Bucket List 2014: Frederik Meijer Gardens

Frederik Meijer Gardens was on our Summer Bucket List 2013 but we never quite made it. So it was one of those first things we wanted to cross off this year. We went on a perfect day. Nice and hot and sunny! Austin of course loved the boats. We spent a good hour hanging with the boats.

Ava finds anything interesting that Austin does. She just happens to be not as picky about which boats she plays with.

Once it started getting close to lunchtime, we took the kids to the cafe and they were already getting a little restless so we took them outside by the fountain.

And I worked hard to keep Ava out of the fountain while capturing her curiosity

Looking forward to whatever else we hit on our bucket list this year. It won't be easy to hit them all but it definitely keeps us from sitting around when it comes to the weekends.

The Build: Update to Laundry/Craft Room

I don't really want to post this because this craft room / laundry room looks ten times better without my crazy lighting. Its got these nice big windows for daylight but for whatever reason I needed the lights on and it's not the largest of spaces.....so despite the pics hopefully you get the jist. Lots of great spaces and cupboards and storage galore!

The cabinets are a beautiful grey, not green or blue like any of these pics portray. And the wood flooring is a distressed grey

wrapping paper station!? AWESOME!I still have a lot of organizing to do in here as you can tell by those bottom shelves already looking crazy!

this is where I park myself a few nights a week to edit photos. It's a nice big monitor and I have daylight and regular light so I don't have to worry about glare.

The sink is also in but has yet to be used. It sits right behind the door....well not anymore cause Jason took off the door but it makes the space so much more open without a door. Although the laundry can be noisy at times, never enough that makes me want a door back on.