'Tis The Season

...No, not the holidays, but the season where the temps start to creep up and the days start to get longer. I don't know about you, but in our house that means more regular adventures that include the pup. That's why it's so important to be aware of just how quickly temperatures rise inside a closed car:

You don't sit in a metal, airless box in a fur coat for even 10 minutes on a warm day, so don't make your pooch. If you're like me, you want to have your furry friend alongside you whenever you can, but really: If it's warm and you will need to leave them in the car, they are happier - and safer - at home.

And also, because this cracked me up and it's Friday:

Happy weekend friends!

*I found both of these images on Facebook the past few weeks - If anyone knows the original sources let me know!

Color Run Recap

I trained, I ran, I partied.
If The Color Run is headed to your city, get up early (ours sold out in 6 hours), slap down the money, and get ready for a good time, because it's completely worth it. And I've got the pictures to prove it!

Pre-race packet pickup on Saturday.

Color Run Seattle!

After-party explosions

...That left me looking like this by the time we got home.

So glad we had the GoPro to use!

Boom. Color.

Completely coated.

And, just to give you a better taste of the full experience: A GoPro video Nate took during the after party (it's only a minute and better with sound, turn it up!):

I'm pretty proud - I hate running, but with Nate's encouragement I trained and was able to run the whole thing AND keep up with a coworker of mine we ran with who's training for a half marathon. I call that decent!

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Random Round Up: Hustle

It was a weekend on the move: Mother's Day with each mom, prep and completion of The Color Run, and squeezing in putting the house back together whenever possible.

Puggle in Profile

Adding to the Sperry stash.

A couple stellar spring days in a row.

What's a Friday night without a little extra long baseboard wrangling?

One of my fave deco-style buildings in Seattle Center.

I'll be back with a full recap of The Color Run in all it's glory later this week. Happy Monday!

Completely Floored

As promised (drumroll please)... The new floor!

Dining room - In need of a non-Ikea table, stat!

Incredibly thin hearth surround.

Hall (laundry/garage on left, powder room doorway on right)

Kitchen, dining beyond, as viewed from family room.

Semi-put together living room/dining room.

Powder room (sans toilet)

Light-flooded sewing room.

Even Tucker's coming around.

You can see things are still in transition a bit with the uninstalled toilet, the piles of crap stuff on the kitchen counters, and the baseboard up in only some of the rooms (I actually polished off that project last night, but some of the photos were snapped prior). And as for the white baseboard with the "pickled oak" (yep, that's really the color name... gross) cabinetry, oh the plans we have. Those puppies will ultimately be all kinds of white and hardware-d hopefully by the end of the summer. Same with all the doorjambs - all Decorators White by Benjamin Moore, same as the newly spruced baseboards.

If you're in the area, we highly, highly recommend Evoke flooring (ours is the style 'Gustave') through Metropolitan Hardwood. And I cannot say enough good things about our installer: Alex of A.S. Hardwood - He's licensed, insured, and awesome. I was so impressed at the level of care and quality he and his assistant poured into their work.

But for now, reveling in the new floors and how spacious the place feels! Thrilled.

Shuffle [base]Board

You guys, I'm such an unintentional tease. Here I promise floor photos and am not at all delivering! Well here's one little kitchen glimpse of the before and after:

More to come, I promise! But with a family birthday and both visitors and The Color Run this coming weekend, things are getting lost in the shuffle over here. The current pressing project is getting the baseboard sanded, painted, and re-installed. Caulking and filling the holes will have to wait until next week/end, but for now we're just shooting for protected sheetrock and getting my car back in the garage. Check it out:

Yellow-y cream to clean, pretty white.

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Gloves and sandpaper (not a disembodied hand, despite appearances...)

Drying in the garage

Paint Creature

The baseboard in the living/dining rooms were that yellow-y cream color pictured above, but most of the other stuff is a super shiny kind of orange-y wood. It surrounds all the doorjambs too, so guess what the next project is....
Floor pics are coming. Really. Someday soon!!

Random Round Up: Macro Moments

First things first: YES, the floors are in!!! And I can't wait to show you more this week. For now, let's get up close and personal with a few weekend moments...

A little Sunday a.m. Starbucks cinnamon roll action.

Swiffer floor duster is my new BFF.

Painted baseboard in waiting.

Cheap, bright sunnies to wear during The Color Run... NEXT SUNDAY!

Lots of paint touch-ups = Very. Small. Brush.

I'll get some pictures together and get you the floor reveal asap! Stay tuned...

Farewell Flooring!

You saw the process of getting rid of the kitchen linoleum last, so thought I'd squish all the other results into this one post: Hardwood and more carpet, gone! It was my personal undertaking to remove every last piece of hardwood from the foyer/hall/powder room via sledge hammer, rubber mallet, 36" pry bar and good ol' fashioned sweat. And... Success! Let's bring on the before and after...er, during, shall we?

Foyer Before (can't see from here, but hardwood is very damaged)

Foyer (and hall) Demo'd (black paper is old moisture barrier)

Powder Room Before (hardwood splintering/damaged here too, really)

And Powder Room Demo'd - Sink and toilet in the garage, classy.

Family Room Before (and a Tucker butt)

Family Room Getting Sealed (it was down to bare wood in here)

Family Room Demo'd!

Meanwhile, the kitchen now looks like this:

Utter Chaos

But this was pretty satisfying...

Bye linoleum!

 We're living on the bare bones, drop cloths, and shoes on at all times (which kills me)... But that just means that the flooring is really happening. Right. Now.

Reveal next week!