Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Christmas 2012

This year was a little hectic with us trying to get moved in to the house, but no doubt next year is going to be the most magical holiday yet!  That's not to say we didn't still have a great time with family and friends.

I don't have many (great) pictures, unfortunately. That's ok though.


Holiday Concert in the park with the Parkers.

Christmas morning with the O'Connors.  Helping Molly.

Buried


Checking out Coley's gifts. 

Then we went to see "da-da" at work.




New chair from Aunt Mary and Cousin Katherine


Shooting hoops


loves that chair!


Her all-time favorite thing to do this holiday season was to play with the Russian Dolls.  



Powder Room - Inspiration

One of the last big improvements we still need to do at the house (before we are totally tapped out of mulah) is the downstairs powder room.  It's been kind of nice having some extra time to hem and haw over all the details of this project.

I knew all along that I needed to have this mosaic tile somewhere in my house, and when it was clear it would not make for a great kitchen backsplash, Ian gave me the green light (I have witnesses!) to put it in the bathroom downstairs.  Hello sparkly wavy prettiness:



Here's what it looks like in someone's garage.  (PS - who would put this in a GARAGE?  that much be an extraordinary life of luxury.)  But oh how pretty.



Our wood-look tile will continue in to the bathroom and laundry area so at least that part was easy.  We've decided we'll go ahead and order some shaker cabinets to match our kitchen, but in black.  The bathroom is a weird size, and due to some funky plumbing, the vanity basically has to run the entire length of the wall.


Here is what I'm visualizing currently:




You'd walk right in and be in front of the vanity, with the toilet to your right. Same layout as originally.

You can see the plan...

Cabinets all across wall
Mosaic tile on remainder of wall
Pendant lights on either side of mirror - need to run this by dad still  ;)
Vessel sink




too much?   ;)


I'm also kind of obsessed with these wall-mounted waterfall faucets.  But certainly not a must-have.




Just a few ideas I had to throw out there.  We'll start seeing how this is going on unfold here pretty soon!

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Brooklyn Turns One

A few photos from BK's birthday.  

  
Birthday girl


We had fish tacos for dinner (she loves), and then it was time for cake!





New toys

Gee, thanks Aunt Becky for this one...  


Analyzing crazy baby doll eyes.


This was a day or two later with Ian's family.  We were about to take family pictures, when Karen thought we should get a quick photo of Brooklyn next to the jumbo cupcakes.  Like she was going to resist!  Of course she dove right in and we had a sticky mess to clean up before we attempted photos.