Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Moving soon!

Simply because Randy and I don't have enough going on in our lives with a new baby on the way, a very active 2 year old (ALMOST!!), a new associate vet starting at Lakeside and a renovation/addition starting soon at Lakeside, we found a new house that we both fell in love with an put an offer on. And, they accepted our offer! So, somewhere around August 13th, we should be in a new house. The only problem with this plan is that our current house is not on the market or anywhere near show ready! This should be fun...

We weren't really looking for a house but we were kinda browsing for a house. I hate to say we weren't looking because we were attending Open Houses. We really wanted a bigger house, a bigger yard (enough for a pool and some space for the kids/dog to play) and at a decent price. We found all of that with this new place. And, both sets of parents have seen it and put their stamps of approval on it. Although, they could actually hate it because I doubt they are going to tell us that!

So, it's time for picture overload. You don't have to look through them all, this is for documentation purposes for us! We love to go back and look at the pictures from when we were building this house (and they are easiest to find on the blog).

Front of house (with mom buckling Jacob in the car).



Kitchen from living room.



Closer view



Dining room (which will still be a playroom for a few years). Front door is directly to my right.



Butler's pantry. Dining room (again) on the right. To the left goes past the utility room and into the kitchen.



Living room. Built ins are not finished being painted.


Study with a beautiful ceiling!





Cute little boy showing us what it looks like with the doors closed.


This is just a few feet in the door, looking up.


Half bath downstairs


Master bedroom


Master bath






Guest room, upstairs



Guest closet, LOTS of storage for me!!



Full bath inside the guest room






Standing in the game room, upstairs, looking into the media room. There is a non enclosed area before the media room that will probably have Randy's computer.



Media room



Baby #2's bedroom



Some of the jack and jill bath that Jacob and #2 will share



Jacob's new bedroom



Game room



Part of the back yard. It is oddly shaped but will hold a pool by next summer (fingers crossed).


And, last, Jacob showing off the breakfast area.


As most of you know, Jacob turns 2 on Saturday. I hope to blog again after the party!

~ Nancy

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Playing at the mall

Jacob and I needed to hit up a real mall (Katy Mills is an outlet mall) yesterday, so we went to West Oaks Mall. It's terrible and should probably be closed down. However, the kids play area was definitely geared towards Jacob's age, so he loved it!

Here he is climbing in the tree



And then sliding down the slide



And, riding a horse



But then, the funniest thing ever happened. One of the older girls there went to lay down on the ground and put her legs up on one of the climbing structures. Jacob just stared at her and you could tell that he was trying to figure out what she was doing. Since he couldn't quite figure it out, he decided to lay down there with her for a little while.



It was all fun and games until Jacob decided to leave the play area, bare foot, with his sippy cup, looking back at me and laughing. The more serious I got and said "Stop" and "Freeze", the faster he walked. So, I had to chase him which he loved. Then, our playing was over!!

~Nancy

Monday, July 2, 2012

New toys needed

Would someone PLEASE buy this kid some toys? He doesn't have any so he has to play with bags full of dirty diapers. Poor baby...









~Nancy