Our New Home- Kitchen & Backyard

Arguably our favorite room in the entire house is the kitchen/breakfast area. I'm obsessed with the walls of windows and all the natural light it brings in. I never have to turn on lights in any of the rooms all day because of it! I love eating meals at the table we built together and looking out the windows at all the green scenery that surrounds us. Since we live on the golf course, there are no houses behind us which is amazing and feels like we are secluded in a way. I'm really loving how green everything already is here. 

 

I love the white kitchen and how open it is.
 I love the chandelier we picked out to go above the table and love that Andrew redid the electrical wiring (by watching youtube! haha) to make it so the light fixture could be centered over the table and with the windows and not centered with the whole room. (The people before us took their chandelier and also had theirs centered with the whole dining area so their table had to be moved way over to the left and then it was kind of blocking the back door which looked pretty silly to me) Andrew also added the dimmer switch which makes it look a million times better than before when it was so bright.
I love the little lights that are installed underneath the cupboards to use when it gets dark.
I love the backsplash.
I love the farmhouse style sink.
I love how it feels so much like home already.
 Really, I just love everything about this whole space.
(except the older white oven and microwave--can't wait to change that to stainless steel to match the other appliances!)

^Love the little sign my mom got me!^

When we were driving across country, we stopped to eat at Qdoba and she was telling me how strong I was and how impressed she was that I was able to do the drive in the truck by myself without Andrew. I reminded her of the quote that some other guy had shared at my little brother's basketball banquet a few weeks earlier because his wife had just passed away due to cancer. It really couldn't be more true. It would have made the cross country trip so much more bearable with Andrew with me, but he had to work in Chicago that week to provide for us, so I just had to do what I had to do and be strong because that was my only choice!  Thanks momma.

still need to cover the screws in the table...

 

 

Another favorite is our deck & backyard. Holy cow, it's unreal! The multilevel deck, landscaping, and golf course is awesome. It's the perfect backyard for parties! Bry loves to lay out and enjoy the sunshine. This is how he spends a lot of his days.

 

 

so happy here!!

 

And no, we still haven't done this section of raking and weeding yet.....sigh.

When we moved out of our last house, we were in such a hurry and didn't have any time or room in our truck to grab our BBQ :( so we left it for the people moving in and now we still need to buy another barbeque and some patio furniture.
 Never-ending to-do lists around here these days!