Glow Worm Green

We have made some more progress at the house. In fact, we're going to go ahead and let the apartment people know that we'll be GONE in 30 days or less....I don't think I've ever been more excited to move. The electricians have come and gone and the painters have primed and will get the cabinets finished early this week. Here are some picture from this week.

Kate and DeDe removing wall paper....it's long gone.
Kate crawling on Normie...he was really good with her this week.

The kitchen and family room all prepped for priming. Notice our new lighting in the kitchen...there's just something that excites me about can lighting. The whole fam (you can barely see Dixie's ear...she was laying her head on my back) looking at some books.
Right after move-in, in Kate's room. Replacing the METAL (what were they thinking) windows is one of the next projects
Mr. Electrician got Kate's light fixture up...finally! We've had it for a year (since I was prego w/ Miss Priss) and didn't want to put it up in Tulsa b/c we knew we would most likely be moving. She likes it...something fun to look at.


Kate's room is finished and ready for its little inhabitant. I don't know if you can tell the color or not but it's something like Glow Worm Green. I'm still on the fence about the color but Brad and my mom love it. I'm going to go look at it again today and hope it has grown on me.
And here are some pics of the family room and kitchen all primed for painting. It looks like a winter wonderland in there and I can't wait to get the color on the cabinets (well, off-white) and walls.
This is our little desk in the kitchen. I think I'm going to enjoy it....somewhere to pile up all of our mail and work on bills and such. Then...when we have company, I can stuff it all in one of the drawers..perfect-o!!We're very happy with how things are moving along. When we found this house, we knew it would make a good home for us once we put a little of our TLC (and a lot of our savings...ha!!) into it....now it's almost a reality!! Yay!!

My mom is leaving us today and heading to see Sweet Vivi....we'll miss her very much. Kate had a great time with her and learned lots of things from her (she taught Kate to roar like a tiger, say "dog", say "DeDe", eat raw apples, and lots more)...I always thought DeDe should have been a teacher...she's so good with the little ones. As a matter of fact, she taught Emily and I to read before we headed off for Kindergarten...and I still love to read!! (Side note: I'm reading The Middle Place right now, by Kelly Corrigan (thanks Kel), and she is such a witty and talented writer...good book but I can tell it's gonna jerk some tears)

Thank you for all of your help this week Mom!!!