kitchen: better late than never

We've been in this house for, ahem, a year and we haven't really done as many projects as I had imagined.  It's hard, it's overwhelming, and staying on top of 2 acres of yard is no small task when you are terrible at it.  Seriously, our yard is insane and needs so much work right now.  It also seems like every time we talk about a new project (bedroom furniture, new carpet) we are hit with a four-figure bill for removing a family of raccoons from the attic and repairing all of their damage.  I wish this wasn't true.  Seriously though, before we moved in, I imagined our weekends being like a Lowe's commercial: lots of smiling, laughing, and "after" pictures.

Yea.  What those ads don't show is all of the crappy prep work, moving the furniture and random crap that is everywhere in your house, and the endless clean-up work.  They don't show the times when your husband knocks a hole in the drywall with a hammer.  Twice.  I'm also not sure how these people have so much energy on a Saturday morning after working all week?  I feel like this is a more accurate representation of a Saturday morning:

Now we now have about six months to get some serious painting/decorating/general work done.  What can I say?  I have always worked better under a deadline.   One room that I wasn't able to deal with after we moved in was my pistachio-green kitchen.  My parents helped us repaint and I decorated that room last September.  Hooray!  One room down.  Only eight to go.

Kitchen/Breakfast Room: Before

Kitchen/Breakfast Room: After

A Bicycle (Key Rack) Built for Two

I have officially bought the first item for the house.  Huzzah!  While feeding the monster this weekend, I came across a pin featuring this awesome key rack from Etsy:

It's totes adorbs!  See, bicycles built for two (bicycle built for twos? whatever.) are an unofficial "thing" for me and Wes.  Actually, it might be an official thing.  It started at the beach in Hilton Head in 2008:

We were babies!  Just kidding, we look the same.  I still have those pants.  We have continued our tradition in St. Simon's:

 In case you are keeping score, doing something twice still counts as a tradition.  And in our defense, we intended to do it in Gulf Shores last year, but couldn't find a rental place and also it was raining and we may have spent too much time at the bar.  It's still a tradition, though!

Our awesome rehearsal dinner actually had a bicycle-built-for-two theme.  It was pretty great, and we scored this personalized print!  This may be hung over the key rack, who knows?  The possibilities are endless!