House Tour

A friend of mine asked me to put up pictures of our house now that it is all decorated.  So the other day after I cleaned I snapped a few to share.  Sorry no pictures of the kitchen yet (I hadn't quite gotten to the dishes that day) and no pictures of the master bedroom because we are still waiting for the headboard we ordered a month ago to arrive.  I also didn't take pictures of the study because it's really not all that exciting :).

Dining area.  Thanks to my Dad (and Dan) for hanging up the curtains and for suggesting we get a big clock.  I wasn't sure what to put on that wall, but my Dad solved the problem!  

Entryway.  Not much to say about it.  Just added a few little decorations.   

View of the living room.  I know the wall looks blank but we are still trying to decide what to hang up.  I was thinking a nice big picture of the St. George temple and Dan was thinking a nice big picture of us (one of those canvas pictures).  Thoughts?

Closer view of the bookshelf with a lot of my fall/halloween decorations.  I love this bookshelf!  Thank you Ikea.  

View of the living room from the dining room, featuring the green lamp my mom got me as our house warming gift.  Thanks mom!  She and I found it at T.J. Maxx.  By the way, if you have never been to the St. George T.J. Maxx, you need to check it out!  I never liked T.J. Maxx until I moved here... now I love it!  

Guest bedroom.  Come and visit! :) 

 Guest bathroom.  

Hall/stairs.  I took this picture to show how awesome Dan is.  I asked him to hang our established sign above the stairs and he did!  Everyone always asks me how we got it up there, and I tell them it's great to have a tall husband (and a ladder, of course).

Parade of Homes

This past weekend Dan and I went to the St. George Parade of Homes and had such an awesome time!!!  First off, thank you to my sister in law Becky & her parents for getting us tickets.  I was a little unsure if Dan would have fun walking through houses, but we both loved it!  In fact, Dan told me he wants to attend next year :).  Yay!  There were 26 houses on the list and we made it to 15 of them.  Hopefully next year we will get to see all of them.  The houses ranged in price from $150,000 to $4.5 million.  We loved seeing the million dollar homes b/c how often do you get to go in one of those???  It was also fun to see some of the cheaper homes and get ideas on how we want to decorate our home.  It really helped because after parade of homes we have completely changed the color scheme for the home we are building.  Anyway I took lots of pictures of the things I loved... here are a few.... even though it's all way cooler in person:

Cute window seat.  We are going to have one of these in our home, so I wanted to get a picture of how to make it look cute!

Wall of windows & awesome fireplace in 3 million dollar home.

Pool @ 3 million dollar home.

I just love the subway tiles in the shower.  We are considering using them in our future home.

I just thought the white sectional was pretty cute.

Amazing kitchen in 4 million dollar home.

Pretty cool back splash.  It looks woven, but they are all little tiles!

Really cool sinks.

I thought this back splash would be cute in a kids bathroom.

Shower in the 4 million home.  This only shows half of it.  It had beautiful glass and about 20 shower heads.  You enter on one side and exit on a different side.  Best shower I have ever seen!

 Ok that's all.  The homes were all beautiful and had really unique features and details.  It was also fun because in each garage there are vendors and Dan bought me a Scentsy.  I have to say, I am pretty impressed!  The kind we got smells so good and fills our whole apartment. 

We are already excited to go next year and we have even discussed going to the Parade of Homes in Utah County in June!  That's how much we loved it :).