We have tile! :)

I hope everyone had an awesome Mother's Day! We were not able to see our Mom's so we spent the day picking out tile!!! Yes tile, and yes I am so excited about the tile! In about a week we will have a kitchen floor & backsplash! Stay tuned for before and after pictures of our kitchen. It will finally be...FINISHED! yay!

Here are some of my favorite finds this past week:


http://www.laurenconrad.com/

Who knew that L.C. had this website with all this awesome information?! I am trying out her Bikini Boot Camp Plan this week! It has been great so far (I know, it's only Monday)! Here is what my yummy lunch looked like today!

Pretty good! Salad with cucumbers, avocado, cherry tomotoes, quinoa and a mixture of olive oil, balsamic vinegar, lemon juice and salt and pepper for the dressing. (I forgot my almonds)

This is my next favorite find! It is like a scentsy, but from Wal-Mart! Love it! Trying to make the new place smell pretty! :)

Lastly...Colored Denim, I am loving it right now! Love all the summer colors they have out right now!

Hope everyone is having a great Monday!



Happy Friday

Happy Happy Friday everyone!!

Here are a few pictures of the work we did on this house this week:

These are the before pictures of the fireplace; don't be fooled this is actually painted to look like brick! They literally painted the bricks a brick color and painted all of the spaces in between gray! That must have taken forever!!

Primed and ready to go!

Here we are, hard at work...Macy is such a help haha!

                                

    

Almost done!!!

Just for the record, painting a fireplace is not very fun and I hope that we do not have to do it again anytime soon! That being said, I absolutely LOVE the outcome of this chocolate-y brown fireplace!! The pictures don't do it justice, hopefully I can get some better ones sometime soon! As my friend Ashley said: "It looks so good you can eat it!"

Hope you all enjoy the pics! Have a great weekend and Happy Mother's Day to all the awesome Mom's out there! 

Awesome Weekend!

We had a great weekend with my sister and brother in law! Why do those weekends have to end? I always hate leaving my sister but now we are counting down till next time!

This weekend we got a lot done on the house! I meant to get some action photos of the boys but I completely forgot!! I guess Sarah and I were too busy doing the girl stuff! The boys filled in ALL of the holes in the bathroom that the plumber had to rip out to install the toilets and vanities! This was huge, there have been open holes in the walls for a few weeks now! So now we are almost ready to paint!! Sarah and I unpacked and cleared out a few rooms! It was such a big help having Sarah and Lance here this weekend...Why do they live so far away??

Also since my last post we have painted the kitchen and the living room! Next on the agenda for painting is the fireplace and built ins in the living room!

Cinco de Mayo

HAPPY FRIDAY!

Who all has plans for Cinco de Mayo this weekend? My sister and brother in law are coming into town! Can't wait, it is always great to see family!

Maybe some of this will be part of my weekend! (Found on Pinterest...all looks amazing!)

 

Here are some hot spots to check out this weekend:

The Original El Taco: $12 22-oz. El Jimador margaritas, $4 pineapple-infused tequila shots, $12 buckets of Dos Equis Amber and $9 22-oz. Dos Equis Lager drafts in a souvenir cup. 404-873-4656. 1186 N. Highland Ave. NE, Atlanta.

Red Pepper Taqueria: $2 Jimador shots, $3 Tecate and $10 Veev 26 oz. margaritas in a souvenir glass. 404-325-8151. 2149 Briarcliff Road, Atlanta.

http://www.thecornertaqueria.com/ for information on The Corner Taqueria's Cinco de Mayo celebration

Also, here is a link to a Cinco de Mayo Pub Crawl in Buckhead! http://buckhead.patch.com/articles/cinco-de-mayo-comes-to-buckhead

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Stay Focused...

I have decided that each week I will focus on a different room (or every two weeks, however long that particular room may take). The first "focus" is going to be the Kitchen. I think this has been my main focus since the beginning! When we bought the house we knew the kitchen (along with many other rooms) would need some help. First plan of action for me was the cabinets!! Where did I turn for inspiration?? None other than Pinterest. Our cabinets needed a little love, to say the least! They most definitely needed an update and after some thought, I decided a cream color would be perfect!


Here is a picture of our cabinets before...

Straight  from the 1960's :)

First, we had to sand...and sand...and sand! So we wiped down the cabinets and I began sanding away!! I have lots of pictures of the cabinets so here are some from after we sanded..

Next step was to prime, this was pretty easy; we just took a cabinet roller and primed everything!

Finally, it was time to paint! I chose "antique white" by Behr. I LOVE this color. In fact, it has found a home in several places in our house now!! We had to give the cabinets two good coats, so it took quite a few days from beginning to end.

Macy and I painting!

And for the finishing touches...we spray painted the knobs with an Oil Rubbed Bronze spray paint!

I am so happy with our finished product (not the best pictures)! The kitchen is still a work in progress, but we are definitely one step closer!!

 

The House!

I wrote this last week and never got around to posting... enjoy!


We got SO much done at the house this past weekend(4/21)!! I can not wait to share before and after pictures of the inside but until then, here is a little background on the house...

Tyler and I rented an apartment for the first two years we were in Atlanta. We knew when the lease was up on this apartment we were going to buy! So we started the process by searching and searching and searching!!! Finally at the end of February we found a house we wanted to put an offer on. We got the house and 30 days later we were home owners!!

 

and here's the house..

Stay tuned for before and afters...

All things BLUE!

In my first post, you learned that my sister is expecting a baby, due in September! So this past weekend we took a break from all of the house renovations and yard work and made the drive down to the tiny little town of Chipley, Florida to find out if the baby was going to be a girl or a boy! I love the change of pace going from Atlanta to Chipley! We headed down on Thursday night, with a Girl gift and a Boy gift! (we had to be prepared!) I just new it was going to be a boy!! I was so excited about the boy present we had picked out!!

Here is my sister, Sarah and brother in law, Lance...So excited!

I love how they are both wearing Blue for a Baby Boy!

Those of you that know me, know how close I am to my sister, so as she is expecting her first child I am overwhemed with excitement!! My sister truly is my best friend so I am so glad that we were able to share this time with her and my brother in law. 

Here are a few pictures of the sweet baby boy! Hopefully they will come up with a name soon so we can stop calling him baby boy! :)

We can't wait to welcome our first nephew into the world!!