The girls' birthday is coming up at the end of February so it's time to start planning their party. I bought two Groupons to a party supply store in Redmond that I have to use on two different days (but I'll end up getting $40 worth of stuff for only $20, whereas the same $40 worth of stuff would have cost me $30 if I'd have only bought one Groupon), so we went today for round one. The girls of course chose two different themes: Tangled (Olivia) and Spongebob (Kayley). Interesting combination, but letting them each pick whatever they wanted was the only fair thing to do.
It's time for this week's Show Us Your Life, brought to you by Kelly's Korner , and this week it's dining rooms. We have a very open floorplan, so when you walk in our front door the dining room is to the right and the living room to the left, with the fireplace straight ahead. It's basically all one big room. I bought the table and sideboard at Dania when I bought my first condo back in 2002. It looked great in that condo, but for this house I wish I had black dining room furniture. The table and sideboard are the same color as the trim, and then with the white walls (although we finally got one wall painted) it's just so blah. And like most other rooms in the house, we have yet to hang curtains (not that we're going to hang them in every room, but we have yet to hang any). Looking in from the kitchen. Need curtains! Looking in from the living room. Notice the plastic protector underneath, for when the kids throw their sp...
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