Our new home

Our house is actually a very long duplex...the middle wall was taken out of this one and so we get the entire thing to ourselves. :) You'll get to see how it's entirely wood floors inside. I thought it was great--for about 30 minutes. I think that was how long it took til one of the kids biffed it. And it didn't stop there. The first weekend here, Jacob fell so often that he aquired two huge bloody noses, the biggest fat lip I'd ever seen (he couldn't even speak right cause of it), and his very first black eye. Julia received her first black eye too. They've quickly learned how to run on their toes. :) Of course, we could just avoid the spills if there simply wasn't any running in the house....but good gosh, we're talking about kids here! ;) So one of the first things I invested in was a large rug for the living room and a couple of floor runners for the hallways.


I wasn't able to fit all of it in this picture...it's missing the other front entry way, the other drive way, ect....it humors me that it's yellow. Reminds me of the house which I grew up in. :)



Here's my awesome living room...it's HUGE! (Looks are deceiving, I have the furniture pulled out about 1-2 feet from the walls on all sides to make it more cozy). It's actually supposed to be a living room/dining room, but there's NO WAY that our living room furniture would fit in there along with the dining room table...talk about scrunched.










So we moved our dining room into this room instead...



It was originally a bedroom (hence the closet right there)...you can see on the floor where it divides and there was a wall at some point. It was a wall that connected both sides of the duplex.



Here's the other end of the now very long room. I use it for a computer space (since it's the size of a normal bedroom over there anyway). The closet right there is nice...stores extra computer/desk such. You can catch a glimpse of the kids literally running from one end of the house to another.









This is the other living room/dining room (since we have both sides of the duplex, that means we have two of these along with two kitchens--though I use the extra kitchen for my laundry room). This room is just as enormous as the other living room. I thought it'd be perfect for a play room (or as a wii room, as we call it around here). I LOVE the huge windows (which take up almost the entire wall). If we were actually going to be here longer, then I'd be investing in tons of curtains. As it is, this place has 26 very wide windows. So much better than the FIVE we had in our old house!


My very outdated kitchen...but oh well. It actually has lots of cabinets (there a whole other row on the other wall next to the refrigerater) and then if I still need more, then there's always my spare kitchen (which also has a refrigerater in there too).




And here's is Julia's very own room (she's loving having it all to herself!).




We're all settled in--it only took maybe a week to get it all put together. The kids adjusted wonderfully to their new school and new schedules. The ward here is nice...mostly military. And I found out that when a new military family moves in, they're typically only there for maybe 3-4 months. So if you miss a couple of weeks at church, when you go back, it's like walking into a new ward. LOL. And I thought the bishops at BYU had it bad trying to hand out callings and such.

We are sooooooo happy to be living as a whole family. I'll never take that blessing for granted ever again!

More pictures of our daily life to come soon.....