Travis and Projects

I realize last post seemed whiny so I just want to say how grateful and excited I am to be pregnant!  I really am feeling great these days.  I am just ready to meet this little lady!  

I haven't given an update on Travis lately.  That is because I mostly don't see him.  Work and church are keeping him really busy!  He is still working in Columbus so he has the hour+ commute each way that is taking up lots of time.  He loves working at the office there and doesn't mind the drive.  He just wishes he could see Adelyn more.

He is still working in the young men's program at church and is the Venturing crew captain for scouts.  They are often doing service projects and activities.  They haven't been on many campouts lately with all the snow though.  He has also been coaching the basketball team.  It has been a good experience for him to learn patience.  :)  They just had the tournament games on Saturday and his team came out the champions!  I am glad to get him back on Thursday nights and Saturdays!

When he is home, I have him busy working on projects!  Something I did not know about him when we got married is how good he is at building things.  I am taking advantage of his talents and giving him lots of projects to do.  He loves doing them, but can be somewhat of a perfectionist.  His lack of time and perfectionism means that he can't keep up with my list!  Here are just a couple of things he has done around the house!  I love them all!

This is the "dining room."   Since we never sit down formally, we have decided to make it into a sitting/music room.  Travis just finished painting the walls a taupe color and put up the wall paneling.  I love the way it turned out!  Now we just need to get some furniture to go in there!  It is pretty empty right now with the piano being the only piece of furniture. 

 

This is one of my favorite projects he has done!  We needed a kitchen table and I found one that I loved, but it was waaaaayyy out of our price range.  Travis mentioned he could build one.  I found two different sets of plans on anawhite.com that I liked.  He combined the top of one table and the bottom of another and adjusted the size to fit our wants.  I LOVE it!  It can easily fit 10 people! He also built the bench.  At some point I want to get tufted chairs instead of just using these hand-me-down chairs.  

Here is the other wall project he did for the playroom.  The great thing is that I see a vision and he follows through with it!  I usually tend to stick with neutral colors.  I figured that our kids will only be little once so this was the perfect opportunity to try something crazy.  It is bright and fun and totally different! You can't tell, but that is white trim outlining each box.  He is way more patient than me with little details like that and getting them perfectly lined up. 

 Next up on our list is the baby's room.  We want to do bead board with a chair rail.  I need to hurry up and get crib bedding so that we can decide on colors!  I think we are going to try using a textured wall paper instead of paneled wood for the beadboard.  I have found lots of tutorials and it looks pretty similar at a fraction of the cost.  I will post updates when it is done!