It's Finally Finished!!!

After 6 weekends of working on our bathroom we are for the most part finished. I still have some tweaks on the decorating end of things. Like hanging the plates in the back of my shelves, or maybe redoing that totally.( Not sure about the accessories yet.)I just went around my house collecting things I thought would work in there. I finished painting on Sat. and Karlton finished his part on Sun. I had planned on 3 weekends, maybe 4 but not 6. We did have to do more then we thought and we ended up making last minute changes. 3 days were spent working on 2 things, which killed our time... But it is nice to be done and have 2 bathrooms again.

This bathroom is the original bathroom that was in the house when we bought it. It was built in 1950, back when bathrooms were TINY and NO closet space at all!!!!!

Wanna see some pictures??? Here ya go.......... I am proud to say we did all by our little selves! ;0)

Remember the gold mirror????

After some white paint and sand paper to give it an aged look it is finished and did not cost a dime. We had the mirror , the paint, and sand paper already, just needed a new fresh look!




Of course I added my dishes! The boys do not like that they have dishes in their bathroom, but hey its free decorating!

They also do not like the Pink......But hey we do have 2 little girls in the house and I did want it to match the rest of my house...Not that I have lots of Pink, well I kind of do in pictures and roses in my couch. :0)

I just Love Toile! Can you tell????

So........ that is our new White, Pink( really it is a very soft red ), Green, English Cottage, French Country, Shabby Chic Bathroom!

What do you think?????

More Back To School Pictures

I started back to home schooling Lilee yesterday. She loves it! She would do it all day long if she could.. She does pretty good to be 4. She is very good with numbers... She will turn on the weather everyday to let me know what the temperature is and if it is going to be raining or sunny. Yesterday she informed me that it was going to storm and lightning and that the lightning was going to kill us....I told her , "heavens I hope not." I guess she is starting that realization stage, or she is starting to develop a good imagination. ;0)

I finally got a picture to down load for Josiah's back to school, but its blurry. You get the idea.....

It's Back To School .............

4 of the 5 kids headed back to school today..... 6:45 Joel and Sara Ava headed out the door for the Elementary. Karlton took them while I got Josiah up and going .Then at 7:30 I took Josiah over to the Middle School where he is starting 7th grade. I did take a picture of Josiah this morning, it just would not load on to my computer, so I will have to redo his picture. Then it was Jordan's turn to be dropped off at the High School at 8 am by Karlton on his was to work.

Tomorrow will not be as bad since Josiah will start riding the bus to school. Only 2 school runs in the morning and evening.

Lilee and I will start back to preschool today. Since I have a lot of cleaning to catch up on I think I will keep it light. Its kind of weird only having 1 kid at home. She really doesn't like it either.

At 2:15 Lilee and I will go pick up the 2 from the Elementary. I don't have to get the big boys until 5:30 from Cross Country at the High School..........unless Jordan calls me to come and get him. He has been sick since Fri. He ran a fever all weekend, but was better this morning. I am praying it was just a virus! But then again if it was I have a house full of people to look forward to getting it! That's pretty much my day other then cooking, doing tons of laundry, and running tonight....;0) So how is or was your 1st day of School?

Sara Ava's all ready for the 1st grade.

Joel is ready for his 1st day of 4th grade.

The Big Freshman!

We just sent Jordan (our oldest) off for his first day of High School! Please say a prayer for him and that he has a great year! Man, I'm starting to feel old!

Almost Wordless Wednesday

Here are some pictures I took of Joel on Sunday. Please leave me a comment and let me know which one/ones are your favorites. ;0)


The Color

The Black and White

The Sepia

Joel wanted me to take this picture of his hair, he has been letting it grow out all summer.

Getting Ready...............

The Shrum family is getting ready for a lot of stuff coming up ........ We have a lot on our plates........ some good, some normal, and some not so good.....Karlton and I could use your prayers to get us through these next few months!

Now on to what everyone is getting ready for...........











Mr. Jordan is all registered and ready for High School, as a Freshman. I went to register him this week and to get his schedule, books, and to see where all his classes are. I have to say I am overwhelmed for the poor guy. His school his 3 stories and spread all out. His classes are all up and down and everywhere. He starts this Friday the 13th. AAAAhhhh! I hope that is a good omen! He is also in Cross Country for the 2nd yr. and is ready to get his yr started.

Mr. Josiah is getting ready for the 7th grade...... He starts back to Middle School on Monday the 16th. He is also ready for his Cross Country races to start! This is his first yr. and loves it! They have been running all summer conditioning to get ready for their races. They work these poor kids really hard and in the heat too! They were running 4 X a wk in the mornings, but now that it is closer to school they have changed their practices to 5 days a week from 4-5:30.

Mr. Joel is getting ready for the 4th grade......and for the basketball season to start back up in the Fall. Joel and Sara Ava start back on the 16th too.

Miss Sara Ava is getting ready for the first grade. She is happy school is starting back!





And Miss Lilee and I are getting ready to home school her for Preschool. This is Lilee's last yr. home. She will start Kindergarten next August....... And let me tell you she is ready Now! She can't wait to go to school like all her big brothers and sister and does not understand why she is not going! lol......

As for me .................. I am just getting ready for it all.............because I have not choice! ;0)




I am also getting ready to turn 34 on the 31st. Ugh! I like 33 just fine...why do I need to turn 34!? I don't do I?

Oh yeah.........I am getting ready now to go work on our Bathroom that is never going to be done! I have lots of painting to do after Karlton finished his part. The bathroom was suppose to be finished last weekend but we had a lot of things go wrong and did not get to work on it on Sunday. I'm ready to be done!



But, I AM NOT READY FOR SUMMER TO END! I love summer and will be sad to see it go....except..... for when I run....I am ready for the cooler weather!

Keeping Track

I have upped my running to 3 1/2 miles 5 X a week. That is 17 1/2 miles a week. I just started this new mileage about 3-4 weeks ago......... I have been reading someones blog that is training for a marathon.......a marathon is a 26 mile race......... and they have a chart that they follow for a year to get them ready for a marathon. Its a daily record of what they run according to what they are suppose to run and then they grade themselves on their progress...... Sometimes they make their grade am sometimes they don't.

So...... I thought it would be fun to keep an official log of what I run week by week and then every 4 weeks. I have sort of kept track in my head to see how I am doing but nothing official.

After I started doing this this last 4 weeks. I was amazed at how I did! Did I get an A ? We will have to see........;0) (below)....... But it does give me encouragement to strive for a goal. But what goal will that be? I eventually want to run a 10K but that will be next yr. sometime..... For now I want to see mile daily mileage climb and just run a few more 5K's first.....

Now on to my last 4 weeks of running.......

WEEK 1 - 17 .5 miles ( this was my first week of running 3 1/2 miles 5 times a wk.)

WEEK 2 - 16. 1 miles ( I ended up biking 2. 6 miles with Karlton this wk. )

WEEK 3 - 17 .5 miles

WEEK 4 - 17 .5 miles

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TOTAL = I ran 68.6 miles for my first 4 weeks.

Ya! I give myself an 98% that is an A. I think I deserve an A with the heat I have been running in!

Next 4 wks I hope to run 70. that would be my 100% for right now.

Wordless Wednesday - Butterflies In My Garden

This Child..........

Of ours, our first born......... goes to High School tomorrow from 8-1 tomorrow and then we go back with him tomorrow evening for orientation. Jordan's first day of being a Freshman starts August 13th. Ahhhhhh...... I'm not ready for this!