Family in town!

We went down to HTown a few weeks ago to visit with Matt's sister Donna, her family and one of his other sisters Amy and her family!! We had SUCH a great time with everyone. The weekend was filled with chasing kids, food and more food!! Here are some of my favorite pics from that weekend.

Beautiful Day!

The lovely ladies!

Julia and Ben running to make it under the tipping water pail:)

Brooke splashing in the water:)

Riley being Riley...a CUTIE!!

We had such a great time!! Miss you guys already:)

XOXO

M&K

Woolen's visit to Dallas!

After seeing the Woolen family in Houston they came up to Dallas the following weekend for a wedding. So that meant Matt and I were on babysitting duty!! We had a great time with our Niece and Nephew...they were exhausting but definitely so much fun:)

Saved the best for last....haha

Good times!!

Love, M&K

A little more sprucing up in the Kitchen!

So last Sunday, the day I planned on relaxing...I was doing my daily routine of reading my favorite blogger sites and got the idea to fix up our little window over our kitchen sink!


I knew I had some cute curtains that my MIL gave me when we moved in; they were actually Matt's Grandma's curtains she had in her home:) I love sentimental things...


Anyways, I went out to BB&B and bought a plain ol' tension rod for like $5...cheap and I knew it would do the job. I also stopped at Anthro and happened to find the cutest little rustic pots for only $8 a pop!! And that was at regular price; I don't think I've ever found something at Anthro for that cheap at reg price;) I knew they would be perfect to line up on the window sil.

Brought it all back home, ironed the curtains, put them up on the rod, found some knick knacks around the house to place in the pots and VIOLA a spruced up kitchen window for under $30! Much better than the blahness that was there before:) This will definitely do until we can afford shutters in the house!!

Close up of the cute new pots I got and the curtains...

Window Before...

Window After!

YAY for cheap and easy house projects!!

XOXO, M&K

Updates to China Cabinet!!!

Ok so NOW the cabinet is all done...we put in new paper on the back wall and I added a little more distressing to the wood. I'm so excited with how this piece turned out!! I think the new paper really helped update the piece. It has given me so much motivation to do more with old furniture:) So much fun!!

Here is a picture of the original paper backing...

Here is the new paper!!

Here is a better view of the paper and the cabinet...

Here's a pic of some more distressing I did...

The finished project WITH all of my china!!! It was so fun unboxing it all; it was like we just got married all over again;)

We still have to install the hardware pieces on the bottom part of the cabinet but have to get new nails and with 2 trips already to Home Depot that night, there was no way we were going again!!

For more before pics of this project, see below post:) If you haven't already figured it out...I'm quite proud!

Love to all!!
M&K

Crossing off the list...

So we FINALLY finished our kitchen cabinets, only took us a month!! Well technically it was only 3 weeks, we had a trip to Austin in the middle there;) It looks SO great though, we are very happy with how it turned out. It's so bright and airy, I'm in love with it!! Take a look at the before and after pictures.

BEFORE...

AFTER!!!

I also finally got around to painting my china cabinet that I bought off of Craigslist probably almost a year ago. I knew I wanted to refinish it but was always nervous to get it started. I have to say, I think it turned out pretty great...exactly the look I was going for!! I'm going to do a little more sanding though to bring out more of a distressed look. It was such a fun project and I'm pretty sure I'd like to do the same kind of thing to a dining room table....if I can ever find one!! For those of you that know me you know I'm a pretty indecisive person and between Craigslist, Garage Sales, Antique Stores and Blogs there are SO many pieces I find but just can't make up my dang mind!!

BEFORE...a weird creamy color

AFTER!! A lovely soft white:)

I zoomed in so you could see some of the distressing I did. We're going to change out the paper on the back of the cabinet, something lighter and more updated!

Last but certainly not least, we finally bought a fan to go up in our master bedroom. I love this fan, I can FINALLY sleep at night!! Since I hit my 2nd trimester I haven't been sleeping so great, I'm either hot, not comfortable or waking up to pee in the middle of the night. Not to mention it pulls our whole bedroom together:) We have done a LOT of work to our house. In our bedroom we scraped the popcorn ceilings, repainted the room, laid wood floors and replaced the fan!! Boy has it come a long way...

BEFORE...(took this picture when we walked thru the house for the first time)

AFTER!!! Looks like a completely different room!

Ok we'll it's WAY past my bed time...this thing is so hard to update with pictures, takes forever!! We will probably take a few weeks off from doing anything around the house because we have a busy and exciting few weeks ahead of us!! Two of Matt's sisters (Amy and Donna) and their families are visiting Houston next weekend so we are going down to visit with them:) Then the whole Woolen fam (Amy, Randy and our niece and nephew) are coming up to Dallas the following weekend for a wedding and will be staying with us! Matt and I are SO excited to hang out with Riley and Brooke, he's thinking of taking them to do some fishing and I'm thinking a fun picnic and kite flying sounds fun!! Can't wait:)

Love to all!!
M&K

Half Way There!

I hit my 20 week mark! 5 months, I can't believe it!! The time is just flying by and I'm LOVING every minute of it:) It's making me realize though how close baby Evelyn is to being here...not too long from now she will be home with us in our arms. I melt just thinking of it. My last appointment - the BIG one - went great, couldn't have asked for better news. We are in the clear so now we can just sit back and enjoy the pregnancy.

Our Baby Girl...she's getting big!!

20wks

In my Week 20 baby update it says the baby is now the length of a banana!! Crazy!! It's so hard to believe I have a baby the size of a banana in my belly right now. Especially when I look down...I don't feel like my belly is reallly that big yet, she must just be all rolled up in a little ball! Oh and guess what...I definitely feel her moving and kicking around now!! It's so fun to just sit on the couch with Matt and watch for my belly to make some sort of move. They are pretty much just small little punches but the other night I was laying in bed watching TV and from the corner of my eye I saw the center of my belly shoot up!! I'm pretty sure it was her leg streching out. I yelled for Matt to come see but wouldn't you know it, she didn't do it again. Poor Matty, I can't wait for him to finally see the things I see. He's waiting so patiently. I'm sure she will be moving more and more soon enough!

So after we found out we were for sure having a baby girl I made my first purchase...her bedding!! I got it in the mail the other day and I just LOVE it; it looks even better in person! It matches the wall color perfectly and against the wood floor it makes the room feel so warm and welcoming. Matt will be painting vertical stripes on one of the walls; we are going to use this glaze that will just make it a tone darker than the current yellowey color. My plan is white furniture so picking that out will probably be the next decision we need to make.

LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!!

Miss Priss Loves it too, she can't wait for baby Evelyn!! This is the wall color...

That's it for baby updates...for now!!! I am going to upload some pics of the house now; there so many updates I feel it needs its own post.

xoxo
M&K

Just about 17WKS

So, I've been slacking the past few weeks...Sorry, I know I need to keep taking these belly pics but I hadn't really felt like I grew much until NOW!! What do you think!?

I'm anxiously waiting our next appointment on June 4th; this is the BIG one where they do a full body analysis on the baby to make sure there are no development abnormalities. It's also where they confirm FOR SURE the sex of the baby. I'm pretty confident that all will go well because up until now my test results have come back normal. Just wondering if we really will be having a little Evelyn and not a boy!? We will see...I've been holding back from buying anything so not to jinx myself!

Anywho, ever since my Mom and Dad came up for Mother's Day weekend we have been busy busy around the house. I don't know what it was but that spark that they had to get things done actually rubbed off on us and now we are actually getting a lot crossed off our list!! My Dad and Matt installed the the living room fan, the dining room chandelier, the doorbell, and the masther bath hardware!! AMAZING!! It's so nice to have all of those things done, it really makes our house feel more homey:)

Our new chandelier in the dining! Still need to paint the china cabinet in the background, any takers??;)

Living room fan!!

In the mean time, my Mom and I shopped til' we dropped at a few shops around Dallas and this church garage sale by our house. We found the greatest treasure at this garage sale....an antique lamp!! It is the cutest thing ever and only cost $7 (what a bargain!). It didn't come with a shade so we hopped in the car and went to Tuesday Morning, one of our FAVS, and found the perfect shade for it and for only $24!! Check out the pic below, not the best light in the picture but we are so proud of it...it is now the focal point of the living room:)

With all that said and done, last Sunday Matt and I were watching Holmes on Homes and I was looking at my favorite blog "YoungHouseLove" and saw some posts of kitchen remodels. For some reason we got the sudden urge to paint our kitchen cabinents!! So at noon on Sunday off we went to Home Depot for all our supplies and got started! Here we are today, Wednesday and we've sanded and primed everything. Tonight we paint, we're just painting them a soft white in hopes to brighten up our kitchen!! Here's what we've done so far, we are SO excited to finish!! Hopefully we will have the completed pictures to share with you this weekend. Fingers crossed!!

Doors are sanded down and almost all primed....

Inside is trimmed...ready to get it DONE!

Love to all,
M&K