Our First House

So we bought a house today, and I am so so so so excited about it!  First, the process of buying the house ended up being a nightmare...I'll leave out all the details, but it was an ordeal!  It was the longest closing my mother/real estate agent has ever had to process, and we went through a roller coaster of hopes of purchasing the house and thinking we weren't going to get it for 2 months!  But today, we finally did!  So the rest of this will probably just be pictures of our new home.

The front of our home, minus the double garage... don't you love the carved Indian??  We were looking for a 3 bedroom ranch, but I liked this house's particular layout of the master bedroom to one side of the living room and the kids rooms to the other.

So this giant front window was truly the selling point of the home for me at least. I LOVE it! The carpets gotta go...oh, and that door is the door to the Master bedroom.  I'm standing at the entrance to the tiny hallway that leads to the kids' rooms.

The front door that leads to the kitchen.

The teeny tiny kitchen/dining room.  I took pictures because Tyler is beginning demo to take it completely apart.

These lights are TERRIBLE, and the asbestos tiles have to go as well. 

The island is a TOTAL waste of space, and the horizontal cupboards  are done very poorly as well as being pretty ugly. 

Last picture of the ugly kitchen.

The master bedroom, I like that there's so many windows, but they have to be replaced.  Also we have to take down the cheapo walls and put up drywall eventually.  I'm standing about where the door is to the half bath in our room. Super tiny, but nice to have our own bathroom space!  Also, all the rooms have ceiling fans, I love that.  Sorry the pic is so dark, took them all from my phone.  

Zeke's room, good sized, great sized closet.

Bathroom between the kids' rooms, small but alright for now, no major work needed, but the shower doors are definitely going to go.

Vi's room, also good sized, hard to show size on a pic...but it's bigger than Zeke's and is next to the sunroom.

Vi's closets!  The doors will come off the one on the left to be her doll house area, the middle will be for all the kids' books and the right will be for clothes and such.  Since we are losing a playroom these closets are great!

Sunroom, entrance from the Master bedroom...kind of weird, but I like the space.  Dislike?  No heating or cooling, but great little area!

Another of the sunroom, with Tyler and Vi.  This room is where her painting easel will live.

Into the backyard from the sunroom, it goes so far back..

...and so far to the left!  I also fell in love with this backyard!  It's HUGE, has a huge storage shed, and awesome trees.  The one to the left is a perfect treehouse tree, can't tell from this angle, but trust me... it's perfect.

Vi enjoyed tumbling and rolling around in front of the large window when checking it out today.
 

This chunky, smiling boy seems pretty happy with our new home too. 

 So that's pretty much it!  We will be staying at my parents while Tyler tears out the kitchen, but will be moving in while it gets remodeled.  So will be kitchen-less for a few weeks, but that's ok.  During this time, I'll probably have a Scentsy party that you are all invited to, and it will be a great chance to come see our home in person!

In the Process

So I haven't been on a computer in a while, just on my phone.  I definitely wasn't going to try to update a blog from my phone.  Why haven't I been on a computer? Well, because mine is in storage.  I am currently living with my parents- more on that in another post.   Although it's never 'ideal' to live with your parents, (especially when you're almost 30, married, and have 2 kids) I am incredibly thankful.   Even though I'm thankful, I am still living in a non child-proofed house with a 2 year old, and have run into a few challenges.

Why am I shut out with these dogs??

I'll just break the screen and use it as a doggy door!

So while doing dishes I hear "uh-oh, I broke it", never a good thing to hear.  She was pushing on my parents screen door and fell through.  But she really enjoyed getting to come and go as she pleased.

The following day I heard her crying and walked outside to find her head stuck in the rails.  I couldn't help but laugh, bad mom.  It wasn't too tight just had to get her head at a particular angle and squish her ears a bit, and she was free!  Her ears were only red for a little while, but still kind of wished I would have taken a pic from the other side, even if that meant leaving her stuck a little while longer.

Vi has LOVED staying with Boomer.  They're great pals.  This game is, "I'll shove the empty canister on your face while you lick it, then I'll put it on MY head!"  She definitely got a bath that night. 

She also picked all the leaves off of a branch of my dad's beloved Jade plant...he was not amused.  Oops.

This guy however, hasn't gotten into anything.  Still stays up till midnight almost every night, but minus having to make sure the giant beast (Boomer) doesn't step on him, he's flowed with the new environment like a champ.

I'm not particularly enjoying updating from my husband's laptop as it is different and all the pics are from my phone.  So that will be it for today, but another post very soon!!