Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Home Sweet Home


I love my house! I never wanted an older home until we looked at this one. While we were house hunting Carson and I were truly divided on what we were looking for. I wanted new and modern he wanted old and distinguished with "character." We absolutely could not agree on anything we had seen.

One afternoon we decided that since we had increased our limit on distance from work, we would come out and look at this house. When we walked around looking at all the crazy painted rooms, we could both see what potential this house had. Since moving here in February 2007 we have painted, painted and painted some more, or should I say - I have painted. When we moved in the dining room was school bus yellow, one bedroom was orange, one navy blue and the other purple. Now the dinning room is aqua blue, and the bedrooms are shades of green and yellow.
Our next project for this fall is the kitchen. Nothing major just a "freshen up". Painting the cabinets and door pulls. Of course I do procrastinate so it become a winter job...












Monday, July 21, 2008

Vacation




On July 4th Carson and I along with our friends, Adam and Caroline Prestridge set out on our drive from England to Myrtle Beach. We drove all morning, all afternoon, and pretty much all night. We detoured and drove through the Smokey's and stopped for dinner in Spartinburg, S.C. at the Beacon Drive-In. It took about 20 hours to get there!
While in Myrtle Beach we visited some pretty cool places, my favorite being Brookgreen Garden. We also went to Charleston and went to the South Carolina Aquarium and toured Magnolia Plantation. (I will try to upload some photo's later.) In all we were gone 9 days and had a great time with our friends.