ok so that is the house... it's late and we are leaving for San Antonio tomorrow to finalize Caleb's adoption here in Texas. I do have more pics of the kids random stuff, daily stuff but will post them later this weekend...

So ta ta for now.

Blessings

and now the picture that really should have been first... the front of the house with the soccer mom trademark in the driveway...LOL

full living room

formal living room.. or maybe not so formal with kids around.. but that color is willow tree.. it is in the dinning room, hallway and living room. flows nicely and look robert again........and I think Sarah in the car seat behind Robert...

master bedroom... the color is called cilantro. its a nice dark green... I have never really be a big fan of dark colors but I just LOVE this room. I can't wait to decorate it .......

now this is the rest of master bath you can see the color better.. the door on the far left is wc, then middle door linen closet and the farthest door is the master closet.. nice and BIG

master bath and look Caleb getting into the action of the pictures too... we will also be redoing parts of the master bath too like a 6 foot bath tub!!!!!!!!!!! the color there is called topiary tint. I originally thought it was going to be lighter then what it turned out to be but its nice and I like it.

looking into the kitchen from the livingroom...

and viola the messy kitchen. yes it is small very small but someday in the future we might do a renovation of it and see what we can do to make it bigger...

ahh one said messy picture. this is the breakfast area down stairs right off the kitchen. we painted it a light yellow. you will see the rest of the house is painted in greens.... so it goes nicely and ooooooooooo by the way that is Robert sneaking into the picture...

ahhhhhhhh the princess's room. it was pretty decorated like this when we bought the house. I wasn't going to change a thing but found that the border is peeling and such so have decided to change her room to a border of fairies. I got the border in this week and can't wait to put it up. so other then changing the border it is done too... wooooohooooo

ok the guest room which is also on the 2nd floor. it is painted in hopsack...a brown. it's quite nice. right now that is where Richard and I are sleeping. We moved the queen size bed up there and are waiting to find the right king size bed for the master bedroom which is down stairs we will move into. this room is great for babchie, gran, granddad and other visitors so come on down we have room FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

oooooooooooooooook here is Roberts room. It is really a very sky blue very bright. his room will be all about the airplane. at the moment he has a blue toddler bed that Caleb is now out of and the bedding is the infamous Jay Jay the Jet Plane.

ah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Caleb's room.. I am not sure you can really make out the color of the room but it is a real deep blue very dark. But his bed is a very light almost completely natural color captains bed. The rest of the room will be decorated in dogs his favorite thing in life........

Here is the game room upstairs. We painted it 'senational sand'. its a nice big room we hope most if not all the kids toys will be and kept so the downstairs will be clean and clear...(ha ha ha with kids yea right!!!!) It will also have a sleeper sofa, a tv and vcr/dvd set up and a few chairs. Since moving in we have added a bookcase for all the videos and several bookcases for toys, books or whatever else we need.

Settling In

Well we officially moved into the new house over the 4th of July weekend. That Saturday was a very long day but we were able to move all the big and heavy furniture in and sleep in the new house.

We have had some issues with going to bed with Caleb and Robert but are working those out. Caleb LOVES his new big boy bed. It stands higher then he does but like the monkey he is (ha ha that is also his Chinese birth sign believe it or not) he just climbs onto to everything to get in. I did have original concerns about him falling out but so far so good no falls at all. Robert has Caleb's old big boy toddler bed he at first he loved it too but now he would rather sleep on the floor instead of the bed. Sarah.....well how much can an 8month old complain about her room... :)

We still have things at the old house to move over but are settling in one box at a time. On a sad note today I had to take Marcus (our cat) to C.A.P. and hope they can find him a new home. It has gotten real bad with him using the entire house as a litter box in defiance of the kids and I just couldn't have that in the new house. Also he spent more time closed up in our bedroom hiding under the bed or in the closet until the kids went to bed then he came out. No matter how many times you tell and show kids 'gentle, nice, rub head to tail, don't pull the tail' they do anyway and Marcus would swipe at them with his paw (which is declawed). The choice had to be made 'my kids' or 'my cat' and of course the kids won. I cried many tears today but know he is really just such a good boy and some single or widowed person is looking for a companion. He loves to sit on your lap and get his ears rubbed. He just needs to be the king of the house and not be around kids.

I am going to post some pictures of the house.....please excuse the condition of some things as these were taken before we moved in and were still painting and installing some electrical things we wanted so some rooms look kinda messy.

Until next time....
Blessings