House Progress

     Ever since our painter help left (Jonathan and Liz are seriously life savers!) things have been a little slow going.  Caleb gets a 3 day weekend this weekend so we're hoping to finish up all the painting and unpacking and get as settled in as we can.  No decorations are up and I have no idea when our family room furniture is supposed to arrive...so it will most likely be awhile before I get pictures up of the finished product.  Before we moved in everything was beige.  The family room is now grey with the fire place a darker grey.  The kitchen is bright green.  The master bedroom is a teal color and Casen's room is orange.  We still need to paint Arya's room coral and the 2 bathrooms (still can't for sure decide on those colors.)  For now, we're leaving the play/guest room, laundry room, and living room, as well as all the hallways beige.

As soon as I get at least one room completed i'll post some pics.

Here's a couple in progress rooms

Guess who won the battle of what color his room would be

Caleb signed the papers last night so we are officially homeowners!

We move in Saturday and our new washer/dryer and fridge arrive and then Monday our new dining set comes...and i'm not really sure when our new family room set comes, but hopefully soon.  We can't wait!

Family Room Plans

For now, we'll be keeping our living room pretty plain.  We're just going to use what we have and keep the paint color as is so we can put our focus on the family room, where we plan on spending most of our time.

Here's the plan for the family room:

We plan on painting the walls a lighter grey and the fire place a darker grey.  I'd like a charcoal colored couch with dark blue accents and pops of bright red and white.  I'd like storage and tables to be a mix of metal and old wood.  Can anyone guess our inspiration? :)

I'm hoping it turns out to be clean, rustic, modern, and cozy all at once (not sure the vision makes sense to anyone but me)  But hopefully it turns out!

Kitchen/Dining Room Plan

My plan for the kitchen is to make it clean, crisp, and bright while tying together the old and the new.  The main components will be green and burlap with accents of black and yellow.  I want to paint the walls bright green and frame old burlap coffee sacks for art in the kitchen.  I can't wait to get started!

Caleb's Birthday

I don't have a whole lot to post about it, but we celebrated Caleb's birthday, mostly Saturday because yesterday he was gone from 7 to 6, but we did his dinner yesterday.

Saturday was the Patriots game so he opened his gifts, had wings, and I made a key lime pie dip.  And the Patriots won yay!

I found him an autographed picture from his favorite Patriot for his birthday :) 

 (ps I did get him more then just that.  That's just hanging out here in the living room so it was an easy picture.)

 And then yesterday I did my best to recreate his favorite dinner at Red Lobster.  We had shrimp scampi, mashed potatoes, and of course the biscuits.  

the last of it

And finally....

The last of our visit pictures.  And then i'm not sure how many posts i'll have for awhile since we move next week!

 I love this one

Andd this is how well group pictures go when everyone is 3 and under