This is where we normall eat.  It’s the area off of our kitchen.  We do have a dining area, which is now taken up by Terence’s home office.  I would eventually like to get a dining set.  Actually, our wedding china from 11 years ago is still packed in the original boxes….yikes!

I would like a formal dining area someday and be able to unpack all that beautiful china.

The area across from the living area is what we call our “dining” room now….but it currently is our home office.

We have had our eye on the Benchwright table from Pottery Barn for a few years now.  Maybe one day we’ll be able to purchase it. 

And just because: This is some of the best eat’n you ever have!  This is how we do it in Arkansas on the farm 🙂  Fried tater, cornbread, ham, garden corn, baked beans, all the fixins…..Ahhhh I miss the farm!

There is Nannie in the background probably frying something up!

We hope you all have a relaxing weekend and chocolate popsicle wishes!!!!

Link up here at : Kelly’s Korner Blog

I’m linking up today with Kelly’s Korner show us your life series.  Today is living room day!  Yay!  I love to look around other people’s houses and see how they decorate.  Now that we have Pinterest I am constantly getting inspired…but inspiration is about as far as it gets these days! 

I  am not the best decorator, and I don’t like a lot of clutter.  I guess I would call our style traditional.  Some of my favorite places are Pottery Barn, Restoration Hardware, and Hobby Lobby.

As you look through the photos if you think of some ways we can decorate please comment that would be awesome because we can use all the help I can get! 

We planned on being in this house for at least 5 years.  When you buy your first home it’s an amazing feeling, you discover the things you love, and the things you don’t.  In our next house I know we want a separate office area.  Not everything has to be perfect and you can fix what you don’t like.  But the one thing I do know is I want a separate room for all our computer junk because it’s a crazy mess right now!

So without further ado here is our lounge area :

We picked up the three watercolor paintings while we were in Paris.  Our extra bedroom was a little bare on the walls.  We got them framed & I am really excited how they turned out 🙂

And best of all it’s all places we visited and it’s a great memory!

We are still working on Connor’s big boy room.  Slowly transitioning everything.  We also decided to take his twin bet out of the room for right now so he’d have more room to play with his cars. 

One recent change we made was replacing his bookshelf for a bigger one.  The black one is in his closet now for extra storage :

I also picked up this cute airplane book end from TJ Maxx.  It has a small nick on the corner so I got 10% off!  Always ask for a discount even if it’s only a minor defect.

Dillards had a huge sale this past weekend.  I got this map pillow that sort of goes with the theme.  It was only $9.  I’m not sure if I’m going to keep it in there or not yet???