Jacob finally finished the bar stools yesterday. Or rather, started and completed this project yesterday. It was a lot simpler than he had planned on it being. Just to give you a little hint on how long we've been waiting, the color of the chairs was the whole reason I repainted my kitchen back in January of 2008. I love my house!
So now that we have extra seats for eating and plenty of extra beds, there is always room for holiday visitors!?
Every September, It's like I'm a little kid waiting for Christmas to come. Fiestaware comes out with it's new color. It's something I look forward too. This year was Ivory. I was hesitant on buying it, I even think I told Betsy I wasn't going to buy it this year and maybe find a different color. But then, when I saw them at Dillards yesterday.....I changed my mind. Ivory actually looked okay. 
Jake started this trend when he bought me nine settings for Christmas in 2003. I would have to add, this has probably been one of my favorite gifts of all time. Since then I've added five colors. I want to keep this tradition going although what do you do when you have 25 plates, bowls, cups, and so on? I guess I will worry about that when we come to it. Jake told me I have until I can't fit anymore plates in the cupboard. But.....
As you can see, with 14 plates, it's only a little past half full.
