Fair 2012

We went, we saw, we ate.

 
 
The James’.

Big David hit the insult-talking-smoking-dunking booth guy 4 or 5 times. It was great!

Kim’s Birthday Weekend

Kimbo (SIL) and her hubby Josh were up this past weekend visiting for her birthday! We had an awesome weekend. Saturday we had Genghis Grill AND got to go see Breaking Dawn…oh my. LOVED IT. I can’t wait until it comes out on DVD!

We spent all the time we could together this weekend even if it was just lounging. I also took pictures of them for the first time for some Christmas cards. I can’t wait to share them on the blog (Kimbo lemme know when)!

This is right after I told Remi his Auntie Kimbo was coming to see him!

While hanging out at Big David and Mrs. Robin’s on Saturday (also Kim’s bday!), I tried to help K&J learn some stuff on their new camera while playing with mine too. I’m pretty sure I’m a bad teacher since I’m still learning myself!

I LOVE this picture I got of my babies. It’s the epitome of them. Remi, the studious calm one, Moose, she’s GO GO GO! She couldn’t stay seated for onemoresecond. It was pounce time!

The poochies did a lot of playing with their cousin Bailey!

Hanging by the fire with Grandma and Grandpa.

 

Treat time from Grandma!

Moose, Bailey, Bear, Remi.

Remi is concentrating hard on that treat!

 

 

Bailey has the most awesomely cool colored eyes.

Moosey and her ball.

Bad setting on my side. But it’s a standoff! I think Moose is the ref…

My little love.

Chase! My poor Rem. Always in last place. He’s certainly no greyhound when it comes to speed.

Wish she was looking this way!

Pinned ya!

My favorite SIL! <3

Taken on my camera while I’m trying to figure out theirs.

I made Kim be my model while I got my settings right. She doesn’t know I’m using this because she was goofing off but I love it. Her eyes are killer. I’m super jealous. 

This was one pooped pup at the end of the night. hinthint Rem.

 

Kimbo loving on her fur nephew!

Alright so as you can tell we did a lot of things with the poochies this weekend. Luckily Kim’s low key and is good with that!

Love you guys and Happy Birthday Kimberly!!

Let’s Talk Paint

One of my favorite subjects!

In a world with Pinterest my decisions have been made both easier and harder at the same time. Easier because there’s inspiration available everywhere and I can see the colors in real rooms. Harder because there’s too many choices available and I don’t want to make the wrong one.

So much pressure to pick the right colors. Luckily paint is an easy fix, but not so much when the whole house is pretty much getting the same color.

I went a little overboard on our last house. Almost every room was a different color. All different except the craft room and laundry room were the same. Not cohesive one bit. Yikes. Let’s take a trip down memory lane.

Kitchen – Taupe

 

Living/Dining – Yellowish Green

Foyer – Red

  

Laundry & Craft – Robin’s Egg Blue

 

Guest bath – 1st blue then changed to tan. Hi baby Rem!

Master Bath – Avocado Green

Guest Room – Gray (Still really love this color though)

 

Master Bedroom – Chocolate Brown (This was another color I still love)

Look at those little bitty lamps. Teehee.

My style has evolved though. A lot.

In our new house, I asked our builder how many paint colors I can pick. He kind of gawked and said well how many are you thinking? And it was then that I made the instant decision and said three. For the whole house. At first I was thinking more like five or six (or 8 like the first one) but I had a lightbulb moment that I wanted this house to be more cohesive and not a different color in every room.

So, here’s the swatches I’ve been carrying around with me for the past several months. Three colors I’ve been stuck on. It’s possible they could change but for now this is what I’m feeling.

  

Benjamin Moore Hale Navy, BM Revere Pewter & Sherwin Williams Sea Salt.

 

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Revere Pewter is going to be the main interior color. All bedrooms, living areas, bonus room, kitchen, etc. will be this color. (Disclaimer: No area is safe from a repaint in the future!)

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Hale Navy will be my office/craft room color as well as the laundry room. Swoon.

Sea Salt will be in the bathrooms. Sort of Spa like right?

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(Color above board and batten) Love.

Oh and the exterior of the house is going to be a greigy/green (that’s greenish grayish beige-ish) with ivory trim. It looks beautiful on the house down the street that BB (Builder Brad) recently built so we’re hijacking the color.

Have I mentioned I cannot wait to see the house done? I am so excited to see all the ideas and plans come together. Especially since the original kitchen on the plans were scrapped and we “created” the new kitchen by taking out an eat in area. I literally photo shopped the kitchen into the existing plans and now it’s becoming a reality. I can’t wait to see it come to life!

Oh, and speaking of colors, but in this case not paint, we decided on cabinet colors. Woo hoo! I love love love white cabinets. David does not care for them. He likes dark brown for the “coziness” they create. So we’re improvising and going with really dark brown. I’ve since learned the look we’re going for is called Espresso.

They’re not my first choice, but at least I got to pick the shade of brown. So they’ll be chocolaty rich brown.

This is my inspiration picture, via.

Cabinets, countertops, backsplash – oh my!

And I’m hoping we can get these Satin Nickel Bar Pulls.

I’ll leave you with some house pics from the weekend.

Momma checking it out. There’s also going to be a dormer window to the right of the peaks.

Dad, Cole, Mom. Do you see what I see? Siding!

So that’s all I’ve got for now. I think once the house starts getting painted and gets closer to finishing, I’ll do less updates so I can do a grand reveal/house tour when it’s all done!

I’m giving myself until April to have it all unpacked and semi decorated. Why April you ask? Because that’s when I’m hosting Bunko! Ohhhh to have a long driveway and plenty of parking. Good times ahead!

Oh, and a question for YOU! Do you have any paint colors that you just love? That you think I might too? I haven’t officially picked and reported to BB yet so I’m still collecting ideas!