Our House

By popular demand, I have cleaned, scrubbed,sweeped,mopped,dusted, re-arranged and have taken pictures of my house for all to see!! I have to admit I'm very proud of myself for what I've accomplished in such little time. I don't think my house has been this squeaky clean sense we moved in, not that you can really tell in the pictures. I took the pictures myself as well, so they're kinda screwy , not professional in anyway, but the best I could do! So I put the pictures on here in order from walking in the front door, so hopefully the captions will go with the pictures no problem, if not I'm sure it won't be hard to figure out what goes with what. So here we are, the front of the house, we are the third from the end, there are six in this town house complex thingy. Each on looks different on the outside, thank goodness; but from what I've seen all the floor plans are the same. As you walk in, your in the family room, directly across from the front door is a large coat closet, there's no picture, but its to the left of the armourer. The armourer contains extra blankets, Board games, and all of joeys old game cube games and the game cube. My mom decorated the top with my old fashion hat boxes, old fashion hat and my fun pictures, I love it so much!

Continuing in to the room you see our lovely family room, and window seat!!! I love the window seat, I absolutely love it! I've always wanted one, but I always thought it would be in my bed room and I would sit on it and read or day dream out the window! but I like this one better! When we first moved in my mom pretty much decorated my house, with my help of course, I've left most of it, if not all of it, the way she put it. Like the pillows on the ground in front of the window, I liked them there, but now we leave them there because Roxy likes to sleep on them. Its pleasing to the eye and useful, you can't ask for more then that. Yes that's Teddy from Vermont on the window seat with one of my other bears, I took this picture not only because its cute, but because (if you haven't read my other blog about Teddy you need to) he is part of the family and helping out by being a decoration! Roxy is no longer hell bent of destroying my teddy bears, so I can put them out, though sparingly. If I put them all out I'm afraid there will be a causality. There's quite a difference between two bears and twenty, one could go missing and I wouldn't catch it until it was too late!

Now on to our right you can see that it opens up into another cute little room. We didn't know what to do with this room, I wanted a sitting room to read in, but both couches wouldn't fit in the family room with the TV. So we did a lot of re-arranging and placing and trying it this way and that way and came down to what you see now. I love the pillars don't you. Yeah they were the whole reason we had all that trouble! But we like it this way and it works out really well. Behind the couch is a small bathroom. that's where I am taking the other picture. Amber can you tell what movie I'm watching? I'll give you a hint, this question is easier to answer then if I asked you what my birthday is! Mom you could probably guess this pretty easily too. And if Amber's as weird as I am Grant can guess too!

Still continuing to the right, here in the corner is another of my moms wonderful decorating ideas, which I love with all my heart! She was shocked at how much flatware we have that we don't use, and it all matches! So I turned my back and began to unload another box, when I was done, this master piece was all put together. If you don't like it to bad, I do. I add the painting my Sister in Law Lacey made for me, and my cute little dress statuette with the yellow ribbon that matches my centerpiece on the kitchen table. That's a picture of Joey and his siblings, there on the floor, as first I wasn't sure I liked it down there, but now I think it adds just a little something, and now i like it. And if you look carefully there are small bears hanging from the shelf's, look close and you can see three of them, the four has fallen and is being fixed up. Now if you turn around you are facing the kitchen.
Fridge, microwave, stove/oven, cabinets, sink, dishwasher; its all here! Lots of storage, more in the island, I really like the island. Even though I've tried to keep everything so clean for the pictures, I can never completely keep dishes out of the sink, there's always at least one! The next pictures are kinda random, though still important to my house. The picture of the tiny bathroom in the hall, its actually decorated really cute, but I couldn't get a good angle, so this one will have to do.

I know you can't see it very well, but those aren't floating ribbons, they're actually tied to a vase. I love the bear figurine next to it, the boy bear is giving the girl bear a flower and she's blushing! The pillow in the basket says Irish! there's also another bear next to the basket. Bears are seriously taking over my house, you should look in my closet!


Here's my beautiful kitchen table. You really can't see whats on it. Two glass cookie jars, ones bigger then the other. The biggest one has fake cookies in it and a yellow ribbon is tied around it, the smaller one has yellow pears (fake also) in it. There's also a willow tree figurine next to them, its a girl angel bending down holding a yellow chick, Angel of Miracles. If you've noticed willow trees are taking over my house as much as bears are. Not to worry though, they live quite happily together! The reason there are only two Charis at the table is because the other two are up stairs in joey's office . To the left of the kitchen table is a sliding glass door that leads out to the porch, we have a tiny bit of privacy, only two short fences on both sides (short length not height) Its raining so I didn't get a picture of out side sorry. I'll post one later. Now up the stairs we go!
This is our bedroom, again, my angle isn't so good so you don't see Joeys side of the bed at all, but really do you want to?Now what you don't see which is unusual is that there are no books on my bed side table, usually there are like three to five at once, currently they are all hiding so I don't look like a such a slob. behind me is our bathroom and on the other side, next to the second window that you can't really see is our closet. This next picture is of Joey and Roxy in Joeys office/Roxy's room, he's such a hard worker. The office is directly across to hall from our room. The laundry room/closet is in the middle.

See the cute little doors that close so you don't have to see the washer and dryer? yeah thanks to them the dryer door only opens half way, lucky huh! I'm not complaining really, I think its funny. So to the left of the office is another guest room. this room is where I keep all my girl stuff, books, crafts, puzzles, nail stuff etc. At the moment though it is completely trashed. This is the only room I didn't clean. I was looking for something the other day, and i was in a hurry, so I through everything that was in the closet onto the air mattress, the closet is now empty(except for a box full of bears). I wasn't going to take a picture of it, but I thought it was funny so I did anyway. Oh my little book shelf there to the left is always overflowing and cluttered so that's actually the way it always looks! I have to many books and nowhere to put them. The dresser in the corner has three more bears on it, is anyone keeping track? Last but not least is our guest bathroom upstairs. It is directly across from my craft room. Its bigger and nicer then the master bath. I'm kinda jealous, but I like to keep it clean so I don't ever use it.

And this concludes our tour of my new house, Its joeys too so i need to give him some credit, because of him all of this is possible. Thank you for taking time out of your day to look over my house. So if any of you want to come over and visit, we have room, I promise the guest room will be cleaned up! The couches are very very comfy as well, and if all else fails I know Roxy won't mind sharing!