Some of my favorite details

With ~2 weeks to Deuce's arrival, we are still getting things settled in around here.  Two recent changes are that the guest room is set up (and Deuce's room is sorta, kinda, getting set up) and Lilah got all new big girl furniture.  So I thought it might be fun to do a "what are my favorite things in each room" post.

The Living Room:  I honestly just can't decide what is my favorite about this room.  I guess probably the rug and the new couch/chairs.  I love this darn room!

The kitchen is the same in that I dont know what I like the best.  The whole darn thing.  I guess I like the openness and the back porch access too

In the den, my favorite things are definitely our blue couch, who we named Cindy, and my rhino head (which STILL needs some sort of "framing")

In the playroom, we've done some recent organization.  My favorite things in this room right now are the new art-work ribbon/magnet display I made.  Also, if you're on my facebook you've already heard me brag about this, but check out Lilah's smiley faces!  Come on, they are sorta impressive right??

I also love Lilah's little activity table.  She loves her trains and to draw here.  I added some storage cups above it that I'm sure will come in handy.

Ok, onward upstairs where most of the changes have happened.  Let's start with Lilah's room.  First, her new furniture - bed and dressers

What a big girl!  Some of my favorite things in Lilah's room are the decorations above her bed - the stars and my recent creation of her name letters (they don't show up great in pictures for some reason)

I also love her little reading nook.  The chair is a strange left-over we had, but I love the pillow I found - it goes so well with the rest of her room

We've recently added some artwork in her room too, including this awesome height chart and a really cute picture her Auntie Sandy got her when she was born which now fits in perfectly

And lastly, another of my crafty projects lately - a hair bow holder I made:

Staying on the theme of kid's rooms - here is Deuce's room.  Nothing special happening in here yet at all - it's not really set up with the exception of the nursing chair and dresser since we're assuming he/she will sleep in our room for quite a while. Please ignore the totally temporary, too short, curtains - they look absurd.    I did buy a super cute lamp though - at least that's something!  And Auntie Sandy again came through with some cute artwork.

At least the closet is organized with all our gender neutral clothes!

Lastly, we finally got the guest room set up since the baby's room was the guest room up until this point.  Nothing too special going on in their yet, but at least there is a bed and some nice lighting (which doesn't come across all that nice in pictures...)

That's it for now.  I guess my next post will be sometime after Deuce's arrival.  Not sure how much we'll be doing to the house until we start setting up his/her room over the next few months. Ta ta for now!

So yeah, it's been a while...

Still setttling in - it's a long process!  We had The Monaco's here last week, so the baby's room is still set up as a guest room for them to use.  Plus there is that whole pregnancy thing, and toddler thing, and Lilah's birthday thing, and Thanksgiving and holidays thing....   Anyways!  Point being that we're not 100% done - especially upstairs in the kid's room.s  But, here are updated pictures of the house with some new furniture, decorations, etc.

Unfortunately with everything going on, we didn't do the full decorations outside this year - but Tom got a nice, lit wreath up!

Front door from the inside

That door to the right in the picture, leads to the living room, where we've gotten some new furniture.  We went with the very practical for 2 kids, white! :)  (We got a 7 year stain protection plan - don't worry, we're not totally dumb :)  )

Moving through the living room into the kitchen area

And the dining room on the other side.  See Lilah's adorable little kitchen she got from Opa for her birthday?

A close-up of our sink and the blender/toaster garage.  Love this sink

Kitchen from the other angle.  Tom's very proud of our drawer microwave.  And yes, there is a screaming toddler running towards the cameraman - this is real life folks :)

That door leads down the hallway - we finally got some pictures up

The first door to the left is the new den (old master bedroom).  We've brightened it up with some pictures, plants, my rhino head (which I need to "frame" somehow),  and some perhaps-temporary curtains

You've already seen the playroom and it's always just a mess in there :)  Here is the study that we've gotten set up - I like how it came out with the old living room rug in there.   Lilah loves having the fish back!

Moving upstairs, here are a few new pics of the master bedroom and bath.  We still need some decorations in the master over the bed, but at least the dog beds are in so they are comfy!

Different perspective of the master bath

Our fixtures in the master, since some people were asking

And lastly, Lilahs' room in progress.   She's transitioning to her big girl bed so you have to ignore the oddly placed crib randomly pushed into her window.  We also got her new furniture (this furniture is all going to the new baby), so we'll have to take some new pictures as soon as we get all that set up.

From the other direction

Here is a bonus picture of Lilah with Santa (we randomly decided to do this at the mall one day, so her outfit could have probably been more festive....)

The end, for now....

Lilah's Birthday

Since we're having Lilah's birthday party this upcoming weekend (her birthday was last week - Happy Birthday to my little Bean!!!), we've been working hard to get some decorations up around the house.  Since Tom says my pictures of the finished rooms stink, let's give him a try to take pictures of a room w/out a fisheye lens (seriously, if you've never tried it, it's very hard).  Hopefully I'll update soon!

Getting Settled

Yes, this post took forever. I know I know.  But I didn't want to take pictures when there was boxes etc everywhere.  We still have a lot to do, but it's coming together.  For instance, you'll notice there is nothing on the walls yet - we still need to figure out where everything will go.  But here is our progress:

Welcome to our home:

Our family room.  We've decided this couch needs to go, and we need more seating, something in the left corner, and stuff on the walls....but you get the idea.  I love the carpet we found:

The dining room that you can see in the background in the above picture.  We need some sort of area rug under the table, but we haven't decided what yet.  Kitchen is to the right:

Kitchen.  Still deciding if these are the right stools for the island:

My favorite part of the kitchen area.  The double doors which open onto the back screened in porch (don't you love the tricycle in ever shot - yup, a toddler lives here):

Down the hall is the den, which used to be the master bedroom  A lot more decoration is needed here, but the couch and rug are in and Tom's huge TV is hung up, so it's functional. I always wanted a blue couch:

The bathroom off the den.  We didn't do much here, but we did replace the vanity top with some granite, and acid cleaned the floors to spruce it up.  We need to paint this room - the tan isn't working for me:

This is the other bathroom downstairs - in the hallway. Nothing has changed in here since we redid it a few years back:

I did get these new shower curtain hangers - it's hard to see but they say "Hot" and "Cold" - I thought they were fun :)

Down the hall is Lilah's playroom, which is also far from done but starting to come together.  I just finished painting the stripe on the wall and hanging up her letter decals (which she loves!).  Not sure this is the book shelf / toy storage that'll stay in there, but it works right now. She loves her new little work table too.  The carpet is green, although it looks like an odd color in these pictures:

Upstairs!  So far only Lilah's room and our bedroom are really set up.  Deuce's (baby #2) and the guest room aren't really set up  yet, so no pictures of those for now.   Here is the master bedroom, sorely in need of some more decoration and furniture (and please ignore the boxes)!

I took plenty of pics of our master bath in the last post.  Here is the hallway bath (kid's bath). The curtain has trees and little squirrels - it was nice and colorful:

Lilah was napping during these pictures, so no pictures of her room yet.  I gotta get the curtains installed, find a darn area rug and hang up some decorations before I take pictures in there.  That's it for now!  What do you think?