Family Room and Kitchen Reveal!

I finally put pictures of our family on the wall! It feels like we officially live here now, and it only took 6 months. Now my next goal is to get the boxes unpacked in the basement! All in good time:) Here's a little before and after of the projects we've been working on all summer. And finally we are getting a few things checked off our list!

Kitchen 

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 In the Kitchen we painted the walls Studio Taupe (Behr) and put bead board up in the dinning room. Because it was such a small area we decided to just do the real deal. It still cost under $100 and the end result looks so good! The curtains are IKEA and they were only $15 for both! (Ikea I love you!) The EAT sign was just cardboard letters from Hobby Lobby spray painted with the same metallic spray can I used on the knobs in the kitchen (originally they were gold). The Chalkboard was a cheap serving tray originally all silver from a party store. I aged the silver and painted the middle with chalkboard paint.  Still have 1 main project left in here which is a back splash but that will be another time. And also eventually new appliances. But for now I love how everything turned out!

Family Room/ Living Room 

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Gallery wall 

We painted the back wall Studio Taupe (behr) and the side wall Gallery Taupe (behr). My mom made the piece of wood on the wall from some old fence in her backyard and I bought the P from hobby lobby. I put a few fall decorations out and the room came together great! Still have 2 big things to work on in this room 1.staining the fireplace and 2. getting a bigger T.V. stand. But for now I love how it's turned out!

You know who is crazy talented?

My mother that's who. Seriously. All of the stuff I do is because I've grown up watching my mom decorate, and re-decorate the house. She made me my kitchen table! She made her own kitchen table, she does many other things as well! She started a blog, and it's just getting started but if you want inspiration decor, parties, awesome places to travel (in Utah mostly) follow her blog!

www.redcreekchic.blogspot.com

Pantry and Office Reveal !

Finally! I am going to post some pics of our big remodel project! So it started with the moment I realized I just bought a house without a pantry! My fabulous handyMan whipped up a plan to make me one and I was thrilled:) Basically within days of moving in to our beautiful new home we were smashing walls down with a sledge hammer! It was great fun! So pictured below is my view from my front door. We had a sitting room/front room and we decided we didn't need one quite so big so we knocked a hole into the kitchen and built our pantry into the front room.

Before/during construction.

I don't have an "actual" before picture but just imagine a plain white wall there instead of 2x4's.

This is the view from the front door. The front room.
After

This is the view from the kitchen side. Into the pantry.

Then Brock put dry wall up and mud and built me some fabulous shelves.

 I decided I wanted something special in my pantry so I decided to stencil the back with this fab stencil I picked up for 1.99 at Hobby Lobby!

Stencil process. It took a while but I didn't mind the work. 

Ta da! Pantry complete! 

And here is the door to the pantry! All complete! 

So we decided we didn't really need a front sitting room (plus we didn't want to buy a couch we would never use!) So we decided to make the front room an office:)

View again from the front door right when you walk in the front door.
BEFORE 

After! 

And my handyMan built me a book shelf! I feel like I have my own library! Heaven!

So there you have it! 2 projects actually mostly complete! We only have about 7 other ones that we've started and haven't yet finished but when they get done I will be sure to post them!

4th of July!

We had a blast on the 4th of July this year! Probably one of my favorite 4th celebrations yet! We slept over night at my sister's house in No. Ogden which was great fun! Then we got up and went to the Huntsville parade, which is a super cute, small town parade. The boys LOVED it! Sitting and having people throw candy at you is a dream come true for them! Then we went back to Ari's for a delicious BBQ, huge water fight, and a way fun afternoon. Then we headed home and rested for a few hours so we could make it through the fireworks, which were awesome! All around great day of celebration! Here's a few pics:) 

Waiting for the parade to start!

Sadie giving Brigham kisses:) Cousin love! 

Sadie and Brigham! 

Nana and Brigster

Ari, Nathan and KT watching the parade.

Big girl! I can not believe she is 18 months already! 

Me and Lukey

The whole group of Family watching the parade.

Ari and Brig

It's a miracle everyone was looking in the area of the camera~! 

Waiting for the fireworks to start. 

 I loved that the 4th was on Thursday so we had Friday, Saturday and Sunday to be together as a family! It was great! We saw Despicable Me2 and got a lot of projects done around the house! Including the Kitchen! It looks fabulous!! Stay tuned for some great before and after pics!

Mini (Before not after) Home Tour

I have been so excited to post some pics of our new home! But the problem is we are STILL in boxes (embarrassing) I know! But in my defense we have been driving to SLC 4+ days a week! So I barely have time to do the basic chores around the house! But we are making some progress! Here's the outside, with all the tree's and bushes grown in:) We are SO spoiled with our yard! It's amazing! Let's just hope I can keep it alive...seriously yard work is not my specialty!

Backyard

Playground for the kids! 

Gazebo! 

     Since we are talking about the amazing yard, here are some pics of the backyard! Seriously the previous owner was a professional landscaper and again we are spoiled! It's already SO nice! 

"Water Feature!"
 It's actually quite nice having the water sound
while relaxing in the bakyard:)

 Now here's the kitchen, this is not a good shot AT all! This was taken while I was there cleaning before we even moved in. But I don't have a better one yet. I have SO many idea's for what's going to happen in here so stay tuned for an awesome before and after! (once I find time of course!)

 Here's the living room! Again I can't wait for the before and after! I am so excited to get some paint on these white walls!! 

Here is my FIRST Before and After! My master was my number 1 project! It's not ALL the way complete but it's close enough!

Before

After.
Still looking for a lampshade and some
 decor for Brock's side of the bed. And I am in the process of
making many more pillows for the bed! :) 

My dresser.
 not 100% happy with this but
it's going in the right direction:)

Master bed reading nook:) And Brock's dresser that I painted. 

 Anyway! There is much more to show but for now that will have to hold you over! We also got our walk in pantry built wahoo! But I still need to take some good pics of that. So that will be next time's before and after! It turned out amazing! And hopefully when I stumble across all the rest of my master bed decor I will update these pics! My next project is the office/ front entry (that's where all the boxes are!) And I can't wait to get started on it!

Belated Birthday!

It's pretty much embarrassing at this point to do a birthday post about Sadie's first birthday  Seeing as it was almost 4 months ago! But it was a great day and I can't believe my little baby is getting SO big! She still isn't walking too much yet, but she know's how to she just hasn't decided she wants to (she is very stubborn!) And she is signing all sorts of words, fish, milk, more, eat, drink, cookie and she talks A lot! Although no one can quite understand her, she know's what she is saying. She is such a fun easy going baby girl, and we feel so lucky to have her in our family! Here's a few shots from her bday bash!

Silly girl won't sit still for a picture!

Treats table! yum!

Owl cupcakes:)

She had no problem digging into her cake!

So fun to see this lovely couple! We miss you guys!

Grammy Tammy and Sadie!

Reading her new princess book with great grandma Marshall

We're so glad we were able to have the love and support of our family and friends there to celebrate Sadie's first birthday! What a wonderful year it was, and without a doubt the fastest year of my life! Love you Sadie bug, I can't imagine our family without you!!

Baby Legs!

I finally got to put my machine to work again! oh how I've missed sewing the past few weeks while we've been moving! My sister and I sewed these baby legs up yesterday! They are SO simple and cheap! My kind of combination! We just picked up some long socks from Target for $2 and used this tutorial! I love how they turned out. My little Sadie is almost 15 months and still wont walk!! She's a stinker. Anyway, her poor legs are so scratched up from crawling outside with her brothers so I thought these would be a good way to help protect her poor chubby knees! So if you need a quick easy baby craft, this one is great! We also made boy ones for the Brig (the gray and white stripe) they looked so great on his chubby little legs!  

Enjoy!

( Pics of the new casa coming soon! )