New blog pieces

If you look to your left you will notice a new part has been added to the blog. I have added a "Wildlife Watch Report" to log all of the wildlife that have decided to visit our home.

So the husband and I moved back to our home in March and since then it has been a crazy menagerie of animals visiting the front and back yards. It started with a pair of nesting Green Backed Heron, and then a set of three babies that made it to adulthood.

We have had a wide variety of birds in the back yard, but the most exciting are the woodpeckers...they are just too cool. This is a picture I borrowed of the Red Bellied Woodpecker and a Downy Woodpecker.

And then the piece de resistance of the last few weeks are the mammals. One night we had up to five of the raccoons in the yard and a few days later a opossum joined them. Now I apologize for the pictures but here is my raccoon.

So as you can see it is never dull in the yard. So I decided to include a list that will be updated as we find new friends of the animal persuasion!

How you enjoy the list and the pictures!

Mixed Emotions

This has been an interesting week when it comes to emotions. We (the husband and I) have several friends that are expecting babies. The first one had a healthy baby boy earlier this week. We are very excited for them and wish them lots of luck with the brave new world of having both a toddler and a newborn...hope they are not expecting sleep anytime soon!

Today was just the opposite, we have a friend that was pregnant with twins, and this morning she lost one of the babies. Luckily she and the other baby are still doing well, but our hearts are breaking for them. They moved away and so we can't even stop by and try to comfort them through this incredibly difficult time or offer any real help, just . I can't even fathom how you begin to deal with the emotional side of that kind of loss. I just want them both to know that we love them and will do anything we can to help during the extremely difficult time. Here is hoping that this in the last difficulty they will have with the pregnancy. They are in our thoughts and prayers.

Check back early next week for an update of the weekend trip to Corpus and Port A...

Ta Da!

Ok, so I have promised pictures, and I am finally delivering.  Sorry it took so long, but I had to download pictures and then remember to use the right computer to post them.  Enjoy the photo tour of our "new" house.

First we have the kitchen, which I love because the cabinets are beautiful with great tiny details and I have granite counter tops!!!  Very exciting.

We added the pendant lights and a bookcase to the peninsula the separates the kitchen and breakfast nook.

This is a look into the breakfast nook with our beautiful bay window.  You can also see the new living room furniture, this is one of my favorite new furniture purchases, because I really really disliked the husbands' coaches.  These ones are beautiful and probably the best napping coaches I have ever been on. 
Here is a view of the other side of the living room.  We purchased a new TV, it is a mere 52" flat screen...that was the husband's decision.  But I have to admit it is very nice.
Here is a look at the entry way.  That is a brand new beautiful mahogany front door that we found on Craig's list from a local door maker.  Not sure if you can see it but is has wrought iron scrolling with a Texas star in the center.  The secretary desk was a piece of furniture that we found at an antique store and worked on to refinish, including having it gel stained by the SIL.
This is our dining room.  The furniture is the same as we had before the storm.  The chandelier is new and wonderful.  We also installed a dimmer switch, so we have a very beautiful room of furniture and now it is well lighted.
Here is one of our favorite new rooms.  This is the room that has had the most design changes with regards to color and set up.  We decided not to go back with the plastic preformed shower/bath thing and instead put a nice and roomy stand up shower.  We also decided to give the room some extra space by placing a stand alone vanity instead of a built in sink and cabinet.  We think it turned out perfect.  It is like a little spa retreat in the house.

So that is most of our house...the hallway is painted and the master bed and bath are just about done.   Hope you enjoyed the tour and we look forward to showing you the house in person, next time you are in town.