Saturday, June 30, 2012

Re-Home-Ba

I needed to come up with a classic title for this post since Chris thought "Home Sweet Home" was too cliche and it is I guess. So I can up with Re-Home-Ba which means we got a new ("re" as in again) home (as in house) with a ba (as in basketball hoop). Surprise!!! For all those who didn't yet know. It's hard to keep something this big quiet so a few  people knew before others. Sorry. We were just trying to wait until we got internet to make the announcement. So here's the states:
4 bedroom, three full bathroom, fenced backyard, garage, garden spot and shed, storage room, 2288 square foot, the same distance to work. There's a wonderful park a block away from us. We first looked at it at the end of April and asked to put an offer on it the night after viewing it. The next week someone else was going to try to take it but we were faster so the home owners went with us. That and we didn't have to wait for a previous home to sell before we could move in. We were already doing month to month at our apartment. Ha ha I'm glad to get out of that place. It was fine for two years but I won't ever miss the squeeling water sound from the pipes and the six set of stairs (that's what I would end up doing when the kids fell asleep, up and down two flights carrying three kids one at a time) or fearing leaving them in a hot van while I did so since there's a garage and when the kids want outside there's a backyard, not two flights of stairs a full parking lot and a few blocks over for a park...okay Chris says I shouldn't brag but I'm not trying to brag. I'm just trying to say how nice it finally is to have a place of my own. I don't worry when they stomp on the floor now since we can't disturb the neighbors. We literally scared away every single neighbor around us at the apartment. Every single one of us on our half of the floor moved in the same month. So now I don't worry about annoying anyone when the kids throw their tantrums. 

There is a few drawbacks already though. The girls can open and close all the doors since the doors have bar handles, well they're not knobs. They've been closing themselves into closets and bedrooms and sometimes they can get themselves out, other times the dark scares them and they wail. Eventually they should catch on that it's not a fun game right? Okay I'll stop talking. And put up what I was going to put up. Things still aren't all unpacked etc but you can see the layout of the place from the long video below. (If you want you can start thinking of what room you want for the reunion. And don't forget the tent!) 


7 comments :

Rick, Erin, and girls said...

B-E-A U-TIFUL!

It's a bedroom, bathroom, and storage room bigger than our place! You also got us beat with that chicken coop.

Looks great! I like the video tour. I would do that, but it's far too messy and would be embarrassing, hehe! Congratulations on having your own place! It's wonderful! We call dibs on the chicken coop for the reunion. JUST KIDDING! Maybe the office or somewhere would be better.

Michelle M. said...

Nice!! Are you going to plant a garden in your backyard? I like the wood floors, and your kitchen is NICE. You also have plenty of room for food storage in the monster room-- I'm storing stuff in our 2nd bathroom.

I like that mirror you have in the downstairs hallway too. I can't wait for when I have a house and can get away from having noisy downstairs neighbors!

Mary said...

Very nice! We are so happy for you to have your own place at last. I noticed that they make child proof latch things for that type of door handle. Thanks for posting the video. It was fun to go on a tour.

Mary said...

Very nice! We are so happy for you to have your own place at last. I noticed that they make child proof latch things for that type of door handle. Thanks for posting the video. It was fun to go on a tour.

Lois said...

How awesome!!!! You are definitely NOT bragging - I'm sure it is SUCH a relief! We are SO excited for you guys!! And that is too funny about the door handles - we are having that same problem in our new place too, lol!

And for the reunion - we want any room that we can put Blake down and shut the door (Blake doesn't do well at other people's houses..) :)

Chris & Christina Taylor said...

Wow that is soooo awesome -and I think its totally okay to brag a little -cause its an awesome house and you guys deserve it!!! I like the idea of a video tour -we need to still put up pictures and such of our house but I still feel like its so messy :s. Congrats again!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Congratulations! The house looks nice and big! I bet the kids love it! I am so excited that you found a house that you love.