Where The Blue Lilies Grow: Lots of catching up to do!

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.

July 8, 2015

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!

July 9, 2015

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.

They also had a guy painting the kitchen cabinets. We went with SW Dover White.

(Still taking pictures through the windows!)

July 10, 2015

More pictures!

They were excited about their rooms being painted. Although we'll paint them different colors eventually.

July 12, 2015

Time for granite!! We chose Giallo Ornamental for the whole house.

They were super fast! And that same day they got the sinks installed too!

The Master Shower also got prepped and ready for tile and a niche was added.

Matt and I got in a little yard work while they put the granite in.

And the kids played outside.

July 13, 2015
The bathtub frame went in:

And the tile work began:

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!

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:

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.....................

The long awaited (and super delayed) brick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

July 17, 2015

They also had the tile almost complete in the girls bathrooms

And the Master Bath was coming along:

Powder Room:

Laundry Room:

And here is a closer look at the brick:

July 19, 2015

The Master Shower is getting a little more complete.

And we did some more yard work turning these areas:

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.

So now we're to today, July 20th:

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!

Then as far as tile this got done today. And the master shower was prepped for the flooring to be installed.