Our Roses Are Blooming!

Look at our roses!

I learned from our neighbor that the previous homeowner took lots of pride in her rose bushes, and I'm not at all surprised because they are lovely. I was a little scared during snow season, because I know nothing about taking care of roses and thought they had all been doomed to a disastrous death.... but low and behold, the roses are all blooming and they are absolutely beautiful!

Come and see!

We have some teeny tiny pinkish orange ones...

And the peachy pinky yellowish ones (my favorite)...

And the yellow roses of Texas!

We have one more bush with gorgeous dark red roses, but the neighborhood kids came and picked them all off yesterday, to their parents horror. We got an apologetic visit from the 10 year old next door and her mother, who found all of our roses in their front yard.

Oh well. I'm sure more will bloom soon.

I've never been into gardening, as I have the blackest of black thumbs, but now that we have our own house, with our own yard, I can't wait to plant more. And I definitely want to hunt down a lavender rose bush because I love them.

And, of course, I'll have to buy myself a book on caring for roses so I don't kill any of them next year!

xoxo,

Family Room Furniture!

Hurray for our tax refund finally coming through! And what did we spend some of our money on?

FURNITURE! (obviously)

We aren't keen on the color I painted the family room walls, so they will most likely change this summer. But in the meantime, here is our current living room set up, with our new sofa, love seat, and new rug.

I love the color of the sofas. It is the same color as the flowers in my floral patterned couch in the living room, so it ties the rooms together.

The patterned pillows came with the couch, and they are okay... but they'll be leaving us soon, replaced with something much cooler (I have ideas... I will share later).

And next on my list of things to do: Something on the walls. In every room. Our walls are bare, despite having moved here back in October. Shameful, I know!

xoxo,

Hey! Where'd I go!

So, I never had the expectation that this blog would be regularly updated because

1.) We spent all of our moolah buying the house and have to save, save, save in order to have more to decorate.

2.) I'm not one of those people who enjoys wet and cold winter weather... so I'm waiting for spring to get back into the swing of things.

3.) My kids are holy terrors who have wreaked mass destruction on my decorating projects*

*slight exaggeration... my 3 year old did spill an entire can of white paint, which was supposed to go on the dining room walls, but ended up all over our hard wood floors... but other than that, they've been good girls.

But the weather outside is not quite as frightful as it was last month, and in only a few weeks, we'll get our tax money back from the government... and then I'll be back!

Until then, thanks for visiting, and hello to my followers!

xoxo,

I'm Ready For Spring...

But West Texas obviously has other ideas...

Days like today make me so homesick for California... but I can't deny how happy it makes me to see my girls enjoy the snow so much!

PS, this is Gracie's very first snowman. His name is... are you ready for this?

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FROSTY! (bet you didn't see that one coming...)

xoxo,