Open House Continued:

Alright, I've almost finished my to-do list from the last open house post (that whole building a table thing hasn't exactly happened yet, but all in good time my friends).  That means, it's time to see the kitchen!

 

 View from the opening that looks out to the living room

 View of the other side of the kitchen...you can see the front door and the double doors to the guest room through the opening

More views of the stove side where the refrigerator, toaster, coffee pot, and microwave

 

Sink and dishwasher side...you can see the fireplace and t.v. in the living room

 My fun magnet I made for the dishwasher (thanks Pinterest)

 Happy refrigerator!  So good to see pictures of family and friends...

 ...especially friends we don't live near

 sink area

Another wider view...love our new kitchen rug!  The door at the back of the kitchen houses our new washer and dryer!  We feel so grown up with a dishwasher, washer, and dryer...grown up/spoiled...potato/potato (which is hard to read if you don't know that people pronounce them differently).

*True story...there was a girl who entered a pageant and sang "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" but had never actually heard the song before (how that happens I don't know)...well here are the lyrics:

You like potato and I like potahto,
You like tomato and I like tomahto,
Potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto!
Let's call the whole thing off!

 Anways, she didn't know that you pronounce them differently and just sang the same words twice for each pair of words in the song...yikes bikes!  So enjoy that...just a fun story for you*

Next Up:

Guest Bedroom!

Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad

Happy 32nd Anniversary!

My mom and dad before they left for their honeymoon.

I am so thankful for my parents.  They have been such a great example of what a marriage should look like, and they are just two of the coolest people ever.  

At the zoo in Chicago

 

 Chicago

 Sue the dinosaur in Chicago

 They're so fun...San Francisco

Love you guys...keep rocking it for the next 32 years!

Our Open House!

So, since we still have a couple of things to put up on certain walls, I will show your our most completed rooms first!  Let's start with the living room:

Here's what you'll see when you walk through the beautiful bright green door:

There is a bedroom on the left when you walk in and the living room is on the right.  I love that the kitchen has an opening so you can see the living room while you're in there.

 Here's a view of the living room from the extra bedroom.  The front door is on the right and the kitchen is to the left.  I mentioned that our apartment has vaulted ceilings and a fireplace...you can see the fireplace there!

 Here's another view of the room...I'm standing in a hallway that goes to our bathroom.

In this picture you can see our vaulted ceilings and the dining area behind the living room.  

From this angle you can see the front door and our pretty gallery wall.  We love the way our new couch and chair look together with our rug!

This view looks behind the couch at our extra bedroom (which looks like a closet if the doors are closed) and the hallway I mentioned that takes you to the bathroom.

The couch up close.

Just watching a little Dodger baseball!

Here's our pretty new red chair!  And on our side table is our "Welcome to Waco" gift from Lynley and Danielle via The Warehouse:

 New Baylor/Waco coasters!

Tyler and I made a mantle for the fireplace!  It turned out great!

And the view from the couch...I absolutely love this room.

My next projects are:

1. Painting the table behind the couch
2. Building a new dining room table
3. Hanging things in the bathroom
4. Printing new pictures to put in our frames

Next up, the kitchen!!!

Home Sweet {and sweaty} Waco

 Goodbye Maddox Hall

On May 31, Tyler and I said goodbye to our sweet apartment in Arkadelphia, Arkansas and made our way to Waco, Texas.  It was bittersweet, and we miss our friends so much, but we are excited about this new chapter in our lives and so look forward to being closer to our families!  We had a very hectic apartment search, but with the help of mother, father, sister, and brother Aaron, we were able to find a place.

We live in a third floor apartment, which was a BEAST when we were moving in, but it has vaulted ceilings and a fireplace, so it's great!  It has been a crazy past several days...we moved into our apartment on Friday, unpacked and had plans to go to a baseball game with friends on Saturday (more on that later), ran LOTS of errands on Sunday, Tyler started class on Monday, more unpacking and hanging things on walls Tuesday, Tyler started his second summer class on Wednesday, and we are still stepping over decorations today! 

But...we are sooo close!  Almost everything is up on the walls, we are just trying to figure out what to do with those last few picture frames and knickknacks.  Once we are cleaned up and all of the boxes have been taken to the dumpster, I will definitely post pictures of our new home.  But until then, here's an update with some pictures that don't really have to do with the apartment:

I mentioned that Tyler and I went to a baseball game with some friends...we actually went to see our friend Shawn play.  Shawn is married to one of my besties {Lynley} and plays for the Albuquerque Isotopes, the AAA farm team for the LA Dodgers.  They happened to be playing in Round Rock {not too far from Waco} so we made the trip with our friends Danielle, Tate, Megan, Jordan, Nikki, and Lynley, just in time an hour early to see Shawn and the rest of the Albuquerque Isotopes!

Shawn wasn't the only celebrity we knew at the game.  Tate, Jordan, and Tyler were asked to be a part of the giant tricycle race during the middle of the eighth inning.  Don't believe me?  Take a look for yourself:

It was a close race but Jordan ended up with the win, even though the Isotopes didn't.  Despite the loss, we were celebrating the next night because Shawn got the call to the bigs!  He and Lynley flew out to Philadelphia to don their DODGERS jerseys!!! We are beyond excited for them, and have become big Dodger fans!  Can't wait to hear how things are going you two!

Lynley sent us a picture from her seat...UH-MA-ZING!

Monday morning came, and so did school for Tyler.  Here he is in his classic first day of class picture:

Since Tyler started his first graduate school class as a Baylor bear, I took it upon myself to attempt a Pinterest project.  And this is what happened:

BEAR CAKE

I was so glad when it was over and you could actually tell it was a bear.  Also, it was way too much cake for us, so Tyler took the upper half of the body to class the next day...his second day of school and already such a good sharer.

That's about it for now!  Hopefully tomorrow will be the day I post pictures of the new place...don't hold me to it though...but, if we can get the last couple of things on the walls tonight, then just maybe I'll will actually be able to give you a tour tomorrow.

This Is We...

We're not hibernating!  We're just exhausted!

The past few weeks have been filled with packing, last days of work, last days of school, packing some more, moving, unpacking, settling in, first days of school, and as much sleep as we can get in between all of that!  We're almost settled though...give me a couple more days and I'll have a big update on our new life in WACO!!!