Hello HD

I need to back up a little and tell you what truely prompted this overhaul on the house. The T.V. in the den went out....nothing more, nothing less. The Boob tube goes and and all of the sudden replacing it becomes this thing that morphs into something between "While you were out" and "Trading Spaces". The new T.V. is a flat screen HD eye sore that of course no longer fits into the armoir that held the old one. Since the armoire is now out of the picture we have to find an HD T.V. stand. Once this is done the T.V. no longer "fits" right in the den where the old one stood. Since the armoire is moved and we have to find a new place for the T.V., of course we may as well go the distance and update.

The shape of our den is obiously from the LSD flashback the contractor was in the middle of. So the new T.V. will only look best in front of the fireplace.

I'm posting a picture of what the fireplace looked like before we started and what it looks like now. The sweet little girl in the picture is Emma. We were trying to give her curly/wavy hair by roling it in socks while it was still wet. It is a vast improvment over the orange juice cans that my mom used to make us sleep in...but that's another blog!

Fireplace before...



This is what we've ended up with so far...Looks like I'll have to find a new place to hang the stockings.

The Demolition

Alright, maybe it wasn't quite this bad...but it wasn't far off.

The next room we are tackling is the Den. The sofas have been with us since before we moved into the house. While the kids were still little, we decided we shouldn't get anything too nice...well, basically because good furniture and little kids don't mesh well. We've decided to reclaim the Den as our rightful hangout. We said goodbye to the sofa with the holes in it and faded fabric. Todd of course says that the couch has just gotten the feel that he likes, his butt cheeks have formed a permanent home on one of the cushions and the hole in the sofa is perfect for holding the remote.

Men!

Game Day

Nolan has been playing flag football this year and is loving it. He has become quite the aggressor, he says his favorite part of the game, besides scoring, is "taking down the quarterback". Yesterday was his last game and they won! This league doesn't have teams for 6th graders so I've been trying to find some others for him to join. He started taking karate about three years ago to help his vision/coordination and became a black belt two years later.


Emma has been playing soccer this year. She admists it's not really her thing but she hadn't tried it since she was 4 so she wanted to play. They did win their game on Saturday. She had really begun to get the hang of it and get aggressive. I kept telling her to lose her southern belle manners and take the ball away. She starts basketball soon but is still begging daddy to take guitar lessons.

The Office

My husband and I bought our house almost 10 years ago. I got pregnant with Emma right after we moved in so a lot of things we wanted to do to the house had to go on hold. Well, now we are ready. I tried desperately to find pictures of the offending rooms before we started our renovation projects, but ther were none to be found. Todd says we were protecting ourselves from the hideousness of the memories and so we must have not taken any pictures. I know my description will not do justice to the offensive nature of the rooms but here goes...

"The office" We painted it a very dark blue when we moved in. The carpet however was a tan color with a 12" border of hunter green around the edge. Why then would we paint it blue? Why not, the dining room was already painted the hunter green color and I guess we thought it would pull your eyes from the carpet if there was a bold color on the wall. The furniture was very oversized for the room and consisted of a full size desk, computer desk with hutch and a two drawer pull out filing cabinet. The kids loved the furniture size because all 5 (three neighbor boys also) could sit on the desk and chair while someone played the computer. Well, we did away with all of that.

Todd and I put down hard word floor, painted the walls a pale blueish green and bought black furniture (which size fit the space) and a new mac for daddy to play on.

The new office...

Just getting started

Hi Everyone,

I felt it was time to start blogging to keep in touch with all of our family and friends so far away. I hope to add to this regularly with updates on the house improvments we are in the midst of and updates on our lives.


Our Story...
I met Todd in high school through mutal friends. We dated 9 years and have been married 14 on our next anniversary. We have two wonderful children, Nolan who is 11 and Emma who is 8.

This is our life....