The house!

Wow, moving is a LOT of work! We moved into the house on March 29 ... so it has been a month! Time flies. We are absolutely loving this house, and continue to feel very fortunate to have been able to purchase our own home! We love it. Matthew has found a strong passion for yard-duty and with the turn of the weather and the (final!) slowing of the rain, he's been having fun trying to get the yard under control.

We had most boxes unpacked within 2 days of moving in (thanks largely to the fact that the children were out of town with my parents :). Some boxes were stored in "dumping grounds" and we have finally gotten to most all of them. We still have lots and lots of projects to do (which I'm beginning to think is probably the norm of home ownership) and are enjoying dreaming about possibilities. But, for now, we are just settling in and getting familiar with our great new space!

Since you saw the before pics in the last post, here are the after's! In no particular order apparently. Sorry about that.

The guest room! So come visit us! You have a place to sleep. 

The biggest hit of the house: Calvin's room. He LOVES it.  

And really, what's not to love? Bunk beds, chalkboard wall, train table, and reading corner. It's great. Made all the greater by how much he enjoys it. 

Courtesy of Nanny, the still in progress, "reading corner". Devoid right now of shelves and books. Minor detail. Coming soon!

Play land. 

Kees' Room! Small but sweet. He likes to play in Calvin's room :).

Bathrooms are REALLY hard to take pictures of. I love the bathroom though. Grey, white, and yellow!

Our ginormous, converted from a "bonus room" bedroom. What you can't see is to the left there is a big closet that Matthew built! He's a rockstar. For some reason I don't have a picture of it and am too lazy at the moment to remedy that. 

And the lovely great room. It's fantastic. We love it. 

It was a TON of work getting the house ready for move-in, but luckily we are blessed with two sets of incredible parents who made getting us into this house possible. My sweet mother did a lot of child-watching, my fabulous father cleaned and did projects for multiple weekends including helping me with the bulk of the painting, my dear father-in-law Gary sheet-rocked and mudded almost our entire bedroom (rockstar), and my fabulous mother-in-law painted, cleaned, shelf-lined, etc. They were all fantastic. And now we're in! So come visit. We would love to host you!