Our House

So I feel kinda silly posting pictures of our house. I feel like I'm bragging, but everyone keeps asking me to post pics, so here is what I've got done (or at least close enough that I'm ready to show it to everyone).

Here is the front of our house. Believe it or not, Patrick has already done some work on the front yard. There is still a lot to do, but that has to wait till it's not a million degrees outside. At least now it doesn't look so overgrown, and is somewhat nice.

Here is our cute little front porch that one day I hope to have a nice little bench or something there to sit on while the kids ride bikes or something. This is also where all the Black Widow spiders live, and we are hating that, but the bug sprayer guy swears the stuff he uses will kill them, and I hope he is right. I haven't seen any in a while.

Here is the boys room. Brayden and Conner decided that they wanted an Optimus Prime room, so we agreed thinking that red and blue are great for everything from Transformers to Spiderman, sports, anything boy. We are still working on their room a little, we are going to put up a chair rail to separate the red and blue better. It is kinda hard to see, but those are Transformers Wall Stickers all over their room. 

This ENTIRE wall is one big huge closet, and I LOVE it! They can fit all their toy boxes in it, and big trucks. There is tons of room. And below is part of the play area in their room. I love their room, its just huge. We are talking bigger then the Master bedroom, so it's perfect for 2 crazy little boys and all their trucks, toys, legos, etc.

So here is our dinning room and kitchen. I was standing in our family room to take this picture. Pretty much all these rooms are one big room, so it is nice and bright and open. I absolutely love Americana decor, so that it what I've done my kitchen in. The pantry is that door on the far left of the picture, and the bright spot to the right of the table is the door to go out in the backyard. I'd take a picture of that, but it's just dirt and rocks still, so that isn't very interesting.

 

Love my Granite countertops!

Here is quite possibly my favorite room of my house, our formal living room. This is what you walk into from the front door. I love, love, LOVE my red wall. The picture kinda makes it look brighter then it really is, oh well. 
Here is our new living room furniture we just got. We actually have 2 of those chairs, the other is under the front  window, but wasn't exciting enough to take another pic of. It's also hard to tell, but the couch is a really pretty dark charcoal color. I love it! 

Okay, so that is all I have done so far. My house is still a big work in progress. I am happy to report that the number of boxes sitting in the garage is dwindling, so that is progress, right?!?

I'll post more pics in the future. 

We love our new house!!!!

Wishlist...

I just got home from Costco, and while I was there, I saw these AWESOME pictures of various temples and beautiful pictures of Christ. I first saw the Mesa, AZ Temple, and that is kinda unusual to see unless you are actually in AZ. Since that is where Patrick and I were married, I instantly fell in love with this picture and want to buy it! So I came home and Googled the name of the company that makes these art pieces, Cultural Hall. Now, they are WAAAAAYYYYY more expensive on the website then they were at Costco, so I wouldn't suggest buying it off the webpage if you can help it. I now am officially taking donations so I can buy this awesome picture of the Mesa Temple. Any one wanna donate.... no?? Dang it!  Ok, then this is most defiantly the next thing I'm saving up to buy!

Trust me, this downloaded pic doesn't do this thing justice, it is so amazing in real life, it has subtle colors in it to make it unique and beautiful. I want it!!!!!

Week in Review...

Okay, so I feel like I have been busy this week so I really haven't stopped to post anything new, even though there probably is something to write about. 

Ok, so my birthday was on Labor Day, and it was so nice that Patrick was able to be off work and spend the day with me. We haven't seen much of him in the past few weeks, so it was great to actually be with him all day! He secretly arranged for some of our friends to watch the boys while he took me out to lunch, I love to go out to lunch with him, I guess thats because I never really get to since he is at work at lunchtime. So he took me to the Cheesecake Factory. It was our first time there, and I must say, I am now a HUGE fan! Way yum! Since we just bought some new furniture, I told Patrick that was my birthday present. I only have a picture of our hutch taken so far. We also got new living room furniture, but I'm waiting to get the room decorated before I post pics of that, it's getting there. So here is our new hutch that is in our dinning room. We found one that matches our dinning table exactly! I LOVE IT!!

(please never mind the fan and boxes still out, my whole house is still a work in progress!) Also in this picture you can see our new floors. We ripped out all the old ugly flooring downstairs, and put in Pergo throughout most of it. There is carpet in the family room (on the left side of the pic) and in the living room (on the top right side of the pic by the front door)

Another one of the highlights of the week was that Conner started Preschool!! He absolutely LOVED it! When I came to pick him up, he came running out with the biggest smile ever on his cute little face. His teacher told me he did really well, only he tried to give himself a haircut with the scissors. Luckily his teacher caught him before he had a chance to do any damage. 

The sad, and horrible part of my week was one day I decided to be all productive and get things cleaned, and then unpack more stuff. So I start with cleaning my bathrooms, which by far is my least favorite chore. As I'm finishing up with the boys bathroom, I went and tried to hold the Clorox Wipes, Lysol toilet bowl cleaner and brush thingy, and Windex. Of course, I drop the  Lysol on the bathroom floor. Not a big deal I thought, it didn't spill hardly at all. So I pick it up and hold it with my arm against my body and head downstairs to clean the downstairs bathroom. When I got down there and started unloading my cleaning supplies, I realize there was a bunch of Lysol on the side of the bottle that I didn't see before, and OF COURSE it has bleach in it. So it completely ruined one of my favorite shirts!!! SAD! 

It was one of my fav shirts, not that it was all that special or expensive. But it was comfy, and kinda cute, and just one of those shirts you want to wear all that time because it is just relaxing, but looks better then just some old t-shirt. So I told Patrick this is why I need a maid to clean my house for me, then we could avert such a tragedy. He still isn't convinced! Dang it! I thought it would be a good idea!  :)

Most of the rest of my week has been filled unpacking, organizing, and hanging things up. Last night we went out to dinner with some friends and we went and had Thai food. We have never had Thai food, and for the most part it was good. I wasn't a fan of the curry because I HATE coconut, and it's all made with coconut milk, but the rest of it was really good. We liked it, we'd go and eat it again. I think that I'd like to try the curry that they had that didn't have nasty coconut milk in it, I think that might be better. 

It has finally started to cool down a little here, fall is on the way! It's nice enough in the mornings that I walk Brayden to school with our neighbor, her daughter is in Brayden's class. The kids love it, and it helps me get out the door on time when I know the neighbors are waiting on us.  I have suddenly felt really grown up and old this week. Not just because I turned 28 this week, but because Brayden is in school, Conner is in preschool, (so for 2 days a week in the morning I have no kids!), I asked for furniture for my birthday present, and I'm now driving car pool! Doesn't that just scream MOM or OLD?? Ok, so I realize that I'm not that old yet, but 30 is looming!! And it is hard to believe that, I don't really feel like I should be that old.

But quite possible the best part of all is that I don't have to teach Primary tomorrow because it is Stake Conference! YEAH!! After last Sunday, I really need a break!