Well it has been a while!!
We have been super busy enjoying our new home! So much has happened in the past five months it's ridiculous! Where shall we start?
Well first off, we are officially boat owners now too!! We purchased in October and it is pretty sweet! 1999 Baja Boss Hammer! Isn't she pretty?!
My husband got to take a few rides in her and my son and I joined for one ride before we had to put her away for the winter. He took her out Monday and Tuesday the week of Halloween. Halloween was Friday. Isn't my little man the cutest Blue Ranger you ever did see?!?
And then we had our first snow in the new house on Saturday morning after Halloween!! Yes you read that correctly. Snow in South Carolina on November 1st!! And not just flurries! I mean a legit 4 - 5 inches of the white stuff!! Don't believe me? Here is what I woke up to. It was not even forecasted and I just wanted to take the dog outside to do his business! I think I actually screamed out loud!
After the snow came our first Thanksgiving feast in our new home! Check out my turkey!!
It was absolutely delicious! As well as the rest of the food. It was just us this year. My mom and my husbands family all live in Georgia and it was just too hectic of a time to make the trip. My dad lives nearby but he was enjoying the holiday with my step mother's family. There's a "past" there so I won't get into why we didn't join in the festivities. We can just leave it at some people you can have in your heart but not in your life. Anyway I did get to see my dad and step mom that afternoon when we dropped off the little one to go shopping! Yes we are those idiots that go Black Thursday/Friday shopping!
Next on the agenda was a couple of projects that my husband and I were wanting to do. I have always wanted to have a farmhouse kitchen table. I think they are absolutely beautiful! So my husband sold our table and agreed to build my new table. My brother-in-law and his family came one Saturday and they knocked it out! It turned out great! Here's a picture!
We stained it with an Ebony stain and painted the legs a really light gray almost white color. I'm in love with it! And now we just needed some chairs! My husband built a bench at my request for one of the long sides and he found four chairs for $30 on Facebook for sale. So he bought them and together we reupholstered them. Here's a picture!
I found that lacy fabric in Walmart. It was just beautiful! Of course this isn't the completely finished product but we had a Christmas dinner coming up that we hosted for my husbands family so we left the chairs black but has since then painted them the same color as the table legs to match.
Which brings me to our next first in our new home. Christmas!! My favorite time of year! We bought a new tree this year and put it in the front room. I still don't quite know what I am doing with that room. I think it will probably just become a sitting room. It also makes a great Christmas room. It was nice having the tree in there out of the way of everyday traffic through the house and was also nice to keep all of the presents, paper, toys, etc...in there out of the main living room!
Here's our tree!
And up next was stocking it full of presents! Can we say spoiled much?!?
Oh and how can I forget? The week of Christmas my husband decided to take my beautiful black beast up to the dealership after receiving a "trade-in" postcard in the mail. He wanted to see if they would even be able to do it without putting us in the negative. And much to my surprise, they gave him more than we originally paid and he managed to get me into a new blue beauty that is fully loaded! It feels so great to finally be up to the rest of the world in technology! Sad thing is that he thinks he is going to be able to get this one day and I will get a new vehicle...wrong! I love it!
Of course it's not all the way there yet. We just bought new wheels and tires! Now we are waiting on getting the lift before we can put them on. Because right now they won't fit! So all in all 2014 was a great year! And a year of firsts! Bought our first new construction home! Bought our first boat! My baby boy's first year of school! I am so excited to finish the first year in our new home! Thank you for reading and stay tuned for more!
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| My Husband and I November 2014 |
