Stuff Portrait Friday

"Welcome to Stuff Portrait Friday, which is usually brought to us by the lovely and talented Kristine, but this week is being babysat by the lovely and talented Kami. With Valentine's Day just around the corner, we are going with a love theme this week:

~ What you love most about your home
~ What you love least about your home
~ What you love most about yourself "


Here's what I love most about my house. To be honest, I love my house (despite some decorating challenges) so it was hard to pick just one thing. I love our backyard:

It was like heaven when we first moved in here b/c our last house had a yard the size of a matchbox. This one is nice and big with some trees and space for a playscape for the kids and a nice sized sandbox. Feb. isn't the best month to get a great photo, but this one shows the nice big open space. I also love that you can see most of it thru the windows in the kitchen, family room and from windows upstairs too. So, I can stay inside and get stuff done while the kids play outside and still watch them:

Yes, that's the new paint job in the kitchen. I love it too. There are some before pics here. Much better.

Here's a view of the windows in the family room. They look out into the backyard also:

What I love least about my house would have to be this bathroom:

It has got to be on record somewhere as the world's smallest full bath. I thought it wouldn't matter when we moved in and I'm sure when the boys are older it won't, but right now it drives me nuts. It's sooo hard to give the kids a bath b/c it's so cramped in there.

I've been down on myself lately so I had a hard time w/ #3 - what I love most about ME. Finally decided that, although I'm desperately in need of a good manicure, that I really do like my hands. Always have. They're big, not small and dainty and it makes me feel really capable of taking on the world. Even when they're aren't nicely manicured:

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