House Pics!

So it is about time put some pics up of the house! I have been promising this for a long time!

One end of the laundry room with the washer and dryer. I love our washer and dryer! We got them durning the Black Friday sales last year at a SUPER price! I can't wait to use them!



The other end of the laundry room...Just so you know, Nathan and I HATE this piece of furniture with a passion! lol! We spent THREE hours trying to get it in!! Custom fit.....yea right!!!! I am going to do the laundry room in funky colors! I can't wait to decorate it!



This is the hallway that leads out of the laundry room




One of the guest bedrooms....its the first door on the left that you see in the hallway above. This will be Dalton's (my little bro's bedroom) so I have been informed! lol! He loves Nathan and I am sure he will want to come spend the night with him every once in a while...not to mention he loves his sister too :)



My post would not be complete without putting a picture of Nathan's pride and joy! His "work bench" in the garage with all of his tools! Lol! He is sooo proud :)



The extra bathroom...we had to do this weird texture thing on the wall because the people that built the house had put up wallpaper that WAS NOT coming down. It turned out pretty good though! Notice there is not toilet! Lol! We got that in after I took this picture!



The living room! I know I know! It has the 60's wood paneling! But hey, it could be A LOT worse! Its not the worst paneling I have ever seen! We will make it look good!



The dining room table! I love our table (that we do not have chairs for yet! lol)! We still have to change out the light fixture in this room, the door leading to the back deck, and eventually the floor. I painted the walls a beautiful copper orange! It is sooooo pretty! I am definetly NOT afraid of color!



My kitchen! I love love love it......except for the ugly periwinkle blue countertops! lol! We are in the process of getting those redone and I cannot wait to see them! That will completly change the entire look of the room! We are also fixing to order all new stainless appliances so that will update it a lot! YAY!


My newest project....Nate's mom gave me this awesome table! I Know I know kind of an eye sore right now but I am going to sand the chairs and repaint them hot pink, bright orange, bright green and bright blue! I think it will be very neat once I get finished! The table looks really neat so I think I am going to get a piece of plexiglass cut for the top so it is a little more protected!

(By the way, yes our house is an ugly blue color as you can kind of see in the picture above! We are hoping to save up and change that once we are finished with the inside! I am thinking a slate/clay color with white trim...any opinions?:)

This is the back pasture! It is absolutely beautiful! We have around 5 acres that the house sits on and love it! You can see the barn and the fence that we have started building for the goats! We are not completely finished but once we are and we have the goats over here I will post on them too. Soooo cute:)



This is the other guest room. Nathan has turned it into an office or as we like to call it "the Man Room"! lol! It is the one room that is almost completly finished! It looks so good....just like something Nate would like. It is decorated in a very outdoorsy feeling with some rodeo/hunting stuff added in. Very cool!



The Master Bedroom.....soooo pretty! I chose to paint this room a rich chocolate brown because I am wanting to do golds, browns, blues and hints of green in here as well as carry that into the master bath. We also have some beautiful doors that lead out onto the back deck and look over into the pasture. I love it so much and can't wait to wake up in here everyday! :)


This is the vanity area. Nathan just redid the tile so that is why it looks a little messy! I am excited to get it cleaned up so that we can see the finished product!


I so cannot wait to get in our house and start decorating! We have done a lot but there is so much left to do! This is so much fun for me!!

I will post pics of the master bath at a later time. It is a little demolished right now and I am going to wait until you can see the finished product! It will be SUPER cute! Tonight we didn't get to go over to the house because every Monday night we go to Nathan's parents to watch Dancing with the Stars at 7:00 and 24 at 8:00. Well tonight was the season finale of 24 so they had a 2 hour show that started at 7:00....right when the first night of the season finale of Dancing was on!!! Well we could not have that so Nathan's dad fixed that for us real quick.....

Man did we look like a bunch or rednecks! 24 on the big screen and Dancing on the little TV muted! lol! We didn't miss much though! Thanks Kenny :)

Also, please go check out my RSVP website! I just started it tonight so it may take a while for me to update everything but you can at least get a general idea of what it will look like! Thanks all and have a good week!

:)
Chrissy!

Busy.....but good Sunday :)

We have had one busy Sunday! Frist off, this morning Nathan and I went to church with my parents at their church. It was a really great sermon. I always like to listen to Bro. Johnny! We are currently trying to find us a church home where we can start our lives together. We have been going some with my parents to their church in Cave Springs and some with Nathan's parents to First Baptist. We are just not sure right now where God is wanting us but I am sure that before long we will know. After church Nathan and I went out to eat with my parents at this new restraunt in Springdale called TaMolly's! It was very good and it was just nice to go out with my parents and spend some time together. After we ate we decided to go over to the house and work on it some more. We spent all afternoon Saturday working on it but we are so excited to be almost done we just can't seem to quit!! Today we worked on stripping the master bathroom, hanging up some pictures in Nate's "man room", and almost finishing up the guest bathroom. We are so excited about starting our lives together and having a home together!! Only 139 days til the big day!!

Right now Nate and I are just sitting on the couch at my parents house after a long days work, relaxing, enjoying being together!

As for wedding planning, next weekend we head down to Ft. Smith to see my bridal portraits! I am super excited to see them and hope that they turned out as good as our engagements!! Until next time!!

Chrissy!!

Lowes.....my new favorite store :)

You know you go to a store too much when everyone in there smiles at you and says "Hey! Haven't seen you since yesterday!" Well this is exactly how I feel at Lowe's. It feels like Nathan and I are there daily. But, I can't say that I hate it! I am having so much fun picking out things for the house! Tonight we went and narrowed our countertops down to 3 different options! I never realized how hard it was to make these choices but I am really putting some deep thought into it considering I have to live with it for the next however long. It is so funny to me how much of an opinion Nathan has! I love that he does, don't get me wrong...it just makes me laugh sometimes! :) We really had fun this weekend! We started putting the house together and I think it is going to come together really nicely! We are super excited and I will make sure to post pictures soon! (but I will wait until we are completely done...don't want to spoil the surprise :). Well, hope everyone has a wonderful week! I already can't wait for another weekend! We are HOPEFULLY building the goat pen next weekend (like we have supposed to for the last 3) so hopefully I will have pictures of that completed too!

See ya!
Chrissy :)

WOW!

I hagve completely fallen off of the blogging bandwagon!! We have been so busy wedding planning and working on school and work things! I have so much to blog about!

Regarding the house....we have finally started moving things in!! We are sooo excited! We have moved over all of the furniture we have except for Nate's bedroom furniture! It is looking soooo nice! We do not have everything set up by any means but we do have a pretty good start on it. I think Nate is hoping to be in within the next couple of weeks! Kinda of makes me nervous because it makes the whole wedding thing a little more real! We have sort of set up the living room like we will want it and Nathan's "man room" is also sort of set up, but other than that we haven't done much!

We have also taken engagement and bridal pictures!!! Yay! I have so been looking forward to taking these for so long now! I thought it would never get here! We took engagments towards the end of March and have already seen the proofs. Let me just say....my photographers are wonderful! You can see their blog at www.photosmemtalk.com. They are excellent to work with and have amazing product to offer! As for bridals, I took them last Sunday and my parents and I are going to the viewing on May 9th! I am sooo ready to see them! We went to the neatest places and they had the most creative ideas! We also went and picked up my bridal boquet at my florist. We decided to use Brick Street Botanical up in Rogers. You can see her work at www.brickstreetbotanical.com. We are super excited about using her. My whole idea for our wedding was to have somthing completly unique with just the right amount of funkiness! I love unique different things and I am so excited about September 19!!! Mom and I have been working hard and are ready for things to start falling into place!

We have 2 showers already planned!!! YAY!! My first one will be July 11th (my best friend's birthday). This one is being put on by all of the wonderful ladies at First Baptist Springdale that have watched Nathan grow up into the man he is today. We are so blessed to have such wonderful people in our lives! The second one is on July 25th and my best friend is putting this one on for us. She is my maid of honor and is also including my 5 other bridesmaids. They are all wonderful and mean the world to me! Nathan and I are the most blessed people in the world to be surrounded by all of these wonderful people. Nathan's aunts are also planning on putting us on a shower for just our 2 families and I am soooo looking forward to that! It is just a time for our two families to get together, meet, and prepare for our big day!

Needless to say, we have been busy, busy, busy! I promise I will not wait so long to blog next time! Much love!!

Chrissy!

Drum roll please.......

And the color we chose for the Master Bedroom is......CHOCOLATE BROWN!!! It is soooo beautiful! I was so torn on what color to paint our room! It was definetly the hardest decision yet! Our comforter is a gold color with blue and mocha colored paisley on it....very beautiful! Well i was torn between painting it a soft blue or a goldish color. I asked Nate's aunt Randa (Miranda is her real name!) for her vote and she said "Well why not a mocha brown or a chocolate brown??" I hadn't even thought of that!! And I even went to school for interior design! Needless to say, the next day we were at the paint store buying a beautiful, rich chocolate brown! I will post pics soon! I know I said I would this time but it has been so crazy! Now I can't decide which room I will like better! I was sure the kitchen would be my favorite! We are painting it next and we have picked a color called Copper Gleam! It is a burnt orange color with a gold sheen to it! Soooo pretty! Until next time! :)

Chrissy!

House update!

Today Nathan and I spent ALL DAY working on the house!! We actually spent all weekend working on it. It was so much fun and we got so much accomplished! We are probably 3/4 of the way finished painting and then we are going to start on the countertops in the kitchen and bathrooms! YAY! We also put mulch in the flowerbeds this weekend.....we have used 24 bags of mulch so far and still need about 10-12! We did not realized how small of a space it would take up. We are also going to be landscaping the front yard soon! I am soooo excited about that! Yay! This is a short post but I will update again soon! Next time I will try to have pictures of the house.

Love much!
Chrissy!

New living room furniture + a dining room table!!

Well a couple weekends ago Nate and I were driving down the road and we passed Ashley Furniture. Nate said "Babe, why don't we stop and look at some furniture?" I was completely astounded! I said "Well sure.....are you sure you want to?" He told me he did so we stopped in. We found a beautiful living room suit and were almost set on it when Nate said that we probably needed to look around some more because we had not looked a whole lot and there may be something better out there. I agreed so we headed to Sam's Discount Furniture in Springdale behind Cracker Barrell. We walked in an literally spent 2 hours in that store! I loved it! We had 4 living room suits picked out by the end of our excursion and had to narrow it down....that was sooooo hard! I went back and forth and back and forth for a least 30 minutes until finally Nate told me to pick one that I would like for a long time and not get tired of quickly. Well that was easy! I wish he would have said that 30 minutes ago! LoL! As soon as he said that, I walked over to the one I was leaning towards and said it was the one I wanted.(Nate's only request was that it was brown leather which was fine with me!) We are storing our furniture out above the garage at Nate's parents house and are super excited to see it in our house!

I am so lucky to have such a wonderful fiancee! He is so willing to listen to my indecisiveness (which I am often) and I am so blessed to be a part of his life! I am so ready to start our lives together! We have had so much fun getting our house ready and preparing for life together! Pray for us in the next few months that we stay on the right path with the Lord and follow his plan for us.

I have put pictures of our furniture below along with pictures of our dining room table that we have had for a while! We have no chairs yet so any suggestions for where to buy counter height chairs would be greatly appreciated! Enjoy!