House Updates
Sunday, May 11, 2008
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Published by Briana
on Sunday, May 11, 2008 
We've been in our home about 4 months now and so much has changed since we moved in! Here's what the house looked like before we bought it. If you click the link you can see how much we've changed our house!
Our dining room. We added the red color and the painting and of course our new formal dining room set. Include the new shutters on the windows too.
Painted the walls, shutters and our new furniture - from Ikea of course!
Our guest room. We need to add some paintings or something to this room. We did paint it and this is our sleep number bed from Michigan, so our guests have a nice comfy sleep!
Tannah, our realtor gave us these really nice frames. I hung them in the hallway that goes down to the guest room and you can see them from the laundry room.
Had to have a ode to the family - with picture frames. They adorn the walls on the way to the kids rooms. Here are two frames and then the Joey wall plaque that Marcie's husband made for Joey!
Here's the wall going to Justin's room, with Justin's plaque that Marcie's husband made for Justin!
Here's an overall view of the hallway. The kids love looking at the photos.
Justin's room - now green. We have another name plaque that Marcie's husband made over the bathroom door for Justin. My old toy box from when I was a kid was repainted blue and Joe's mom helped us cover it with the material that has baseball players on it. We use it to store blankets.
We kept the wallpaper the same in here because it's quite nice, but added the tan colored rug, the shower curtain and I love the palm tree print above the toilet.
Added the two wine prints outside the kitchen - which matches the grapes and the tan on the kitchen wallpaper.
My master bath. My mom made this awesome curtain you can't see in this photo! We added a honeycomb shade in the window for privacy. I'm all about bare is more so my counters don't have much on them.
You can see we hung some photos in the bathroom and we did also in the hallway. We kept the master bath mostly the same because of the wallpaper.
Our bedroom was like a tan/yellow before and now it's blue. I love color. Mom made these beautiful, wispy curtains. The bed and bedroom set is new - including our new sleep number bed, which I'm totally in love with!
Another view of the ceiling - I love how it steps up!
The view towards the wall at the end of the bed. Mom see the beautiful blanket you knit me on the bed? Alex loves to sleep on it! Plus the shelves my brother made are on the wall, adorned with my lighthouse collection. The cat tree - my father made, is in the corner!
The kids bathroom. Fishy curtain, the fish decoration on the wall....
Sometimes I wonder if Joey is an interior decorator. He picked out this blue color for his room all by himself. It matches his blue Thomas comforter perfectly AND it matches his two polar express posters perfectly. We couldn't believe it. Check those out. We got the awesome frames at Ikea!
My kitchen. I added the ivy and decoration in the corner on top of the cabinets. New fridge. The curtains my mom made.
This is our golf ball urn. We got the Texas flag from a welcome package from Joe's work and these are the golf balls we've accumulated since we've moved in. I would like to add in the past three days - we've added 3 more. Desiree, our neighbor can get this many in a WEEKEND! She has a big garbage can full!
So our original photos of our house was in Dec/Jan. Not a pretty time of the year because the grass is brown. Here's an updated photo. We've trimmed trees and shrubs and added gutters and shutters (inside).
My mom helped me plant these beautiful pink planters for outside!
The view of the side of the house (the garage area). We planted a row of flowers in the front.
Closeup of my flowers we planted.
A far away view. We are on the right.
A straight on view.
A side view.
The planter and frog mom picked out for us....
The flower bed mom helped us start. She also picked out all the flowers/bushes, except the blue ones in the back still in planters, that I just got for Mother's day.
A side view of our flower bed and a shot of the flowering pear tree to the right (no flowers).
My new blue flowers. I don't know what they are called but I love them.
We went to one of our favorite restaurant's for Mother's day dinner - Texas Land and cattle. Dinner was ok. It was very busy so the kids were a bit impatient waiting for dinner but did great. Our food was luke warm, the kids hot. It was just interesting but the kids did great based on the circumstances.
While waiting for a seat, Joey kisses me repeatedly.
Joey and Texas Land and Cattle.
I love the landscaping there. I got some pretty good shots of Joey - including this one - my favorite!
Joey taking it easy in the grass.
Joey posing by the big rock.
The kids playing in the grass while we waited for a table. They had fun.
Joey and I.
Joe noticed this mourning dove sitting on her nest right before we went in. I got really close and she didn't move. I love mourning doves. We have a bunch at the feeders at our house.
Photo of Justin. You can see his cut on his forehead is healing.
The kids outside playing. The neighbors have been very well behaved lately. They are all playing. Austin is pitching baseball to Olivia, Joey is playing with the wagon and Justin the beach ball.
My boys and I on mother's day! What a lucky mom I am to have two awesome boys!!
Justin was so funny - he looked like Santa. Joe ran and got me the camera he thought it was so funny. Justin had no clue the bubbles were all over his chin or he didn't care.
Joey wanted to be like Justin!
Another bubble shot!
Joey said it would be funny to put the bubbles ON his head. Goofball!
Watching our children grow is so rewarding. This morning Joey had yogurt and Justin wanted some too. I gave him some and he ate an entire container and loved it. Sure he had it on his chin and all over his outfit, but he loved it.
Justin, enjoying snack time.
I caught the scrapbooking bug
Friday, May 09, 2008
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Published by Briana
on Friday, May 09, 2008
Nothing really has been going on around home here. I finally got the Hungry Girl cookbook that was released 5/1 and I got the new PageMaps book of Scrapbook sketches by Becky Fleck- both are AWESOME!
The pagemaps book has totally made me just want to scrapbook like crazy. It took me two days but I finally got my printer hooked up and printing normal photos, not purple tinted photos. That took me about 5 cartridges and 4 sheets of photo paper to find out I had dried up yellow ink. My printer sat for about 7 months not used so that was part of the reason. Anyhow - it works now. All the photos below were printed on my Epson 2200. Beautiful.
So I caught the scrapbooking bug. It's so nice to scrapbook again - in my scrapbook room! I love it!! Here's my latest creations - all created with PageMaps from the book I got!
The pagemaps book has totally made me just want to scrapbook like crazy. It took me two days but I finally got my printer hooked up and printing normal photos, not purple tinted photos. That took me about 5 cartridges and 4 sheets of photo paper to find out I had dried up yellow ink. My printer sat for about 7 months not used so that was part of the reason. Anyhow - it works now. All the photos below were printed on my Epson 2200. Beautiful.
So I caught the scrapbooking bug. It's so nice to scrapbook again - in my scrapbook room! I love it!! Here's my latest creations - all created with PageMaps from the book I got!
Justin
It's not Justin - It's Joey! Zzzzzz
Photos Mike S from work took of me in like 2006 I think. I did a page on it.
I can't forget my other kids...
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
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It wouldn't be complete unless I included the cats. Today's post will showcase their favorite sleeping spots. They really are our kids. We've had them all before any of the kids were born! Alex was born in 98, Sasha 98, TyTy 99 and Kali in 2000! I can't believe Alex is 10!
Sasha loves the chair in the formal living room. So much so that I have to clean black cat hair off it often.
Kali really enjoys laying on the formal dining room chairs.
Alex is also usually found sleeping right here on the new couch.
TyTy was no where to be found. He was sleeping somewhere upstairs most likely.
Polish restaurant...!
Saturday, May 03, 2008
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We went to a restaurant in Plano called For You European Cafe & Delicatessan. I was about to get a soup since they didn't have my pickle soup I like and asked what one of the soups was called and it was pig intestine! OMG YUCK!!! NO THANKS!
Joe and I shared the polish platter and it was sooo good. The kids enjoyed their food too (chicken nuggets).
Joe was telling me one of the guys at work wanted to try it too and they talked about this weeks ago and coincidentally his friend from work, Dan, walked in the restaurant with his wife while we were eating. Talk about being on the same wavelength! Amazing.
We loved the food but the service sucked. On a Saturday night one woman was waiting 5 or 6 tables (the entire restaurant)....
Joe and I shared the polish platter and it was sooo good. The kids enjoyed their food too (chicken nuggets).
Joe was telling me one of the guys at work wanted to try it too and they talked about this weeks ago and coincidentally his friend from work, Dan, walked in the restaurant with his wife while we were eating. Talk about being on the same wavelength! Amazing.
We loved the food but the service sucked. On a Saturday night one woman was waiting 5 or 6 tables (the entire restaurant)....
Justin enjoying his food.
