Fall Progress

I am sorry that it has been over a month since I have posted on our blog.  Besides still settling in to our home, we have been away every weekend so I have not had a chance to sit down and update our blog.  The last weekend in September we went to Kingsport for my 10 year high school reunion, I know I am getting old.  I was a little disappointed that more classmates did not come in, but it was great seeing everyone and had a blast the entire weekend.  The same weekend I was able to go to one of my bff, and bridesmaids, baby shower, and then I left from Kingsport and flew to Chicago for work.  While I was up in Chicago I went dinner with my cousin Mary and her fiance Louay, and at dinner I was asked to be a bridesmaid in her wedding.  Mary and Louay are getting married the first weekend in April in Birmingham and I am so excited that they asked me to be part of their special day!  When I got back from Chicago, my father picked me up from the airport and the next day Karen joined us and we were able to enjoy a hot October day in Middle Tennessee at Cheekwood visiting the Chihuly exhibit.   I then spent the following weekend with my mother for girls trip to Massachusetts to attend my cousins wedding.  I have a large family, 42 cousins and second cousins, and I have not seen my cousin Matthew since I was about 7, so I was  happy that I was able to see him again after all of this time.  As soon as I came home, Travis left to go to San Diego for work, but he took the red eye home and arrived back in Nashville at 9:30am just in time for us to drive to Knoxville for the day for the UT/Alabama game.  We spent the day tailgating in front of Travis's fraternity, Phi Sig, and was able to see some old friends and spend the day with family.  We have had such a fun fall so far, and I am looking forward to the holidays in our new home. 

Although we have been busy on the weekends, we have still managed to get a lot done around the house.  Travis installed a peg board in the garage so that we can better organize our yard tools and such.  Travis also has been spending some quality time in our yard with his new leaf blower, although we love the shade the trees provide in the summer, I think we are fighting a loosing battle with our leaves.  As for me, after several trips to the furniture store, I finally was able to decide on some furniture for our front living room, which will be my living room once everything comes in, but unfortunately it will not be in until the first of January.  We also did have to have our heating and air unit replaced, and while they were cutting a new vent in our floor, they managed to split the wood in our bedroom.  The company is covering the cost to fix it and they will be out next week to install a new section of hardwood floors for us.  Our chandelier and some sconces are still on back order, and I just hope that they come in time for our holiday entertaining. Other than this we love our home and could not be happier with our neighborhood.

Kristen, Myself, and Becca after the rival Dobyns-Bennett vs. South football game.  This was the first time Travis went to a DB football game and he was entertained when a fight broke out in the crowd...welcome to Kingsport!

At the DB reunion with two of my BFF's Jacqueline and Brooke.

Kristen and I at her shower for Baby Jonah

Chihuly exhibit at Cheekwood

Matthew and Joy's Wedding in Massachusetts

 
I loved her shoes!

Mom and I

UT vs Alabama tailgate with Ashley and Nathan

 I still get excited about the running of the T!

 Trav and I at the Pearl Ball


Some before and afters of our Master Bedroom

The green wall is from the original bedroom and the yellow was from the bathroom.  We ended up taking some space from the original bathroom to enlarge the bedroom, and we covered up the two windows on the right.

Another view of our bedroom reno.  The closet to the left is now my closet and was part of the original bathroom.  The closet on the right is Trav's closet and it had been the powder room.  Straight ahead was another bedroom that we turned into our bathroom.

Framing for our new shower area.

Since we did not need a door to our bedroom, I had them add an archway leading in to our master bedroom.

We added shelving in the corner that had been part of the original closet,  the closet was itty bitty and there is no way that we would have been able to make the original closet space work.

A very small portion of our shower had been part of the original closet, again the closets were very small.