Progress

Tile!

Paint!

Floors!

Guess what's coming tomorrow.... !!!!!

Chubby Cheeks

Normal.

Not Normal.

Poor little Teah had some dental work done yesterday and her little cheeks poofed right out. She's been a trooper, though. Her pride is a little hurt, she prays for her cheeks to not be poofy anymore, but she's eating, sleeping and playing like normal.

Rock ROCKS!

The exterior rock is done! For those who know rock, we chose a Harristone mix of Chief Joseph and Uintah in the Cape Cod color. The rest of the exterior will be covered in a deep maroon/red board and batten except for the gables (the triangles above the front door) which will be light tan shakes. Interested to see that? Me too. We're excited!

Sheet rock ROCKS, too. Our house feels more like a house with the walls up.

Above is the kitchen: picture a sink under the middle window on the left (kitchen sink view in above picture... ladder will be removed), the gorgeous white cabinets along the sink wall, all along the back wall and continuing on the wall on the right in a desk area. In the middle of the kitchen will be the island in a dark walnut stained wood. The cooktop will be in the middle of that island facing the camera, and we'll have about 6 barstools on the other side of the island in a half circle facing the cooktop. The kitchen area will be painted in a light blue while the rest of the house will be "packing nut" (a shade of tan).

Here we have the girls' room. On the top is their bedroom-- the little cubby holes on the left are some built in 'night stands' where we'll put a shelf for their stuff. Beds will come off the wall on either side of the 'night stands', the room will be a sky blue and the ceiling white. The other picture here is taken standing in the girl's closet. It's the thing that's raised on the right. We'll figure out shelving of some sort in there, as well as along that back wall and on the left. On the bottom of the back wall we'll have a mini cabinet door covering the little opening... opening to what? Why, a fun little secret play room, of course! (it's the little room pictured here with the sloping ceilings.) Once we got the trusses on we saw there was a cool little room here, but the only was to access it was through a little crawl space (if we cut any other opening, the house might have fallen down). So we decided to make it a fun little space for the girls!

The rest of the house just looks like walls. While I love it and everything, it didn't make such great photography/blog material, so I'll get those in when there's more to show. Thanks for checking in on us!

I don't have a full length mirror... obviously

I used to wonder why LeRoy would shake his head at me when I would come home from work (reffing High School volleyball). So I had Teah take a picture to see just how bad it really was... oooooh my! If anyone needs a scary Halloween costume, give me a call and it's all yours!

A little preview

Watch out this Halloween, Hannah's in town!

made anything cute lately?

Once in a great while I get a burst of creativity and once in a greater while something kind of cool comes out of it. These are my two latest that I think turned out ok.


What to do with all those adorable drawings and priceless art work from my 3-4 year old? I'd been trying to think of something, then I found this Einstein quote, and it all came together. I scanned in Teah's artwork with the quote and had them printed on 12 x 12 canvas squares. My favorite is the one on the right, when Teah saw it, she said, "That's you, mommy, when you were mad. You look like a boy, huh?"

I can't take 100% credit for this idea, I found some really cute pillows online that I didn't want to pay for, and thought I could make them. So this is my attempt. (No, I'm not that great on the sewing machine- for the lettering, I used "Unique Stitch, Sewing with a tube"- so easy!) and I put a cute fabric on the back of the pillows, making them, in my opinion, cuter than the internet ones!



This house is bringing out my "decorator" side, and I have some fun purchasing and creating ideas that I'm sure I'll be posting about. So consider yourself warned- if you're not into home design, avoid my blog for the next several... months? years? who knows. It could take a while to clear all these bottled up HGTV, design blogging, design magazine ideas.

still under construction

Well here it is, my... okay, okay, OUR house. Though it seems like the house has looked like this FOREVER, it is coming along. Want a tour?

This is the floorplan. As you can see, we flipped the house so everything mirrors what it shows in the plans.

Once in the front door, this room is to the left. At first it will be an office and once we get a piano and living room furniture, they'll take over this room.

This is the laundry room. I'm standing in the mudroom to take a picture of it. The garage entrance is to my right.

Below we have the family room and kitchen (yes, we are getting the white cabinets with the dark island!!!!)

Here are the stairs going up to the bonus room and the entrance to the master bedroom. And there's LeRoy walking out of the master bathroom into the master bedroom. This is before he got sick and started throwing up out the window. That was a bad weekend for the poor guy.

Here's the bonus room over the garage- a.k.a. Teah and Havi's room.

This is the deck. LeRoy's plumbing a misting system around it. :)

The garage floor is suspended concrete, and this is what it looks like underneath.

Eventually this will probably be two rooms- a theatre and a workout room.

Under the third car garage we're making that into a sort of built in shed to store lawn mowers, etc., as shown below. This will have double doors on it.

The best part of this post (for me) is that these pictures are already outdated! The roof is almost complete and we have our windows in. Electrical on the interior and rock on the exterior are what's in the near future here. I don't know if anyone will even read past the floorplan on this post, but it's really exciting for me, LeRoy and the girls. We can't wait to live here!!!!