dining room progress

Before. This was taken when we first moved in.

Work in progress!

We cut down our bar height table, and I ordered new chairs last night.

These are the chairs I ordered for the table

I'm going to sand and paint our bar stools so they look like this

and I'll finally be purchasing this pillow to go in the ghost chair!

After this, I'll hopefully be able to say that we have one room completed in our house!

roswell, NM (road trip pt. 4)

Roswell, NM was the final stop on our road trip. Here are a few pictures from our day:

Alien Zone. A hot, stinky place you can use to take pictures with aliens.

 This was the sweetest little guy at the Roswell zoo. He came right up to the gate so you could pet him.

 Free train ride. I'm pretty sure it was for kids, but that's OK.

 Free carousel ride. Of course we had to!

 Spacewalk. Definitely that coolest thing we did in Roswell.

 Our road trip buddy (and Toby's new toy).

Good news: I'm down three pounds on the first week of my diet, with only 7 more to go!

carlsbad, NM (road trip pt. 3)

Our second stop on our trip was to Carlsbad Caverns, and then to the city of Carlsbad, NM. We loved the caverns, but the city not so much. This was the least adventuresome of our adventures.

Picture you take when tourist are waiting in line to take their picture by the sign

Picture you take after everyone has left

 We took the King's Palace tour

Ranger Gary was awesome. He told the best stories and said pho-TEE-graph pretty much every other word. 

All of these formations were enormous

One of the original ladders used by the explorers in the 1920's

The best part of Carlsbad the city was our little hotel, The Trinity.

We went to see The Avengers at the drive-in.

 I fully expected to fall asleep during this movie, but it was actually pretty good!

Tomorrow I'll post pictures from our last stop in Roswell, NM. It was definitely an interesting place full of some interesting people.