tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11462295450064357692024-03-13T10:27:59.938-07:00Where The Blue Lilies GrowThese are a few of my favorite thingsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17818057045027190430noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1146229545006435769.post-12606128162199839652015-09-02T16:02:00.002-07:002015-09-02T16:02:55.170-07:00Time to get packing!!Guess what this means???.................<br />
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It means this is ready!!!!!!<br />
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I can hardly believe it, but we are scheduled to move in on FRIDAY!!!!! 2 more days!!!!!</div>
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I hate that time has gotten away from me and summer and life got too busy for me to keep up with our house progress on here, but I'm hoping to still catch up soon. But for now, I'm packing and moving!!! WHOO HOOO!!!!!</div>
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For all of you who helped me decide on brick...........here it is! Thank you! I love it!!</div>
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Corner shelves were added to the 2 secondary bathrooms.</div>
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Kitchen backsplash is getting installed!</div>
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Lights are ready to be installed!</div>
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Master shower floor was installed:</div>
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And we sat outside for nearly 20 minutes just watching them put up the brick.</div>
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The kitchen backsplash was completed</div>
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Toilets and light fixtures were installed in the bathrooms</div>
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The master tub tile was finished (except the front where they are waiting on some more tiles)</div>
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Light fixtures were installed!</div>
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Master Bathroom lights and faucets</div>
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Hall bathroom with new lights, faucets and shower head</div>
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Formal Dining Room with new light fixture</div>
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Kate's room with new ceiling fan</div>
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More brick and stone!!</div>
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Living room with new ceiling fan</div>
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Another picture of the master tub with tile detail</div>
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Brick on the other side of the house</div>
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And the light switches and outlet covers were installed!! You know this means you're getting close!</div>
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I have a little catching up to do. Summer has been kicking my butt and I'm trying to keep up! I will go ahead and apologize for the super long post. So here is what has happened since my last post on July 6th.</div>
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The painters came in and started painting the dark brown areas: Fireplace Mantle and Kitchen Island. The color is Sherwin Williams Sable. Sorry for the poor quality of pictures. They had the house sealed up and so I had to take pictures through the windows!</div>
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The walls get painted!! At first I wanted Perfect Greige by Sherwin Williams, but after lots of conversations with my friends and in my head I decided to step it down a color on the paint chip and go lighter with Versatile Grey. </div>
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They also had a guy painting the kitchen cabinets. We went with SW Dover White.<br />
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(Still taking pictures through the windows!)</div>
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More pictures!</div>
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They were excited about their rooms being painted. Although we'll paint them different colors eventually.</div>
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Time for granite!! We chose Giallo Ornamental for the whole house.</div>
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They were super fast! And that same day they got the sinks installed too!</div>
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The Master Shower also got prepped and ready for tile and a niche was added.</div>
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Matt and I got in a little yard work while they put the granite in.</div>
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And the kids played outside.</div>
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The bathtub frame went in:<br />
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And the tile work began:<br />
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The tile guys showed up faster than we expected (Praise the Lord! Someone finally showed up early!) so I had to make an emergency appointment with my tile lady to get my kitchen backsplash picked out. We were waiting until we had our actual slab of granite to match, but the tile guys came about the same time the granite guys did so we were cutting it close. I was hoping that whatever I picked was immediately available so that we wouldn't have to pay the tile guys to come back out and install the kitchen backsplash. But Gene saved the day, the backsplash was selected and it was in Houston! <br />
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This is the general idea of what our kitchen will look like with the off white cabinets, Giallo Ornamental granite and travertine backsplash. Except it will be laid out like this:<br />
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The girls and I took a little mini vacay to Dallas with my parents for a few days and when we came home we had.....................<br />
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The long awaited (and super delayed) brick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</div>
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They also had the tile almost complete in the girls bathrooms</div>
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And the Master Bath was coming along:</div>
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Powder Room:</div>
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Laundry Room:</div>
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And here is a closer look at the brick:<br />
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The Master Shower is getting a little more complete.</div>
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And we did some more yard work turning these areas:<br />
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Into a little more cleaned up area. Remember, this lot was completely solid with brush, trees and vines. So there's A LOT of work to still be done. Especially in the back! But we're getting there.</div>
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So now we're to today, July 20th:</div>
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Honestly, it was a little disappointing. We were promised that the brick would get started today but when I showed up around 3:30pm this was all I saw.......piles of brick around the house. Then I found out that the truck broke and so they'll be back tomorrow morning to start. We should of had our brick on the house well over a month ago! After a bad batch, lots of time and delays this brick has been the thorn in our side!<br />
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Then as far as tile this got done today. And the master shower was prepped for the flooring to be installed. <br />
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Now on to the house updates. June 12th the cabinets were installed. These are our Master Bathroom Cabinets.<br />
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They started putting in the closet shelves and rods. This is in the Master Closet.<br />
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The fireplace mantel was made.</div>
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And this is part of the pantry. There is another section that doesn't have any shelves.</div>
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The cabinets are made out of birch wood (this is for my future reference! lol)</div>
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And finally the correct doors were installed.</div>
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June 21, 2015-Its starting to look good now!</div>
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Lily's closet got a 5 shelf cabinet in the middle of her closet.</div>
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I finalized the Master Bathroom tile sizes and design. I changed the shower floor color to Mottled Medium Brown and picked out the grout (Khaki). Then I added the glass tile border to go around the corner tub. </div>
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The trim and doors started getting primed!</div>
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Be prepared because today I went a little picture happy. It was so exciting to walk in and see so much progress after what seems like nothing for so long. The doors went in (which they ended up being the wrong ones because the ones I picked out look like this)</div>
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The baseboards started going up and the trim around the doors went in. They also put the cabinets in the right rooms. Here are some pictures:</div>
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The cabinets in the laundry room:</div>
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The French doors in the study:</div>
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Lily's bathroom cabinets that are sitting in her bedroom right now:</div>
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Kate's closet doors:</div>
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We're excited about all of the changes!!</div>
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We now have our garage door up so the house can be locked up now. The garage door will also be painted the color of the trim:</div>
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Wednesday they came in an put the orange peel texture on the walls. </div>
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Thursday they started putting in the septic tank.</div>
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Friday I took my Mom to the flooring store to really narrow down the tile for the Master Bath. I think I finally decided on this one.</div>
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Here you can see it with a dark cabinet door, like we'll have in the bathrooms, the paint color for the walls, and the small tiles we're going to put on the shower floor.</div>
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And then Saturday the ceiling got painted the color Heron Plume, by Sherwin Williams. You can see in this picture that its a little more than an off-white. Its suppose to be a very light greige. (I had to explain to my builder what greige is. He claims its because he is a builder and not a designer!)</div>
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The walls also got primed on Saturday and will hopefully be painted this week. I chose (after much debate and consultation) on the color Versatile Gray by Sherwin Williams. </div>
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Saturday night the kids went to my parents house and for "date night" we worked in the yard!</div>
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I know it doesn't look like much happened in this picture, but do you see that line of sticks and dirt on the right. Yeah that was what the result was after I spent 3 1/2 hours raking all of the sticks and dirt clumps from the back porch to that point. Then I went and mowed "the grass" in that area. It resulted in one monstrous blister, aching hands, forearms and lower back, but it made me proud! Its a work in progress but it was nice to be able to do some yard work.</div>
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Matt and the neighbor down the road cleared out this area. It had a large pile of debris and random logs and branches. They pushed it back, cleared it out and burned the pile. </div>
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Sunday night we took the new toy out and road through the woods.</div>
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And then today the septic tank was completed.</div>
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This week the walls should get painted and trim and cabinets should get started! Unfortunately we found out today that our brick did not turn out just right so they have to start over and it should be delivered the 22nd. </div>
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I asked our builder last week what kind of time line we were looking at for this point and he's thinking we should have the keys around the first of August. We're getting there!</div>
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This afternoon I took my parents, sister, brother in law, niece, nephew and the girls to the house before my sister and her family move away on Wednesday. (That's a whole other story that I can't talk about now. I keep pretending like its not going to happen!)</div>
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Since I was there last they have finished the drywall and tape/mud as well as the rounded corners. Here are some pictures:</div>
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FORMAL DINING </div>
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As you can see my sister thought she needed to be in every picture!!</div>
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Looking into the KITCHEN from the LIVING ROOM</div>
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There she is again!</div>
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HALLWAY with the bedrooms and bathrooms</div>
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They also finally finished our water well. I think they ended up having to drill 680 feet down! The bad news is you have to pay for every foot they drill. The good news is no water bill so "free" water now!<br />
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Last week the foam insulation was done. This is looking up into the garage ceiling.<br />
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And finally what I've been waiting for! Today we went out there and ta-da.......................<br />
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When we decided we were going to build a house there were a few things I wanted to do: <a href="http://wheretheblueliliesgrow.blogspot.com/2015/04/it-looks-like-house.html" target="_blank">write scriptures on the walls</a> and place a Bible in the foundation. <br />
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<span class="text Matt-7-24"><span class="woj"><em>“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like <sup class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-ESV-23341B" data-link="(<a href="#cen-ESV-23341B" title="See cross-reference B">B</a>)"></sup>a wise man who built his house on the rock."</em></span></span> <span class="passage-display-bcv">Matthew 7:24</span><span class="text Matt-7-25" id="en-ESV-23342"><span class="woj"></span></span><br />
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We decided to put the Bible my Grandparents gave us in the walls of our house instead of the foundation so that maybe one day someone will find it. My Grandparents highlighted some of their favorite verses and wrote us a nice note inside. Then I sealed it up in a ziplock bag, wrote our names on it and May 2015. The dry wall was already completed by the front door by the time we got there so we placed it by the garage door. The kind gentleman that was installing the dry wall asked if he'd like me to have him hang it with a nail. So he nailed it to one of the studs. This is one of those special touches that I LOVE about our house!<br />
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Standing in the Formal Dining Room with the front door ahead and the Study next to it.<br />
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Its so nice to "see" some changes again! For so long you couldn't see a whole lot of changes while they were putting in the electrical, plumbing and A/C. But walking in today I couldn't wipe the HUGE grin off of my face. It was another huge step towards out dream home being finished and proof that we WILL get to actually live here soon!!</div>
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On April 28th I got to meet with the custom cabinet maker to design and lay out my kitchen! That part was really exciting! I can't wait to see it once it's finished. I know its going to be my favorite room in the house!</div>
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I made the final selection on our wood floors! This will be throughout the whole main areas (formal dining, living, kitchen, breakfast area). We wanted something rustic looking so its a mid toned, hand scraped look with the 2 different sizes of planks.</div>
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The outside trim has been painted!! Its called Sable from Sherwin Williams. </div>
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And the fireplace has been installed!<br />
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We've started our water well!! They will have to go around 560 feet they think to get to some really good water. I'm excited about not having a water bill!!! Whoop whoop!<br />
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We went out to the house after spending the day with our family. Happy Mother's Day to me!! I love these girls and can't wait to watch them grow up here! (All of that behind us is our back yard!!)</div>
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What a difference a few weeks make! We've made some major progress on our house this month. April 6th they finished up the framing and started putting the plywood around the sides.</div>
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By the next day it looked like this! <br />
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Then I went away for a few days to this...............<br />
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Nearly 15,000 of the happiest, most driven, motivated, giving people for Nerium's semi-annual conference. We were in San Jose, California this time and boy was it a doozie! So many exciting things happening with this company.<br />
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I love these people! Not only do I get to work with them but they are now like my family. <br />
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And I don't know what I would do without these girls. We all come from different geographic areas, backgrounds and personalities........but they are now like my sisters!<br />
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We have THE BEST team ever!! What a fun week it was!<br />
And when I came home and went to check on the house it looked like this!!!<br />
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This is from the living room looking to the front door. Kitchen is on the left and the study is on the right. The formal dining room is next to the front door with the arched window. </div>
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As far as selections I got the brick and stone picked out a few weeks ago and I'm finishing up the lighting selections. I've been finishing the flooring selections and tomorrow I have to pick the paint color for the trim outside. Its so much fun but gets a little overwhelming too! I can't wait for it all to come together. </div>
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And finally this week we finished with a finished roof!!!</div>
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I still can't believe it!!It really looks like a house now! Every time we go by, I pull up with the biggest smile and can't quit smiling. It seems so surreal. <br />
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Tuesday they came out and got all of the dirt smoothed out and compacted around the foundation.<br />
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Lily and Daddy in her bedroom:<br />
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Kate and Mommy in her room:<br />
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Entrance from the back patio:<br />
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Lifting up our bedroom wall:<br />
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Our friends and future neighbors came out and we had a cookout and enjoyed the view! We even brought the workers some hotdogs and they ended up working until 7pm! (A little kindness goes a long way!!)<br />
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I love this picture! They were standing there watching them work and put their arms around one another and I'm so glad I got a picture! Proof that they do love each other!<br />
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Then yesterday we were out there 3 different times! This was what it looked like around 11 am:<br />
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The fireplace:<br />
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The back patio:<br />
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The ceiling is going up!<br />
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Hallway from the bedrooms looking into the formal dining with the living room to the left and the study to the right:<br />
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The pass through from my kitchen to the living room:<br />
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Looking from the front door to the living room:<br />
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The view out my living room to the back yard:<br />
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Around 3 pm this was happening:<br />
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Standing in the backyard:<br />
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The view from the street:<br />
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And then at 7 pm we went back out and met our friends for a campfire and more admiration of the house! haha<br />
They started the roof already!!<br />
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The front door looking through to the back:<br />
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Today was Easter and we spent the morning and afternoon at church and eating with our family and friends. <br />
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Then this evening we headed back to the new house to pray over the house and write scriptures on the studs.<br />
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Ok, so it rained this morning and was muddy, hence the lovely outfit! <br />
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We wrote some of our favorite verses all over the house. Then in the hallway leading to the kids bedrooms I wrote this one. It was from a Gideon Bible my grandparents gave us with highlighted scripture. We will place this Bible within the walls by the front door of our home.<br />
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You can see the roof through the ceiling boards:<br />
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Looking into the family room from the formal dining room.<br />
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Happy Easter! And like a little boy said to a kid who said "I hate Easter! I hate the Easter Bunny!"-----"Its not about the Easter bunny. Easter is about Jesus who died on the cross for our sins!"<br />
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So on March 4th the plumbing went in! I have to say.......it feels SO good to see some progress!<br />
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Then next came the prepping of the pad for the pouring of the foundation. This was something new to me. They dig trench like rows throughout the whole foundation. Then they covered it in a water resistant plastic. This was on March 6th.<br />
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This helps the foundation be really solid apparently. Then they put rebar within each trench. I'm sure this whole process has some really fancy name, but I don't know what it is! <br />
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And then yesterday................<br />
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This happened!!!!!!!!!! Yes, we are now the proud owners of a foundation!!<br />
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Kate and I were actually out there when the first drop of concrete went in. It was pretty cool! When we came back after school it looked like this.<br />
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This has made it all a little more real. Although looking at the foundation we're wondering how in the world our house is going to fit on it. It looks TINY!<br />
They did have a little hiccup in the beginning of the day. We had a huge rain here last weekend (I think 4-5 inches) so the ground is still a little soft. Well, the first concrete truck came in a little hot and cut it too close to the edge and went off the edge of the driveway a little. It slid the dirt into the ditch, covering the culvert and cracking one end of it. So.......they have a culvert to replace.<br />
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Today Matt got back in town so we went and checked it out again and the form boards were off and the driveway had been grated.<br />
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They will be grating the dirt around the house this week and then by the end of next week framing will start!!! The past 2 days I've driven around looking at different brick trying to decide what we want. And I've come to the conclusion that I (think) I know what I want, but what they've shown me just isn't it. Praying we can find that "perfect" brick and stone. We're on a mission!!</div>
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I can really envision the house being there now! The girls and I went out there and walking around on the pad I was telling them where every room was going to go. We'd go stand in each of their rooms and run to the kitchen then to our room. It was fun, but right now it doesn't seem like all of the rooms are going to fit.</div>
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One of my gifts was that Matt said I can get the custom kitchen I always wanted! No manufactured, cheap plywood in my kitchen!! I went to college my first 2 years for architecture. Ever since I was a little girl I wanted to design houses. Unfortunately things didn't work out with me getting my degree as an Architect but this is giving me a little bit of that. And it doesn't get much better than getting to design my very own!! So tonight I've been sketching out what I think I want. I'm so thankful and really appreciate Matt letting me do this!! <br />
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What a relief and blessing! We have now been out of our house and in our apartment for 7 months! It doesn't seem like it has been that long. And while it's small, it has been nice not to clean as much square footage, be together more, have no yard to take care of, a free pool and gym to use at any time and a lower power bill. But we are SO ready to have this house built! It SHOULD be about 5-6 months until completion. They have already contacted the people to come out to start the form boards and the electricity company to put up the temporary power pole. Things should get started this week except its suppose to rain all week. Go figure! But we all know those weather people get it wrong all of the time. We're praying for a dry week!!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17818057045027190430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1146229545006435769.post-75482786213223220162015-02-11T14:15:00.002-08:002015-02-11T14:15:27.229-08:00The ball is rolling!!!.......{well it was!}Its seems like every time we get the ball rolling someone puts the breaks on. This time it was the city. We were under the assumption that the builder completed the building package and submitted it for the permits, but the city threw in a few curve balls. <br />
First we found out the city has an arborist and we were "suppose to" have her come out and inspect all of our trees before any are removed to ensure you aren't cutting down any trees you aren't "suppose to." My first thought was "we paid for this, why the heck do we need your approval to remove OUR trees?!?!" And after the conversation between the arborist and Matt I thought we might as well hang up the idea of ever getting any permits approved. When she told him "Sir, do you know what global warming is.....???" all I could think was "oh no.....here we go!" It's safe to say Matt wasn't too happy to begin with about the whole situation so her comment wasn't received too well. <br />
THEN........surprise! We also need you to get a drainage plan completed. "Oh sure! We love throwing money out there to everyone! Who else can we pay?!?!?" Ok yes.....can you feel my frustration?<br />
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So........we decided it was time to end the madness. We wanted no more surprises and needed to get this ball rolling and everything sorted out. So Friday Matt and I met with 4 different people from 4 different departments of the city building/development programs. I wasn't really sure how it was going to go but on the way there Matt said, "You ready to see me do my thing?" I didn't know what that meant but I will say.........he did his thing!! They were very apologetic for all of the trouble and headache we have been put through so far. They also vowed to make things as smooth and easy as possible going forward. They allowed us to bypass the full arborist part and just write a letter stating that we only removed tallow trees and all other "good" trees were transplanted to our neighbors. That saved us several hundred dollars (Whoo hoo! Finally score one for us!!) And as far as the drainage plan we already had the survey company on it and as of Monday EVERYTHING was submitted for permitting!! So in the end I think the meeting was very successful. They now have a name with a face and understand our frustration. Hopefully they live up to their word and make everything as quick and easy as possible going forward. <br />
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We are so thankful for these moments to slow down, enjoy some peace and quiet and be surrounded by our family and friends.<br />
As far as the house goes.......it looks like we might be ready to close on our construction loan by the end of this week or the next and the arborist said she would make a visit to our property to check everything out and give her approval today. Please pray we can start the foundation soon!!<br />
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On Monday, January 19th they were finally able to get in and start the dirt work! We were so excited we went out there and watched them bring several loads in and spread it out. Matt was out of town for work so me, the girls, my parents, my sister and her 2 kids were there checking it out and taking pictures for Matt.<br />
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They pushed off the sludge and brought in dump truck loads (2 at a time) to build a good foundation. It was a clay type of dirt that they brought it and they were finished by Wednesday. The project manager said once they were able to get that soupy layer of dirt off of the top it was good solid ground underneath. Once they were done they did another compaction test and we should have the results on Monday. <br />
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I guess one major thing has happened since last time...........<br />
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On December 17, 2014 we officially went under contract! It was so nice to get things back to our budget with some minor changes and 1 major change to our home. The few minor changes included things like roof pitch, moving a wall in a foot, and bringing the garage back to a normal, but still large size. The major thing we had to change was eliminating the upstairs bonus room. Thankfully hubby wants a pool house/man cave in the back eventually so we will have that extra space one of these days (wayyyyyy down the road I'm sure!)<br />
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We have had so much rain lately that our property has flooded! We were suppose to start the dirt work the Monday following the date we signed the contract but over the weekend it poured! And it has dried up a little since then but we're still getting rain and its so saturated that if they brought trucks and equipment onto the property they would do more damage than good. So...........we wait!<br />
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Our double oven!! While on his lunch break hubby decided to stroll through Lowe's and came across this GE Profile double oven at a steal of a deal. Someone had purchased it for their custom home and returned it for no apparent reason. So we saved $2,000!! Score 1 for us!!<br />
Other than that, things have been pretty slow as far as progress. But I've been tearing up Pinterest and Houzz! I've got lots of great ideas stored and I can't wait to actually apply them to our house (one of these days!!) Hope to update you all with more soon! Please pray the ground dries up and we can get moving along soon!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17818057045027190430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1146229545006435769.post-58026427227721333202014-11-11T17:25:00.002-08:002015-06-08T20:38:42.025-07:00The Good, the bad & the uglyOh where do I even begin? It's been awhile since my last post because things have been so busy with life in general, but also because things with the house were up in the air for a little while. <br />
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We thought we were getting so close to breaking ground. At the end of October we were ready to meet with the builder to go to contract. He had the details, specs and numbers in place and after the "go ahead" we would start the site work while we were waiting on the permits to get completed. So we schedule a meeting and we sit down and he is almost $39,000 over our budget!!!!! Both of our eyes got really big and we had a huge lump in our throat. He had already given us an idea of where we were at, but it kind of hit us in the face at this point. I knew that all of the selections I had made were within reason, so where did we go wrong?!?! We sat quietly in the meeting listening to all he had to say. He told me I had picked everything within his normal allotted numbers or even below what he would normally allow, except two areas. My kitchen cabinets were a little high (maybe $2,000 over normal custom homes) but that was one thing I didn't want to compromise on. I've had my eyes on my creamy white and bright kitchen for years! And the second area was the wood floors. I want wood floors all throughout my house except carpet in the bedrooms and tile in the bathrooms and laundry room. So there is A LOT of square footage of wood floors. But that is the look I'm going for so I selected the same look that was a little less expensive. So that brought it down to not quite $38,000 over budget! There really wasn't anywhere else to save he told us. It was the structure that was making it so high. The frustrating part was that if we would have known this house plan was out of the budget we would have made changes in the beginning. But we were under the impression after our initial conversations in the beginning that this house would be able to be built within our budget. So we left there a little discouraged, frustrated and upset (to say the least). We were already nearly a month past when we originally thought we'd be getting started and here we had a house plan that we couldn't afford to build! So after the initial anger tapered off we decided to email the builder and just let him know our feelings and that $38,000 over budget wasn't going to be possible. So after a day or two we got back in touch with him and he was going to see what he could come up with to get it in our budget. Then the praying began (or shall I say changed to focus on guidance with what to do. I've been praying for this process from the beginning!)<br />
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The bad.........<br />
We met with the builder last week and he had several options for us to get our dream house into our budget. It came down to us eliminating some square footage and possibly looking at a few different features to cut. The options were to eliminate the unfinished game room upstairs, eliminate bathroom 3, reduce the study and dinning room wall by 2 feet, change the garage door to a standard 16 foot door, reduce the garage by 2-4 feet, eliminate bedroom 4 and eliminate the stone and go to all brick. I really hated to have to change anything, but we decided to eliminate the game room upstairs, reduce the size of the study and dinning room, change the garage door to the standard size and reduce the size of the garage. And the funny thing is, I was at peace with this. As angry and frustrated I was in the beginning I was at total peace with these changes. <br />
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We now have the ball rolling again!! Our plan had to go back to the architect to make the changes and then it will go to the engineer for his changes. Then we'll have a new final number and hopefully at this point we will be at our budget (or below)! And then site work and permitting will FINALLY take place. But in the meantime we've been working hard.<br />
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I love this picture because it shows what it originally looked like when we purchased it and what it looks like now. Matt worked really hard this weekend! <br />
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The culverts were installed last week though so we can now drive onto the property. We drove the Jeep onto it and drove to the back to check it all out. They also marked the final trees that are going to have to come down where the house is going to be. We're trying to keep as many as we can. We also determined the depth from the road we're going to go back and decided our original plan of 50 feet (to save money on concrete because its so darn expensive right now) was way too close and 125 feet would give us a great sized front yard and a HUGE backyard. Oh how I can't wait for us all to be running around back there. Especially after almost 3 months now in the apartment with no yard. <br />
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The soil sample was also completed so the architecture plans along with the soil sample have gone to the engineer. Once the engineer is finished with his work (which will hopefully be this week or the next) it will all be submitted to the city for permitting and while that is being done they will begin site work! <br />
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This was the view down the street tonight at dusk. The clouds had a beautiful pink hue to them and it was so nice and peaceful out there. Can't wait to sit out here on my back porch every night!<br />
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We made no more changes to the front elevation, so this is it! OUR HOUSE!! We then went over the electrical plan noting the types of lights we were wanting to put in each room, adding electrical outlets, adding pot lights, adding tv jacks and adding flood lights to the front and back. <br />
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Our builder told us "I think this is the fastest we've ever moved through these stages. Ya'll are on top of it!" To which I quickly replied "All 4 of us are crammed into a tiny apartment. Can ya tell we're ready to get into our house?!?!" (hint, hint!)<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17818057045027190430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1146229545006435769.post-41434899956500486862014-09-07T19:31:00.002-07:002014-09-07T19:31:38.498-07:00Culverts, Soil Sample and a SignWe have had some movement going on this week with the house. I finally feel
like we’re getting closer to breaking ground! Good thing because the walls of
this apartment seem to be closing in on us some days. We have been staying busy,
but just one day with all 4 of us at the apartment together and we’re all
climbing the walls. I keep having to remind myself that it could be worse and it
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The first thing we got this week were the culverts delivered. Soon we’ll be
able to drive onto the property without going through the ditch! A soil sample
was also taken. They take 2 fifteen feet deep samples to test the soil and see
what the different layers consist of. Then that determines how much and what
kind of dirt work is needed to prep the area for the foundation. Who knew ALL of
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It all started when we found this beautiful piece of property. I wanted to be in a neighborhood and Matt wanted some room to spread out. So when we found this 2.2 acre lot in a small, gated neighborhood we jumped on it. Especially since we had put an offer in on another lot in that neighborhood a year earlier and decided to walk away when they wouldn't budge on the asking price. But when it sold and we kept looking and couldn't find anything comparable, we knew we had found a needle in a haystack. Months later when 3 more lots opened up we didn't hesitate and made a strong offer. And not only did we get it, but our dear friends bought the lot next to ours and another friend bought the 3rd lot!<br />
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Soon after we purchased the property we cleared it. We were so excited and couldn't wait to enjoy it with bon fire's, kids running wild, discovering animal tracks and playing in the dirt with the girls. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17818057045027190430noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1146229545006435769.post-70125448961187235192013-10-23T19:24:00.001-07:002013-10-23T19:24:09.339-07:00A Drug Free Door......Duck Dynasty Style<p>It's red ribbon week this week, celebrating being drug free. My daughter is in 1st grade and doesn't know what drugs are, but that's beside the point. Knowledge is power......right?!?! <p>Anyways, my daughter's teacher asked me to decorate their classroom door for the Red Ribbon Week door decorating contest. I agreed, but had no idea what to do. I love a good contest though so after much thought and consideration I decided to go with none other than a Duck Dynasty theme. Everyone loves the Robertson boys right? <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-amDBE9alXCo/UmiExZ1d8ZI/AAAAAAAABJ8/I5s0qekYt4M/s1600-h/Red%252520Ribbon%252520Door%25255B12%25255D.jpg"><img title="Red Ribbon Door" style="float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto" alt="Red Ribbon Door" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/--pg1DZvptf8/UmiEyOG95nI/AAAAAAAABKA/9LtNIrO4vys/Red%252520Ribbon%252520Door_thumb%25255B9%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="513" height="768"></a> <p>I used quilt batting, spray paint, yellow poster board, camouflage fabric and orange card stock. First, I laid out the roll of batting (cost about $6) and cut it to size and the shape of a beard. Then I used brown and gray spray paint ($2 each) and coated the batting. First I sprayed the brown spray paint on the batting and then went over it with the gray spray paint. It dried fairly quickly. <p>I bought a piece of yellow poster board ($1) and cut it into the shape of a duck beak. Then I cut a slit in the “beard” that was a little smaller than the beak. I folded the poster board a little to resemble a beak and then poked it through the slit. <p>Thankfully my Mom came up to the school with me to help me assemble it all. She had some camouflage fabric so we used that as the “bandana” and I used my scrapbook machine and cardstock to cut out the letters. It ended up being a fun project and I think it turned out pretty good. I haven’t checked out the competition but we’re hoping for a win! </p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17818057045027190430noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1146229545006435769.post-25129336691006770282013-09-30T20:35:00.001-07:002013-09-30T20:35:03.455-07:00Officially FOUR!<p>It’s hard for me to wrap my brain around it, but our baby girl is now officially four! She has been saying for weeks that she is “almost four” but now it’s usually something like “I don’t have to, because I’m four.” </p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-LRvJJRg995k/UkpCssRnhJI/AAAAAAAABFo/I5pnIjfjpGo/s1600-h/Kate%252520Age%2525204%25255B11%25255D.jpg"><img title="Kate Age 4" style="float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto" alt="Kate Age 4" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-aJXgs2ZztCs/UkpCtDRWKXI/AAAAAAAABFs/vU8g-AHC81Y/Kate%252520Age%2525204_thumb%25255B8%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="640" height="427"></a></p> <p>This little girl is sassy, but sweet and cuddly. She is very opinionated about certain things (clothes in particular) but is so willing to share with others. {She got 2 birthday cards in the mail one day last week for her birthday. They each had a $5 bill in them. When she opened the second one she immediately gave it to her sister and insisted that she have one of them since she got two. She will steal your heart in a second. She gets VERY upset when her Daddy gets on to her or tells her no, but as much as she is a Daddy’s girl she loves her Momma too. She is not afraid of too many things except Chuck E Cheese and the Chick Fil A cow. She is not afraid to get dirty and loves to rock short and a T shirt, but is very girly too. I love this girl to pieces and I’m so proud to be her Momma. </p> <p>This year I decided to keep her birthday party low key. I tend to go overboard on birthday parties for my kids, but every few years I throw in an easy, simple birthday party. Since we now have so many of our family living here I thought we’d celebrate with them and 2 of her best girlfriends. We had gone bowling this summer and we had such a great time that I thought it would be a fun way to celebrate Kate’s 4th birthday. </p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-kSEvHz4pVKQ/UkpCtuU34jI/AAAAAAAABF4/X_NSg6o203M/s1600-h/IMG_4417%25255B13%25255D.jpg"><img title="IMG_4417" style="float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto" alt="IMG_4417" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-ntimttnYNSg/UkpCt6eUeVI/AAAAAAAABF8/C6ixKG4XSLQ/IMG_4417_thumb%25255B10%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="320" height="480"></a></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-uwguKMXe3ok/UkpCueAQvwI/AAAAAAAABGE/1svQqmxLmi0/s1600-h/IMG_4428%25255B15%25255D.jpg"><img title="IMG_4428" style="float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto" alt="IMG_4428" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-8UZdFtO3Qcw/UkpCu6KHjRI/AAAAAAAABGM/QbrSqt1v50g/IMG_4428_thumb%25255B12%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="319" height="480"></a></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-BrP1hsv6Egc/UkpCvDuch3I/AAAAAAAABGY/2IdJuaINOzU/s1600-h/IMG_4438%25255B9%25255D.jpg"><img title="IMG_4438" style="float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto" alt="IMG_4438" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-QtaGMWekF1w/UkpCvjgXWVI/AAAAAAAABGc/O0JzxpKkgag/IMG_4438_thumb%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="320" height="480"></a><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Bkfu6sSEIoo/UkpCv3JkvWI/AAAAAAAABGk/QnaKBjsFTQw/s1600-h/IMG_4443%25255B10%25255D.jpg"><img title="IMG_4443" style="float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto" alt="IMG_4443" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-xsIo0WQwwc8/UkpCwZ0wRWI/AAAAAAAABGw/4ceXVyC9670/IMG_4443_thumb%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="320" height="480"></a></p> <p>We had lots of fun! We played boys vs. girls vs. kids and then ate cake! (The best part of any birthday party, right?) I let Kate pick out her own birthday cake this year. We flipped through pages and pages of the cake catalog at the grocery store for about 30 minutes and then finally settled on this one:</p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-N1YYdRZDyH8/UkpCw8VmF-I/AAAAAAAABG4/po-Yc8s-FXg/s1600-h/IMG_4476%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="IMG_4476" style="float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto" alt="IMG_4476" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-M0E-lhHO4gM/UkpCxD-y8-I/AAAAAAAABG8/vM4Dh0GC5jA/IMG_4476_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="640" height="427"></a></p> <p>After the lady wrote out the order, got all of the details Kate looks at me and says “No, I want the Ariel one.” You see who won that battle right?!?!? In the end, she was happy though!</p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-iij6uDcf1zQ/UkpCxn1CMSI/AAAAAAAABHI/708nNcKjhgo/s1600-h/IMG_4480%25255B11%25255D.jpg"><img title="IMG_4480" style="float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto" alt="IMG_4480" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-TemL3O1yGQc/UkpCx6pJOnI/AAAAAAAABHM/cAR3p5dngoA/IMG_4480_thumb%25255B8%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="320" height="480"></a></p> <p>Here are a few of my favorite shots from the day:</p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-7BX5XVsnrNQ/UkpCyfrrXsI/AAAAAAAABHU/H8XQQ0LrroY/s1600-h/IMG_4455%25255B16%25255D.jpg"><img title="IMG_4455" style="float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto" alt="IMG_4455" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-WLZcb7vg-Ug/UkpCy_g2i7I/AAAAAAAABHc/7By8YrBlqyM/IMG_4455_thumb%25255B13%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="640" height="427"></a></p> <p align="center">A girl and her girlfriends……..priceless!</p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-hHD43UtxTR4/UkpCzffhCHI/AAAAAAAABHo/90tDbNpqJpU/s1600-h/IMG_4483%25255B12%25255D.jpg"><img title="IMG_4483" style="float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto" alt="IMG_4483" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-8hvBSI9SNqk/UkpCz4sHXQI/AAAAAAAABHs/vU_YZ_fGyf8/IMG_4483_thumb%25255B9%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="640" height="427"></a></p> <p align="center">Me and my girl</p> <p align="center"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-c_Kc5E90diA/UkpC0HqqkkI/AAAAAAAABH0/QBBThFkYuYw/s1600-h/IMG_4506%25255B10%25255D.jpg"><img title="IMG_4506" style="display: inline" alt="IMG_4506" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-4fqVo4glZlM/UkpC0l0OHgI/AAAAAAAABH8/DpkzrY2Vw8k/IMG_4506_thumb%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="640" height="427"></a></p> <p>Then on her actual birthday we started the day with Mickey Mouse pancakes! Notice she is already dressed up and it’s only breakfast time?!?! She changes clothes about 3 times a day on average!</p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-jdWLDamNobM/UkpC1Gei3KI/AAAAAAAABIE/Wi-um-y_A94/s1600-h/IMG_4525%25255B10%25255D.jpg"><img title="IMG_4525" style="float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto" alt="IMG_4525" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-38kTEXVEdUE/UkpC1fSsRkI/AAAAAAAABIM/6VDK5xf45FQ/IMG_4525_thumb%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="640" height="427"></a></p> <p>Then we headed to our traditional birthday celebration spot…….CHUCK E CHEESE! Remember when I said before that she isn’t afraid of much………….except Chuck E? Well……………</p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-7nd6xqZNgoI/UkpC13vCXgI/AAAAAAAABIU/B0nmqtBOK_k/s1600-h/Kate%252520and%252520Chuck%252520E%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="Kate and Chuck E" style="float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto" alt="Kate and Chuck E" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-r8uzTW1SlBM/UkpC2CFrrbI/AAAAAAAABIY/c0gQtcIV2E0/Kate%252520and%252520Chuck%252520E_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="480" height="480"></a></p> <p>This girl not only gave Chuck E a high five, but she stood beside him and took her picture with him! She said that because she was four now she wasn’t afraid of him anymore. You could tell she was still terrified but she was determined to not be afraid anymore. I was so incredibly proud of her. True story: One time my parents took her for dinner at Chick Fil A and when they walked up to the door she saw the cow inside. She ran into my Dad’s arms and they ate dinner at McDonalds. </p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-1oQ2lf5i14o/UkpC2vBWYnI/AAAAAAAABIk/WYWLz7kCWHM/s1600-h/IMG_4529%25255B11%25255D.jpg"><img title="IMG_4529" style="float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto" alt="IMG_4529" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-HDkGpdclKag/UkpC3FSYfVI/AAAAAAAABIs/nOQe9GDrwLw/IMG_4529_thumb%25255B8%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="640" height="427"></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-7HrJZy2-1dY/UkpC3b0D7UI/AAAAAAAABI0/rqSeXHzIdjk/s1600-h/IMG_4530%25255B10%25255D.jpg"><img title="IMG_4530" style="float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto" alt="IMG_4530" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-fyd8zqWYEbI/UkpC3_SwEsI/AAAAAAAABI8/f32VX2Kvbjs/IMG_4530_thumb%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="320" height="480"></a></p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-bqJ_0M2Jysk/UkpC4Gsq7hI/AAAAAAAABJE/0zRjoAVaxw0/s1600-h/IMG_4553%25255B10%25255D.jpg"><img title="IMG_4553" style="float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto" alt="IMG_4553" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-uG87m0vpJKM/UkpC4g51nsI/AAAAAAAABJM/slz1WH_Q_Xs/IMG_4553_thumb%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="640" height="427"></a></p> <p>We survived another birthday &I’m a little sad my girls are getting so big, but I sure do love them. Thankful for all of my blessing!</p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-8J1m2bFS2mM/UkpC5EFbT_I/AAAAAAAABJY/ZAtRGm-z_8Y/s1600-h/IMG_4563%25255B10%25255D.jpg"><img title="IMG_4563" style="float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto" alt="IMG_4563" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-7MrSDvcoR0U/UkpC5nDS3zI/AAAAAAAABJc/jFauS5JAqvo/IMG_4563_thumb%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="640" height="427"></a></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17818057045027190430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1146229545006435769.post-46291416157346004502013-09-27T15:17:00.001-07:002013-09-27T15:17:58.439-07:00Friday Fashion Diary<p>I can’t believe it, but my little fashionista is going to be FOUR YEARS OLD tomorrow! Today her Grandma and I took her shopping for her birthday. She was in heaven! She loved trying on hats and getting to pick out her own clothes at Gymboree. This afternoon we have been having a fashion show so that she can show off all of her new clothes. </p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-uvHkRDDxWWc/UkYEDPT5lfI/AAAAAAAABFA/qfHK3hwWfBI/s1600-h/4th%252520Birthday%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="4th Birthday" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="4th Birthday" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-BDrcQ_6tdHw/UkYEDi0zAmI/AAAAAAAABFE/zgdrQLSO1Bc/4th%252520Birthday_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="772" height="772"></a></p> <p>I missed a couple of outfits this week because she changed into either dress up clothes or another outfit before I could snap a picture, but these are the outfits she came up with:</p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/--JlHw5AuXWE/UkYEElndd3I/AAAAAAAABFQ/0UTdX_kK7dk/s1600-h/Week%2525203%25255B1%25255D.jpg"><img title="Week 3" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="Week 3" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-ITGtTDHfmcw/UkYEFMhhInI/AAAAAAAABFU/wJoDlhjGMZM/Week%2525203_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="772" height="772"></a></p> <p>Not too shabby this week. And check out those boots in the second picture. Those are her all-time FAVORITE shoes! She will wear them with anything and everything! </p> <p>Have a blessed weekend!</p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17818057045027190430noreply@blogger.com1