We're in

We're in our new place, that is. And, actually, we've been in for a couple months now already, which is hard to believe.

There has been lots going on, of course. The main thing has been getting settled in since we got keys to our new house August 13th. But Jude has had a birthday, Faustina's going to school, the babies are getting bigger, we've been entertaining a lot at our new place which is fun. We have Korynne, a new friend,  living with us since the end of August which is wonderful. We're at the age where everyone we know is having a baby, so we are making lots of meals to spread the love. Life is fun. Life is good!

We really do love our new place. We are completely blessed by the Lord with how everything fell into place. It is one of those, "Let me count the ways...." of how perfect it is for us. It has everything I could have wanted in a house, plus more that I could not have even thought of on my own. The yard is absolutely spectacular. It is almost .5 acre and the mature gardens, lawn, and view are continually breathtaking.

Here are a few pics from August when we moved in.

Here Jude is playing at our old house on Morgan Ave. Our moved to the new house ended up being fairly smooth since we rented from the owner for almost 2 weeks before we closed. We were able to do some work on the new house before we moved furniture; we were also able to forgo movers and a big truck and just move things over slowly.

A picture of Jude - just because he is so cute. I am loving having him at home and having more 'one-on-one' time with him. He is too easy and pretty much always happy.

Here we are on August 13th when we first got the keys. It was a fun and memorable morning!

Mike had a saw in hand, ready to cut a whole in the wall where we planned to open space up. Within 20 minutes of having walked in the house, it was done! This is my 'get it done'  Polish, CEO personality type husband at work! Our realtor almost had a conniption vehemently explaining that we immediately needed to get house insurance. We did, pretty soon. 

 

Where Mike cut the wall down, there is a beautiful hardwood sliding door in the wall! Right now now we have the computer in this room with a hid abed (sp?) couch. There are 2 doors on the room that can be shut, so we have been using it for when guests come to sleep over. It works out well.

We were all watching from the window seat.

Our dear friend, Peter, was with us to help rip up the carpet so that we could refinish the wood floors.

There have been beautiful sunrises that we have a great view from the dining room windows and our bedroom over the river valley.

This is part of the view from our deck. You can barely see the river way back there over the bluff. The tall white thing is a flag poll. Crazy, we have our own flag pole?! There is a huge rock by the flag poll which the kids have loved playing on and around. Apparently, it is there as the result of practical joke a guy played on the owners of the home years ago.

Okay, well that is all the pictures for now. The camera just died! More later.