Our Home in Pictures: The Kitchen

Before we get to my kitchen tour... I just wanted to thank you so much for all of your incredibly kind words about my post about my dad -- He truly is my most favorite person and to be able to share that with such wonderful people means a lot -- Next time I'll warn you to grab your Kleenex boxes! :)

OK... On with it --

When we were originally picking out our cabinetry, I wanted a "Ginger" color wood -- I compromised and when they installed it, I was sad that we went with the lighter wood -- BUT! once Mr. Realife and my dad painted the kitchen, I felt somewhat better about it all...

Our kitchen and bathrooms originally had linoleum in them --
While this may work for some areas in your home,

it just didn't feel nice on our feet --

So... my dad came up and tiled all those areas for us!

We love it!!

This is our kitchen now!

A few of the details...

Starting with clearly the most important :)

Yes... that is dust on top of this Griddle :)

That's why Mr. Realife bought me this...

Hope you enjoyed our tour of the kitchen! Next week?
Laundry Room :)

Our Home In Pictures: Dining Room

First and foremost! THANK YOU SO MUCH for all of your incredibly kind comments!!! We do live in a really peaceful environment... We both work very hard and we love coming home at the end of our days --

Last week after I posted our outside, Mr. Realife asked why I didn't put up a picture of the whole house! I have no idea... so, here it is!

...I know you'll sleep better tonight :)

Ok... on with the Dining Room...

Standing on the back porch, this is what you see...

A look from our foyer

ignore the messy coat rack

The lighting... {sorry for the blurry pix}


When looking for dining furniture, we kept looking for a "set"
Our interior 'consultant' {because he did not design our interior}
Told us not to buy a set, but separate pieces that went with
each other -- Wasn't my cup of tea, but I'm getting used to it


Our table...

I love fresh flowers and like to get them when
they are half off at the store - they last about a week.


While it's not "matchy matchy" as my desire for
traditional design would like... I do love our server...

Inside our server, you'll find these really cool fish from Mexico...

The art you see leaning against the wall
was painted by a local artist my husband likes...
Who knew this southern boy had a modern side to him --
Clearly not framed the way we want, it has yet to be hung :)

And of course... this is what you'll see
when we forget our sweet baby on the porch
{yes... those are 'wet nose' streaks you see}

I think that's it! Next? Kitchen!!

Our Home in Pictures

OK! Here we go! Remember this pic from
when I asked if you wanted to see our house?

This is on the other side of the fence...



and what you see as you're driving up our driveway.



If you keep going up the driveway, you'll see our horses in their barn...



...and the chickens in their house!
{which Mr. Realife built from scratch, and I painted!}



The chickens love to follow us around the yard :)



... and lay these!!



The front of our house...



... Mr. Realife is a Landscape Designer, so he did all the work.
{These pix were taken last Fall, so it's 'all grown up' now}



The back of our house!



... a few additions...



Side of our back screened in porch...



The inside!



Our own personal oasis...



...and where I do a lot of blogging.



OK! So... that's the outside :) Stay tuned next week
for a peek through the back sliding glace door...

I just wanted to say that I know I promised the next chapter of My Story -- I'm figuring out some things -- I'm writing a book and don't want to put the entire thing online -- I'm thinking I may do "My Life in Dreams" and only tell you some of the dreams and leave you guessing {aren't I sweet?!} I'm in the midst of writing another one of my dreams {I've had a lot} and it's really difficult to write it out! Yet, I know I'm ready, so I'm pushing through it! I promise I'll post it soon!