Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Our new home (again)!

For those of you who don't know... we moved! This is our old place in Ashland  in the process of packing up... what a mess!
Here. Kieran helps sweep out the moving truck... we had just finished unloading the last of our belongings into the garage of our new home in Jefferson City...

And here's our new house in Jeff... this is an older picture that we took when we first saw the house... pretty nice, huh?  It's about a nine year old ranch walk-out on nearly an acre lot at the end of a street that backs to woods... in other words- just about perfect for us!

A rear view... loving the screened in porch and can't wait to add on to the deck... one of many future projects we have planned ;)

View from the porch...

Kieran enjoying a little breakfast in our eat-in kitchen with doors to porch/deck... 

More of the kitchen... we did a little painting this morning before breakfast ;)

Opposite view of kitchen (another older pic...) 

As you can see, Neko has settled in just fine ;) This is the living room... it was a tricky space to arrange furniture in...  but I think we found a layout that will work for us... now to hang the art...

Koshka napping below the living room window... he's a little less settled than Neko... but he's getting there :)

Kieran's new room (practically identical to his old room ;) we just finished painting this room- it had been a very dark blue and is now a silvery blue-green (a pretty nice color we found in the miss-tints at Menards)... this room will have a geography theme as Kieran is very interested in countries and continents right now.

Our bedroom... still a bit of a mess... but coming along... I love the bay window :)


An older pic of the master bath... it's a total mess right now...  no towel racks for some weird reason...

An older pic of the soaking tub... both Kieran and I LOVE this tub and have already used it a couple times ;) We will be adding a door to the adjacent shower this month... so many projects and plans.... so little time/money!

The basement is coming along... nearly half of it is basically Kieran's play space... he's pretty happy with this arrangement, as you can imagine ;)

The other half of the basement (at least the finished part) with a family room space (note the lack of 2nd tv  ;) and Rick's studio area with a 3/4 bathroom to the right. Our future plans for the basement include walling off the office space to create a 4th bedroom and adding a dog door through the unfinished shop area that exits to a run... oh and at some point we want to add a small kitchenette'/wet-bar in the little room that is now a reading nook...

Kieran's first find in his big, back yard... a three-toed box turtle!

He is pretty excited about this turtle... :)

We released the little guy in the small stream that runs through our back yard and guess what... he was still there this morning!

I read that these turtles like strawberries and mulberries (which we have a lot of in our yard) so we gathered him a little feast ;)

One cool kid!

Our turtle visitor with his spoils ;)

Another fun find- a slug... Probably won't seem so great once we start a garden, but for now it's pretty great!

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