The Pool

This was one of the reasons we chose the subdivision we bought our house in. The pool! The boys love swimming and summer is so much better with a pool.

House Update

The boys rooms are finished! Well, mostly finished. We have a few more items to hang up in their rooms, but other than that, we are done! Yay! We are too happy to have them done. Fonzy and I are tired of painting! We painted the loft this weekend also, and have decided no more painting this year! Our room will have to wait until next summer.

The first room is Elijah's room. We stained his furniture this darker color before we moved. The picture below is Fonzy staining it. See how light it was. It looks so much better dark - looks like a brand new bedroom set.

Elijah slept in his room maybe twice and has been sleeping with Ezekiel. He said he will be ready to sleep in his own room when he is 11 or 12. He is 8 now. Uh..yeah.

Fonzy staining the furniture

Here is Ezekiel's room. He's a Carolina Panther fan, so we painted his room gray and he has Panther decor. We are framing his Panther jerseys to hang up and he will be getting a desk and some other things, but it's good for now.

It's all coming together. It's feeling more and more like home and we are enjoying it! I can't wait to decorate for the holidays! Yes, I'm talking holidays and it's only July!

After shots

So here are a few AFTER shots. We have the downstairs almost complete. All the painting is done, just have a few touch-up spots, but nothing major. The color on the walls is sauteed mushroom and the red in the study is candy red or something like that. I really like the colors. It took us a while to find the color we were looking for. We didn't want anything too dark, so this was perfect.


The coffee spot - I found those cute coffee pictures at Walmart for under $4.00! They match perfectly with the kitchen....at least I think so.

The study.

All our books and pictures are still in boxes, so that is why we have the empty bookshelf.



The familyroom and kitchen





We still have some furniture to get for the study, but the downstairs is pretty much done. It's feeling more and more like home.

We have yet to paint the upstairs, but are working on it. Slowly, but surely we are getting there.