Water water every... you know the drill. It's wet!

Soooo we're in the middle of planting season! The time where everyone and their sister is out gardening and making the yard pretty for summer! Have we been doing the same? Noooooo no we have not. Not for lack of wanting to mind you.

We have had almost completely non-stop rain for the last month.We'll get a little sun, but before the ground can even think about drying out it rains again. So the mess of a yard that I was hoping to have at least somewhat pretty this first summer? Yup. Still a mess. We also have a low spot near the back fence that I was hoping to fill with dirt and get grass seed in (our neighbors planed their yard so it drains into ours. Jerks.) so that it won't flood when it rains hard. Yup. Still there.

Still so... blah!

At this point it's feeling like not much landscaping will be happening this year. We're already in June and I have about half a planting bed raked and weed free. Another issue we've had is that all the planting beds and anywhere around the fence or near the house, there are these bricks and pavers. They are BURIED in the ground, sometimes 3 or 4 deep! It's almost like the previous owner stole them and was trying to hide the evidence... Unfortunately with all the time it's taken to pull them up, they aren't really usable for anything. They are oddly sized and in pretty bad shape. Especially sad considering that we have 2-300 at this point.

One major thing will be happening though, we're having all the trees on the front of the house pulled out. SO once they show up we'll be able to do something to the front.

Now you're going, wait Bre, this post is supposed to be about water! We demand more water! Well, take a visit to our bathroom. The genius lovely person who flipped this house did not put in a fan in the room with the shower. Then they painted it with FLAT paint. That was one of the only rooms I was not going to paint right away. Well now I have to, the paint is already peeling off from the shower humidity. And we're getting a fan installed as well. It's not too bad yet. In reality it still just looks like this:

But in my mind I see this:

I borrowed that picture.

The question now is, what should I paint the bathroom? And how nuts do I want to go? Ideally I'd like to get a new sink cabinet (not oak + laminate) and mirrors and install bead-board. I don't know if that's in the budget though. Thoughts?