What's New

Hi all!  Here's an update about what's new around (and in) our house.  

This is my first crochet project of the season.  It's a baby blanket--and NO not for me, but for a friend. :)  

Here's a few fall/geocaching pics from a week or two ago.  The leaves are just about gone now-or at least mostly all brown.

Apparently I was really excited about this tree.  Or something.

This is at an outlook point we found.  We really enjoyed the area, and plan on placing our first geocache(s) along the trails here.  

Sugar and Rosie came along for the hike, too.  Rosie stayed in the car, and Sugar should have stayed as well, because it didn't take her long to get tired and quit.  So the majority of the hike, she was my jacket-companion.  Who needs a baby when I have the dogs? :)

TODAY, we took a little roadtrip to an apple orchard.  We went here last year, and really enjoy this particular orchard.  We picked raspberries and apples, and spent the afternoon geocaching along a nearby trail.  To make the evening even better, we were able to eat dinner at Chic-Fil-A.  We were especially excited about this part of the day! :)  The nearest Chic-Fil-A is well over an hour away from where we live.  

 

Geocaching...

This was a creative container:

This was the trail we were geocaching on.  Absolutely beautiful!

Thomas even made a new friend...

...but it wasn't real.

Okay, now for house updates.

This was the enormous mum we got a month or so ago:

And here it is today, in it's full glory.

Man I love this thing.  I just hope I can get it to come back next year.

Now for the grand finale.  Our kitchen is officially renovated!  I am so excited to finally take a break from dealing with updating the house.  Here are the befores and afters.

Well that's enough pictures for one night.  Hope everyone is doing well.  We are getting ready for the "Franken-storm" that's coming our way!  Last year it snowed on Halloween, we'll see what crazy weather we get this Halloween.

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♥ Natalie

So long ugliness...

Hello loveliness! :)  Our bathroom is now *almost* complete, and it looks SO much better!  I hope you'll agree...here are some before/afters.

First (well, this was after we put in the new floor)

(here's the original flooring)

Second

Ta-Da!!

Here's a few more views:

                 
                             ^ Thomas painted the cabinet white
                     



One of the projects we finished today was adding "frosting" to the window so that we could have privacy while still letting in as much natural light as possible:

Here you can see the convenience store from the bathroom window :(

Note:  the color of the walls are really a light silvery/gray.  It looks a little purple-y in these pics, but they definitely are NOT. After repainting the bathroom twice (the first gray we painted with was actually more of a lavender once it was up on the walls, so we repainted with a new, non-lavender gray) we are very happy with the results!

We also frosted the window in the guest bedroom.  Normally our guests would have a not-so-lovely view of the neighbor's house next door:

 And now you can ignore the view, have a little more privacy, and still enjoy the natural light.  (It's not quite as opaque as the pictures are showing.)

Now that the bathroom is updated a bit, we decided get started on the kitchen!
So far we have finished painting the primer on the upper cabinets.  We are painting the cabinets (originally ugly-beige) white.  We are next going to install new countertop and a new sink (or we are going to have the countertop installed--we haven't decided if we're brave enough to install the countertop yet).We still have quite a long way to go, so we will add some pics of our progress as we go along.

I just can't wait until that orange laminate is gone!  We are going to add a slate tile backsplash to try to go along with the slate entryway and our slate coffee tables.  

Well after a busy weekend, we're ready for a break!

Hope everyone is doing well, and enjoying the cooler weather!

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♥ Natalie