The New Place

So here's our new place. My parents came to help us move a couple weeks ago and I finally feel like we're settled. It was so great that they came because when it comes to manual labor they are superhuman. We worked really long days but got it all moved in and even managed to trim a huge tree, plant flowers and a little vegetable garden. They're amazing and I'm so glad they came.

Here it is! It was built in 1910 which is kind of cool to live in a 100 year old house. The tree on the right is the one my dad trimmed. It was reaching all the way to the ground and stuffed with junk. It took most the day. It's funny because he said he wanted to start in the morning before it got too hot and after all the trimming, hauling away of branches, and racking up the remains, he finished around 3:30.

Here's the back yard. This is where we spend most of our time now, especially in the evening. And there's my little veggie garden. Thanks Mom!

The living room. Crew was following Brady around taking pictures of him taking pictures of the house. That book shelf in the back was built into the wall. Brady loves it because it's packed full of books. He just wishes he had four more like it.

The kitchen. You can't really tell but the cupboards are a pea green color. I wasn't big on it at first but it's grown on me. Also there is no dish washer so we have to do everything by hand. Brady says our kitchen makes him feel like we live in the 50's. I agree and I like it.

Leave it to Brady to have only been here a day and he has to set up his hammock. We didn't even have all the beds set up but at least we had a nice place to relax.

This is now Kendi's favorite place. Grandma and Grandpa bought the kids a sand pile and it's funny because Kendi loves it and will play in the sand all day and Crew isn't big into the sand but he loves the lid/shell that covers the sand pile. They work well together.

Now that we have a yard there are new issues to deal with...like these feet coming inside every night.

We also have a clothes line that we use a lot. We have a dryer but in attempts to save on electricity costs we dry most of the clothes outside. Another thing that makes me feel like we living in the 50's. Really though this isn't far from how I grew up so this just takes my heart back to the farm.