I can't keep up

The work weeks come, the work weeks go. The weekends come, the weekends go. We have SOOOOOOO much to do with still trying to get the house settled, yet are trying to play a little bit on the side. Work hard Play hard. Let me see if I can catch you up...

The weekend before Easter we headed to Charleston.  It had been a while since the hubs and I had gotten away and we both just really needed to take a weekend  to forget about the boxes that still need uppacking, the painting that needs to be done, and the pictures that still need to be hung.  We had a great time (maybe too good) and two of our very best friends were there to join us.














Easter weekend came and Easter weekend went.  My parents came to town (wish i took more pictures, what else is new). Saturday they helped with some house projects (putting up baby gates, hanging shelves in the dining room) and we had friends over for some easter festivities. Sunday had the pleasure of watching sweet baby Kiara for a few hours.  Hunter loves her and it def gave us baby fever.  Not to mention good practice with two kiddos ;)

















And last weekend we painted.  We tackled the Master bathroom (which included ripping down wallpaper and sanding walls), the Master bedroom, and the office.  We still have touch-ups to do in the bathroom and another coat to do in the Master.  We painted til 1am friday night and literally ALL day saturday AND had the help of my father in law and friends.   SO MUCH WORK.  But progess...the house is getting there slowly but surely.  Don't judge the terrible iphone pictures. And our very un-glamorous bedroom right now.  We're lucky this post is even happening  ;)









Ha! Hunter was still sleeping, can u find him in the bed? :)


And this pretty much sums up our life.  I feel ya buddy, I feel ya.  We'll get there.

Kitchen: Before/After

Alrighty - a little late but as promised here is the first part of the house we are ready to show!! The Kitchen and Kitchen eating area are as good as it gets at this point. We are elated with how it turned out. At first the paint color shocked us a bit...it was a bit more green than we expected but over time its growing on us and has given our home this unbelievable coastal feel that we LOVE!! I feel very blessed to come home to this!

Before
After

Before
After



Island fixture found here

Paint Color is Sherwin Williams Comfort Gray

Farm Table and Chairs is from World Market.  Babies table is from Ikea.  20 bucks!!

Farm table fixture found here

And I couldnt' resist some updated pictures of my little buddy.  He's growing so fast! Sits at his own table to eat, loves to color on his easel that Big Daddy made.  This past weekend our neighborhood put on an easter egg hunt at the neighborhood park.  It was a great way to meet some new neighbors and made us very glad we picked such a wonderful family friendly neighborhood.

Jakes a big helper these days too.  He cleans up for me after Hunter's dinner ;)

The next before and after you get will most likely be the Master bedroom and bath. What about the living room you ask? Oh, yeah. We are STILL sitting on outdoor patio furniture, college style, because MACY's has delayed our sofas by 8 weeks. COUNT EM! EIGHT!!! GRRRRRRRRRRR Look for that in May.

But look for pictures of my nugget at his first easter egg hunt in a couple days :)

Who knew....Knobs!

Who knew new kitchen knobs could make such a big difference. This might be my favorite change to date. And who knew kitchen knobs could make a girl sooo happy :) Props to hubby for hanging them perfectly straight (he had to drill new holes to install them!)

I was sick last week...like down for the count sick allll week! But we are making progress. The whole house has been painted, kitchen table lantern installed and we are just waiting on the island fixture to get back from big daddy's shop. It needed some height adjusting!

I've been really bad about taking pictures with the good camera of the house and of HL5. I'm going to make this a priority this weekend so look for some good posts next week! :) Happy almost Friday!

Busy with boxes and paint

Well, we're in! There's LOTS LOTS LOTS still to be done, but we're in. At the end of this I'll be ok if I dont see another box or paint swatch for LOOOOOOOONG time!

We've been busy little bees unpacking boxes...

While working around our kitchen cabinets being painted....

And trying to figure out a paint color for the walls....

Oh and I MIGHT have done a little shopping too. Maybe. I blame this girl.

Can't wait til it all comes in and things start to fall into place. I foresee some before and after photos in ya'll future :)

Baby Stats - 15 Months

Daddy just took baby to his 15 month appointment so I thought I'd report the stats for all my Grami, Granmommie, and Nana readers out there.

HLV was 26 pounds-60th percentile
And 33inches tall - 90th percentile

And in true Melrose form that is 33 inches of all torso and No legs ;)

Love this little nuggie!

A dreamy creamy kitchen

If there is one thing my husband and I agree up when it comes to home decor it's that we both LOVE white kitchens. Hands down we are just white kitchen people. We didn't want that to stop us from buying a home though because kitchen cabinets can be changed. When we were house hunting we almost built a new construction home in a neighborhood called Robbins Park. Walking through their model we homes we feel in LOVE with their open airy decor and open floor plans. However, these top notch homes came at a price tag that was going to end up being more debt than we wanted to take on. We acheived our open floor plan dream with our new home on Linksland and now are working to give it that open airy feel. First, here's some our inspiration. These are photos of the Robbins Park model homes.






Beautiful right?

Here's a picture of our kitchen now...



And this was mine and lindsey's sad attempt at painting the cabinets white/cream to see what it will look like. bahahahhaah.
Pretty terrible visual...guess we'll just have to wait for the real thing!! The cabinets are being repainted on Feb. 14th! Happy Valentines day to me.

The other thing we loved in these robbins park model homes was the pale blue paint. I would never think of doing so much blue in a home but it's so pretty and if you go pale enough with a touch of gray it really can act as a neutral. This past weekend we spent some time picking out the perfect white cabinet color and the perfect blue/gray wall color for our new home. This is what we ended up with.

Sherwin Williams "creamy" and Benjamin Moore "gray sky" All the trim in the house will be Sherwin Williams "pure white"

Hunter and I read in a design book that you should look at your wall color as a pair of pants. If someone told you, you had to wear the same color pants for 3 years what would you pick? If you went with your royal blue pants you might have fun wearing them for the first month but after a while you'd get sick of them and probably run out of ideas of tops to pair with them. But a pair of Khakis you could probably wear all three years, never run out of top ideas or tire of them. Interesting way of looking at it...I think i could wear Gray sky pants for three years. Could you?