Littlefields of Dreams: Our House!

We've been in our new house for just shy of 2 months and we are LOVING it! Of course it's come with its' own set of problems (needing a new water heater, new ac, lawn that is 70% weeds and backyard that is basically a jungle), but we are loving the new life which is much more relaxed, quiet, and a lot more conducive to having a little one.

I don't know if I ever really explained why we moved. It's mostly Jack's fault. (Just kidding...but seriously...) I had posted a few months back about the trickiness that would ensue as Mark would be starting school again in the fall and I'd be back to working in the evenings in my office. Currently Mark works 2 days a week 6:30-3:30, and then goes to school until 7pm. While he is home earlier on the other days, he still has schoolwork and Jack is still a bit of a handful to multi-task with. He was never and still isn't the baby who will sit happily in a swing or play on his own for very long- first child problems for sure! It was one thing to not see Mark in the evenings when it was just us, but I didn't like having only 1 night a week and every other weekend with my family. Anyways, with that and the stress of other things wearing me down, I just didn't feel like I was giving my job 100% and I didn't feel like it was fair to my future RA's to only be able to give 70% when I ask them for 100%. So when we started looking for a house, and realized that it was within our financial reach, we started to hunt seriously and within 2 months, found this one.

The neighborhood is awesome. Neighbors are great, and Jack LOVES watching the kids play in the cul de sac. It's also super quiet during the day so our walks are pretty peaceful. In the afternoons we like to find a shady spot on the "grass" and just sit and watch cars go by, trees move, and enjoy not being cooped up in the house. We live pretty close to the school he will most likely attend when he is older so it's fun to be close, keep an eye on it and get the scoop from other parents what it's like.

Facebook had our original photos of the empty house. Here are pictures with our things in the house. Not super exciting stuff, but for those that want to have a look. Don't judge on the bland-ness. I ran out of time and energy to paint the kitchen as originally planned, and we haven't done much in the way of "window treatments" for the main room. We are kind of boring people so it only makes sense that our house is a little boring right? =)

House details:
4 bedroom 3 bathroom
Technically 4 floors with 28 stairs...can you say BABY GATES??

Kitchen/LR area

Main entrance. The door to the left of the main door goes to the garage. The other one is a coat closet. One day when we have a little more money this will be a nice sitting room.

Stairs to basement. Downstairs there is another small family room, small bedroom, and then a laundry room with another bathroom attached.

Kitchen area--for accuracy and stalker's sake, Jack's high chair is now closer to the table so we can ~~feed him~~ include him more at dinner time.

Upstairs spare bedroom. We use this room for our nightly bedtime routine of a story, scripture and family kisses.

Our bedroom-- it's been too warm to use the actual fancy comforter from our bedspread, please excuse the clashing! We even found curtains to match those colors so once cooler weather sets in, the room will look great!

Bathroom with the little water closet off to the right. Still trying to figure out how to decorate without making the counters cluttered again.

Again with the blandness. This tub took FOREVER to clean out. We'd fill it, turn the jets on and they would spew out dirt.

Upstairs guest bathroom/Jack's future bathroom.

Jack's bedroom.

I ran out of time to go overboard with the nautical theme. The bottom is a picture of Jack on his blessing day being held by his 2 Grandmas. He smiles every time he sees this picture.