Ahhhh....Restful

That is what I what I would call this room...Restful. It not only is the name of the paint color but also the feeling I have when I am in our bedroom. We finally got our new bedroom furniture about 1 month ago. We have been married 8 years and we have never had a headboard/footboard or anything that matches. I love our new bedding. I got the comforter at Target for almost $30 off just because someone had returned it out of the packaging. Nothing wrong with it, just not in the original package. Now, the bed is huge. I worry a little bit about getting up on it after my c-section, I am thinking step stool. Not only is it high it is also bulky. So it's a little big for the room, but I am growing to like it that way. Not bad for military housing, eh.

Been Junkin'

Before

After

I found this bench out in front of my neighbors house after they had moved. So I snatched it up, bought a can of spray paint for $3.44 and here is the finished product! I even got Reese to spray paint it for me! I've junked a few things in my day. In Sumas I grabbed an old wagon wheel and put in one of my flower beds. I also got an old pressure cooker and a bunch of jars in Lynden once. The pressure cooker gauge ended up being broken, but the canning jars came in handy. Junkin' is even better than Thriftin' cause it's free!

Here is a picture of my flower bed. I love it because I can see it out my kitchen window. I am hoping that I can take a picture in a couple months and have blooming sunflowers in front of that dead bush and morning glories climbing the trellis. I have all them growing you just can't see them cause they are still quite small. I need to put more snail bait out, I noticed I have a few sunflowers down. I am excited about the "yard" at this house. I have more places to plant things and I am taking full advantage. I think I even have a place for a zucchini and butternut squash plant on the side of the house! Once again I am sure my neighbors think I am nuts. I am always out there planting more or repotting things. Today I was out taking pictures of it. Yesterday Lane was driving his John Deere Gator around pulling his red wagon behind it. He was wearing a life jacket, had a butterfly net propped up on the back of his Gator and he was waving to invisible people like he was in a parade. We so belong on a couple acres out in the country! I am sure we are entertaining though.

Home Tour: Living Room

The Office area (excuse the cluttered bookshelf)
The Living Room area
I really like our living room. It is very cozy and I like the set up. The paint color is more brown than the pictures show, do I need a new camera or just take some lessons on how to use my current one? It seems like the colors are not the same. :) Anyway, there it is for those of you who were interested.

Home Tour: Kitchen & Dining

Like my title? It makes it sound all fancy doesn't it... So here is the finished product. The paint color is called Shale Gray (Behr) and is darker in person. The pictures make it look very powder blue. I wasn't sure about the color, if I didn't have to paint over it when we move I would have gone a little darker, but it's grown on me. I really like the dark brown curtains with it and then I made a little curtain for the window over the kitchen sink. I love that window! It's amazing the little things you can appreciate when living in military housing. I planted some flowers outside of it and I just bought an adorable hummingbird feeder to hang on the tree outside the window. I also planted some herbs in pots on the window sill. So all in all I am very happy with the way the space turned out. Reese and I both feel like this house feels more like home. Now, onto the living room next. Just need to find the energy to clean it so I can take pictures...

Organization and A New Menu!

So I posted before we moved my concern over the cupboard space. We have this little closet that had no shelves, just a little closet across the hallway from the coat closet. So I went to Home Depot and bought these shelves for $8. I was able to fit my crock pot and bread machine, all of my cookbooks and my canning jars. I also slide my vacuum in there too. I am feeling good about the storage space now. The kitchen is a little weird, things don't seem to be "in their place" but I will get used to it. And yes, as you can see there is paint on the walls. That is a little sneak peek at the color of the living room. I am very excited, I got the living room and our bedroom painted. They aren't all put together so I won't show you yet, but the living room is almost done.

Now onto the menu. I am feeling quite a bit better so I put a few meals that I'm making this weekend on the menu. I will try to post the recipes for Whiskey Crab Soup and the Pecan Crusted Chicken Salad, so stay tuned!

Moving Update

I really wanted to update this before we actually move. And since I don't like to post without a picture, this is Lane's new CARS bike. He is getting too big!!

Moving day is tomorrow. It was supposed to start tomorrow morning at 8:30 am. But...things have changed. When I went to sign the lease on Monday, they told me that my Power of Attorney didn't include the signing of a lease. Translation: Our power of attorney was written up by an actual lawyer not by the military, therefore they've never seen such a document, got all flustered and told me I couldn't use it. So I said to them in a nice way (I know some of you are surprised) that I was able to sell a house in my husbands name but I can't sign a 6 month lease?? Well to make a long story short we now have to wait until Reese gets home tomorrow afternoon to go in and sign the lease, then we will be able to pick up the keys. I know it's really not much of a delay, but enough to throw off my schedule and annoy me. Now that I have that off my chest!!!!

What else....oh yeah I just went over to my friends this morning. She has a 3 bedroom that is exactly how ours will be. I went to check out the cabinet space a bit more. Oh my what will I ever do?? I don't have a good silverware drawer! The nice new silverware tray that Reese got me for Christmas won't fit in any of the drawers. I believe a man designed this kitchen and had no idea what the makings of a "real" kitchen involve. (Now I know your pain Elaina) One more thing, I won't have room for all of my many appliances in the cupboards! Your know the really necessary ones like a waffle cone maker, food processor, mini food processor, veggie steamer, bread machine, deep fat fryer, regular waffle maker, crockpot, blender. I will need to post my very clever and imaginative ways I will be storing these puppies. At least I hope I can come up with some ways that is! I am not complaining. I look at these as challenges that I must conquer, these are the types of things I live for. Oh and have I told you that I will be painting in this new house? Oh yeah, no more sterile white walls....I am so excited! Oh so many future posts to look forward to.

In case you all were wondering, I am getting things accomplished finally. I decided in order to do that, I should pack up my scrapbooking room first. So that's what I did and there are no more stamp sets, paper and ink pads screaming my name, they are all boxed up. AMAZING!

Moving?? What!

Well it's official, we are moving 2 weeks from tomorrow! Yep, you heard me right... God has just been full of surprises lately :) We have a two bedroom house right now. I knew that when I got pregnant I could get on the list for a 3 bedroom, which is usually a 3-6 month wait I would guess. I had to wait to get put on the list until after my first appointment. So Tuesday I had my first appointment and Wednesday I headed down to the housing office to be put on the list. So I am sitting there waiting for them to get all the paperwork done etc and the lady says, "You know what I think we have one open right now." What??? Yeah there was an open 3 bedroom and they had people all ready to move into it last Monday and they cancelled at the last minute, so now it's MINE! Since the house is all ready to move into, we are packing up and moving 2 weeks from tomorrow. It's not far, I can see it from where I sit right now, maybe about 50 yards away.

So please say a little prayer for us, well me in particular. That I start to feel better soon! It's getting better but I am hoping that in 2 weeks I will feel pretty normal so I can get through this little move in one piece! I will be emailing everyone our new address soon. And remember, until this baby comes, we have a spare bedroom. There will be a queen size air mattress waiting for someone to sleep on it... visitors welcome.