Tiling is finished!

The floor is pretty much done. It just needs to be sealed. The painters are coming hopefully next week to paint the entryway and trim and the high foyer which will make a huge difference!

Long day

The tile is down. Now we have to grout tomorrow. Long day but I think it's going to be pretty!

Mudroom makeover

This is how our Mudroom entryway has looked since we moved in. Lovely, huh?? Notice the wine glass in the background as david ponders the best way to lay the tile....you have to drink wine when tiling. :) Well, lucky for us, this will be our project this week! :) along with a ton of other little projects we cant work on with the little monkeys. We've shipped the boys off to their grandparents' house for the week, and we are having ourselves a little staycation (so far it has been wonderful and I'm wondering why we haven't stayed home on vacation before!) so had to take a before picture and hopefully by the end of the week, this area will have an actual floor!

Wallah!!

Well, not quite "wallah!" because that would imply that this project took mere minutes and in actuality it took forever!! :) here are some pics of our recently remodeled bathroom. (See previous 2 posts for "before".) Still have to paint the ceiling a gold color and hang something on the wall and paint and put the shoe molding back but its mostly done. Tried to do this very budget friendly since the entire house has work to be done. We took the wallpaper down and painted the stained door a dark brown/ grey color.  Also, we painted the stained trim a light color which is the same color as the walls.  It lightened things up quite a bit.  We used curtains from our house in florida and the curtain rod was so kindly donated from my genius sister (Lindsey Hene Interiors) . I repainted the original cabinet that was in the bathroom and upholstered the cabinets (My sister's suggestion :0) with batting I had and a curtain I found at Lowes.  I really liked the pattern and it just happened to be the same color as my curtains.  Got the knobs at Anthropologie.....they were probably a bit of a splurge but I really liked them!  I also bought "feet" for the cabinet at Lowe's and David put those on for me.  The chandelier came from Ballard Backroom.  Got it an additional 50% off!  The most awesome part is the mirror!  I knew I wanted to use barn wood for something in there and I already had the mirror so we grabbed some barn wood from our barn and figured out how to hang it on the wall behind the mirror.  Have mentioned how BRILLIANT and AMAZING my hubby is??!!  Sooooo, I'm giddy over the fact that one room is actually somewhat finished!  I walked by it this morning and felt such relief to see that we now have a sink in the bathroom! Funny, the things you can get used to!  Let me know what you think!  Any recommendations for what to put on the wall??  I have some old surveys of our land and I was thinking about framing those but not sure.  The pictures aren't the best quality because the room is small and i had to take them with my phone because of the 2 little monkeys running around our house demanding breakfast this morning. (How dare them!  :0)

Taking longer than I thought...

So this process of beautifying the bathroom is taking much longer than I thought! We have finally gotten all the wallpaper down and it already looks a ton better but a sink would be nice....hoping to finish up this week. Fingers crossed!!

Powder room makeover

I'm going to attempt to makeover our powder room. Here is the sink that was in it when we moved in. We took it out when we moved in so the floor people could refinish the floors in the bathroom. (I say "we" about all the projects David does by himself. Not sure why I say "we" :) So, to save some moolah, I'm going to paint it and get knobs and hopefully turn it into something beeautiful! Wish me luck!! And side note, that is our front porch outside the window of our powder room. Bizarre, huh??

13 months and 3 houses later!

Yes, that's right. We have lived in 3 houses in the short 13 months that Whit has been on this earth. Phew!! It has been a wild ride! So we finally finished Whit's room (still need pictures on the walls and maybe a book shelf.) so there you have it! The first 2 rooms in our new house that are semi done! Yippee! :)

And weeks later....

Finally sort of finished Jax's room. Love the color! Still can't find my good camera among the boxes so had to take pics with my phone. Kinda hard to see but didn't want to leave ya hoping to hang some pictures of us in there too but that may take a while with all the projects we've got going on.

Moth gray.....

Starting Jax's room in the new house today. He needs some consistency badly. Hoping a decorated cozy room will help. Painting like mad until whit wakes up! Stay tuned! :)

1 year and a new house...yay!

Well, our sweet baby boy is 1 year old. I'm absolutely shocked at how quickly this year has gone by. Whitaker is the sweetest, happiest baby. (Right now I'm typing while at the same time trying to keep Whit from digging through the trash.) He LOVES to be held and hugged and he is obsessed with his daddy! He also thinks Jax is the funniest thing on 2 legs. Whit started walking a couple weeks ago and he babbles and says "dadda" and "mama" ("mama" was his first word but he has since traded me in for "dadda":0). He loves to play and he's a great sleeper. He has started to show signs of dropping his first nap but can you blame him?! He wants to play with his big brother! We went for his 1 year checkup yesterday and he is off the chart in height! He is in the 50% for weight so he is a pretty big boy (23 lb). Whit's hair is stick straight and brown and his sweet newborn blue eyes have finally settled on a hazel color. I'm trying to really focus on treasuring these moments with both Jax and Whit because the monotony of our daily routine is exhausting most days!

So now to the other big thing going on in our lives! We are in the process of buying the house across the street from my sister which is really exciting! The unfortunate thing is that we were supposed to close on December 16th but because of some property line issues, we weren't able to close. We have had 2 other closing dates that didn't work out but we did end up closing on the house this evening! Yay!! We have to be out of our rental house on Feb 4th and the floors have to be redone in the house that we are moving to so that we can actually live in it. As you can see this has been a major stressor in our lives. I'm ready to get settled and have a little more consistency around here. Also, I'm so excited to be closer (an understatement!) to my sister and her family! We will be doing quite a few renovations to the house so I will post pictures. David is anxious to get started on all the projects! Also, Jax will be starting a new school in February. This will be his 3rd preschool this year. He has adjusted well but I feel so bad about switching him around so much.

So after all that!! Here are some pictures!

Whit's bday celebration

Jax's 1st bday (I was curious to see how different they looked at a year:0)

The boys right before Christmas