Our New Digs

Here are some pictures of our new digs!  I know you all have been dying to see what seminary student housing looks like, right?  ;-)  Well, at least my mom has.  So here you go mom:

We're in one of the family duplexes.  There's a whole bunch of these surrounding a cul de sac in our little neighborhood.  It's very quaint!

Living room

Front entry/Living Room.  The other doorway you see there goes into the kids' playroom.  Upstairs is our room, a half bath and the office.

Standing in the kitchen, looking into the living room.  Shoe storage in the lockers and a drop station on the counter there.  The door you see leads down to the basement (kids' bedrooms and laundry/storage).  If you continued to the right, you'd hit the other entrance into the playroom and our main bath.

Full view of the kitchen.  It looks big, but it's not.  The drawers are small and shallow and there isn't a ton of cabinet space.  But it works for now.

This has nothing to do with anything, but I had to share how prettily my cabinets are organized.  Okay, okay- full disclosure, I had to remove a couple bags of stuff tossed on top of the cute bins before I could take the picture.  But in theory, it would look like this all the time.  ;-)

Dining room.  

Family Organizing Center.  <3

The kids' teeny tiny playroom.  Those magazine holders are how we organize our children's books.  They're sorted into categories/series/authors and labeled with a photo.  

Liliana's "housekeeping" center.  She's been cooking food for the whole neighborhood.

Main bath

Micah's room.  He has the biggest room in the house, but when someone asked him about it, he still said "it's a little small."  While it may be "small" in his opinion, it's also way awesome!  Who wouldn't want a carpetball table in their bedroom!?!?!

Carpetball AND foosball.  He also has an entertainment center/TV that isn't shown.

Liliana in her butterfly bed.  The basement rooms aren't exactly the prettiest and we can't paint or anything, but this helped girl it up a bit.

Dress up/ponies and Rex's cage tucked back in the corner.

Her armoire, dollhouse, vanity and something I'm working on for organizing her clothes, but I haven't quite figured out how to jimmy-rig it yet.

We don't have a garage, so everything is shoved in this one narrow/long room.  Plus our laundry.  Plus my treadmill and workout mats.  Yeesh!

Upstairs is our office/craft room and bedroom, so we've been able to completely ban the kids from that level of the house.    It's pretty awesome!  

I can't wait to sit at that table and look out the window and sew (once we can take out the window air unit that is).  And yes, that is a beer fridge in the corner.  :-P  Seminary is stressful.

So there it is.  Home sweet home!