Kitchen…..

This is where all the cooking magic happens………..This kitchen is truly amazing.  The cabinet space is wow!  I love all the trim!  Just love this kitchen!  I am so thankful that we found this home!

I love love love the cabinets!  I like the countertop…it’s not what I would have chosen, but I am loving it more and more.  One day we will have 2 barstools here at the counter.  We are searching for the perfect ones….

Love our stainless appliances!  The microwave is awesome.  I am not crazy about the black flat top stove…but I do love the 5 burners.

The best useful feature of the kitchen.  The garbarge/recycle drawer.

Mike’s coffee station.  Also notice the under cabinet lighting…this was a bonus.  And the pretty tile backsplash our realtor helped choose.

You can also see the butler’s pantry just past the refrigerator.  I use this as a scrapbook zone.

Opposite the butler’s pantry is our huge pantry!  It rocks!!!!

The view into the eat-in area.  I am so happy to have this stainless steel sink.  We had a white sink in our last home…what a booger that was to keep clean.

And here is our eat-in kitchen.  I love our new kitchen table.  Black on the bottom with wood which is almost the exact color as the kitchen cabinets on the top.

Side view.  I do love our new curtains.  We had to buy 95″ curtains because our windows are so tall.

This is the view from the family room.  Yes.  The big ole wall is empty….I took some photos at the farmer’s market last weekend which I plan to have enlarged and will hang on this wall.

Thanks for looking!

Semi-Decorated House Pics

Our home is finally getting viewable.  HaHa.  I do not proclaim to be a good decorator at all.  But here are a few photos.

Front door – I decorate this all by myself.  LOL.  There is actually a cute little fall doormat.

When you come in through the front door, the room on the left was supposed to be the formal living room.  The supposed to be formal dining room is too small; so we switched the light fixtures/rooms.  Here is our dining room.  I have some big prints that will be hanging; one on each side of the hutch.  Every room in this house has boring beige walls.  This room will be painted first.

When you come in through the front door, the old dining room is now my scrapbook room.  Shelves/curtains/storage boxes from IKEA.  We think this room would be perfect if we closed it off with double glass french doors to so it is not out so much in the open.

Up the stairs photo wall.  We have started a photo wall going up the stairs.  We are gonna continue with the black frames.   And my friend, Joy, made me the sign at the bottom of the stairs.

At the top of the stairs, Nathan’s room is on the right.  It is so much bigger than his old room.  Same decor though.

The boys’ bathroom upstairs:

We converted the 4th bedroom into a bonus room.  We got a new tv cabinet.  We already had the red boxes and they fit perfectly inside the tv cabinet.  We love this pull out couch….I guarantee that if you plop yourself down on it, you will be asleep within 5 minutes.  The exercise bike is up here too.  The first photo is as you are looking into the room.

The next room that will be ready for your viewing pleasure…….kitchen, eat-in, and family room.  Stay tuned.  HaHa.

National Scrapbook Day Weekend Celebration

This weekend, we are celebrating National Scrapbooking Day at Keeping Memories Alive (www.scrapbooks.com).  We are giving away one $50 gift certficate and three $25 gift certificates.  All you have to do is create and share layouts based on the challenges that the designer girls post.  We will be posting our challenges Friday…Hope you can join us.

In other news.  Work is still going great!  I did my first training class in this awesome training room with fancy sound, projectors,  and comptuers.  It was very exciting.  I can’t wait to get back in and do some more.

Last Sunday, Mike took the boys to an air show.  He got some great photos. The boys had fun…excep it was hot and very loud.  Here are some of their favorite photos…Andrew was very excited to take the photos to school and show his friends.

They got to go inside and check out all the controls in this big helicopter:

See…here they are:

And of course, a friend of Mike’s took this photo since I was not there….my boys….

Chat with you later!

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Snow Days!

Oh yeah!  They predicted snow to start late Monday night and we did not believe them.  Well our weather people are wrong more times than they are right. 

So like all crazy North Carolina people do, I loaded up the kids and went to Super Walmart to stock up on bread, eggs, and milk….HaHa…

The snow did not really start coming down until after 4 am at our house.  We thought it was gonna be nothing.  But it did not stop until about 4 pm.  It is beautiful, but cold.  The boys played outside almost all day. 

When they first went outside, they both ran to the driveway to make snow angels.

And spent the rest of the day eating snow.  HaHa!

And more snow.

School was canceled for today too.  And there is still plenty of snow on the ground.  They will be outside all afternoon again.  Hip Hip Hooray!