Let me take you on a little tour...

Before I show pictures of my decorated house I wanted to take pictures of all of the little details inside of the house. It is all of these details that really make our house the home that we love!!!

The kitchen:

I LOVE my white sink and the contrast between it and the faucet!!! I think it really pops in the kitchen as a pretty and simple focal point. What I really love about all of these details is that everything is very streamlined and simple, very classic and beautifully contrasted with all of the colors!!!

The dining room chandelier...ahhh!!! Gorgeous!!!

There are two of these pendants that hang from the vaulted celing all the way down to the bar

Great Room:

Fireplace, mantle, built-in bookshelf, niche for soon to be flat screen tv....

Entry door, oversized coat closet (never too much storage!) and beautiful, beautiful floors!

Ceiling fan in the great room

Arched doorway to the hall that leads to bedrooms and guest bathroom- also you can see the plant shelves

Master Bedroom:

I love our tray ceilings- they totally make the room feel special!

Door, door knobs and moulding detail

The view from the bedroom into the master bath. Garden tub, his/hers closet, double sinks etc.

Each of the bathrooms have the same towel rods and rings as well as sinks, faucets, framed mirrors, tile, cabinet hardware and sinks.

Looking into our master bathroom: built-in shelves and recessed toilet area. I love how much natural light this bathrrom gets with the two small square windows that we added!!!

Double-sinks (before the mirror was hung)

The Guest Bathroom/Kid's Bathroom:

The Kid's Bedroom:

Both the kid's bedroom and the office have these double closets

In the office we added this built-in desk for my sewing and crafts

Thank you for joing me on this tour- hopefully you will come again in another week or so when I post pictures of the DECORATED and LIVED IN home!!!!

We moved in last Friday and we are LOVING it!!!!

Sneak Peak...

So these last few weeks have definately been torture as we've been awaiting the move into our new home! Every time we go to see the progress we just don't want to leave! It's an amazing feeling knowing that you and your spouse designed and created a home that never existed before! We have such wonderful builders who did such a fantastic job!

We feel so blessed to be moving into our first place, especially since we got to choose everything about this home and no one has ever lived in it before. It truly is OUR HOME!!!

Closing is scheduled for this Friday morning! WE CAN'T WAIT!!!!!

Our new home!!!!

Hopefully many of you will come through this door!!!

Our front door will always be welcome to family and friends!!!

Come visit us soon!!!!

My little pony...

Dear Olivia,

Today is a happy day for mommy!
Thank you for letting me "make your hair pretties!"
You are my sunshine and I love you so much!!!!

Love,
Mommy XOXO's


I've been waiting to be able to put Olivia's hair into a cute little pony tail! She loves having me comb her hair in the morning and calls it "my pretties!" Whenever her clippies or bows fall out fo her hair all I have to say is: "Where are your pretties?" and she goes and finds them!

Her hair curls up too in the back with some assistance from some curling spray (thanks mom!)

Having a little girl is so precious!

Halloween...

I usually LOVE Halloween and thinking of what our family can be because we always have a theme. Two years ago we were the Flintstones and last year we were Popeye, Olive Oyl, Wimpy and Sweat Pea. So this year since Brady has been obsessed with Star Wars I was so excited to plan and make our costumes! I thought they would be so easy! Well...turns out they weren't as easy as I thought they'd be to make and I spent HOURS making them!

I was overall pleased with how everything turned out except for my Princess Leia wig which I stayed up for hours making and it just ended up looking terrible. I searched every store that i could think of (since it was too late to order online at that point) for a replacement but could find nothing, not even a brown wig with long, straight hair! So I ended up settling for a Cleopatra wig that I made buns with the best I could. Even Brady pointed out to me that "Princess Leia doesn't have black hair mom!!!"

On the way to our ward Trunk-or-Treat/Chili Cook-off I laid chris' costume on top of the crockpot so Livy wouldn't see the lid to try and lift it (BIG mistake!!!) I guess I took a few corners a little too fast (as Chris told me to slow down!) and the chili spilled all over the back seat AND Chris' costume! I was so sad...there was nothing that could be done- it had to be thrown away! Since I didn't really think that I looked good I didn't even bother taking a family picture. Very, very sad! Maybe a few years down the road we can try the Star Wars theme again!

Brady and Olivia posing right before we left for the Trunk-or-Treat. It was quite the ordeal getting the green make-up on Olivia's face and by the time we got to the church it was all rubbed off!!! She was a good little Yoda even though everyone kept asking us what "his" name was! Brady would say, "HE is a SHE!!!" Poor girl- next year she can be something really girly!

A few nights before Halloween we went down to Burley to Chris' parent's ward Trunk-or-Treat. I lent my costumes from previous years to Chris' parents and we thought they looked pretty cute!!! I think his parents would make the perfect Barney and Betty Rubble though- that would be a fun costume sometime and we could go on on a "double-date!"

Yoda and Wilma!

This is the best picture we could get!

I hope everyone had a HAPPY HALLOWEEN and enjoy the last few weeks of fall!!!