More of April

In April, I decided it was time for Hadley's FIRST haircut! My mom was getting her hair done so we snuck in a little appointment during it. We didn't have much time to talk about it and she was super nervous. She insisted on me sitting with her so that's what we did. She did a great job though. Hadley only got a couple inches off to even it out and cut off dead ends.

Don't worry, I saved her curly little locks for her baby book. 

James installed crown molding in our living room area and he did a fantastic job (as usual). I think it really completes the area.

(top one is the before)

Hadley was super thrilled to learn she could finally hold the dog! Maddie is less than thrilled but she deserves any extra love since she is usually the one giving it.

My Aunt Kathy had come for a visit and Hadley sure does love a visitor!

If this picture doesn't say trouble, I don't know what does! Look at my sweet princess haha

We had been waiting to go strawberry picking and one day it was pick two buckets and get one free day. So we all piled in David's truck and off we went!

This gal was super into eating them..... and eating them..... Coco basically ate the entire strawberry patch, which is frowned upon haha

For some reason Hadley decided to be the ruler follower and did not eat a single one. I couldn't even convince her to.

The strawberry ice-cream they had was seriously THE BEST. It had strawberry chunks in it and so so good. Makes me want it now and I'm not a big ice-cream person.

No doubt Hadley liked it

Seems like so long ago that we could even have a fleece jacket on! We are dying of heat down here right now.

This was my end results of our strawberry picking. My sister had just about the same amount too. We just finished our last frozen pie the other day, still delicious! 

Upstairs house tour

I did the downstairs house tour of our Georgia home a couple blog posts back. So welcome to the upstairs. This is a picture of our closet looking straight on.

You have to turn the corner and there's more

and here is our master bedroom, my munchkins wouldn't get out of the photo

view from door

I'm just noticing I didn't take master bathroom photos. It's nothing fancy but nice.

This is hadley's room. My favorite decorated room.

I tried with and without lights on 

This is Hadley's play room. It's in a loft part of the upstairs and I'm standing in the doorway of my master bedroom. Hadley's room is off stage left and the office is upper right.

This is the view looking at the laundry room/cat area. The door on the right is a full bathroom.

The office desk that I LOVE from World Market. I don't know why I didn't take a picture of the ikea bookcases all in the room but I didn't, sorry.

I hope you liked our house tour, come on for a visit! We have plenty of room!

Downstairs house tour

So we moved into our house officially at the end of April but James didn't get here until mid to late May so we didn't really start doing anything until around June. Here she is :) I'll link the first post where I gave everyone a preview and explained some details. We are the end home (for now) until they decide to build again which by the looks of it, we'll probably be moved out before that happens.

Now to the downstairs home tour. This is downstairs spare guest bedroom. We haven't had too many guests so it sits mostly empty but pretty :)

My favorite bed courtesy of overstock.com

got our Ikea dresser back from jen and david's where we stored it while we were away.... it wasn't easy prying it out :)

Another angle of the bed and side tables. I haven't accessorized too much but it's good for now

Now onto the living/family room. I want to put in a nice wall fireplace in between the curtain area. I've seen some nice ones and we'll build a little makeshift mantle (doing things we can take with us and not permanent)

Here's another angle

Right off the guest bedroom and in between the family room is a full guest bathroom.

The only light in the morning comes from that front bedroom (because suns out in front of house) so sorry for the bad lighting, it's often dark in here.

Here's a view of the front door area

Our new hubby cubby looking all fine and stuff :)

Here's our kitchen view from living room. Next on the list, or I should say my list, is to put tile in since those are linoleum (did it fool anyone? didn't think so) but since we don't plan to stay in this house THAT long and make it a rental, James isn't sure that's the best idea..... so it's still up in the air.

View of kitchen again, I love the granite, drop in sink, and double crown molding in here.

then our view of our hidden stairs off the kitchen

peek a boo we see you stairs :)

view from the far end of the kitchen

Hope you liked our downstairs tour! The downstairs entertaining area seems smaller than any house we've had even though this is the biggest house we've had (2238 sq feet). We have a big loft area upstairs plus 3 more bedrooms so that's where the majority of the space goes. 

introducing THE HUBBY CUBBY!!

HAPPY SEPTEMBER EVERYONE! BRING ON FALL!

I had a bunch of todo lists for James to complete because of his odd work schedule, so when he's home, he's super busy! Poor fella. Maybe if he wasn't so good at stuff it wouldn't be so long? I originally wanted a makeshift mud room area right off the kitchen where there is empty space (where they should have put more kitchen cabinets) but we decided we'd put them in eventually. I decided by the front door would be a good spot for my mudroom area, even though the space is a tiny bit tight. I showed James a couple of photos of what I wanted and BOOM he was to work. He didn't use any plans just his smart brain. It seemed to be going smoothly until it came to the painting.... the sprayer we borrowed wasn't working for this so we tried hand painting, which took forever, so we went and got a good sprayer. We used it and it worked but it ended up leaking pretty bad so back it went. Nothing is ever fully smooth sailing but what can ya do.

So the name, we keep referring to it as the hubby cubby and people look at us funny. Backstory- James borrowed some tools from our neighbor and he goes is this a you project or one the wife wants you to do. And he said me, so he said "ah, a hubby cubby". So name just stuck and now it's referred to as our hubby cubby (seems fitting since the hubby made the cubby haha). Side bar- I am not fond of the word hubby.... guess it's ok as long as cubby follows, but why can't we just say husband, not hubby. Like my hubby just got home.... NOPE, to each their own. :)

Without further ado.... here is the HUBBY CUBBY. It's a beauty. and yes it is massive.

Here it is with some things on it

But this is the actual finished product. The above pictures were missing the stained bench part (it was drying). James insisting on doing the stained seat instead of just the white that I said to do. He was right, it is great.

It is mounted to the wall but James built it so we could detach it and take it with us, which is fantastic because I LOVE IT, don't you?! Such a handy man :)

Living room complete!

Here is the before shot of our couches. We got these bad boys november of 2006 before we were married. James kept them in his housing in Corpus Christi, TX while he was at training. We split the cost of them and each paid $300 dollars, we got them at the BX. They were microsuede which really are great in terms of stain, most of them just wipe away.

They've been through 5 moves with us and had a tiny bit of sentimental value. We sold them for $50 bucks because they've really been put through the ringer and that's all I felt comfortable  with. They were gone and out of our life the next day after posting. 

But before we could get rid of them, we had to build forts and jump all over the cushions of course! Hadley had a ball, until the fort fell on top of her.

One of the biggest reasons we wanted this couch we got was that it came with the option of a sleeper sofa. I figured, why not. We don't get frequent guests but when we do, someone usually ends up sleeping on the couch so why not have a bed! Hadley and James tried it out, can't feel the bar, so far so good!

View from left side of room

View from left side of the room. Don't you just love it! ahhhhhh makes me happy looking at this picture. The couch is grey and chairs are a linen beige color. I think the room came together real nice! Now feel free to come visit!

New chairs

I've talked before about our bases' Facebook swap pages. They've been great and I've gotten some great deals. I saw these chairs on here and I KNEW I had to have them. They were 2 for $100.00 which seems steep BUT you'll never get this quality of a chair for that amount of money. This is a good base for swap pages because people are constantly moving due to the students here only staying for a year before moving onto their permanent bases. 

I'm putting them in our office for now. I wanted them as two accent chairs facing the front of the desk. James wanted one as the seat and one in the corner...... that's until he went to work :)

Don't they look like they fit right in?!

In reality, no one will ever seat like that in those chairs, but they look great!

Hadley had to check them out because she loves ANY chair

and Maddie didn't want to miss out on them either. Bella the cat has already had a good night's rest on them as well and they all approve! What do you think?!