a little ride

the weather was beautiful at the beginning of the week – i heard a lot of people calling it a "fake fall." seriously, in the 60s in the early morning. gorgeous, really. jeremy saw that it wasn't going to rain for at least three days, so he stripped the jeep down...

and mr. cayden got to experience the real jeep ride for three whole days...

farmers market

even though we've all been a little under the weather at the allen household (yes, cayden brought something else home from daycare!), we decided to try out the farmers market this morning. we drove a good half hour to the east lake farmers market.

a little bit of a drive? yes, maybe so, but honestly, we were going so that we could meet up with our good friend, mopsy. we hadn't seen her in ages, and well, i thought it would be fun to be outside (cause it was beautiful) and i thought cayden might enjoy it.

we ended up having a wonderful time, and were even able to hop over to mopsy's house for a little bit and get caught up. we picked up some good veggies while we were out and are looking forward to cooking them up over the week.

i even managed to get a little sunshine on my shoulders! and i promise jeremy was there... he just didn't make it into any of the photos...

three months old

another before and after

when we decided to list our house last spring, we (quite) obviously didn't have a baby. so our before of this shot is completely different. not only did my parents lose their place to sleep, any other friends that came to visit also lost their place to sleep (no worries though, our sofa is a sleeper – look for it in a post in a few days).

anyway, the before is a true guest bedroom. the after, is our nursery. and most of my after shots have been taken at night, so there's not a whole lot of natural warmth in them... but you'll get the idea nonetheless.

we've had the nursery done for a few months time, but there were a couple things that needed to be touched up in there in order to get it ready to list. so here's our completed after (and really, if you've followed this blog for any length of time, you already know what it looks like...)

first completed home project...

... in the quest to get our house ready to put it on the market, we took a look around and decided that some things needed to be done. some rooms just needed a simple de-cluttering, and others were going to need a little bit more.

we've finished our first project: repainting the master bedroom

and well, with new paint came new bed linens. and then we needed new artwork on the walls...

with that said, we're pretty happy with how it's turned out. the wall color is a lot more neutral (while the bedding is not; but i'm in love with the bedding). we took an art gallery approach to hanging artwork. (the artwork is framed prints that jeremy and i took, and one special one from my great friend, tom – thanks again!)

thoughts? anything constructive is nice... and we thought about hanging something over the bed, but really couldn't find any frames we liked, and the original piece of artwork no longer worked in there – no worries, it's moving to the nursery. (btw, jeremy did the artwork that was hanging above our bed – if anyone is interested, he does a great job at a decent price. hmmm, a new blog post at some point, perhaps?)

ok, on with the show... here's our before and after: