Updates...

In case you haven't noticed, we haven't done much on the house lately.  It's cold, James works odd hours, and excuse, excuse, excuse! 

We are getting excited though - we scrimped and saved and hired a contractor!  It's like a miracle!  Our front porch is really getting to a point where it needs to be rebuilt before it causes actual damage to the house - so we hired someone to come on in and rebuild it.  Since we live on a kind of busy road and never just "sit out there to think about life" - we decided to spend a little more to get it enclosed so we can have a mudroom of sorts.  I'm really freaked out by this because it might completely change the look of the house - and quite honestly, James and I both like the look of our house as is.  The only thing that we were really anal on was that the windows had to be regular windows - and even though the contractor told us that it would be more for the "real windows" - we didn't care.  I just wanted windows with the white panes in them to make the porch look more "part of the house" like. 

Construction is suppose to begin in 2-3 weeks.  Hopefully that doesn't fall through....That will be fun to take pictures of.

My "big" project I'm taking on this spring/summer is painting the shutters.  Currently, we have a light blue/grayish house with, I guess, Country Blue-ish shutters.  It's just too much blue.  I'm making James take down the shutters and I'm going to paint them a cranberry red.  I'm excited to get going on this - but I'm not going to do it until the porch is done. 

And that is all....