I was bummed that Seth had to work today, don't ask me why b/c it's not a new thing for him to work Saturday's but sometimes it just feels like we don't get to see him enough!! Anyway, I decided I needed a reason to get the house picked up and something to do since it's rainy out so I decided to take pictures of our house. The kids were actually good helpers too. We live too far away from a lot of our friends and family so now even if you can't come and visit, you can feel like you've been to our house, so welcome to the grand tour! It's not anything special but it has been perfect for us. Our Landlord did some fun painting of colors that I would not have picked but have ended up loving.
We didn't have anything blue so before we left AZ so I bought some really cheap apolstery fabric from this awesome store and my Mom and I came up with this for the bed and curtains.
Lila's room is my favorite. I love the purple and the murals painted on the walls. Wish I could take it with us when we move. We bought the twin bed for when Lila is ready to transition from the crib but so far she's happy to be in the crib and I'm happy to keep her there, but I just wanted to be ready for when the baby gets here....so yup, I guess that's an official blog announcement. haha, I'm not very good at announcing these things, but yes, I'm preggy preggers. We are expecting another girl June 4th. Yay!!
Lincoln boy's room! My Mom just helped me finish that blanket for his bed. Yay for finishing something!! It's got little animals on it and the back is a dinosaur sheet. He loves it.
Who would have thought to do such a bright red bathroom!? I just happened to have all this stuff that matched before we moved so it worked out. I'm so glad I had a place to put those bird paintings that I love from Shannon in our AZ ward.
This is Seth's little study/workout/ tool den. He got pretty shelf happy but it's nice to have a place to put all his books and tools.
This is our front door entry but nobody uses our front door b/c you park behind the house so we have people come to the sliding door in the back.
The kitchen. It's nice and open and has a huge sink.
We hardly ever go in this room that I call the futon room. It's behind that wall at the front entry. Our greatest idea was to hang those curtains along the back wall so we could have somewhere to stash our storage boxes like Christmas stuff since this house has NO storage. It worked out pretty good and I'm glad we have a place to hide our junk! (I made the futon cover and pillow with some other apolstery fabric that I bought before we moved so it cost about $10!!) All the furniture in this room, besides the hope chest, we got next to a dumpster so it was free. haha. no shame. Everything we own is used, free, or from ikea.
I love this dining room table that we found on craigslist when we moved here. I love that it has a leaf if we have lots of people over, which actually did happen one time. The pots in the corner are going to be my attempt at growing some herbs but I need to get a sunlight for them.
This is where most people enter the house and where we spend most of our time.
I love the coat rack that seth made over there by Yogi. It's been very handy. Don't mind that bikes. I finally set up my trainer!
This is the bird feeder and bird house that my Mom and Dad set up for us while they were here. I love that they used this stick that they found in the back yard. They are avid bird watchers and have peaked our curiosty in birds. It's been fun so far and I've seen about 4 different kinds of birds come to it (I still need to work on identifying them.) I'm surprised Yogi didn't scare them away.
This is at the back of the house when we first moved in. It's the only picture I really have of the house that is now our home sweet home.
Hope you enjoyed the tour. Come and visit us anytime!
