Tricia Braunersrither - February ~ Paint the door

Two years ago while my Dad was visiting we discovered that in my home we had a huge space under my stairs that was not being used.  

It was pretty much the best discovery ever!   

We live in Texas with NO basements and homes here come with storage issues for sure.  

To discover this space and have my dad here to cut a hole in my wall, make a door, reinforce the walls (so it can also be used as a tornado shelter) was awesome!  

My only job was to paint the door.  

Yep, 2 years later it still looked like this...

My goal this month was to get the thing painted!   

Luckily Papa Tom came to town and loves projects so I enlisted his help and got it done!  

OK so he did the whole thing, but hey it got done and I made him pancakes!

My awesome Dad with my boys...

My next goal was to change out some finishes in my bathroom, he may have been a big part of that goal getting completed too, 

you will have to wait until next month to see that!

A Vacation with my Hubby!

My name is Tricia Braunersrither.

  I have been friends with Nora since High school.  

Becky Beck is my sister and Jill Carey is my sister in law, they too are participating in this project.  Jill Carey, Julie Doherty, Nora, Kelly Olsen and I are all friends from high school, and contributors to the project.

I am married to Dale, and we are proud parents to six kids ranging from 4-19.  

I've been a stay at home mom for the past 19 years and love my life being a wife, mom, and a homemaker.  We live in Texas, have been here 16 years and love it.  

My goal this month was to take a week vacation with just my husband.  The biggest part of this goal is not the actual cruise that we went on but was preparing my home and kids to be left for a week.  We have 5 kids at home, my oldest daughter is serving a LDS mission in Paraguay.   So preparing a manual for the sitter for 5 kids with 5 schedules is a big job!  So many details had to be remembered and written down.  You don't realize how many details you attend to every day until you have to write them down for someone else to follow.  My iMac shutting down and having to be taken to be fixed in the middle of my preparation did not help matters either.  I had every day mapped out and almost done when the iMac started having problems.  Ugh, we got it back the day before we were leaving and I got the manual finished.  

We had a great cruise and my kids had a great week with a really great couple who stayed with them.  

Our cruise was pretty great too....

It was a great way to celebrate our 21st Wedding Anniversary.   

If you have never had time away with your husband with no kids I highly recommend it!  

The first time we did it we had been married 17 years.  

Now we try to do it once a year!

Tricia Braunersrither's Goals & Projects for 2014

January - Go on a trip with my husband.  

February - paint a door that has needed painting since we hung it two years ago.