Catch Up

I do know that I am officially the worst blogger ever right now, but that is what happens when you spend all of your extra time working on fixing up a house in another town. I did happen to snap a lot of phone pics of what you are all really interested in seeing anyway. We still have A TON OF WORK TO DO, but we are making progress.
First things first....THE VIEW! I didn't photoshop this photo or anything! My favorite part of the house HANDS DOWN...even after we have things just how I want them, I'm pretty sure this will always win.

Ceiling De-Popcorned, Can Lights Put In, Ceiling Primed, Ceiling Mudded, Bead Board Up

View down the hall

Looking back towards the kitchen...Yes we still have the fridge in the living room

Fireplace View

Painted Celing (I still wish you could tell it's a faint blue rather than white), Bead board Topper On, Walls Painted

Crown Going Up...boys will want me to mention this is not the finished look of the crown!

Boys Working Hard 

Furniture going in...Fan looks a little dark to me at this point. What do you think? I think I'll hold of on any decisions until I get the Navy Drapes Up. I'm going to put together my own red curtain rods too. Excited about getting rid of the awful blinds!

The TV is Pushed Back into the Wall so you can't see the sides and will have crown around to look like a picture, but we can pull it out and swivel to the deck if needed. The bar facelift is coming later!

I'm all about FREE STUFF and Ben got this barely used love seat for free, along with Luke's old college coffee table (I think a facelift for that will be coming later also)
Next Steps: Get up Drapes, Chair Delivering, Purchase Side Tables, Accessories, and  Start Kitchen Demo and Remodel (YIKES)

The House (downstairs only)

So...I took a ton of photos of the house in Savannah. So many in fact that I'm going to end up just showing a floor at a time. We plan on remodeling a floor at a time, so that works anyway. Luckily, the only floor that we really have to remodel is the bottom floor, but we have beds to buy, etc...for the other floors.
I don't feel like breaking down the whole plan, but I'll just try and explain that we are blowing out walls and making one huge kitchen and one big great room downstairs. I forgot to get any pics of the half bath, but it's been recently updated, so I'll just take some when we go down next time. The pictures are in no order. Sorry!

Back of the place (please excuse our fridge box)

The View!! (aka: the reason we bought this place)

One view from inside! (we need to fix the screen door)

Our new fridge BIG BERTHA! We had to take of the handles to fit her in the house. 

De-Popcorning the ceiling! (my parents were a HUGE HELP) 

The fireplace and wet bar!

The front room that will eventually be part of my dream kitchen :) 

The front room windows that I plan on leaving! (funny thing is the current blinds are DVF, but I plan on changing them out and who knew she was in the blind business)

1980s Kitchen (CHECK)...this is where we plan on spending our time and energy! I mean why would you not center the sink on the window?? This will look 100% different... eventually.

The Hallway that holds two storage closets and the half bath.

The front view! 

Already completed one project. Bought a new fan for the living room, but it was a little heavy chrome...so I painted it NAVY instead. The blades are wood and I can't wait to put it all together, but we have to put in some can lts. etc...1st. 

Here is a pic of our dock. Apparently the neighbors don't crowd it up with boats, so we should always find a parking spot. We love the dock because it has a shower, sink, nice table, and chairs for all to enjoy.

I look forward to sharing our house remodel and decorating via this blog. I don't think this is something we are going to be able to tackle right away (we are taking donations), so please be patience. Here is to hoping I have many transformations for you to see shortly :) 

Follow Up

Tailgating for FL. Game

Barn Dance

Barn Dance Dinner

Hay Ride at the farm

Friends in Raleigh 

Raleigh wedding couple Moose and Katie

FAVORITE part of the wedding was the Duke a cappella group (I'm a HUGE Sing Off Fan)

At the Raleigh Wedding sporting my long hair one last time!

Dan taking charge of tailgate set up for the FL game!

My new Ballard Backroom purchase (for the SAV. home)

Ballard=Trouble! I had to get these great bar stools for the new place too! 

Square dancing at the farm

Ok...so I do realize that you probably wanted house pics more than anything, and I have some...but Luke and I are heading down on the 5th of November, and I plan to get pics of every room and do before then after shots as we go about fixing things up and making it our real home away from our rental home. So just hold on for now and I'll post some after that weekend. Here is a sneak peak at one of our amazing views.

Past Months

So much has been going on lately. So much in fact that I haven't even had time to blog about it. This blog is going to be pretty boring since I'm not able to post all the pics I want to. However, I'll do a picture only blog to follow this up.
Luke and I finished up the month of September in Raleigh celebrating the wedding of Luke's buddy Chad. It was beautiful and such a fun town to visit if you haven't before.
We've spent a lot of fall weeekends at the family farm. The second ever annual barn dance was held on October 8th, and was a HUGE success again this year.
Finally Luke and I made it back to the Plains for the Auburn vs. Florida game. Both teams looked pretty sorry, but I was SO EXCITED for another WIN. The future is looking bright AU peeps.
This weekend we have another wedding(go figure), but it's close to home, so we can't complain.
In other super HUGE news...I cut 5 inches of my hair, and Luke and I bought our first house. Yes I do think not posting the pics is pretty evil, but I'll try and do that this weekend.
So...I just wanted to give everyone a quick update and promise that I haven't forgotten my long lost blog friends.
Be BACK SOON!

Clemson Tailgate

So...I'm sad about the Tigers ending their amazing streak of wins, but so proud to be an AUBURN TIGER! I really am so impressed with our young new talent already playing this year, and very hopeful for the future of AU football. Our defense needs some serious work (MR. Roof I'm talking to YOU), but I think we'll be just fine. WAR EAGLE PEOPLE!
This weekend Luke and I drove up to Clemson for the tigers to take on the tigers. My cousin Tyler is a coach this year for Clemson, so we were a tailgate divided. My Aunt Shellie and cousin Sarah drove all the way from Oklahoma to see Tyler and tailgate with us. Here are some pictures of the fabulous day. I wish I could have gotten some up close photos of all the yummy food and what not, but I just flat out forgot. Oh...Lisa and I were on TV too!! The CBS Bham news crew came around and asked us for an interview about our tailgate. Let me know if you live in Bham and saw us yesterday.

Dirt Road Anthem

This weekend we hit the dirt roads of Alabama with new and old friends. We spent a full day wondering trails and traversing some crazy terrain. I'm not going to lie and say it was all peaches. I definitely got pretty scared a time or twelve, but I was with an excellent group of (basically professional) 4-wheelers (one being my husband). We did have a large group and a paramedic with us, so I felt pretty safe even with the seriously steep mountains. It was a full day of mud sling fun and beautiful views. I took a ton of pictures that you can check out on my FB page.
I also wanted to say that I start my new job with Lockheed Martin on September 12th. I can't wait to finally get there and get to work. It's been a long process with all of the background checking and pre work requirements. Once I start I'm not sure when or how often I'll be able to blog, but I'll try and keep up. Happy Monday Everyone...I'm sure I might soon realize once I start working again, that there is no such thing as Happy Monday, but for now there is!!

Glad I had on snake boots!

The group!