Our new home!

Well, we've had a busy last couple of months! We finally packed up the old house completely, sold it, and moved into the new house! We've been officially living here for almost four weeks now, and I have to say I really all more in love with it everyday!

It was sad saying goodbye to the old house. Don't get me wrong, we are so happy in our new house and it was such a huge weight off our shoulders when it sold and we weren't shouldering two mortgages anymore, but it was still saying goodbye to what had been our home for the last ten years. I feel like we were still kids when we moved into that house, and were officially full blown adults when we finally left.

It was weird walking through all the empty rooms one last time, and all of us shed a few tears!

When we finally moved into the new house our contractor still had some work he was finishing up, mainly in our master bedroom and bathroom. That meant that while we tried to unpack and get settled we were still dealing with dust and construction and sleeping on a mattress in our loft for the first couple of weeks! Not an ideal sleeping arrangement when your five months pregnant and getting up to pee every few hours, but we made it work!

So here we are, almost a month in, and this house feels like home. We are mostly unpacked although there is still the random stray box here and there. Pictures need to be hung and we still need to organize and clear out the garage. The kids bathroom still needs to be painted, as well as the nursery, and the nursery has become the room where everything is getting stored right now if we don't know exactly where it is going to go. The yard is still an overgrown jungle and we need to set up the swing set. In terms of work we still need to do on the house, our next two big things will be re-doing the kitchen (painting cabinets, new counter tops and new appliances) and getting quotes to put a pool in the backyard. The backyard and front yard both need some re-landscaping, but until we know for sure what we are doing with a pool we aren't going to start that yet. Oh, and I'm going to refinishing the cabinets in the bathrooms.

Ha, I guess that sound like a pretty big list!  I know S thinks it is overtime I start rattling off stuff we need to get done. But honestly, this is our forever home as far as I'm concerned so we have plenty of time to get everything done that we want, and to take the time to do it right!

So, with all that being said, I'm going end with a whole lot of pictures of our new home! If you go back and look at the before pictures from a few posts back I think you'll agree that it's a pretty amazing difference!

The kids playroom:

Our super overgrown, but amazingly large backyard!

Master bedroom. (It's so big, I literally get happy butterflies overtime I walk in it!)

The view from the bedroom into the master bath and the master bath.

The little boys, L2 and R's, bedroom. Once I am 100% sure we are out of the nighttime accident stage we will set the beds up as bunk beds.

L's room. Another huge room, and he is so happy to finally be in his own space!

Front entryway.

View from front entry though the formal living room into the dining room.

View from front entry towards kitchen and family room.

Family room.

View from family room into kitchen.

Laundry room.

So there it is. I'm so happy this all worked out and that I can call this beautiful space ours. I'm so thankful we get to bring out new baby home here. I can't wait to create so many memories with our kids and our family!