November 14, 2012

First House!!

As promised, here are some pictures of the house. Sadly, I somehow totally spaced getting a picture of the front of the house... don't know how that happened!
Here's the enclosed porch (the plan is to build a hanging swing bench thing).  We keep our mini trampoline out there.  The girls love to jump on it in the winter.
Front door
Front room as you walk in the front door. Yes, we have big plans to update this room and take the wallpaper down. It's the first thing on our long to do list.

And do something with this fireplace... any suggestions? :) We haven't quite figured what we are going to do with that yet. But I do love the long mantle!
Master Bedroom- we plan to paint the trim and ceiling white (it's cream now) and paint the walls a lighter color.

Master closet- love the shelves that it came with!  There's a tie rack on the wall that is Devin's favorite part of the house. :)
Master Bathroom- We were planning on painting it, but the color is growing on me. And I think we are getting tired of painting. :)


Family Room
Kitchen that opens up into the family room. The kitchen is my favorite part of the house. It's huge! The cabinets are all new. The big ones on the bottom all have pull out drawers.  The fridge and gas stove came with the house.  Their is also a pantry. Tons of space.

... and now upstairs ...
Upstairs bathroom, complete with a claw-foot tub. We plan to paint this room, make new curtains, and custom doors to cover the shelves.
Bedroom
The girls room. We plan to paint this turquoise blue with one pink wall. And paint the baseboards white.
Take the lovely vinyl quote off the wall.
And paint the door white.
This is the side of the house. The driveway goes along the side and wraps around the back of the house to the two car garage.
Most of the houses in Baker are pretty old and run down. (We don't even have a Walmart, but we have at least 4 hardware stores haha)  But we thought this one had character and great potential. Now let the work begin! :) 

November 2, 2012

Fall Fun

We had so much family come to help us move into our house. It was so great! We couldn't have done it without them! Honestly!
Mckenna loves our two huge trees in the front yard. I see many days ahead spent outside playing in the piles and piles of leaves.

November 1, 2012

Moving...Again

Yes, you read that right. We are moving.... again. But, this time it will be a bit more permanent.  After looking at every single house that was an option in this little town of Baker City, we found one we like! So, we are packing up once again. 

These girls sure know how to make moving boxes fun!





October 31, 2012

The Return of the Chicken

Remember this???
The famous chicken has returned! We were in the process of closing on our house in October, and I didn't quite get to making a new costume for Brielle, poor girl! Good thing she loves hand-me-downs :). (Though I don't know how much longer that old costume will last. We left a trail of feathers everywhere we went)
Brielle and her cute friend, Olive.

The chicken costume did not disappoint! It's so fun to see strangers pass by and smile as they see our silly chickens.  Brielle even made it into our local newspaper!



Mckenna is loving the Tangled movie and wanted to be Rapunzel. Her favorite part was the long hair that she got to wear.

Devin had to work late on Halloween. So the girls and I braved the Baker Main Street trick or treating. We also stopped by Devin's work to see daddy. Then we went to the ward trunk or treat. Busy night and lots of candy!


Oh how I love these cute girls!

October 23, 2012

Fun in the Sun

Here's a few more pictures of Sun Valley that I forgot about.  Devin was at his conference, so I had big plans to take cute pictures of the girls... my plan TOTALLY failed... haha
The girls had a plan of their own... to not cooperate.  They were both kinda grumpy! This is about as good as I got haha

No, there were a few good ones.