Kitchen Ideas

Demo on the back of the house is now complete and ready for the leveling phase next week.  Exciting phase?  Not really, but a very important step toward the exciting choices to be made in a home renovation--counter tops, paint and other selections.

Looks we love:
white subway tile with dark grout.  Am I the only one who hates how dirty grout can get?




Black honed granite for the perimeter of the kitchen.




Marble island



Rejuvenation pendant

Can't wait to spend endless hours in our new kitchen!

Bungalow Renovation

July starts the beginning of our home renovation.  We are beyond excited to get this process started!  After a year and a half of interviewing builders and architects, working with our architect on plans and waiting for our builder's availability, we are finally ready.  With a total of two bedrooms and one bathroom, this little family definitely ran out of room.

Since our home was built in 1929, we expected to discover interesting finds behind the sheetrock:

Gorgeous ship lap

Not so gorgeous wallpaper

and two different layers of linoleum over the beautiful hardwood floors in the kitchen.

It's amazing what a difference one week makes.

Can't wait to see what progress is made this week!

Wordless Wednesday

Babies and such...

16 weeks.  Oh, my love!

My Mini Me!

 

 

 

Having just waved goodbye to my maternity leave short term disability leave (who ever decided to lump maternity leave into "disability leave" is an idiot) and begrudgingly returned to work, I stumble across this article.  http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/01/google_people_operations_the_secrets_of_the_world_s_most_scientific_human.html  Now this doesn't compare to what new mothers in Sweden receive (16 months of paid leave) but I don't live in Sweden.  Thank you Google for caring about mothers (and the ability to pay their bills while on leave) and the early months of motherhood.  I could definitely use a few extra months at home with this sweet face.

 

Have a great weekend!

Just Because...

She's so cute!

Happy Wednesday!

Giving Thanks

We definitely have a lot to be thankful for in 2012.  Thanksgiving week was wonderful!  I couldn't ask for a more enjoyable week spending time with ALL of our family and wonderful friends.

This picture cracks me up!  Waiting to meet the girls from Hallettsville.

Before Thanksgiving lunch.

 Thanksgiving day.  Playing with Pa.

Sleepy girl at brunch the day after Thanksgiving.

Christmas tree shopping.

Thanksgiving in Waco

Gentry's beautiful baby quilt Aunt Madelon and Mamaw made.  We chose the fabric back in May so I was so excited to see the finished product.

The polka dot print is the fabric on the back.

My favorite patterns.

The quilt looks SO perfect in her room!

Random Happenings

Nap time at our house often looks like this...

Baby and dog both in my lap!

We made our first road trip with G last Sunday to Beaumont so she could meet her extended family.  I forgot to take a picture before we left our house and forgot when we got to Beaumont, so this is the best I could do while in the car.

 And it was Patton's first time to share the backseat--he didn't seem thrilled but he managed:)

Meeting Colonel for the first time

and Aunt Susan

and Great Grandma Severance

and Cousin Jack

We had such a fabulous day and can't wait until Thanksgiving to see everyone again.

Halloween was pretty uneventful around here.  We only had a couple of trick-or-treaters and way too much leftover candy.  I received the cutest onesie/ballerina outfit at one of my baby showers and it made for a great baby Halloween costume.  

We decided yesterday we were so deprived of our beloved Mexican food that we would take a chance while she napped and go for a quick late lunch.  She was great...

The ladies that always serve us at the restaurant just loved meeting her!

We had Gentry's newborn pictures taken when she was one week old and I finally received the photos and OMG--they are fabulous!  Erin Carlyle at www.erincarlylephotography.com is AMAZING.  Here are a couple of my favorites...

Yes, I had to bring these booties!

I wonder what she's thinking about--ha!

Can you believe it's already November?  This is my favorite time of year, but the temp. could drop a little (ok, a lot to make me happy)!  Oh well, I cannot wait for Thanksgiving--my favorite meal of the year shared with family and great friends.

Until next time...