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Ok....I must have done something very wrong while playing around with my background and template. Now, when I go to the customize page, there is only Posting, Settings, Template and Monetize tabs. There is no tab for Layout. So I can't change the header or any of the sidebars. It deleted the blogs that I read and I can't add them back without that tab. Does anyone know how to fix it? That is what I get for pretending to know what I am doing.

Molly Joy

I apologize for the delay in more house pics. I have a really good excuse........

Molly Joy Missildine

If we are friends on facebook, this is old news. Everyday I have intended to update here, but I just haven't been able to get it done.
Ready to go home from the hospital

Brand new family of four

Proud big sis.

She has been such a sweet big sister. Not totally interested in Molly until someone comes over, but then she is delighted to show her off (and show off herself a little).

Molly's shirt is still a little big. She will have to grow into it.

We took some LAST MINUTE family pictures as a family of three. I mean literally, they were taken on Tuesday evening. I went into Labor on Wednesday evening. I am not big on maternity pics of myself. I love to look at other people's, though. You will never see a picture of my bare belly anywhere on the internet; or anywhere else for that matter.....pregnant or not. I don't really like to be the center of attention anyway and pictures of just me are very rare (to the dismay of my husband....he is always trying to sneak pictures of me on his iPhone). I didn't do any maternity pictures with my first pregnancy. I started to think that I would regret not having good pictures of me pregnant, so I decided that I would compromise and do family pictures. My mother-in-law was in town, so we just snuck over to the neighborhood park to take some.

Of course, Meg was happy to entertain.

Hard to believe that our family is now four instead of three!

Bath and Big Girl Room

There are many reasons why we love our new neighborhood. This morning was a great example. We got to watch this from our front steps.....

It was so cute!

On to the bathroom. This is the main hall bathroom. We love the tile work and decided to keep it. (Although, if you know where I can search for vintage tiles, let me know. There are a few cracked ones, that I would love to replace.) Here are the before pics.....

Even though I love a pedestal sink, we wanted to add a little more storage in here. We got the simple black vanity at Home Depot. I originally thought I would go with color in here, playing off of the aqua tiles....but I decided that contrasting the aqua and pulling the black and white from the floor would be a more classic look. I already had the fabric that I used on this window. I just used it to cover a cheap neutral roman shade that I already had.

The front bedroom is Meg's new Big Girl Room. It was a pretty cool room to begin with. Big, with great windows. Basically the refinished floors, new light fixture, and new texture and paint on the walls, were all it needed.

I love the mirror on her closet door. Wish there were one in my room.

These pictures loaded in backwards order, but I took this pic because you had to see a close up of this sweet girl. Since we have been staging homes and living the gypsy life the past year and a half, I had most of our family portraits packed up. It has been like Christmas getting them all out and on display again. It reminds me of how much she has changed and grown up.

Another piece that I bought at a thrift store. I am to lazy tonight to find the original picture of this dresser, but I posted it a while back. It was dark wood with brass hardware.

She loves her Big Girl Bed.

We have ordered new blinds for the whole house, but they are not it yet. I haven't decided whether or not to leave the windows and let the pretty trim show or to do window treatments.

So, there you go. Enjoy your Fourth of July Weekend.

3rd Birthday

In some ways, I can't believe it has been three years since Meg came into our lives. On the other hand, I can hardly remember what life was like without her. She makes every day better and keeps us laughing all of the time. My talented Sister-in-Law, Shaye, took all of these pictures (which is why they are better quality then usual). I could not find my camera charger the morning of the party. I took my old point and shoot, but her pictures are much better for sharing.

Everytime we asked, all she said she wanted for her birthday party was pink cupcakes. No theme, no activities....just pink cupcakes. That was pretty easy. We had our friend Kiley whip up some of her wonderful cupcakes and we headed to our neighborhood park.

It is not unusual for Meg to strike up a conversation with someone everywhere we go (in the checkout at target, waiting in line to be seated at dinner....) this week she has been telling everyone that she is "three years olders" and that she had pink cupcakes at her birthday party.

Dining and Kitchen Reveal

I am going to do these before and afters a couple of rooms at a time.....in part, because I don't want to write one mega long post. Also, because I am not ready to takes pics of some of the rooms yet. Still too many things I want to do.

Dining Room Before: Beautiful arch and wood trim, small door into the Butler's Pantry and another small door into the kitchen.

After: We kept the arch and all of the trim. Opened up the doors leading to the kitchen. There are still some things I would like to do in here. I ordered fabric for window treatments. I may eventually add a rug for more color. (ignore the one dead bulb in the light fixture. Truthfully, I hadn't noticed until I saw the picture).
A little closer. If you have been to my house(s) before you recognize the empty frames. I have been moving them around for 6 years. I considered not using them in this house, but I still like them. There used to be one cream one and two dark brown. I decided to paint them all the same color. You can't really tell in the pic, but they turned out to be different colors, since I only painted one coat and they were different colors before. I decided I like them that way. Maybe I will take a close up before and after of those later.

Remember this? I bought it at a thrift store in Fort Worth.

I really like the way it turned out. I wanted to leave the stained back in order to make my Vietri dishes more visible. I added some of my grandmother's seashell collection and a few of my aqua colored pieces.

Kitchen Before: Remember the exposed water heater?

Narrow cabinets (and I mean narrow. No way we could have fit a dishwasher or new sink). We did love the subway tile, but weren't able to salvage it and add cabinets.

After: We had new cabinets designed that would mimic the design of the original cabinets, but we brought them around to the side wall too. We stayed with white subway tiles and black granite tops.

We had a wall of cabinets built to camouflage the water heater and add storage around the fridge.

I also ordered some fabric to make a cafe curtain for the window over the sink. I really love the simplicity of the white, black and wood. It is so clean feeling.

What do you think?

First Things First

I am finally back online after the move, a week and a half of waiting on our internet, and a week of visiting my parents in OKC. I know you are waiting on pics of the finished house, like I promised. I will get to that sometime this week. They will actually be pictures of the ALMOST finished house. There is still work being done. I will be playing catch up all week, I am sure.

First I wanted to share the pics from Meg's Dance Showcase, which was the weekend that we moved. It was entertaining if nothing else. I told my sister in law, she may never be a Prima Ballerina, but she is definately a show stopper. She loves to get attention whether it is by doing what her teacher is doing or doing something totally different. We have really enjoyed dance this year.

I tried to upload some video footage, but blogger is not really letting me and I don't have the patience to make it work.