Home Sweet Home

It has been a busy week. We secured a house, enrolled Kiley for school, and enrolled Robyn for daycare! Things are moving fast. Now, if we can just sell our house. Although, it doesn't need to sell too fast because we don't really have anywhere to be for a while yet. We are in limbo for a while longer. We want to be settled by June 1 for Brad to start school in August. And the house in Little Rock is not ready yet. We decided to rent a house because it got us in the school district we wanted and we figure it will be less headache in the long run. It is a pretty sweet neighborhood! We will be the riff raff on the block surrounded by half million dollar homes. The home is older with a lot of charm. We will be downsizing to two bedrooms. Over the weekend, we took a few pictures of the house. These are the 'before' photos, complete with baggy jean carpenters. Try not to lust. These are in reverse order so if you just want to see the outside of the house, scroll down a bit. We hope to renovate some over the next few weeks and will try to post some 'after pictures'.



This is the downstairs bathroom. Most likely where Brad and I will be getting ready in the mornings.


Here is my favorite feature...the woodburning fireplace!!! I can't wait. If it is summer before we move in, my family may just have to endure our house as a sweat lodge for the first few days.


This is the rest of the basement with a beverage center.


Upstairs bathroom. AKA the girls bathroom.


This is the girls bedroom. We will be putting in bunk beds and Kiley has requested pink for the color. We are in negotiation about what shade of pink.


Here is the master bedroom. It has one full wall of windows and another full wall of closets. So, furniture placement will be limited.


Here is a before of the Kitchen. We will do some updating but not much. Although we did talk the landlord into continuing the new hardwood floors into this area. Yay!!


And here is the main living/dining combo area upstairs. I think we will forego the baby blue. But I welcome color suggestions as I am kind of stuck on what I think I want to do.


Here is the back of the house. The back yard is fully fenced so Duke will be fine.


And here is the front of the house. I won't change much but will hopefully update the landscaping a bit and paint the door a different color if allowed.

We are getting excited about the move but feel like there is a lot yet to be done. We will be selling some of our furniture to help make the transition and would love to have help moving...hint, hint!! We have had an amazing amount of support and are getting ready for this next phase. I think 2009 is going to be a lot better than the last few years have been.

Kiley and Robyn will be going to great schools that come highly recommended. Really, little else matters. We are lucky to have some contacts in LR that have been guiding us in the right direction. It has taken away a lot of the guessing about where to live, where to send the kids to school, etc. What a blessing!

Please keep the prayers coming. Specifically, please pray that we will sell our house soon so we can stop making house payments plus rent payments. Our wallets are getting very thin. Peace and love...