Home Tour: Formal living room...scratch that. Play Room

This is supposed to be our formal living room.

One day it will be.

I have visions of how it will look. With color schemes, rugs, matching accent chairs. Ah. Beautiful.
One day lacie, one day.

For know though, Hudson has taken over.
It has become his play room and I am completely ok with that. It gives him a place to roam free, but close enough for me to keep an eye on him while I am cooking, doing dishes, etc.
Also, we look like the coolest parents ever whenever someone comes over.
Truth is, we just have no furniture to fill it.
We are still young people!










Before:

After:

His slide has to be in the tent or he will freak out.

View from the door.

View from the stairs

looking in from kitchen. Hudson loves to stand on the bottom stair and jump off. He thinks he is pretty tough.

Our cute picture right when you walk in.

Love these! The picture from our wedding announcement is in the frame, and the top is a magnet board.

Hudson has fun, so I will take it this is his favorite room in the house. Mostly because the windows. He is such a creep and checks out the neighbors.

Home Tour: Hall Bathroom

This is our hall bathroom. I decided to theme this more for Hudson and the future kiddos. We went with a monster theme. A few of the wall pictures were in Hudson's room when we were living in our apartment.

A quick before

 After

I love this green. Very  bright, but my favorite.

Our towel hooks. Got it in the dollar section at good old target!

Cute mirror and frames from Ikea. Monsters from my mother in law's circuit :)

Are they not just adorable!

Not sure what else will go in here, but im sure as the little gets older & we have more kiddos it will fill up quick.

love target, got my fun shower curtain and rug there! as well as the toy basket.

Hudsons little potty!


Im very pleased with this room! Turned out way cute. I think it will definitely last threw many years.

Home Tour: Family Room

This is our family room. Or TV room. Whatever you call it, it is where we spend most of our time.
A couple things I have learned since taking these pictures.
One, this little point and shoot camera kinda stinks. I need a new super nice one. That doesn't put random orbs in my pictures. One that would actually make things look good, instead of just blah. ugh...maybe one day.
And B, my walls look so bare! I knew they were skimpy. We have only had our home a few months, and we have years to fill it up and decorate. But WOW! skimpy skimpy. This makes me wanna go out and buy some shelves stat!
Most of our furniture is hand-me-down. The tv/entertainment center was given to us by Tanners parents. I love this thing. Before we moved we had an entertainment center from Ikea. It was great till Hudson came along. Everything, and I am talking EVERYTHING was at his fingertips. Cords, Tv, Movies, Buttons, Games, PlayStation. It was a constant battle to keep him out of it. This is perfect. It keeps everything locked away so tiny humans can't get those chubby little fingers on my stuff!
The side table holding our record player and my decorative ball thingees was my moms.
It matched so she gave it to us.
The couches we got online on KSL (like craigslist)
 They were practically new, and only used by a sweet older lady in her second home that she was going to sale. Score!
 I want a rug eventually.

When I find the perfect one that is.

If anyone has some ideas for the walls that would be great. The walls are just SO BIG. They fill empty I need something more to fill them in.

Here is before:

After:

How out TV normally is, open

All closed up and hidden away! bwahahah

Love my "&" pillow. 5 bucks from the clearance at Target.

Wannabe collage wall. I promise it looks so much bigger/better in person!
Also, these black pillows used to be red/yellow checkered. I found a cute no-sew way to turn them into brand new throw pillows on pinterest. Viola, they are new!

The picture says " I love the way you love me"

The bean bag [bottom left corner] is usually right in the middle of the floor as Hudson likes to run and jump into it.

Just a cute brown/black picture from I got for Christmas.
It matches perfect and is hanging by the stairs.

Well, that is our cute room. Where I am currently sitting on the laptop typing this up.

Home Tour: Hudson's Room

When we got this house the color theme for Hudson's room changed many many many times. We shared a room for almost a year while we lived with Tanners parents so I was very excited to really get to give Hudson his own space. Since Hudson was one when we moved in, I also wanted something that was a little more "big boy" and less baby-ish. Hudson is obsessed with all things cars. After discussing it with Tanner we decided that we would do a car theme (but NOT car's the movie theme) and just make it subtle. We chose a blue and red color theme and once Hudson gets a big boy bed, I'm pushing for a car bed :) Also, whenever we decide to have another baby, if its a boy they will share this room. I will probably move the dresser into the closet and put the other bed there. 

This is Hudson's Room before:

And this After:

I think it turned out so cute!

His cute license plate shelf and cute picture frame my mom got us for Christmas.

I love this table and chairs! When you push in the chairs it looks like a stack of tires.

I was originally looking for a toy box, but i'm SO happy I want with the square shelves thingy. He has legos in the bottom blue bin, the right red one has all his toy cars, the left red one holds some puzzles and some misc. toys. And the top blue one holds some old baby-ish toys he has outgrown. It also has a place for his books, his tball set, his music set and some other misc. toys. I HIGHLY recommend this for everyone! Its so much better then everything lost in a box. 

The mickey lamp was from my great grandma..she passed away before Hudson was born but I was so happy to pass it on to him.

This side of his room is pretty bare...any suggestions??
Also, don't mind the boring crib..we didn't buy any matchy matchy sets..just a bunch of target white sheets.

First off, I promise he has LOTS more clothes..this momma just stinks at laundry and needs to catch up on like 5 loads.
Also, the blue bin on the floor holds all his shoes, and the red one is his dirty clothes hamper.

The two drawers up top hold his clothes as he grows out of them.

Lots of stuffed animals, and the zig zag box on top is his baby box.

Cute little hand prints.

Hudsons room was so much fun to do! The stripes were a major major pain to paint, but so worth it!

Our NEW Home....before

So we have been living in our home just over 2 months now. We love it so much. There have been a few hiccups along the way though. You may remember that there was a mole in the back yard when we moved in. After talking to one of our new neighbors it looks like the old owners were so upset with the bank and wanted to destroy the yard and was hoping it would go to foreclosure. (we bought it as a short sell). This all makes sense now. The yard was trashed, hadn't been watered in over 8 months. There are weeds everywhere. Also, last week we wanted to turn the water on for the sprinklers...low and behold they packed the box with dirt. We still don't know how were gonna get all the dirt out to turn the sprinklers on. Im afraid they will be broken too. For now, we will just turn the hose on and use a cheep sprinkler from walmart. Were slowly getting the yard looking better. We got a new dandelion killer that we are gonna use this weekend. At this point I would just prefer a green lawn over a yellow one!

Since we moved in we have done lots and lots of painting, cleaning carpets and a few new appliances. But before I post those I would like to show you what are house looked like the day we got our keys!

Our home is a tri-level. There is 3 bedrooms. 2 bathrooms. and an un-finished basement. 

 This is the view right when you walk in the front door. This is the main living room.

 Just to the left of the door.

 Looking from inside the living room. The front door is just to the right. The stairs lead up to the bedrooms and bathrooms. 

 This is the kitchen/eat in. Our table is in front of the bay window.

 Our kitchen. I LOVE the island :))

 Looking from the island. The family room is just a few steps down from the kitchen.

The family room. there are 3 doors on the right side. A closet, the garage & basement.

 Back Doors.

Our backyard and patio covered in snow. 

 The garage. We love the built in shelves!

 The basement...they left a bunch of crap.

Other side of basement. 

 Now heading back upstairs.

 This is the full hall bath. Hudsons bathroom.

 Spare bedroom

 Currently used as storage.

 This is Hudsons room! I promise its lots cuter now ;)

Hudsons room looking from window. 

 This is our Master bedroom. Im in love with the window seat.

 This is our bathroom and closet is to the left.

 Our bathroom. I wish it had a bathtub....but its ok. The shower is just fine.

Our Awesome walk in closet.