A little clean up.

First of all, I have really enjoyed having this blog  and just wanted to say thanks to my family and friends that read it  : )  Its been a great outlet for me and fun place to chronicle our happenings and my thoughts.

So, I wanted to let you know I've been trying to do a little clean up here and there.

The first and most exciting one to me was adding the "labels" feature to my blog. It was always frustrating to me when someone would ask about what we've been doing lately to the house or something and I'd have a great picture to show them from the blog.. only to find out I couldn't find it because I'd have to scroll through a million posts to find the one I was looking for. Solution: labels. I went back and put a label on every post (all 131 of them - I passed my 100th blog post milestone and didn't even realize it!). So now if you are looking for posts about a specific thing like "Farming" or "Our Home", this will make it a lot easier. Maybe someday I can make it more detailed but for now that's great to me!

Second is I changed out the pictures on our header. Like?  : )  I wanted to incorporate an updated picture of Zeb that I love and a new picture of Kanyon and I.

Third, I went back and cleaned up our pages. Those are the different areas of the blog you can go to. See the box to the right that is titled "Pages"? I edited and added more to the More About Us page and just edited the Pictures page a little.

I'm working on adding a blog roll back onto my blog. I originally had one and then took it out because my Blogger Profile included one anyway but I'd like to put it back in.

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Hope yall have a great weekend! I am heading to Abilene in about 30 minutes. A couple of my best girl friends are leaving for long term mission trips in Africa and in South America. I'm so excited for them! That will make 4 of Kanyon and I's best friends living long term in another country for missions. Sweet.

So we are having a girl's weekend and a few of us are coming in for a fun weekend to say goodbye before they leave. Nothing fancy, just eating out, laying out by the pool and hanging out. Sounds perfect!

Guest Room

I have lately been eye-ing our guest room.
I'm really ready for a change.

And before you think I'm being wasteful because we just moved in and we just did that room - you can just calm down because nothing in that room is new. Every bit of it besides the bed frame, which is from my childhood room at my parent's house, is stuff that I bought in college. And I'm tired of it.

BUT I also am not looking to do a major over-haul. I want to keep the furniture (brass bed, cherry dresser, and vintage green chair) and the wall color. Because I am a practical person. And its still great furniture. And my mom would shoot me if I ever decided I didn't like the brass bed anymore because my granny gave it to me. Don't worry, Mom, I love it.

So here's what it looks like now.

The first thing that needs to change in this room is the lighting! The harsh white light make the room too bright. I googled "warm green rooms" and found this image from makefive.com:

This is much more the feel that I'm going for. Warm and rich. Not bright and juvenile.

The next thing to go is the window treatment (see above). Right now I just have a hastily placed denim curtain that went great in my college bedrooms. But it doesn't look great as a single panel by itself. I still don't know where I want to go with that. I am pretty sure though that I want to buy a curtain rod that extends wider than the actual window to make the window seem bigger. And what comes along with that is the closet "doors". Right now I have the same denim panels covering the closet as the window. The closet in that room was built on at some point and didn't have doors on it when we moved in. When you look at the above picture of the bed, look left and thats the closet. So I'll need some solution for that, too.

I really like this photo for inspiration from wellappointedhouse.blogspot.com:

I have thought long and hard about buying a white bedspread like the one above to tone down the rich colors in that room BUT as much as I like the picture above - I don't think I want to do a stark white bedspread. But I like this picture because it shows how great the wood and the dark colors on the wall decor look with the green.

So today when I was brainstorming about the room, I remembered that Mom had once let me have a bunch of fabric that she had loved but couldn't find a place for in her home. It has always reminded me a lot of these rugs that I love at Target::

The fabric that I have though, has more black and green in it, though. And I am a big fan of mixing black and brown. So the above design is my inspiration for this room. I think I want to get a tan bedspread like this, also from Target...

(sorry, this is the best quality picture I could get but.. its not like it has much detail anyway..)

And a pair of shams like this (again from Target)...

I think these will be a shade darker than the walls. And then make a few throw pillows out of the inspiration fabric and maybe a valance for the curtains. I'm thinking maybe some breezy curtians to hang under the valance?


P.S. I have been going back and adding "labels" to all of my posts. This will allow anyone (mostly me) to go back and easily find a previous post with out having to scroll though a million posts to find it. There will be a list of various subjects (like Our House, Zeb, etc) where you can click and see all the posts with that specific label. Its just taking a while though!
UPDATE: I finished the labels! See the sidebar on the right for a list of subjects you can go directly to.

Sunset in the Country

I love my fancy camera. It makes up for all my lack of knowledge of photography!

I love getting the chance to go to work with Kanyon. It usually only happens on the weekends because by the time I get home from work, I'll probably have something else going on. But on the weekends, I can usually jump in the truck with him and Zeb and go to the fields.

Last Sunday, we were in no hurry so we had fun finding beautiful picture shots while we were checking water. Its pretty hard to not take a great picture out here!

 I love this man.

 Winter wheat.

 Its so nice to come out here after being inside my office all day.

 The benefit of not having buildings where you live.

 His favorite spot in the whole world!