First Snow & Christmas Presents

We got our first snow this past weekend which also meant we had a couple other "firsts". We bundled up and took Vanna out on a walk to see the grand spectacle. It was her first sight of snow.

We also had to shovel our driveway and sidewalk for the first time - not quite as exciting. I hope the snow stays for Christmas. It helps me get in the spirit of things. But after Christmas, it can go away - slick roads are not my favorite. Speaking of Christmas...Ty and I got our Christmas presents a little early this year. We decided to buy eachother one small gift and then purchase ourselves things for the house so this is what we came up with...

We had Ty's sister make us this wall hanging. It says Home...where the heart is. She did a great job. We have it on one of our entrance way walls.

We painted! I've waited so long to paint and it finally happened. This is the view from our front door and we painted just the one wall in the family room to bring out our fireplace and just bring some color into the room. We are so pleased. We also bought a new 9 ft. pre-lit Christmas tree. Our new ceilings are so tall that our old tree seemed too small - and we had to go with the pre-lit tree. It makes things so much easier.

Finally, we got some bar stools to help fill our bare kitchen. A couple of the bar stools came with cracks in the wood so we had to send them back (which was of course disappointing) but eventually, when we get the replacements, our bar will be filled. It will be so nice just to serve food at the bar rather than walk around it to the dining room table. Cash can also now sit by us on the bar stools rather than sit in his high chair alone in the tiled kitchen (he's back to a phase where he throws his food on the floor so we didn't want him sitting with us at the table to ruin our carpet in the dining room-probably cruel, I know).

The house is coming piece by piece, which we actually enjoy because then we get all excited about each and every little thing. It's becoming more and more like the way we want it and more and more cozy-like home.