( almost ALL decor in my home is from Marshalls. I am such a believer in that place! )


Notice the tag on the bottom of the cake plate.
I left that there on purpose for a "real life" feel HA.
I ALWAYS wait about a week or so to take tags off.
I think it's so helpful to bring decor home and display it in your home to see how you feel about it after a few days.
There have been decor items that I absolutely LOVED in the store and after a few days of having them in my home I realized I didn't care for them as much as I thought I did HA.
( P.S. I WILL be taking the tag off of this cake platter. I love it )

Simple and bright. My kitchen makes me happy.

Happy Friday All!

XO

This whole building process has been a little surreal to us.

Now that it's coming to a close it's been so fun to look back on the last 5 months.

We had our FINAL walk through yesterday with our builder
( basically just 3 hours of lots of manuals of how to work the place HA )
and in one week, we get to officially make this house a HOME!
( I cannot believe we move in next weekend! )

Rewind time a little..

During Aaron's final months of Law School we looked into the option to build our first home.

For months we researched and went to model home after model home after model home.
With this being our first home, we budgeted both options of buying an existing home vs. building etc.

After lots of research, we found the area we wanted to live in and found a little floor plan that fit our stage of life perfectly.
 But somehow things just kept getting in the way and we kept pushing it back and pushing it back.

Fast forward a few more months and a couple too many bumps on the road of pregnancy :) ...
Aaron knowing my state of mind called me one day and said,
"Sweetheart. Let's do it. TODAY. Let's sign the papers and let's build this thing!"

One of THE BEST decisions we ever made.

Aaron knew we both needed something to keep our minds busy and not focus on the "complicated parts",

so that's just what we did.

That night we went and chose a floor plan, chose a lot, picked a builder and signed the papers.
Boom boom boom boom.

( Ryan at his future stomping grounds ^^ )

We got home really late that night and I remember being a little shocked, we both looked at each other like
"wait... did we just do that?!"

Next thing we knew we were in the design center feeling slightly overwhelmed HA. ^^

I had a color scheme in my head and knew EXACTLY what I wanted.

I wanted a bright, light, clean lined, and cozy looking home.
 I really wanted that to come across through the colors I chose.

Of course, with this being our first home and wanting to be selective of where we spent our money, we picked and chose where to upgrade.

( still no cabinet knobs and a few other things but it's coming! ^^ )

Because we are having to get a lot of new decor and some new furniture for this home, I have been raiding Marshalls Homegoods and TJ Maxx!

Decor and furniture have been piling up in our garage!
Ha needless to say, my husband is obviously thrilled to come home from work and see my new finds taking up garage space :)
I'm so excited to see how it all comes together!

As far as kitchen details and home details, colors, etc. I promise I will get to all of those!

I will be picturing it as it gets clean / decorated and as we get settled :)
Ryan asks me every day "New house mommy?" So, we made a paper chain.
8 links and counting until he can run around and tear the place up for good :)
So excited.

It's a little dreamy over here.

My mom is pretty INCREDIBLE when it comes to decor and I'm obsessed with every little part of her house!

I keep telling her she should open a business and decorate for a living.
Because being a mom to 6 kids isn't busy enough ;)

She's one of those people with a knack for everything.
Cooking, Decorating, Putting outfits together, shopping, working out, eating healthy, ETC..

You name it. She's good at it.

You could say she's my hero,
but that would be an understatement.

I took a few shots of some of my favorite areas!

I'm LOVING all the white, silver and gold, and the slight accents of red.
It's a beautiful, clean look and it's so elegant!

I will just let the pictures do the talking.

I have to chime in and say that the candles are my favorite part.

So we have our normal margarita and BBQ chicken pizza that we do.

Which is incredible.

However this time we decided to add a bonus to the menu and do a few dessert pizzas along with it!

We made a "base" to go on each dessert pizza.

My dad mixed some cream cheese and powdered sugar in a mixing bowl.

No exact measurements just until it tasted mega good :)

After cooking the crusts ( with nothing on them ) for a few minutes in the pizza oven

we spread a light layer of that "base" cream cheese / powdered sugar mixture. 

Then for the first dessert pizza we added some Reeses Peanut butter cup on top of the cream cheese mixture,

and then some graham cracker crumbs.

Followed by some marshmallows.

I don't think I have ever tasted anything better.

Again, cream cheese / powdered sugar mixture for the base, then fresh cut peaches,

and graham crackers to finish it off.

 Cooked it for a few more minutes in the pizza oven and BAM.

Peach heaven.

Here's to dessert pizzas and the happiness they bring to my mouth!

I will be trying this in my oven ASAP!