Our Place

I won't go so far as to call it our new home - I'll reserve that honor for the house we buy hopefully within the next few months. Instead, allow me to introduce you to Our Place!

Remember, we are still unpacking, so there are boxes here and there, especially in our bedroom. I've left out the photo of that one and the 1/2 bath - nothing special there.

The kitchen is just the right size, the cabinets are cute. We have a dishwasher (YAY!) I washed the dishes by hand for 3 days before I even noticed it - assumed we didn't have one. Our fridge STUNK up until about yesterday. Really that's the only complaint I've had about the apartment itself.

The living area is large enough for us. I'm a little sorry we left our coffee table but I do like the space. We don't, however, have a dining area. Instead we sit at the bar on stools. The carpet is brand new as of last week so we bought an area rug, knowing how hard the girls are on carpet. Sadly, we couldn't fit our sofa that goes with the ottoman through the door so Adam took it to his office. I visited him today and discovered my sofa was all scratched up from moving and almost cried. He comforted me and told me we could fix it but I loved that thing. Too much, I guess - it's just an object after all.

Opening out from the living room is our balcony. It spans the entire length of the apartment. The complex is 3 stories total and the second floor is the only one with a balcony. I thought about spicing it up with some plants and chairs but when the cold weather started to set in Monday I figured it would be a waste. The whole thing will be covered in snow soon and we won't be here long enough for Spring. From the balcony you can see Audrey's school to the right with a mountain behind it, and to the left a pretty little house on a hill. The girls have been spending a lot of time playing out there.

Now we move down the hall to the entry. We have 3 locks on the door so I'm not worried about any of our freaky neighbors getting in. More about the freaky neighbors later! We've got the sofa table and an arrangement greeting you as you walk in from the front door - turning left takes you to the kitchen and right to the bedrooms. You probably can't tell from the pictures but there is a pantry and large broom closet off to the left by the kitchen and after the front door you can find a coat closet and another closet. Plenty of space, lots of shelves, quite large. Bringing all of our "stuff" with us should never have even been an issue.

On to the kids' room. We've bunked the beds again. They have 2 good size closets in their room and probably more room than they had in their old one. The carpet looks like it's from the 80's but we deal with it by covering it up with the little rug Momma made for the girls. They still have a few boxes in there I should unpack instead of blogging :)

Here's the bathroom - nothing impressive though Audrey was pretty amazed by the medicine cabinet hidden in the wall. The girl is easy to please! You can see Rynn's little Dora potty seat there - we are working on it, but she hasn't had a success yet.

That's where our virtual tour ends, folks! I'll have to post our room when we finish unpacking but it looks just like the kids' only we put the jungle carpet from my classroom on the floor and it has a walk-in closet and a 1/2 bath off of it. It's time to bathe the kids now and reprimand the cat for playing on the lazy susan. I hope you guys get to come up here and see the place for real sometime soon. I leave you with an image of the girls napping in the living room today, most likely dreaming of you!