Smith's Empty Nest

Friday, July 07, 2017

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Stephanie!

Dinner at Texas Roadhouse
then presents and desserts at our house!

I'm Baack! SPRING 2017 Kitchen make over and SHIPLAP!!

BEFORE

In Feb. we had the kitchen cabinets painted white!!! I love it!
We also went crazy with shiplap! We did a wall in our bedroom, and three walls in the dining room. We also made our first barn door!
LOVE my Fixer Upper House!

AFTER

Barn door and shiplap!

BEFORE

IN PROGRESS

AFTER

Monday, August 15, 2016

April - Sept and beyond......

At the beginning of 2016 mom's health was great! April brought a snowball of events that changed everything! She sneezed and lost half of her eye sight in one eye. A trip to the Dr. showed she had a blood clot in her eye and they called it a stroke. We started carotid artery tests and sure enough she had blockage. However, she started having heart attack symptoms and ended up in the hospital to get checked out. ( see picture) Her heart checked out strong...but, they discovered a spot on her lung! So...off to the Pulmonologist! After MANY diagnostic tests...Mom has lung cancer. Stage 1, requiring 5 treatments of radiation. That's where we are now. Getting ready to get that carotid surgery , that got cancelled due to the cancer discovery.
What a crazy few months!

Wednesday, August 03, 2016

New treasures from Waco

a wooden S from Clints

Metal g a t h e r from Jimmy Don

shiplap VINTAGE sign from Magnolia

Magnolia seed packets and the cute metal tray w/ measuring cups

my favorite cup

Happy Birthday, Kenny! # 67

Happy Birthday to this cute guy! Scott and Jenny were kind enough to go and pick up Del taco for Kens birthday dinner!!! We had tacos and burritos for days! YUM!
We enjoyed rootbeer floats and cookies and Ken opened his gifts! What a great way to celebrate!

Waco here we come!!!

OMG! We LOVED our trip to Waco!!! We met Jim & Shelley there and spent 5 fun filled days doing everything Chip & Joanna! We first spent the night with the Palmers. It was so great to see them again! Then we headed down the 35 S and arrived at the Post Oak RV and Cabins. Our little duplex was so sweet!
While in Waco we found as many Fixer Upper things that we could! We shopped antique store that Joanna shops, we met Jimmy Don!!! ( ya he hung with us for awhile) We saw Chip & Joanna's Farm house, we saw houses that they reno-ed on the show!! We even hunted until we founf the Shotgun house and the Barndominum!!!We spent the day at Magnolia at the Silos, Dr. Pepper Museum, Had lunch at In & Out, saw the Common Grounds coffee house( and their house too)

We celebrated Christmas and B-days too

We shopped, saw the B&B and Carriage House,AND....got our picture with a very flat Chip & Joanna! We shopped at HarpDesign.Co and saw their home! It was the BEST time ever!