Finally...lots of pictures of the house :-)

So I finally uploaded the zillion pictures I took of the house :-)

Here is a picture of the front door from the top of the stairs right outside the kitchen and "great hall".

Looking from the girls' room, down the hall to the "great hall" and dining room.

Upstairs bathroom.


The girls' room, closet and dresser (it is a big room!).

This is one of the views from the girls' room.


Looking into the girls' room from the door. After all of the work I did to their room in Columbus, I am not doing much of anything for a LONG TIME here.


The toy room. This room needs some shelves to help organize (because Mama likes things organized) but it is great to have a room to just throw their toys in. Eventually, if God blesses us with another one, and if it would be a boy, would rearrange a bit.


Julia's room. It has some elements of the jungle from Columbus but not everything. I have determined to only do canvas from now on and not paint murals that can't be taken with us! However, I was thinking that if we are having Jonathan help with some drywall work next week, then maybe we can just cut out the tiger from Julia's room and have it shipped up here :-)


From the hall, looking into the kitchen. A new dishwasher is on it's way and we have lots of ideas of how we could remodel the kitchen fairly easily :-)


A look at the kitchen from the dining room. I love the white cabinets that I bought from Sam's Club when I was a student in Illinois. They are so useful!

This is where we have had lunch almost every day that we have eaten at home (admittedly not as much as we should). It is so wonderful to have brought this patio furniture with us and have somewhere lovely to use it!

The dining area. I love eating here as a family with cable TV nowhere in sight!!!!

This is the "great hall". It is just off the dining area. It will someday have bookshelves lining it and hopefully a fireplace. I love the carpet but it attracts dog hair like crazy. For now we just have a TV and DVD player so the girls can occasionally watch "their" movies while mom cooks supper.

Looking from the family room in the basement, down the hall toward the master bedroom.

The family room in the basement. The only TV in the house with cable.

The computer desk is in the corner and we just bought a bigger desk to set behind the couch for some more workspace for class stuff I will have to do. It will be nice to be able to watch TV with everyone while still working on random things (like blogging, walking on the treadmill, and writing articles...more on that later).

View out one of the basement windows.


More empty space! Seriously, this house is almost three times the size of the house in Columbus! The plan is to put the sewing table my mom is giving me under the window. To the left of the picture, barely visible, is a huge closet that holds all of the decorations (mostly Christmas) and all of the baby and toddler clothes I am not giving up yet. Across from laundry room is ANOTHER big closet that has all of the baby furniture that might get one more use. After that, imagine all of the room!


Laundry room, down the hall from the master bedroom. It will have a folding shelf and kitty door added to it at some point in the near future.


Master bathroom. Includes the big tub (swimming pool for the little ones, right Coralie?), a toilet alcove, and a walk-in shower. There was no door so we hung our shower curtain for privacy :-)

View of the master bathroom and sink/vanity area of the master bedroom.


Our bed fits nicely :-)
A virtually unused corner of the master bedroom. We are thinking it would make a good reading corner someday (when we can afford to buy more furniture).


From the hall looking into the master bedroom at the closet. Big walk in closet with a window (weird) but it has very little hanging space. Works okay for now.


Looking up into the "great hall" from the front door area. Lots of boxes of books and Indy, resting.


View from inside the front door, through the screen apparently :-)


The steps up and down, viewed from the front door.


The front of the house, viewed from the driveway.
A view from the door in the garage.

Soybeans and corn as far as the eye can see.

Loran got the hammock set up quickly! A new swingset will go just beyond it. The neighbors own the picnic table but never use it.

A view of the owners' house (nice people) and the two apple trees that will soon be OURS!

Looking from the door in the garage up at the deck.


I have a clothesline! Wa-hoo!

The garage fits our "outside" stuff and the two vehicles quite nicely.

The cul-de-sac is awesome for the kids to play in. We are getting a sandbox for one side of the house and a swingset for the other. The girls will be able to play almost year-round and I love that! There are definitely things that aren't what I would choose but this is going to work really well for now! I hope you all enjoyed the show! Now come and visit and see the real thing!!!!

I will bake up some apple pie, have real Wisconsin cheese, and grill some brats. Is that Wisconsin enough? Oh and I am sure my brother-in-law could bring down some homemade beer if that is your thing too. :-)