Finally, a Sunny Day in Seattle!

Today was the first sunny day we've had in Seattle in a long time! Mom even asked me yesterday on the phone if we've been surviving the cold weather we've had in Seattle--I had to break out my wool winter coat again last week. Thank goodness for sun! I was starting to forget what sunshine looks & feels like...

We've had a busy few couple of weeks. Last weekend, Barry & Cindy were in town. They were helping us with a few things around the house, and we all helped out at Steph & Dan's new house.

Here's our new ceiling fan that Barry installed in our bedroom. Chelsea is in heaven, she loves ceiling fans! This one is nice too because it has a reversible feature, which helps keep the heat down during the winter. We love it!

He also installed a new toilet in our guest bathroom. When we bought the house, the inspector noticed a hairline crack in the toilet and although it wasn't leaking yet, he recommended getting it fixed. So here it is! I know, it's kind of weird to take a picture of a toilet, but I'm so impressed with Barry (and his hard-working assistant Chelsea) for installing it!

Here's our first day at Steph & Dan's house last Saturday morning. Friday night, we discovered the sweet hand knocker on one of the front doors. We were joking about it being a little Addams Family when the stager for the sellers came and knocked on the door--we all looked at each other and Barry says "It's the hand!" as we all started laughing. Hilarious! Chels is not too big of a fan of it, but I think it could be cool on the right door. Cindy said she could see it on an old Victorian style house, definitely!

Here are the Toby women, getting started putting contact paper in the drawers and cabinets in the kitchen. The new house has a big, beautiful open kitchen. It has room for a kitchen table, has a sliding glass door out to the patio, a window seat (I'm so jealous, I LOVE window seats!), and a bar counter that looks out into the living room.

Steph & Dan, the happy new homeowners!

We painted their master bedroom a soft light blue, much to Stephanie's delight. It was previously a burnt orange color that the sellers had painted it before putting the house on the market. Blue is much more soothing. Steph said she couldn't sleep in an orange room--it was a little bright!

Here's Chels hard at work with the primer. This was good practice for us because we are going to paint our TV room as soon as we get rid of the hideous sofa we have in there now. We got a sleeper sofa from one of my bosses last summer for free--she was moving into a smaller home and down sizing. Well, since it was before we bought this house, Chels and I thought it might be nice to have a sleeper sofa as additional guest room space in our future home. Unfortunately, this one was just too big for our new place. Not to mention that the fabric is a loud 90's print, which would have been fine with a slipcover, but it's a good 10" too big so it has to go. We'll post pictures as soon as we have that room together, I can't wait!

Here's poor Dan with his head stuck up in the ceiling! As the new washer and dryer were being delivered, we ran into a little hiccup with the hookup. Apparently the previous exhaust hose was not the correct material (it should be metal), so Dan got his first taste of new home housework--he and Barry got to cut through the sheet rock to remove the old plastic hose and replace it. Barry made at least one trip to Home Depot each day, and they were only here Thursday night through Monday!

Dan is a little dirty but smiling after a job well done! Great job guys!

After all of our hard work last weekend, we went out to a nice family dinner Sunday night. Steph and Dan recommended Seastar Restaurant & Raw Bar in Seattle, it was great! http://www.seastarrestaurant.com/

Here's Chelsea's dinner, yum!

Sushi for the rest of us. It was delicious!

We had a fun, albeit busy, weekend last week, but it was fun! Steph & Dan's moving truck comes today, so I'm sure we'll have more updates soon. Barry & Cindy, next time you come to visit Seattle I hope it will be to relax. We appreciate all the hard work you've done for us!

This weekend is a little more low key for us. Today, we had brunch at Grandpa's with cousin Claire & Sean. They made homemade waffles and they were delicious!

Sean is the master chef

Claire displaying the fresh waffles, yum!

Everyone is enjoying the waffles

Here's an action shot of Chels--I told her to smile, I should have known this is what I would get... We had a nice time at Grandpa's. When we go over to visit, Grandpa usually has out an old family photo album or two to share with us and further our "continuing education" on the Nunneley family history. Today, we saw Grandpa's baby book and Aunt Cathy's. We also saw an album where Chelsea's parents were really young, where her Dad was graduating from law school, and Uncle John had long hair when graduating from college. They were so fun to look at!

Last but not least, we have a few pictures of Kitten snuggled up with her stuffed animal friends on the guest bed.

So cute!

More Pictures of Our New Place!

Oh my, I can't believe it's taken this long to put up more pictures of our new place! Well, it's hard for me to show pictures when we're still in transition, but I guess we'll just have to post pictures later after everything is finished and looking gorgeous.

Here's the dining room & living room, we have curtains, yay! Things are definitely coming together in these rooms.

We're doing a gallery of family pictures in the dining room over the buffet. It's about half-way complete. I love it already!

Here's the half bath on the second (main) level, where the kitchen, dining, & living rooms are. All we've done so far is hang up one print...the red was not our color choice, it may have to go!

Here's a shot of the guest bedroom/office on the third level. As you can see, we're still in the process of getting this space organized.

This room was also painted prior to our moving in, and coincidentally Chelsea's desk happened to be blue as well. So this has become quite a blue room!

This is the guest full bath on the third level. We're happy about the granite counter-tops, and the nice tiling.

This is the hallway leading into our master bedroom. We have a full bath with a good sized linen closet off of it.

And we each have our own closets! How exciting! I think I was mostly excited about this, whereas Chels was glad my clothes couldn't "crowd" her side anymore.

Here's our bedroom

A shot from the other side, looking down the hall with the guest room at the end. Our laundry machines are at the top of the stairs, hidden in a pretty good sized closet. We're thrilled to have nice, new laundry machines in our home!

Here's our master bathroom. Chelsea was as happy about the double sinks as I was about the separate closets--apparently she was crowded before while brushing her teeth! Ha ha, the things you find out later...

Another shot of our bathroom.

So there it is! It's still a work in progress, but we're having fun decorating our first home together. Can't wait to have our first visitors of our family & friends to come and see it! We're planning to have a housewarming party sometime in the near future, cross your fingers for us that we get our act together before 6 months has flown by :) Thank you to everyone who has sent cards and well wishes for our first home, they are all very sweet. We love our new place and will keep you all updated!