July 4, 2009--Our new house

We moved into our new house this week. We moved most of our "need to live with" stuff over on Wednesday and I unpacked that Thursday and Friday, and also went back to box up the rest of the stuff we didn't get. Today we moved almost everything else. There are a few things still we didn't get, but we'll have to get them later. We had several friends, mostly from our church, come out and help us load up in their trucks. Since we're only moving about fifteen minutes away we didn't have to worry about getting a moving truck this time.

We loaded most of the boxes up on the enclosed front porch and it'll take me some time to go through them all. First we need to get carpet installed in the upstairs, though. I just hope I can find the kids' green 4-H record books. The 4-H fair is next Saturday. I really didn't realize we were moving this close to the fair. I thought it was closer to the end of the month. So we've been trying to finish up 4-H projects and move into a new house at the same time. It's been absolutely crazy.

Tonight we're hopefully going to go see fireworks if it stops raining. We also have band practice in about 45 minutes and we're going to be playing for our church Sunday morning. So the day isn't over yet.

Here are a few pictures of the house we bought. This is the outside:

This is the kitchen. It's so big! I'm hoping to buy a bigger table soon (one with matching chairs!) that will seat eight. This table really is only supposed to seat six, although we crammed in a couple of extra chairs. The kitchen in the parsonage was kind of small and we couldn't fit a bigger table in it.

I love this range--it has an electric grill built into it. We grilled hot dogs for supper tonight. It might be a rainy 4th of July, but we can still grill!

The house has two living areas. One of them has a fireplace with an woodburning insert. This will be nice in the winter.

Here is a picture of the first living room, after we put in the furniture. I'm going to have to do something about those blinds--they are really ugly.

Here's the second living room--the one with the fireplace, although it doesn't show in this picture.

This is the downstairs bedroom, but we're going to turn it into an office/library. Right now we're using it as our bedroom because the upstairs needs work.

There are four bedrooms upstairs and a bathroom. Right now one of the bedrooms and the bathroom are full of junk. The other three bedrooms need carpet, but they are livable, so the kids have their mattresses on the floor up there for now. After we get them carpeted we'll move up the rest of their furniture. This is apicture of Joy and Sarah's room, which is pretty typical of the upstairs bedrooms.