he's so ferocious.
too bad I couldn't find this costume.
oh well. there's always next year.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Winston's Halloween Costume
he's so ferocious.
too bad I couldn't find this costume.
oh well. there's always next year.
New Bed!
Part of the fun of a new addition is furnishing it, of course! Here's the bed I've picked out:
5 years ago when Michael and I got married, he never would have gone for this. I've totally worn him down!
And finally, we can sleep in a King size bed at home. We've been making do with a Queen and when you've got a 30 lb. puggle who likes to snuggle, it gets a little tight!
5 years ago when Michael and I got married, he never would have gone for this. I've totally worn him down!
And finally, we can sleep in a King size bed at home. We've been making do with a Queen and when you've got a 30 lb. puggle who likes to snuggle, it gets a little tight!
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Renovation: Day 17
In order to make up for some lost time, the construction team continued work on the foundation yesterday. Materials were delivered at 6am... this girl was not too happy to be awoken at that time on a Saturday morning, then listen to construction and pounding from 7am - 8pm last night. But it was not in vain as they were able to complete the brickwork around the foundation.
Friday, October 19, 2012
Home Renovation: Days 12 - 15
As I sat on the beach last week, I just kept thinking about the progress going on at home. When I returned last Saturday night, I was very disappointed to see not much progress. Apparently, as they started digging up the back yard for the foundation of the addition, they kept hitting rocks... large boulders to be exact. In fact one rock was wedged underneath the driveway and they just couldn't get it out. So finally, last Friday, the inspector came by and told them that they could just pour the foundation on top of that rock. Phew.
So Monday they finally poured the foundation, and Tuesday morning it looked like this:
On Wednesday, they started building the foundation layer (and a bunch of junk started piling up in our driveway):
Today (Friday), they finished the foundation perimeter:
It's finally starting to look like something! Supposedly, the framers will start on Monday... I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
In other news, the painters have been working on prepping the exterior of the house for a new coat of paint. For the past 5 and a half years, our house has been a light yellow color... and so is our next door neighbors. So we're trying something new... a Hamptons style gray. On Wednesday morning, I went by Porter Paints to try to find the perfect gray. Who knew there were so many shades of gray (definitely more than 50 - ha. ha.)! These are the ones I picked out:
But, if any of you have ever painted anything in your life, you know that the color on the swatch doesn't necessary match how it's going to look. So I picked up 5 samples, and the painters painted some of the siding on the house for me.
It's hard to tell in the above pictures - but two of the shades were definitely too dark and one was too light. So that left two - Victorian Pewter and Steeple Gray. After looking and pondering and looking again, we decided to go with Steeple Gray (Porter Paints 555-5).
Here's a closer look of the swatch color:
I can't wait to see the house painted. It is much needed - and I'm kind of surprised that they're going ahead and painting the existing house, but then again, the weather's so good right now that they probably want to get a lot of it out of the way.
Yay for progress!
So Monday they finally poured the foundation, and Tuesday morning it looked like this:
Today (Friday), they finished the foundation perimeter:
It's finally starting to look like something! Supposedly, the framers will start on Monday... I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
In other news, the painters have been working on prepping the exterior of the house for a new coat of paint. For the past 5 and a half years, our house has been a light yellow color... and so is our next door neighbors. So we're trying something new... a Hamptons style gray. On Wednesday morning, I went by Porter Paints to try to find the perfect gray. Who knew there were so many shades of gray (definitely more than 50 - ha. ha.)! These are the ones I picked out:
But, if any of you have ever painted anything in your life, you know that the color on the swatch doesn't necessary match how it's going to look. So I picked up 5 samples, and the painters painted some of the siding on the house for me.
It's hard to tell in the above pictures - but two of the shades were definitely too dark and one was too light. So that left two - Victorian Pewter and Steeple Gray. After looking and pondering and looking again, we decided to go with Steeple Gray (Porter Paints 555-5).
Here's a closer look of the swatch color:
I can't wait to see the house painted. It is much needed - and I'm kind of surprised that they're going ahead and painting the existing house, but then again, the weather's so good right now that they probably want to get a lot of it out of the way.
Yay for progress!
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Family Vacation 2012
For the first time in ten years, the White family took a family vacation together. I don't know why all of a sudden my parents decided to forgo their annual exotic vacation to the Mediterranean, Europe, etc. but they did. And we got to reap the benefits!
They rented a house outside of Destin in Santa Rosa Beach. The house was beautiful and right on the beach. The weather was the best - 75 - 85 degrees, sunny, no clouds, water as clear as can be, I can go on. It's also awesome to visit that area in October because it's much less crowded. You can actually get into a restaurant without waiting an hour. I cannot recommend Florida this time of year enough.
This is a picture from our last night, having dinner at Vue, and I used my dad's new iPhone 5 panoramic technology:
Pretty neat.
While we were there, we had family photos taken by a great photographer in Rosemary Beach - you can check out their web site at www.marlaandshane.com. Here are a few of my favorites:
the picture above cracks me up... especially Dad's pose.
It's hard to pick which ones to get! And looking through them just reminds me what a great time we had.
P.S. on a side note, the renovation project didn't make as much progress while we were gone as I would have hoped. update to follow soon.
They rented a house outside of Destin in Santa Rosa Beach. The house was beautiful and right on the beach. The weather was the best - 75 - 85 degrees, sunny, no clouds, water as clear as can be, I can go on. It's also awesome to visit that area in October because it's much less crowded. You can actually get into a restaurant without waiting an hour. I cannot recommend Florida this time of year enough.
This is a picture from our last night, having dinner at Vue, and I used my dad's new iPhone 5 panoramic technology:
Pretty neat.
While we were there, we had family photos taken by a great photographer in Rosemary Beach - you can check out their web site at www.marlaandshane.com. Here are a few of my favorites:
the picture above cracks me up... especially Dad's pose.
It's hard to pick which ones to get! And looking through them just reminds me what a great time we had.
P.S. on a side note, the renovation project didn't make as much progress while we were gone as I would have hoped. update to follow soon.
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Monday, October 1, 2012
Renovation: Day 1
Day one of our home renovation and and of course it rains :(
We spent all weekend preparing the house/yard for the construction crew to start taking down the back porch. The den is looking quite bare and the backyard looks like a tornado came through. We moved all the plants to the back of the yard as well as about 50 five pound stones. Michael and I are so sore today from all the heavy lifting!
I just keep thinking about the last scene in the Meryl Streep/Alec Baldwin/Steve Martin movie, It's Complicated - Steve Martin's character says that it's good luck to start building in the rain. "It's a well known, very good, really lucky omen." :)
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