Sunday, March 27, 2011

Come take a tour of our new house!

Now that we have all the furniture we ordered, I guess it's time for a tour. We're not completely unpacked, and we still need to figure out what to store and where it's going to be stored, but here's what our house looks like so far.

The den/office - aka. the unofficial storage room. We haven't found a desk yet for this room, so until then, the boxes will sit. We used this room as a dumping ground for boxes when we were moving in, so some of them are still there. But Chris's dad, Rusty, tackled the challenge of putting the ceiling fan up in the room with 14 foot ceilings. And it looks great!
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Chris loves this piece of art and it fits pretty well in the niche in the entry. It's still growing on me.
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Downstairs Powder Room
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Dining Room - We probably won't get a dining room table any time soon. It will be a great room to have the Christmas tree and all the presents for the holidays. We joke that it's our Christmas tree room. All the stuff on the wall needs to find a home in storage somewhere.
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Laundry Room - Messy yes - still trying to figure out how to organize it.
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Master Bedroom - We finally have a head board!!
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We still have a ton of space between the bed and the dresser.
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Master Bathroom -
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Great Room - We had to paint the wall before the wall unit arrived so we didn't have to worry about moving the wall unit out of that niche. When the wall unit arrived, we found out the trim pieces on the top made it too big to fit in the space. So the guy is having the center credenza re-done to make it fit. So that tv isn't supposed to be sitting on the coffee table, there will be a center section to the wall unit in about a month.
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Nook
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The Kitchen - I love my kitchen!! It all came together so well!
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The loft
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Guest Bedroom - One day we'll get a head board for this bed.
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Guest Bathroom
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Craft Room/Temporary Office
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Ryleigh's Reading Nook on the landing
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Ryleigh's Playroom - this room will be her room when we have another kiddo.
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Ryleigh's Bathroom
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Ryleigh's Room - This room will stay the nursery when we have another kiddo. We converted her crib to a toddler bed. She loves getting in and out by herself.
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And out to the backyard... the pool is STILL not done due to the pool fence. Apparently the bars are supposed to be no more than 4 inches apart. On several panels it was 4 1/8" or 4 1/16" and near the posts it was up to 4 1/2". So they came out to redo the large gaps near the posts. And it failed inspection again do to the 1/8". So they had to come out and redo the entire fence and put in new panels. So hopefully this week it passes inspection so we can get the pebbletec done and fill it up!
View of the pool from the patio.
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Patio from the back fence
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All our landscaping got done this week. We still need some trees and plants, but the basic structure is there.
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View of the yard from one side to the other.
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Hope you enjoyed the tour!

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Train park with grandparents

Chris's parents have been visiting us for their spring break. Today we went to the train park. So much nicer going in the middle of the summer. Ryleigh was so excited to see the "choo-choos" and ride the "horsies".

Getting ready for the train to leave the station.
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Not too sure about the tunnel.
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Riding the Horses.
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She saw this tower when she was on the carousel and she couldn't wait to climb the stairs. She RAN for them when we got off.
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And up she goes!
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I made it up guys!
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Looking at the train pulling into the station.
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Posing on the trolly car. Stinker face.
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More posing. Silly girl!
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The boys left to go to a Reds spring training game at the Peoria Sports Complex. The girls decided to do some more rides. Ryleigh was a little more excited for the rides the second time around.
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Sitting with Grandma waiting for the train to start.
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And the carousel again. Sneaky cheese face.
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We all had a fun time at the train park. But we couldn't stay too long, as it was lunch time and then nap time. You can't mess with a 2 year old's naps!!

Saturday, March 5, 2011

House is done!

We had our new home orientation/ walk thru on Thursday. While we'd snuck in several times in the past week seeing all the finishing touches be put together, seeing the finished product was pretty cool! They still have some little things to finish, paint and drywall touch ups, they need to install our reverse osmosis unit at the sink. They did the landscaping Thursday morning and it was done before we got there. They were working on our acrylic pool decking. The pool fence will be installed this coming Thursday.

The front of the house.
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View from the corner. They finally put in the side gate.
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Welcome to my house - View from the front door to the back.
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Great Room:
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And my kitchen!!! LOVE IT!!
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Microwave, stove and double oven.
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View of the nook from the pantry.
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Sink and Dishwasher. And my very modern faucet!
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And the pool has the tile and slate up.
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We sign all the papers on Monday morning. We're scheduled to get the keys on Tuesday evening!! And we'll be moving next weekend!!