!