New House

This post is a virtual tour of our NEW HOUSE! Mostly for my mom, who feels better when she can SEE where her children are living since she hasn't been able to visit yet. 

I wrote the following the day these pictures were taken two weeks ago:

We've been living in our new house for 14 days (Luke and I were out of town for 4 of them) and we LOVE it! As of today, every single thing down to the smallest knick knack is unpacked and in it's place and the pictures are on the walls. We don't have much in the way of home decor yet and our framed photos look a little small on the walls of a full sized home, but we'll worry about that stuff later. We are just so excited to have a HOME in a BEAUTIFUL area with wonderful neighbors, whom we are already getting to know and love.

OUR HOME!

 View from the front door with the stairs (we'll come back to those later), hall closet, and half bathroom on the left; the baby-gated off exercise room on the right; and the living room and back door straight ahead.

Front door & entry way

Our exercise room! This is technically the dining room, but it's so far away from the kitchen (weird) that we are using it to work out. That's my (our) new treadmill on the right. I love it! I gained almost 15 lbs. living with the in-laws over the past 3 months so it is getting a lot of much-needed use!

Nice big hall closet next to the stairs. My mom was disappointed when I didn't take pictures of the insides of the closets when we moved into our last apartment in Flagstaff, so I am correcting that this time. Get ready to see a lot more closets!

The closet curves to the left under the stairs.

1/2 Bathroom. That painting was left behind. I'm not sure that I like it, but I don't dislike it enough to have taken down yet.

1/2 Bath closet. We filled it with games (and toilet paper).

Living Room. Jeff thinks we need a bigger TV.

The boys watching football.

Turn around and you are facing the kitchen/dining room. We have a little card table until we can find a dining room table we like on Craigslist :)

The back door was out of view, but directly to the right in that last photo. Here is the view of the backyard from the back door.

Back into the kitchen. You can see the laundry/utility room doorway to the left of the refrigerator.

Pantry door on the left and our awesome HUGE new fridge.

BIG pantry!

Kitchen (LOTS of cupboard space!)

Laundry/Utility room and door to the garage (and that is the refrigerator that the previous owner left behind - we are in the process of selling it. We already sold the washer she left. Sweet!)

Nice new washer and dryer (we got the fabulous employee discount on these and the fridge since they're GE and Jeff works there).

Lots of shelf space in the utility room!

Garage. A few big empty boxes left to get rid of and a pile of things for Goodwill by the door.

Back to the stairs.

Up the stairs we go.

Upstairs hallway. Jeff's and my bedroom is to the left and take another immediate left around the little half-wall. The door you can see is the guest room (a.k.a empty room). Luke's room and bathroom are down the hall and to the left. At the end of the hall on the right is the playroom.

Master bedroom. Our little full bed look so small in there! We're so used to it after 3 years, that we're not in any big hurry to get a queen or king. Other purchases take priority.

Master Bedroom

Master bathroom (tub and shower out of sight on the right, open door straight ahead on the right = toilet, closed door to the left of that - linen closet, open door to the left of that - walk-in closet.

Practically empty guest bedroom. I am a nanny for my 1 and 3 year old nieces during the day. This is where Becca, the one-year-old naps. The dark curtain over the window is to keep the light out so she can nap.

Guest room closet (just a little extra bedding, pack-n-play packaging, and a vacuum)

Luke's/Guest bathroom down the hall. It nice and big!

Luke's/guest bathroom closet

Luke's room, right next to the bathroom.

Luke came in and decided to explore the diaper pail for the first time. Bad idea.

I guess it smelled.

Luke's closet, empty except for diapers, wipes, and a few things on the shelves.

The shelves in Luke's closet - mostly blankets.

The play room, across the hall from Luke's room. Notice the little wall basketball hoop in the bottom left-hand corner of this picture.

Playroom closet - all things for the next baby (clothes separated by size in the bags on the top shelf)

Playroom closet

That concludes our tour! :)