Pic-ic

Emery has been sooo into picnics lately, sometimes we have one set up for days! Her imagination is going like crazy these days and it is so fun!

Every single day I wonder how she is so pretty!

She's an excellent chef & her new sleeping bag makes for the perfect picnic blanket!

Enjoy the Journey.

The Beloved Couch

We finally upgraded(?) our couch. Jare had found a leather and microfiber couch in the dumpster at a local store (floor model) that had 2 minor rips in seams, & minor wear. It has recliners on both ends so it is super nice. Unfortunately it meant we had to get rid of our suuuuuuper comfortable couch. We paid $150 for it 2 years ago and sold it for $80, so not too shabby. I will for sure miss it and later in life when we have our "dream house" will likely look for one similar. It was just so comfy!

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A Shed

Jared and his dad built a shed during conference weekend. It has been such a blessing to have! The week after we helped Jare do the finishing touches like the roof. Emery loved helping Jared by handing him whatever he needed! (and emery's awesome outfit is compliments of herself.) 

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Before/House Listing Pictures.

I just found these pictures in my email, they are the pictures of our house from the listing. I'll comment below them and tell you what we've changed and then take pictures sometime soon so you can see the difference too.

The front of our house! We're on the corner so we face Southeast.

The upper window is the master bedroom, the lower right is my craft room, lower left is the laundry/bathroom.

-The changes are minimal, the red curbing bricks that are for no reason in front of the porch have been moved, our own chairs and table sit on the porch-much cuter. Next spring the door will get a fresh coat of paint and the kick plate will get one too! 

This view is roughly standing from the front door. The door that you see is the coat closet.

-A fresh coat of paint in here went a long way. The color in this picture is a peachy/flesh tone... blech. The carpet in here was replaced a week before we made the offer, this is the carpet we took throughout the entire house. They had put it in this room the stairs going downstairs (stopped at bottom) and up the stairs and in the hallway upstairs.

Standing in the dining room corner by the stairs looking back into the living room.

Standing in the living room by the coat closet looking straight ahead into the dining room. To your right is the half staircase going upstairs, and you can see part of the half staircase going downstairs.

-The flesh color is gone and that wall wrapped around the kitchen is a pale blue. The green wall is the neutral that we took throughout the entire house. 

Standing in the corner by where you go downstairs looking into the kitchen.

-The doorknob you can see before the fridge is the pantry, that wall is our neutral to the fridge, as it turns by the fridge the wall is blue. The biggest change we made in here is the kitchen cabinets. I had forgotten how terrible the kitchen looked until seeing this picture. We painted them white and it made the BIGGEST difference. We also spray painted the fridge black to match the appliances. Appliance spray paint works! $12 was well worth it and cost much less than a new fridge to make them match!

Looking from the pantry door towards the dining room/basement. It is so so nice to be able to see down where she is playing from the kitchen!

When you go up the half set of stairs you hit this room first on your left (well really the master door is before this on your right, but I'm going clockwise). This room is E's room. It got a fresh coat of white paint on walls and the ceiling.  The big wall that the bed is mostly on is now pink, and we put in an IKEA chandelier for her, her "princess light". 

This is the next room on the left, it is now a guest room. Just a plain off white color with a bed in the room. :)

The next room (at about 3 o'clock on an actual clock). "Emery's bathroom" as she calls it. This is the only tub we have. We've taken the mirrored vanity down (and made $30) and put up a mirror that I bought at a yardsale for $10, it was a HUGE change! Painting the vanity is still on our list of things to do. :)

This is the view of the master from our bathroom, the room was painted an off white ("antique white") and the wall with the pictures on it is blue and that is where our bed is. My mom and I made a window seat and this room is still coming together slowly. 

Master bath-the corner shower doesn't bug me as much as I thought it would, I actually don't have a problem with it. Painting this vanity is also on the to do list still.

Master closet, it is still a walk in, and decent sized, but our last one was the size of a bedroom so it is down-sizing for us. :)

Family room downstairs, this room was painted the neutral (autumn haze) and got new carpet-the carpet in the living room we took throughout the rest of the house.

This is off of the family room, and is now my craft room. It got new carpet was all, but it made a huge difference. This room has great lighting which is fabulous for crafting. My quilting machine BARELY fit. Like a few papers between it and the wall on each side.

The downstairs bathroom/laundry-this still needs to be painted. Eventually we'd like to put a shower in this room so the guests don't have to go all the way upstairs to shower because our main guest room is in the basement.

From this view to your right is another half set of stairs that goes into the basement. (so these stairs run under the stairs that go upstairs to the bedrooms) When you get to the bottom to your left is a big storage room, the hall then bends to the right and there is a door on your right and one straight ahead. 

Downstairs in the basement, this is now our guest room. (the door if you were to go straight through the bend in the hall) We painted the ceiling white (it was baby blue with clouds) and the walls the neutral we used in the majority of the house. This room actually had carpet in it and had been finished semi recently. It is very similar to the carpet in the rest of the house but is slightly longer. 

The door to the right. The basement didn't have carpet on the stairs or in this room (it is just laid down) so we finished it off by putting carpet in. We took the carpet from the family room and set it down in the storage room which made a big difference in there as well. This room is the exercise room. It can't technically be used as a sleeping room because you can't get out of the window currently. The window well is dug out, but then the kitchen windows (behind the table) are bay shaped and hang over the dig out as it currently is, so you'd have to be about 4" to get out. Sometime next spring we'll dig it out just so that it is done and another access out. It works perfectly as an exercise room though as it is on the smaller side. 

The door with the black thing on the bottom goes to the kitchen, the door on the right goes into the garage. Where you can see the trash can Jared and his dad have built a shed which has already proved to be worth the money as we can both park in the garage and it makes a big difference in Jared's mornings. 

I'll get some better pictures of the backyard as well as updated ones so you can see the difference soon!

Enjoy the Journey.

A New House.

The first time going into "OUR HOME". We were so excited and have loved it so much!

I don't know if I mentioned-E had Hand, Foot & Mouth (for the 3rd time) the first of the 2 weeks we were painting/projecting/ moving so I did all I could to keep her busy and get done what I could. 

Sometimes it included no shirt. (side note the extra wood pieces awkwardly on the wall around the seat have been removed and a window seat has now taken their place. SOOO much better.)

And Emery took up the hobby of photography when Jared's parents came to help us paint (they were for sure put to use!). 

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Post Move Cell Phone Pictures

Post move cell phone pictures.  Again these are in all sorts of order, but it's hard to move them in blogger, or I'm lazy... you choose. ;)

This was an ad in a newspaper when I was little and when you pressed the button it light up. The last time I found it (a few years ago) it still worked. This time it didn't, either way I would have done the same thing, taken a picture and chucked it. I thought it was sooo cool when I was little!

Found these cleaning.... pretty old but E loved them!

"I hold Mommy hand go potty." This is true motherhood right here.... can't go to the bathroom alone. 

Jared found this ottoman at a yardsale Julisa's wedding weekend for $10 and it is PERFECT for our living room!

She sleeps so much better in our bed....

She loves to call Jessica on the phone.... "Hi CACA!"

She always tells me what to write.... She's getting pretty good at remembering everyone!

Rio is her new favorite!

Folding laundry and I looked down and found this... she's my favorite.

Karissa and I went thrifting and found the grand opening of a new thrift store where the waffle truck also was. We ran into Emily and then Seneca so it was a lot of fun!

Dancing Queen!

Don't you always hold hands to eat?

Vet Emery!

Vet Emery!

Emery used these (mini) as a straightener on Karissa's hair. 

Playing while we tried to eat our waffles.

Ready for her first Sunday in the new ward.

Quite the fashionista.

Dresses and boots!

Reading to her baby.

She was into layering for a good week... two pair of panties (all week long) and skirts with dresses some days.

"Mommy I wear cuuuueeee piiiii dress?"

Rockstar.

Because brushing your teeth gets so exhausting...

Doing her makeup while mom did her own in the bathroom.

Her favorite way to go grocery shopping now.... It isn't my favorite-she hops on and off continually. I try to only let her do it when Jared is with us.

Here's to getting caught up on the blog!

Enjoy the Journey.