Our humble abode

I never thought that I would develop a green thumb, but I guess the desire to "not have that house" on the street that everyone complains will decrease their property value has instilled a new interest in landscaping. Not to mention I'm obsessed with HGTV. I get such a thrill sitting on our back deck, with an icey pop in hand, admiring the view after having mowed, edged and weeded our yard. There is pretty much a 12 hour window where the yard looks it's best before the weeds start growing again...darn humidity! It works out to about one full day of yard work a week (it goes a little quicker when Nick is around--makes me appreciate his presence even more!) Oh the joys of home ownership! At least I get a break in the wintertime :-P...

Nick actually bought our home when he finished up flight school in 2004 and "bached" it up with roommates until I showed up. As you can imagine, my standards are slightly higher (did I say higher? I meant different :-P) from Nick and his buddies. Needless to say, I called in back-up (Mom and Kris) and we sterilized the house while Nick was deployed in 2005. Since then, we've invested copius amounts of blood, sweat and tears (Ali tears--Nick doesn't have any tear ducts) into making this house our home.

I figured that I would share some pictures of our home for those of you whom we haven't had the pleasure of hosting...That way you have some visual of our Horn family headquarters. :-)


Home Sweet Home (you can kinda see the awesome fence that my rock-star hubby built!


My mom arranged my beautiful planters on her last trip out! I've kept them alive so far!


Our family room (note: Don't be swayed by the beautifully flawless white couches in all of the Pottery Barn adds. In our home, with two very active, and sometimes muddy dogs--we keep ours covered most of the time :-P). Nick reminds me that he told me so regularly.


Our eat-in kitchen, the rest was too small to picture-our next home will for sure have a bigger kitchen!!


The "man" room quickly becoming the "family" room, much to Nick's chagrin.


Our room--also difficult to photograph given the size :-P


Your home away from home ;-D


Emmy's room--still a work in progress!




I have a new-found appreciation for miracle-gro that stuff is amazing!


One of our crab apple trees in the back- I was feeling artistic with our new camera ;-)