It is Finally Time for COLOR!!

I feel like this week is just flying by and I really hope we are ready to move into the new house this weekend. Not everything will be finished of course in the house but having the downstairs painted and the carpets clean is enough to get us moved in, the rest will be finished over time. Everything is just so exciting that we are not worried about it at all. Chris went to Lowe's last night and picked up a new toilet seat for the downstairs bathroom (it was absolutely necessary because the existing one was an old wooden one that was yucky and gross) and when he came home with it and put it on I was just so excited, I couldn't stop smiling over our new toilet seat! :-)

I want to mention too how much Anne and Ryan have helped out tremendously this week. They came over and helped us pull down wall paper on Sunday and last night they came over and helped us primer the walls to be ready to paint tonight. They ROCK!!! :-) Chris did an awesome job on the wall texture by the way, this was the first time he used this technique and of course it looks like he has been doing it for years. Chris is in his element right now with all this though so I am not surprised at all that it looks great. :-)

That is all for now and we will post pictures soon, I wanted to wait until the color is on the walls so I could share the whole process with you, so until than have an awesome weekend!

We're on the move...

Chris and I FINALLY did it, we bought a house!! After three years of searching off and on we have finally found a house we can call a home. :-) It is located in Centennial, close to Buckley and Smoky Hill Rd. We closed this last Friday August 22nd and despite not having water yet (but we had electricity) we decided to take a bottle of champagne and an air mattress over to the house and sleep in it for the first night it was ours. We were so exhausted yet we couldn't sleep, we had so many ideas and thoughts on what we needed to do before completely moving in at the end of the month that it took us a while to fall asleep. This weekend was busy but since we didn't have water we couldn't really clean the carpets or anything but we did tear down some tacky wall paper that was in the dining room and the front sitting room. We will now apply new texture to the walls (since the wall paper pulled most of it off) and than paint. I will post pictures as we go of our progress so you can see the transformation. Hopefully it will turn out nice and we won't have to start all over. ;-)

We are so excited and can't wait to have everyone over for a BBQ. Here are some pictures of the house in case you haven't seen them yet.

Front view of our house

Back yard view of our house

View into Family room while standing in the front/sitting room

Family Room

Main Level 1/2 Bathroom
Kitchen

Another view of the kitchen

Upstairs hall bathroom

Our biggest project right now besides ripping down wall paper and cleaning carpets is be the master bathroom. It is completely unfinished but the only part left is the fun stuff like picking out tile for the floor, cabinets with sinks, toilet, and fixtures. :-) Here are some pictures of what the master bathroom looks like now and I will post updates as we complete it.

Check out this Blog

I just thought I would share this link with you to a Blog on 'cakes gone wrong', most of the posts are hilarious. Being a cake decorator I got a kick out of it. :-)

http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com

Have a great day!
~Ann