ON THE MARKET!!

BIG NEWS! our house is for sale. crazy right?! we are in the middle of GUTTING AND RENOVATING a house built in 1947, but that's a whoooole other story. i can't wait to share all that we've been up to. 

-We are located in West Farmington in the most amazing, kid/family friendly neighborhood EVER. I honestly can't believe we are even thinking of leaving our neighbors behind!

- Not only the best neighborhood, but the best street, right at the end of the CUL DE SAC. Heaven. 

Here's the basic info:

$299,000

3058 SQUARE FEET Rambler with fully finished basement

.24 acres          built in 2006

5 Bedrooms (or 4 + office)

2  3/4 bath

community park and pool (park only 4 houses down!)

MASTER BED/BATH

Lots of light, and space. To put it in perspective, our bed is a California king and there is still lots of space for the reading area (aka my cute book/camera collection + a chair i put laundry on. let's be honest).

 

 

 the bathroom has a separate room thingy for the throne, separate shower and garden tub, double sinks and walk in closet. 

KIDS ROOM/BATH

don't get me started on how much i will miss the Wayne's coating in lucy's room. my favorite!! and i love the giant windows, both rooms get amazing light. plus i just love the kids rooms, just because. 

KITCHEN/ DINING

i love the layout of the kitchen and i especially love that the cabinets go all the way to the ceiling. SO much added cabinet space!! And don't you hate trying to come up with junk to put in the annoying space between cabinets and ceilings?! Eww. Dusty. I also love the bay window in the dining area. 

LIVING ROOM

the living room is open to the kitchen and dining area, which is a must with kids!

FORMAL LIVING ROOM:

aka, my client meeting space! this room has been rearranged since this pic, but you get the idea. ;)

FULLY FINISHED BASEMENT

the basement in general is maybe my favorite part of the house! we designed and chose everything ourselves and the guy who did our finish work was amazing. i must say, there was a lot of attention to detail and i loved the outcome. ALSO. I'm veeeery particular about basements. I HATE dark dreary basements and ours is so light and happy! the windows are quite large and really the light is great all day. in fact i often do photo shoots of my kids against the grey walls, it's perfect light and looks very studio-ish. There is also a LARGE storage room and cold storage room!

PLAYROOM!!!!! this room is absolutely the best. it's a separate playroom but open to the theatre room (divided by the white columns. it also has french doors into the office so i can watch the kids play while i work. LOVE. LOVE. LOVE.


OFFICE
k, the decorating is a little sad at the moment, but it's very bright and a great work space. plus it has a giant closet.

THEATRE/FAMILY ROOM

I love this room. I love the pillars, i love the paint color, i LOOOOVE the fire place... don't get me started. plus it's giant and has big windows. 

As you can say there is basically a whole other room behind the sofa. I intended to have a reading are with a fun bookshelf and a homework/craft setup for the kids.

GUEST ROOM
large with great closet, and the window seat is awesome and lifts up for storage underneath! it looks narrow in this pic for some reason but it is actually quite deep.

BATHROOM:

square pedestal sink (love).

subway tile and seat in the shower (love).

black and white checked on the floor (double love). 

YARD

a great yard with TONS of landscaping, curbing along the entire house and back fence, lots of trees and perennials. 

NEIGHBORHOOD

We LIVE at our neighborhood pool in the summer. Literally. It might be the best thing that ever happened to us!

Great running and biking trails

I use these all the time too. Ok, I don't. But I would if I could ever get myself to go jogging! haha!

NEARBY

Just 2 MILES from  brand spanking new STATION PARK Harmons, HOME GOODS (eeeee!), great shopping and MOVIE THEATRE! Also just miles from Oakridge country club and Smiths Marketplace. 

Wellll, that's it! Want to move in? Call me if you have any questions or want to set up a showing 435.770.8966.
or call my husband (the actual realtor) Danny Kettle to go straight to the source. 801-699-3332.

the lake house

i just finished shooting 6 weddings in june and 6 in july - and after my 6th july wedding, i ran out of the reception and right into the car where my family was waiting for me. we drove all night strait to the lake house in sand point! i literally could not wait 5 more seconds to get there and have some down time with my family. here are some photos from today, we are having the BEST time. i. needed. this. more to come. ;)

a year ago today...

we met our sweet lucy for the very first time! i can't BELIEVE she's a year old already- on one hand it seems like she was just barely a new baby, on the other hand, it seems like she's been a part of our family for so long! looking through some of my old posts about my baby lady brought back so many memories of our first moments together as mother and daughter, introducing her to max, bringing her home from the hospital... it was such a whirlwind and so special. 

and look at her now, such a big sweet girl! she is such a good baby and so funny! she loves her big brother and brings us so much joy. i've just loved having a girl, lucy was my dream come true.

lucy girl, happy birthday! really, i can't even believe you are ONE.

i love you more than i can say. xoxo

i wear my sunglasses at night.

last week max got these killer sunglasses at noah's birthday party and man-oh-man, he's obsessd. 

not going to lie, i kinda am too! he's been wearing them every time we get in the car and then puts them on top of his head "wike daddy." i took these after we got home from the party at like 9 pm. he just cracks me up!

and my very favorite for last. i'm so smitten with my big boy.

third.

we are surprised and delighted to announce baby kettle number three!

14.5 weeks- current gestation
24 weeks- is how far along my belly LOOKS
2nd Trimester
16th of december - due date
16.5 months - age difference between lucy and baby three
53- number of seconds i was skinny before i got chubby again
7 weeks- how far along i was when we found out
2- seconds it took for that little test to turn positive. seriously.
48 - number of times mommy said "holy ****" after peeing on the stick. yes, it was a BIG surprise! ;)
1-2 - average number of daily puke sessions (note this number was MUCH higher in the first trimester!)
1st person to hear the news - Brittany (this is a good story)
2nd person to hear the news - Danny
100 - times we have heard the response "woooow, was this... planned...?" haha!

A MILLION times over the moon about this little addition!

baby loves

lulu girl is already 10 months. TEN. MONTHS! i seriously can't believe what a big girl she is! so busy and sassy. but of course sweet as can be too. I was comparing pictures of max and lucy at the same age and decided it would be fun to recreate this picture of max with lucy. 

 obviously they aren't quite the same, but you should know that lucy doesn't sit. 

ever. 

and that she also bit her bottom lip the WHOLE TIME. silly lady. ;)

and what do you know, max wanted to crash the photoshoot. and SHOCKINGLY i got a cute photo of the two of them TOGETHER! this is serious folks. and do you like his black feet? hehe!

do you think they look alike? people always say they are duplicates, but i actually think they look pretty different!

i'm alive. just sayin'.

hello, interweb. and interweb friends of course. ;) just wanted to pop in and let you know that we are like, alive and stuff. my little loves are as cute and funny as ever (oh, are they ever funny!) but sadly their mama is busy, over committed, and busy. and also busy. so when things are quiet around here, we are playing outside or snuggling or pretending, or something like that, and definitely, DEFINITELY not blogging. woops. i promise to update soon because i want to write down all the things my crazies are doing these days, but man, motivation is hard to come by right now!

be back soon. ;)
xoxoxo

Happy Birthday Old Lady!

Today is Jessica's Birthday!  She is getting Older.  I could go on and on about the fabulous lady!!!  

She is an Amazing one, that I hold really close to my heart.  Even 701 miles away (I googled that) she is always there for me.  

I love you Jess!  Hope you had the best day ever!  I promise that one day when we are just rolling in the dollar bills I will fly out for your birthday ever year.  Miss you girl!

Love, Britt

p.s.  I picked this picture of you because you look naked.  That may be the way I like you best, well me and danny! haha.  

p.p.s  I hope people get my jokes.

my lu.

i just came across some sweet pics of my lulu girl from back in january. i can't believe how much has changed in just a few months! but i adore her sweet baby face in these and i just had to share. so here's lucy, about 5 and a half months. 

now that she's a whopping 8 MONTHS (seriously?!) i have got to catch up on her current pictures and milestones. hopefully next time. 

i whip my hair back and forth.

sometimes,
in the middle of the night,
i get bored.
and can't sleep.
so my camera and i, we play.
on this particular 2 am episode, i decided to take some crazy pictures of my growing out crazy hair. like really, i sat there and shook my head all over the place.  at the time, i thought they were like, you know, DUDE. so artistic and deep and stuff. but i think everything seems that way in the middle of the night..?

then i woke up and realized they were sortof just fun and funny. and thats aight too. 

do you love that i look so serious?

haha, just be my friend in spite of it. 

today, we rode horses.

well, lots of important things are happening around this house. we are growing, changing, learning...
it's delightful.
busy, but delightful. ;)

but i thought you should know, that on friday night max got a very special gift from one of danny's clients. two horses that max named max & max.  the brown one is for max (they boy) the white one he generously offered to lucy.

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so today, he bathed them, blow dried them (yes, really),
and in between changing clothes and changing sheets

we rode horses.

happy weekend.