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Welcome to our abode (and other stuff)

Since I've pretty much caught up on blogging about other stuff, I figure it's a good time to share some pics of the new house. I'll be sharing more of baby boy's nursery as it comes along, but it's not quite done, so I'll wait. Same with the office/guest room, which isn't neat enough to share. James needs to clean out his clutter, which he'd better do soon since I'm getting more and more in nesting mode. :-)

I'm going to share one of my favorite rooms with you first, our master bathroom. Weird, I know, but I'm hooked on the jaccuzi tub. I haven't use the jets yet (a big no-no for pregnancy), but soaking in the deep tub has been great for my aching muscles. Also, I've had some great mother/daughter bonding time with Olivia in there. We bring toys, wash each other's backs, laugh, sing songs, and she feels so grown-up when I (carefully) wash her hair with my Aveda shampoo. She usually puts up a fight when it's time to get out. I also figure this will be a great place to labor before I go to the hospital. The shower is nice, too.

I'm sure some people would love the private toilet, but since I always have an audience, I wish it was more open so Olivia could spread out her toys and coloring books easier. I'm sure when I no longer have little ones accompanying me, I'll appreciate it more. :-)

This is the other bathroom that's located on the other side of the house with the 3 bedrooms. We have a split plan, so our room is on one side and the other 3 bedrooms are on the other. I don't think I like the split plan all that much (although everyone says I will later) because I'm too far from the babies.

My other favorite room is the kitchen. We had a tiny kitchen before, and although our new kitchen isn't huge, there's definitely enough room for me to move around and leave my most-used appliances out.

And here's the breakfast area on the other side of the bar. It gets a lot of natural light, which is nice in the morning.

This is the dining room, which is too the right of the foyer.

This is our bedroom, which is still needing a great picture above the bed. Most likely, we'll be using something created by my talented uncle. Olivia was snuggling on the bed while I snapped pictures. :-) James has a matching chest-of-drawers on the other side of the room. It's not a big room really, but it works. I love the color we chose. It's a very pale blue-- something different for us since everything was beige/neutral in our first house.

This is the living room. It's amazing how much bigger it looked after we got rid of the dark carpet from the previous owners and painted the walls a light brown rather than their yellowish color.

You can see the foyer here as well as part of the living room. To the right is the nursery. :-)

I planted herbs in the backyard, but I haven't taken many pictures of the yard yet. I think this is the only one I have since we've moved in and finished the fence. Sorry about the shadows. I took this through the blinds.

I'll have to post pictures of the nursery and guest room/office later. I didn't think you'd care about the laundry room or garage. They're not that interesting really.

I love our new neighborhood, although the neighbors could be better. WE have really nice, friendly people on either side of us, but they're both about to put their houses up for sale. No one else has talked to us or welcomed us. I actually waved and yelled hello to someone the other day (he definitely heard me) and he totally ignored me. I like that it's a safe neighborhood and there's a lake for our community that we can walk to and see the ducks. Olivia of course loves it! They're also building a playgroud somewhere. Not sure how close it'll be to our house because it's a big development, but it'll be good exercise if it's a couple streets away.

I want to blog more about pregnancy later and also the totally amazing Bradley class we're taking, but that can wait.

Posted by Hannah at April 20, 2008 02:53 PM