Our first guests and this week's fun

Last weekend we enjoyed the visit of our very first house guests! They are friends of Quijote's and it was so fun to share our home with them. They also came bearing gifts! I'll be making some fried okra this weekend ... yumm...

But I digress. Here they are, how cute is this?

We took them to the Palo Duro Canyon (thus the crude joke. You'll have to excuse us, we're all toddlers in this house of late).

And there was merriment, music, and great food (yes, Quijote cooked) as well as a late night or two of crazy fun conversation.

It was pretty great :)

In  preparation for their arrival, we went on a crazy cleaning spree (and miraculously kept the house clean for long enough to take some pictures) so here are a few pics of what the place looked like before they came. I've made some changes already, so some of it doesn't look like this anymore, but for the sake of recording the process, here we go:

I'm almost done with the kitchen!! YAAAY! though Im taking a break from it for now...

I took this close up picture of the Old White cabinetry because I'm relieved it's a good match, but I think I might still darken it with another wax coat and even distress it a little. It looks very crisp- which can be good, of course, but I dunno... Im kinda digging the "lived in, has a history" sort of look these days... so... we'll see what happens haha!

This week we did some work and went out for the first time (in search for our next brunch place, and it was okay, but not *the* place)...

And I set up my desk out by the entryway. By which I mean to say that poor Q moved it around the entire house for an hour before I could be convinced to try this out... I want to be out where I can work during the day. I worked at night before (and I still have to a lot) but am trying to do more during the day and less in the crazy hours of the night. We'll see if that works ;) And of course the kids had to give it a trial run. It was so cute.

Today Q and I worked around the yard and he moved the mums from the garden box into our pots so we can plant actual food stuffs in the back :)

Look at all that spaaaace!!!!

And that's what we've been up to lately :)