One week from today we will close on the house. We are so excited! In some ways it feels like it has gone so fast and in other ways it feels like it has been years in the making. Here's a few more pics of the progress:
The stucco color proved to be quite an ordeal. We were told that it usually ends up looking darker on the house than it did on the sample, so we were cautious to choose what we thought was an inbetween shade. The garage doors weren't yet up, so we were kind of guessing on what would match The end result is not really what I wanted. It is so much lighter than we hand in mind and I don't love how brown it looks compared to the garage but...it is what it is! I will have to learn to love the color. It has already grown on me a little since it first went up, but I still don't love it.
I do, however, LOVE my kitchen island! That island alone has three times the counter space as our Clinton house did and the best part is that I will have a surface to cover cakes on where I won't be banging my head into the cabinets. Yeah!
Here's the crew earlier today working on the rock wall in the back yard. It scared Brook to death to be that close to be that close to the big trucks and machinery. I thought it was pretty fun to watch though. There are gong to be several sage brush buried under our yard, and no shortage of rocks in our soil!
For those of you that didn't see my post on Facebook, this is another upholstery project Drew and I did for Brooke's new room. This proved to be about 10 times more difficult than the chair and has put an end to my upholstering kick. Someone said they liked the before fabric better than the after. That person must be a little nutty because that fuzzy multicolored fabric was dirty and disgusting. And you can't go wrong with a little tufting, am I right?
And now we reach today's event of the first day of school. I took the picture of them loading up in the van this morning because Brooke insisted on wearing her backpack like the big girls. The school that the girls are now attending is, let me just say, a little wackado! The classrooms are all different strange shapes and sizes. Some are wide and narrow and others are long and skinny and angular. Abbie's class doesn't even have a door to the interior of the building. She has to walk around behind the school and enter from an exterior door. Weird! I was really nervous and little upset to just leave them this morning to stand at the doors and wait for the bell to ring with a crowd of kids they don't know. I don't know how they feel since I had the good fortune of never having to move when I was little and I was worried about them. But the reports were all good when I picked them up and they are going to do just fine.
