Speaking of new things, our household finally got the rest of our Christmas presents over the weekend. Simeon and I didn’t really give each other anything for Christmas because we were planning on making a couple big purchases in the coming month. We got my new fridge a couple weeks ago and on Friday we got our new couch:
More pics are here. Once the couch was delivered, Nick and Simeon spent several hours rearranging our new “media” room. They set up our Bose surround sound, the 55″ TV, and allllll the components that come with it. And let me tell ya, it’s Fab. U. Lous. Totally in a three word way.
Then on Saturday we managed to pry ourselves off the new couch (how, I have no idea!) to attend my nephew’s basketball game. Emmitt is becoming quite the little athlete. With all the running, passing, dribbling, and shooting, we managed to take a couple fun shots. Check ’em out!
(He’s the one in red. Well, the one in red with the ball, anyway.)
Ooooh and for the second new in my title, Simeon made some changes in my photo gallery. I was getting quite tired of the pop-up window (as I am sure you were too!), so Sim and I brainstormed over lunch last week and together we created a whole new viewing process. It looks the same initially; once you select a gallery category you still see the thumbnails of the images, but once you click on a image to see it larger, it no longer opens in a new window. It opens in your current window AND (here is my favorite part!!) you can see the previous and the next images as well. I think this makes it easier to view through all the photos. Plus I just love the image preview. But for those of you who aren’t looking to see every single shot, you can still look from the thumbnails and pick the photo you want to see larger. Fun, huh? I am curious to see what you think, so let me know! Oh and this is just a hint of new things to come. Bwahahaha!
So comfy the wonderful couches!
Looks pretty nice! Can’t wait to see it! Mitch got our new TV all hooked up over the weekend. I wasn’t love at first sight for me but I think I’ll get used to it. I do like watching movies on it. My sister and I watched March of the Penguins last night and that was really neat on the big TV.
Mitch and I both have grades this week so won’t make it Wednesday night. We’ll be working – yuk! Have a super week!
Oh wow, I really like the new picture viewing stuff! That’s really slick…may have to show Barney… 😉
Ahhhh, makes much more sense now. I didn’t even think about putting the t.v. on that wall, as I thought Sim might try everything to keep the foosball table in that corner over there. 😉 Can’t wait to try it out!
very nice! looks totally comfy!
The TV is behind me in the pictures I took, on the wall with the door to the garage. We turned the whole room so the surround sound could be all around you, as is intended. We couldn’t do that with our old couch cause it didn’t have a back and needed to be against a wall. And yeah, there is about 3 feet behind the couch to the sliding glass door, you just can’t tell in the pic.
That’s quite the couch for that room! Wow. But I’m so confused. The couch is obviously pulled away from the sliding doors so that you can ge to them right? But where the heck is that big ol’ t.v.? On the wall where the couch used to be? It seems like the couch should be turned counterclockwise if that’s the case, shouldn’t it… Hmmmm, just trying to figure it all out. It’s hard when you can’t see it in person. Can’t wait to see it on Wednesday!