Thanksgiving Recap/House Pics

What a fun filled few days! I can't believe we are already cruising along towards Christmas. I'll give you one guess as to how prepared for that I am...

Anyways, back to Thanksgiving- our Turkey day was wonderful, full of great food, family, and friends. I have no food picutres, because I was too busy stuffing things into my pie hole to spare a hand for anything like a camera. Our friends Maddie, Chris, and their sweet girl Emmie came over to feast with us and lucky for me, Maddie does use her camera lot and takes awesome pictures. Here are some that she got of us outside. Mini photo shoot! I keep telling her to start a side business. I'm planning on taking Grace to the park for a photo sesh with her this coming weekend. Gotta get some good pics to send to daddy!

 

 

I was really excited to see how Grace interacted with my brother. She is super friendly with most females, but boys still make her shy (not a bad problem to have ;). We skype with my mom and brother Michael a couple times a week, so she knows them pretty well and goes on and on about "Unka My" and how "toot" (cute) he is. Crush much?! I knew that she would be a little hesistant when she saw him in person, but by the end of the weekend, they were besties.

 

 

As a guest in my home, I can't promise I won't put you to work...although, everyone came very willing to lend a hand. I had curtains put up in the master and office, the hallway between the master and laundry room painted, the laundry room itself painted in preparation for this week's re-do and an accent wall in the family room (not pictured) done in the darker stripe color. The rest of the walls in that room are the lighter stripe. I also got my garage swept out, backyard raked, and was off of doggie duty for a few days. Thrilled doesn't even cover it.

 

The striped hall is a little crazy, but I'm going to live with it until after the holidays are re-evaluate if it will stay striped. The bottom left pic is the laundry room. I had cabinets installed over the washer and dryer yesterday and am going to try my hand at beadboard wallpaper this weekend and will have a couple other small changes made in the next couple weeks. There are some other little things left to do, mostly wall hangings and a family room coffee table, but I'm ready to call it good and move on.

Above is the start of a gallery wall in the family room and a view of the stripes from that room. They just sort of peek out. Still unsure. It's a little visually distracting.

Alright, wrapping up for now. I have so many Grace videos and pictures I need to share sometime. Maybe tomorrow?!

xo,
H