Chapter 6, Part 2

I know a lot of you have been wanting to see the new house so I finally got around to taking some pics!  We have been busy trying to get the house decorated and in order.  I would say we are 95% unpacked and 90% finished on the decorating.  Here is a preview of the entry, dining, kitchen and the kids' rooms.  Part 3 will include the outside of the house, the study, the master and the game room(once those are finished!!)

 This view is from the living room looking to the front door.  I love our front door.  I call it my Shrek castle door because you can open a little piece of it that is behind wrought iron to peek out.

Here is the view to the living room 

I found these two pieces at Kirklands for $99 a piece!!!  They came out so great and fit perfect.  We had the art niches as well as the dining and girl's rooms painted.

Here is the dining room that leads to the butler's pantry.  I LOVE the paint color called Meadow Trail(Sherwin Williams) came out so nice. 

I am currently working on a pinterest project for the curtains.  We will see how they turn out. 

Butler's Pantry

I just found the three wrought iron pieces and I really like the way they turned out. 

Living room 

View from the living room looking into the kitchen 

Looking in the kitchen from breakfast area 

 Breakfast and Case's bathroom in the back.  Stairs to gameroom



 Built in desk in front of the girl's rooms

Case's room.  His room is my favorite of all of the room's.  Very cozy! 

I am waiting on a wall mural I got off PB teen that has a sillouhette of a football player.  Although I miss his football field wall very much I think the mural will help complete the look!  And eventually we will get him a big boy bed.  Thanks Paige for letting us use the toddler bed until then :)



And yes Case is still in diapers....zero interest in potty training at this point.  Will start soon.....



The girls now have their own room!  This kind of made me sad and Morgan was very hesistant at first but I think is now adjusting.  She got to pick what color she wanted for her room and she chose blue

I just added a book case in her room that is not shown in these picture so her room is now complete



Mallory kept the purple we had just done at the other house.  She needs a night stand and then her room will be finished.

I am not really crazy about how this wall turned out so I might do some rearranging!





I hope you have enjoyed a sneak preview of the new casa.  We are loving everything about it.

Chapter 6, Part 1

If I define the places Lonnie and I have lived by chapters then we are starting Chapter 6.  We have lived in an apartment and duplex in College Station(chapters 1 & 2), our first house in Richwood, TX(chapter 3), a house in Harper's Landing in The Woodlands(chapter 4- you get the idea), our last house in Alden Bridge in The Woodlands(Chapter 5) and now our new home in Magnolia, TX begins Chaper 6.  We have been happy in each home but for one reason or another desired a change.

The last change came about when we both decided life was just getting too much too fast.  Our streets were too busy and the drivers too fast, our yard was on top of our neighbors and too small.  Our house was perfect except that we would outgrow it in the coming years.  All of these things led us to find what I believe we were meant to find, our current neighborhood. 

Our house was a spec home but we were lucky enough to get in and choose everything except the stone and cabinets.

It is a D.R. Horton home with four bedrooms(kids all get their own),  3 1/2 baths(girls don't have to share with Case) a study, a dining room and a gameroom upstairs

Butler's pantry 

Kitchen

Living Room

Built in desk between the girl's room(we had the cabinets added above) 

Dining room

Art niches and hallway to living room

This post is titled part 1 because part 2 will be pictures of the finished product.  There is so much I love about this house and where we are.  To come home and the kids play non stop in the driveway, the back yard, the street out front that I don't have to worry because we have no traffic is just the best feeling.  We are truly blessed and can't wait to create many wonderful memories and hopefully have Chapter 6 the longest one yet.

Tooth fairy strikes again

In the last month Morgan has lost both her bottom two teeth.  My mom has a knack for pulling them and she was successful in assisting with the removal of both(yuck!)

8 teeth total between the girls = a busy and broke tooth fairy

Fun with Mammy and Papa Marc

The last weekend we were in our house my parents were nice enough to take the kids while I finished packing up.  They took them to Mercer Arboretum(a place my mom goes for her gardening classes) and had a wonderful afternoon together.

Mammy, Mal, Case and Morgan

In all the times my mom has been to Mercer she was unaware of this hidden lake.  Last time she was there someone told her about it so she was eager to show the kids.

They loved feeding the turtles

My sweet peas

The turtles catching some rays

Papa Marc and the kiddos

I think it was a little warm out!  Case and Morgan are both my red-faced sweaters

I think they enjoyed :)

I was coming to pick up the kids and Case had just fallen asleep in my parents car so my dad didn't want to wake him.  Pretty sure Case slept like this for over an hour while we sat around and talked in their living room!

1st day of school 2012

I can't believe two out of my three children are now in school!!  Morgan will begin kinder this year and Mallory is entering 2nd grade.  Case has one more year at the sitters and then he will begin at the high school next year.  I am starting my 9th year at The Woodlands!  Where has the time gone?

When the owl backpacks came out at PBK I could not resist!

Morgan was very excited to start her year.

I love Mallory's 80s throwback outfit that she got from Mamaw. A little Brittney Spears in there :)





I love my beautiful girls.  I am so blessed!  Here is to a great school year.