Let there be (kitchen) light!

We've been in the house for a couple months now, and as quickly as we moved in and unpacked, we have really taken our time with making the house ours. I personally think that it's because we've been under so much stress in the last year that it's been really nice to just come home, crash on the couch, and chill. The other day a coworker said to me, "So have you started decorating and really making it look like you live there?" I could tell by her face that she was not expecting me to say no. I wasn't offended, but it did get me thinking that maybe it was about time.

Last weekend Alex and I really went all out with our art. Our frames literally had not moved since we'd first put them out of the way, so it was really nice to A) get them on the walls B) reclaim some floor space. My proudest accomplishment was *finally* getting some of our wedding photos into the frames we'd bought for them, and getting them a good spot in the living room.

Perhaps someday I will take a better picture, but Po is sitting on my lap right now so I can't get up to take one

Yesterday we went to a couple new antique stores. We're rarely looking for anything in particular, but it's always fun to find things that fit in the house. We ended up finding a hippo, a really pretty candle holder, and Chelsey and Landis's house. (The last one wasn't in a store, we found it with our GPS.) Having found a few things, I thought we were done doing house related things for the weekend, but no! I had completely forgotten that we'd mentioned looking at the awful florescent lights in the kitchen to see what it would take to get those out. (Note: I just looked through my old photos so I could have before/after pictures, and realized that I hated the old lights so much that I very carefully made sure to never get them in a picture. You'll just have to use your imagination.

As it turns out, they were not at all difficult to replace. We accidentally bought three separate fixtures when we bought the one for the dining room, so now the two extra fixtures have a home!