HGTV

Tom and I have noticed that much of our free time on the weekends is spent fixing things around the house and making it more of our home. This weekend we decided to take all of the shutters down and paint them black. The side of our yard looked like something right out of an episode of Get It Sold on HGTV. We had all of the shutters lined up on old sheets and 6 cans of spray paint later, we had brand new shutters! They look really great and I am becoming a huge fan of spray paint.






I also put up some new Uppercase Living and figured I would share that as well.

New Railings

This past weekend Tom changed the railings on our front porch and it looks awesome!

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Vacation

Tom and I went to the Outer Banks from July 4th - July 11th with 4 other couples and we had a great time. Well, other than that fact that I got burnt on the third day to the point that I was sick for the rest of our vacation. I even had SPF 55 on and was only on the beach from noon-2PM; went back to the house and ate lunch and put MORE sunscreen on and then went back to the beach from 2:30-4. Well somehow, I ended up more burnt than I have ever been and was in bed for the next 2 days. I was in pain and sick to my stomach until the vacation was over. When we got home, I still didn't feel right and went to the doctor. They told me that I had severe second degree burns and sent me to the ER right away because they thought my leg was infected and had to be drained (gulp). Anyway, it was a great vacation and we can't wait to go back (although I will be wearing a hooded sweatshirt and pants to the beach)!