5-5-5 Challenge

Tara of http://familyrowell.blogspot.com/ challenged me as one of her 5-5-5 which is taking the 5th picture from your 5th file of pictures (on your hard drive) and writing about that. When I first read her post I was wondering what my 5th folder, 5th picture would be. You see we have a TON of pictures on our external hard drive and it could have been just about anything! I was kind of worried it would be something really stupid to be honest- like one of those shots where Nate decides to make a bug-eye face just to annoy me? (Nate-love you but you know you do). Well it wasn't- it was actually a picture of our kitchen in our house before we did anything to it. Actually we had already stripped the wallpaper in this photo. What a fun job that was. My mom and I worked on that for a few days. I will paint you a picture of what the wallpaper looked like- imagine shades of brown, greens and yellowish birdcages and vegetables wrapped in one theme? Fabulous I know. The kitchen was also decked out in green plastic Homart tile from the 50's. We had to gut the room due to this. The bathroom in our house had pink Homart tile too- that actually was our first renovation project. Well, we had help on our kitchen. My friends brother-in-law actually did the remodel for us. Well worth it!
Anyway, This leads me to tell a little about our house. It is a little ranch house in a quiet neighborhood of Madison. It was gem in the rough when we bought and the market was hot (in 2006) so we jumped at the chance and a lot of renovations after looking at probably 50 homes. We actually bought the house from the original owner. The house was circa 1954 but had potential. Since then we have updated and remodeled every nook and cranny besides the basement. I think all the renovations have been worth it because we made it our house and finished things to our liking and I am proud of our little first house. It sad to think that we are outgrowing it by leaps and bounds daily but it will always have a special place as our first owned home together and the house where we had Finley.

Our Kitchen before


Our Kitchen Today (Literally,this afternoon)



So now I challenge... hmmm. I don't have 5 friends that blog. There are a few of my friends whom have wanted to start a blog and haven't- you know who you are. Well, I challenge Kelli C as she just started blogging. And maybe some girls on Facebook would like to post theirs up there- We will say Leslie, Trish W, Erin P and Hilary...

Another quick note that I'd like to add. My neighbor brought over a lasagna tonight! How nice was that? You see we hired her husband to remove the snow from the driveway and front steps while Nate is away. There is no way Finley lets me have an hour to go use the snowblower so this was imperative. She just wanted to help me out since she knows Nate will be away. She understands having a 2 year old son herself. I am really feeling the neighborhood coziness today! Thanks neighbors!!