much needed nursery update

just a couple photos of the nursery- still have a few things we need to do but it's pretty much finished. 

yay baby Weston!!! 

the AMAZING quilt mom made for Weston 

still need to get some baskets but isn't every nursery a work in progress? 

kitchen update part 2

small update to the kitchen - all of the cabinet bases are put together, just need to put shelves in and the sink in. then its time for the stone tops and back splash 

kitchen updates

here is a picture of the kitchen when we bought the house 

then we painted the cabinets and the trim and it looked a little like this

now matt and mark took out all of the cabinets so we can replace them with new ones - just a couple snap shots. 

no cabinets

one cabinet built but not in place yet.

more updates are obviously to come! 

still a long way to go!!

before this room was the nursery it was our closet. (excuse the mess but here are some before photos) 

betty finished the last coat of paint this weekend. the curtains have since come down and the trim still needs to be painted however here is the paint! 

achristina and betty put together our crib for us while I was out of town and matt was working on the kitchen (that post is to come) 

the blue turned out to be such a great color!! still has a long way to go but its getting there! 

baby boy

matt has finally decided on a color for the nursery (he hated all my ideas) and we have one coat done.... one more to go (and when I say we I mean Matt). 

Sherwin Williams Poolhouse is what was selected. Its VERY blue!! Especially considering I wanted something nuteral. But it looks great on the walls do far! 

happy new year!!

here was my new years day project... it has already at this point been cleaned up soooooooo much however betty and I decided it would be good to put down bricks in this area (where we keep our trash cans). I decided to tackle it new years day - we have  ton of bricks left over from where we took them out around the back yard flower beds.

here is the final project (well almost final - we still need to put sand in between the bricks but that is not something you can see the difference in a picture). 

coat rack

one problem with having an old house is lack of storage. we don't have an entry way closet and although we don't need one year round we decided to take one section of our entryway bookcases and make it a place to hang our coats. 

i think it turned our pretty good! 

update long coming

back a couple years ago Grandma and Grandpa helped me sand down my Great Grandma's table and chairs. it stayed sanded down until a couple weeks ago when I had someone at work stain it. 

We are very excited about the outcome!

in the shuffle

still in the shuffle of figuring out where everything is going to go but we got the dining room furniture down from dallas today!!!!! YAY!!!! It fits perfect! Will post better pics once we get it all settled in. 

get your HORNS up!!!

Hook 'em Horns!!! Ready for some football!!! 

not shag but kinda has a 70's vibe to it

our new rug for the dining room resembles something I think would have been found in the 70's. but I love it. it adds so much color! The lighting makes it a lot more yellow then it is. 

this is more like the actual color of the rug - blue loves it when we get new rugs. he rolls around them so that it smells like him and not like a new rug. 

next on our list for this room is new curtains - we are thinking something with orange and teal. I am hoping mom and I can go shopping next week for some fabric. and then of course we are just waiting for our furniture to come from mom and dad's. we will have it in 2 weeks!!!!! 

yard work again

while mark and matt worked on trimming the trees betty and I (mainly betty) decided to get the bamboo cut down - this is what we ended with. Its amazing how much space it took up and how much more open the back yard feels. 

betty also decided to conquer some of the banana trees we had and we found a cut little aloe vera plant growing in the middle of them. 

weekend update

most of our weekend was spent hanging out in Austin - but we were able to get the rest of our room painted when we got home last night!!  now all we need to do is hang stuff on the walls and we are golden. 

we also rearranged the guest room - but the wall paper is still in there so its not ready for photos. 

a little status on the upstairs bathroom - here is our new shower curtain. maybe one day I will start painting the wainscoting and trim... but till then we are trying to get all of our little projects complete. 

blue spent the first part on the ride home in my lap - then most of the rest with his head on my shoulder.  poor thing - he really HATES car rides. he looks so sad/ annoyed in this photo! 

one project down a million to go

this is a horrible picture but for some reason its the best I could get because of the hall light. both matt and I think the frames need to be painted just not sure what color yet. 

we decided to hang them on the wall above the stairs. we could only hang two of the three cause of the lack of space. 

the on going yard saga

matt and I have become a little more ambitious in our yard work lately. we took on this task on sunday when we went to a nursery and decided we wanted to plant in our corner yard..... it took us way more time then we thought to dig this up and it is still not complete... we still have to dig the sides and front up. AHHHHH - but we had to plant the plants cause they were about to die. 

One day I will learn to take before pictures as well as after. 

these plants were also supposed to go in the front corner lawn - but we didn't have room so they are in pots in the back now. not sure if they will stay here.. only time will tell. 

and the last project from the weened replanting the front stoop plants in bigger pots. the one on the left is more visable then the one on the right. going to have to figure out what to do about that. 

we have someone coming tomorrow to give us a quote on trimming our trees - cause they are clearly taking away from the house not adding to it. 

kitchen island update

here is the update on the island - it really makes the room a ton more functional! now all we need are some barstools! 

and a photo of blue looking at me like I am crazy for taking pictures of the house. ha! 

gardening

we did some gardening this weekend at the house. mark and betty came over and we took out so much stuff to try and make the house more viewable from the street. I regret that I did not take any before photos and it is still a big work in progress - but here is the status. it is not complete due to the EXTREME heat! but this took us about 8 hours 

the front of the house where all that really changed is addition of the two pots - which matt bought new ones so once I replant in them I will post an updated photo. we also need to get someone out to trim this tree!!! 

we took out the side flower bed (need to add new grass now) 

here again you can see where we used to have a flower bed and you can also see that we took out the majority of the plants on the side 

without a before picture this picture really doesn't show anything but Betty trimmed this tree up for us - some of the branches were touching the ground!!! in my opinion this was one of the biggest parts of the transformation. 

matt also added this to the pecan tree in the back - I am pretty sure we are one of the only people who want squirrels in our yard... oh blue - he's so spoiled!! 

following directions

I went on a minor shopping spree yesterday at bed bath and beyond and came out with this kitchen island. 

we have both been wanting one and we have been trying to figure out which one... so 20% later this is the one I decided on - mainly cause it was in the store and I had a 20% off the entire purchase coupon... otherwise we would still be trying to decide. 

matt had to run some errands for the condo last night - which meant I decided to try and put it together on my own.... here are some pics of it un assembled and all over our kitchen. 

2 hours and 45 min later this is where I got. Not too bad!!! It has so far not been too difficult to put together - just time consuming. 

hopefully this will get finished this weekend - along with the condo, painting the last wall in our master and some gardening.... we are going to have a busy weekend.