Home Tour - Part 2

Welcome to Part 2 of our Home Tour.

Log stairs:

Upstairs landing:

The boy's bedroom:

The girls' bedroom:

Master bedroom:

The Attic:

(to be continued...)

(maybe...)

Pieces of Fall in My Living Room

Today is the first day of Fall, so I had the kids collect some of the elements of the season to bring in and display indoors.

Apparently our trees don't know it's supposed to be Fall.

And it's 80˚ outside today.

Maybe we'll try again next week...

Home Tour - Part 1

When we moved into this house in June, I had every intention of doing a photo tour...

just as soon as I had every room set up the way I want it.

Now that September is almost gone, I have accepted that

the room-set-up-thing's not going to happen any time soon.

So here's a partial tour of our new house as it looks right now, and maybe someday (if and when things ever get arranged like we want them) I'll do another "official" tour.

To the right of the front door:

The Living Room

(looking left from the front door)

The Dining Room:

The Kitchen:

(to be continued...)

Firewood

Yesterday we had firewood delivered to our house,

and all four of the kids worked together and turned this:

into this:

I'm telling you, these kids are handy to have around!

I Like Cats

I like cats.

I like taking pictures.

So I took some pictures of our new cats.

And, since this is MY blog, I can post those pictures of our new cats if I want to...

and then YOU can decide if you want to look at them or not.

Everyone's happy this way!

Maria

(She's the only girl, and my youngest daughter picked her name. I've been singing "How do you solve a problem like Maria..." - from The Sound of Music - for days now.)

Tommy

(I know, a tomcat named Tommy doesn't sound very original, but my middle daughter named him Tommy in all innocence because she likes the name. I'm not going to enlighten her.)

Billy

(I have no idea why my oldest daughter picked the name Billy.)

Grocery List

We've got family here this weekend, so I went into town yesterday morning before they came to get supplies to make homemade ice cream.

On my grocery list:

milk

cream

eggs

kittens?!?

cat food?!?

Hey, it was MY list!

8-24-2011 = 15!

Yesterday was our 15th anniversary!

There were candles, music, a romantic dinner and flowers...just not at our house, and not for us!

We opted for time shared in the bright sunshine instead of candles. I helped my husband work on the roof of the pump house while tools, kids and a dog provided the "music". When we called it a day, he helped me with dinner (which was yummy, and fed all six of us), and dandelions in the yard filled the flower requirement.

That's my idea of romantic!

*Editor's note: Deeper thoughts on marriage coming soon...when I'm not so busy spending time with my husband!) :)