A Facelift & Some House Updates

My blog finally got a little makeover this weekend 

thanks to the sweet and lovely Brooke from Bright Wishes. 

I kinda gave her free reign as far as the design goes,

except that I wanted something clean and simple
And I think she delivered.

I'll be updating the about me & our family sections sometime this week :)

In other news, we've been checking things off of our
"to do before baby" list pretty regularly these days.

We had a bunch of small house and decorating projects
that we've been wanting to do for months

and there's nothing like a baby on the way to light a little fire under your butt.
It's hard to believe almost a year has gone by since we moved in to our first place.
My, how things have changed!

First up, our dining room.
If you remember months and months ago,
I gathered some inspiration for a plate wall.
It took a little while to form my collection
but I think it was worth the wait.

A close up of the plate wall
And the view of the dining room from the breakfast nook.
We would like to eventually add a buffet under the large wall mirror.

We added a couple end chairs to the dining room table.

The chairs are from Pier One and I love how the compliment the colors
in our Pottery Barn rug.
I'm thinking of possibly continuing the plate wall theme
in that empty space on the wall on the right.
What do you think?

Tomorrow I'll share some living room updates.
It took us almost a year, but we finally have some furniture in there!