Lucky Number 7

Pinning, pinning, and even some more pinning pretty much describes my addiction these days. It is amazing how one little social networking website just keeps drawing me in every day and I mean every day and sometimes a bit more than I am willing to admit! Its just that amazing!

I love interior design and this website just sparks that fire! My husband is wondering where I am getting all this energy and it is from Pinterest! There are so many wonderful ideas. I just cant get enough! I mean I seriously cant get enough of it. Its kinda sad when you think about it but for those few minutes a day it takes me away to my own special little paradise and it couldn't make me happier.

So there now that I have gotten that off my chest I feel so much better.....ahhhhhh!

This does tie into the title and our 7th anniversary, which by the way, it is today! I was browsing Pinterest today and found this beauty....

Seven years today :)

How adorable is that?!?! I mean talk about a cute little thing to do for any event. Wedding, birthday, or an anniversary. So easy and cheap to DIY! Maybe in the near future I may have to try this baby out.

So anyway I am off to prop my feet up on the couch and watch a movie with my love. What a great ending to an amazing day.

Blessed...

Since I was a little wee one I have always wanted to be a mommy. Carrying my dolls around and acting like their mother was not out of the ordinary for me. It was just a part of who I was and who I grew up to be. A mommy to me is something that no other feeling can compare to. It is just...amazing :). I never was one of those kids that dreamed of being famous. Of course I had my Debbie Gibson moments on our front porch, but that was it. That life never appealed to me. I loved the family that I grew up in and knew that one day I would have a family of my own. Family gatherings for birthdays and the holidays became my favorite thing to do. Just being with my family was special. Maybe because I had such an amazing one!

August 21, 2004 I married the love of my life and my new family had begun...


When I look at my little family of five (seven years later) I just smile :). I just cant help it! I never in my wildest dreams would have thought I would have been a mommy of three. Sometimes I have to pinch myself and wonder why God decided to bless me with this wonderful little life. I truly am blessed beyond words and I am so thankful.

My life revolves around my family and I would not have it any other way. Being able to stay at home with my babies is the most amazing thing. I love being here with my loves when they wake up until they put their sleepy little heads on their pillows at night. Not many families are able to do it so I know how fortunate we are. My momma was never able to stay at home. Her and my father both had to work to support our family. I must say they worked their booties off for my sister and I to have the life that we deserved. .

So here I am, 29 years young...a momma of three and a wife to wonderful (sexy) man who loves me more than words can even begin to describe. We may not be rich in money but we sure are rich in so many other ways.

Behrly Enough Paint!

The deck is finally finished! It only took us about three days to complete it but it felt like forever. This definitely was a project that was long over due. When we bought this house over three years ago the deck was on the top of the to do list.

You could tell that the previous owners had no idea what they were doing and just starting nailing boards together and they some how came up with a deck. But since getting decks torn down and rebuilt costs a fortune we decided to leave it as is and paint it at some point. Well that "some point" ended up being almost four years later! But honestly, now I see why we waited so long to do it.....I didn't know how many crevices this thing had! Once I started painting there was no looking back. Oh and did I mention that when the previous owners were putting this together they in no way measured the distance between each board on the floor of the deck. So that left us with major gaps between each one. So guess what we had to do? Yep that's right! We had to take a itsy bitsy tweeny weeny (haha) paint brush and paint in every crack. I was about to lose my mind after the first two! Here is what the deck looked like before its makeover...



this was after i cleaned it!

It definitely looked ten times better after I cleaned it but no where as good as it was going to look! So once I began painting I new this baby was going to look brand new. My excitement fed my energy and I was painting like a mad woman but then something happened. The worst thing that can happen to a painter, especially when they get on a roll...


i ran out of paint!!!

I was so mad! Look how close I was to the end! It about drove me crazy. Oh and if you look close you can see the cracks between each board. Yea that is what we had to paint because you can clearly see the old board color between each boards. You can see now why I was about to lose my mind!
Ok so after I had to run out to the store to get more paint I finally was finished! It felt so good to get this job done, crossed off the list! It will definitely work until we can build a new deck later on down the road. Here are a few pictures of the finished product!

It looks like a completely different deck! I actually enjoyed going out there and having people over. I used to be so embarrassed when people would come over but now I am so proud of my baby! If anyone is interested we used Behr premium weatherproofing deck paint semi-transparent and the color was sable. The paint was great and it only took one coat! We went for the semi-transparent paint because with old boards regular paint would have taken two or more coats, talk about some money! But we are so excited to finally have this done and we could not be happier.

Oh and remember those letters I made for Kate's room? Well I outlined them and love love love them! It definitely makes them pop off the wall a bit more. Here is a pic of the newly outlined letters...

Now on to finishing Kate's room! Thanks to all who suggested outlining the letters :)

She wore an itsy bitsy, teeny weeny, purple polka dot...letters?

Yeah I guess the title is kinda out there but that is all I kept singing when I was making the first piece of art work for Kate's new big girl room. I wanted letters for her room but since she already had white walls I wanted to do something that would stand out. I also wanted big letters, which were hard to find, but I did! And.....even before I painted them, I loved them! But since the wall they were to take residence on was white, I needed to spruce them up just a bit. So here they are just plain Jane...

Now I was on to figuring out what I wanted to do with them. I didn't just want to paint them solid so I decided to paint....you guessed it....polka dots! I didn't want those perfect dots, but something a little more hand drawn. So I free handed with a itsy bitsy, teeny weeny paint brush <------sorry I had too! It turned out....well....I'm not sure what to think about it. I promise the color is purple not black! So here is the finished product...

I love the way the circles look imperfect. That's what I was going for but I am not too sure how I feel about the finished letters hanging on the wall. So it will have to sit with me for just a little bit to see if by some chance I change how I feel. We will see! For now on to project number two for little bits room.

Dehinge or not dehinge?

So if you keep up with this little blog of mine you will know that last week I scratched two things off my almost four year old list. Amazing. I know! I am slowly getting things done. It feels like I have been pregnant for the last 3 years and now I can breath and get back to work on this lovely house we call home. The first thing I scratched off the list was removing our ugly storm door and the after shot is amazing. I still cant believe how much better it looks...here is a little picture to remind you!

And....once that was complete I began to spray paint every door knob in the house. They went from this...

To this...

Such a difference! You may not notice them when you walk in the door but I DO! So now the dilemma was figuring out how to make the hinges the similar color without having to take every door in this house off the hinges. I would have also had to recruit my husband to help and sometimes I just like to figure it out on my own and get the "I have an awesome wife" look when he gets home ;)

So I came to the conclusion that I was not going to be able to take the doors of the hinges by myself. So my little brain got to ticking and (BAM!) the idea smacked me right in the face...why not purchase paint that was similar to the color of the door knobs? So that's just what I did! It was extremely hard to find something that was exact but I figured the distanced between the hinge the door knob was enough to where no one would notice (unless you are reading this). So here are the hinges before...

inside hinge before

   

inside hinge after



outside hinge after (forgot to snap a before)

I was beyond excited that it actually worked. I mean it really worked! Even if you put them side by side you couldn't tell that they were two different colors. I must say that this little DIY project definitely turned out a million times better than I could have ever imagined!

Now onto finishing up Kate's new room! Lets hope the outcome there is just as exciting :)


Buzz...buzz...buzz...



wish i had that many arms!

We are some busy bees in this house all week! With Anthony's parents coming in next week and (you know me) everything needs to be done! It actually gives me a deadline because if I didn't have that, my list would never get finished. So here is the list of everything I still have to get done in exactly one week from today...yikes!

1. Paint Kate's new room
2. Reorganize Kate's room
3. Clean and stain deck (that's a biggie)
4. Install new sand pump for pool
5. Clean out pool
6. Clean
7. Clean
8. Oh yea and CLEAN!

Hopefully today I can scratch one or two things off that list! Man this is such an exciting post! Really it is a to do list for me and if I do not document it somewhere then it will never get done. So there you have it. Now off to get buzzing away :)

Short and sweet.

Thankful is really the word to describe this post. Today I am in Nags Head, NC with two of my closet friends. These two lovely ladies have been around for as long as I can remember. They have been with me through every life changing moment, good and bad! No matter what time of day, all I have to do is make a call and they would be there by my side. How many people can say they have true friends like that? I am so lucky to call them my loves. I am beyond thankful for two amazing friends that I know will be around until I take my final breath, holding my hand until the end. I love you both :)

Doors, and Knobs, and Screws...Oh My!

So I have finally completed two home improvement projects that I have been talking about since we moved into this house, which was a little over three years ago! What were these two little projects you ask? You did ask didn't you? Oh well, you are going to hear about it anyway :) They were spraying painting every door knob in this house and taking off the ugly thing people call a storm door from our front porch. First off I want to give you a few tid bits on spray painting just in case you were feeling the itch like I do so very often. First off make sure you have your surroundings covered! I usually do and then today I guess it was a bit windy and I got some spray paint on my front porch, oops! I guess its nothing that a little graffiti remover cant handle. Second, make sure it isn't in the forecast to rain. I am not just talking about the wet factor but the humidity. It sucks and it takes forever for the paint to dry.

Ok so now that I am done giving some advice (don't always quote me on it) I am ready to talk about my little DIY projects. You have no idea how excited I am about actually getting this stuff done!

So here are the door knobs in all their gold glory...

They definitely were gold! So my next step was to figure out which color. I love everything oil rubbed bronze and was in heaven when I noticed it on the shelf at Home Depot. Yes I actually got a little giddy in the aisle but I could not help my self.

I totally forgot to take a "during" picture of the finished door knobs but there will be a picture at the end with the finish product!



During that drying period I decided that it was the perfect time to get started on the storm door. I never knew how many screws it took to hold up that door! It was ridiculous. When I thought I was done there was another one just smiling down at me! Here is what it looked like with the storm door...



Berk decided to pop in the picture



And let me tell you how heavy that door was. I was totally not expecting that! Ok so after that took for.ev.er I finally patched up the crap ton of holes from the screws and began to paint. For those of you that know me, this was my favorite part. Anything to do with painting makes me smile :).

Finally the storm door was removed (which makes my red door stand out so much more) and all door knobs in the house are a lovely shade of oil rubbed bronze. I didn't take any pictures of the inside door knobs but you should get the gist of the color from the ones on my front door. Well here ya go... 



finished door knobs





finished door. sorry for the night picture!



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About Us

Welcome to the Hart family blog...

We are Morgan and Anthony Hart. We are your typical couple that loves Jesus more than words can express. We make it by day to day with His blessings and mercy. We may not be rich in money but we are beyond rich in so many other ways. Here are three of our riches...

 Kate Elizabeth

 Emma Grace

Ty Clayborn

Morgan...

I love being a stay at home mom. I would not have it any other way. I am currently finishing up my degree in Elementary Education and will finally graduate May 2012...whoot whoot! Can you tell I am excited? Well I am because this journey started almost 6 years ago. Then I kept having these little bumps (literally) that caused everything to come to an instant halt. I must say even though it has taken me this long, I would not trade those little bumps for anything! I am excited for the day to come when I can actually work outside of the home! I guess that will have to wait for now as my days are filled of being a mommy 24 hours/7 days a week!

Anthony...

My husband is currently a chief in the United States Navy. We are all so very proud of him. We also are counting down the days until we can be a normal civilian family. My husband is beyond caring and an extremely loving father. God definitely blessed me with an amazing husband and the babies with a wonderful father. We could not have asked for a better man in our lives. 

Our family...

We have three wonderful children (pictured above) that bring light and smiles into each and every day. Never in our wildest dreams would we ever think that we would be parents of three but I guess God had different plans! We also have two hairy boys, Max and Berkeley who add to the chaos that is our home! Our network consists of an amazing family on both sides as well as a wonderful, God loving set of friends that bless our lives daily!

Hang on and take a trip with us while we navigate through this crazy thing we call life!