Home, Sweet Home

We are slowly getting settled in our new house.  We LOVE the storage, extra square footage, and most important to us during this process....location.  We moved to the neighborhood behind our old house, exactly 2 streets away.  In fact, you can see our friends house that lived behind us from our new backyard.  We still frequent the playground we went to each week as it is at the end of the cul-de-sac that we live on.  The spray park is located at the opposite end, and our good friend's and neighbor's are only streets away.  It doesn't get much better than that.  Except for the fact, that  as of this past Friday, we closed on our house on Tuswell so we are currently the owners of 1 house and never had to make 2 mortgage payments.  Whoo hoo!

As promised to my family and friends far away, here are some photos of our house.  We are still getting unpacked, pictures hung and are currently waiting on cable service (it's been 2 loooong weeks...I think I miss Nick Jr. more than Mackenzie:), so most of the pictures uploaded are from our final walk through before we moved in.


                                   
                                                          3 car side load garage

Our favorite part of our new yard is that we no longer bake in the sun all day, but enjoy playing in the shade all afternoon!

                              

                           View from balcony of the entry way.  It's the only pic I have of the entrance.

Jeremy's Office

Dining room

View from front door to great room and kitchen

Kitchen, complete with double ovens.....I'm in heaven!

Eat in kitchen

My sweet girl sweeping the floors before we mop

Great room....the staircase to the left leads up to the Master Level. 

Master Bath

We have a 5 level split, so the first floor has the office, dining room, great room and kitchen.  The second level is the Master Bed and Bath.  Then the stairs leading up from the Master level leads to the 3rd level, where the kids bedrooms and baths and guest room are. 

Mackenzie's room and bath, she loves having her own bathroom, but is eagerly waiting for us to paint it

Mackenzie's room far left, guest room in middle, and Caleb's room down hallway far right

View from loft of the 3 bedrooms on the upper level

View from loft area of the main floor/great room

The loft is top left.  We're not sure how we'll utilize this yet, but for now it's going to be a sitting area or extra play room for the kids.

Caleb's Room

Stairs leading down to lower level

This is technically our basement, even though it's not underground. The nice part is that since there's windows Mackenzie will go down there by herself b/c it doesn't feel like a true basement.

Unfinished basement

....and a few miscellaneous pics. . ..

Daddy with the kids after we got the keys to the house

Having a pizza picnic

Just yesterday...once we got the tv hung and access to the DVD's!  :)

Mackenzie playing with dress up dolls from Aunt Sari and Uncle Frank.....you're the best!

Mackenzie and Caleb's first bath together at the new house!  So sweet!

I hope that this home brings us as much happiness and as many good memories as our house on Tuswell.  We feel truly blessed that this house fell into our arms and that we were able to get it for a steal!  We feel like we are on vacation everyday!  It's beginning to feel like home the more we settle in. Thank you to my wonderful husband for being a risk taker and helping us wheel and deal the house of our dreams.  You never cease to amaze me!