{Home Sweet Home}

Now that we have lived here for two weeks (as of today) I thought it was about time to post some pictures to give you a tour of our new home!  We absolutely love our house and are so happy we get to live here.  So without further ado:



Ta-da!

 

A very sleepy yet excited Casey and Molly waking up
after staying our first night in our new home on an air mattress :-)

 

Master bath with walk-in shower.



I love our tile!



Master vanity (don't worry there's now a mirror in the frame).



Our closet (swoon!).



Baby's room.  Can't wait to bring him/her home to be with us :-)

 

Guest room / Baby #2's room.



Built-in shelves in upstairs hallway.



The laundry chute!!!
It dumps straight into a cupboard in our laundry room.



Guest/kids' bath (the mirror is now in here, too).



Bonus room aka Casey's man cave.



Stairwell.  (I love having that window there!)



Master bedroom.

Dining room.  (Hard to see I know but basically it's three walls
with the fourth open to the kitchen and a light fixture in the middle.)

  

Our backyard.  Plenty of room for a BBQ's, a swing set and a garden.



Oh kitchen how I love thee.



Living room as seen from kitchen.
(The buckets of paint have now been relocated to the garage where they belong.)

 

Eek!  One of my favorite purchases ever.
I have wanted these for soooo long.



Powder room (downstairs).



Mudroom (right when you walk in from the garage).



Front room / sewing room.



Front door / entry way.

 

We woke up to snow our first morning in our new house.
It was fun and magical and glorious!

These pictures were taken when our house was all shiny and pretty looking.  It's still gorgeous, don't get me wrong, but the overall vibe is a bit cluttered with all the boxes strewn about.  Hopefully soon we'll have most things put away and feel semi-organized.  I'm hoping to at least have the kitchen/living/dining rooms all put together this week so I can decorate for Christmas.  We are loving our home so much and feel so blessed and lucky to get to live here and raise our family here.  And we'd love to have you over so if you want to visit and poke your head around just let us know :-)

{Home Building: Week Eight}

I don't have any recent pictures but holy cow our house is almost done!  We close next Friday and move in Thanksgiving week.  We can't wait!

And in other news we are already in the 2nd trimester!

So much excitement for the Babendures this fall :-)

{Home Building: Weeks Six and Seven}

More house pics from the last few weeks.  Things are really moving!

Week six

View from our bedroom

Case in baby's room

It's painted!

Living room/Great room

Mudroom shelving

Casey's bonus room

Baby's room! The color doesn't really come across very nicely in these pictures.
It's a gorgeous soft blue-y/green-y/gray color. I ♥ it.

Looking into my office/sewing room

Fireplace for chilly winter nights :-)

Best. Pantry. Ever.

I love those big windows

Awesome master closet

Looking out toward the backyard

More awesome windows

House as of today

Kitchen parts!  Soon to be rearranged into an actual kitchen :-)

Yay hardwood

Built-ins!

 Just a few more weeks to go...

{Home Building: Weeks Four and Five}

Wowzers, the house is really coming along!  We should be moving in about a month from now.  It's looking really good and I'm really excited to see the whole thing come together.  We're very ready to be reunited with our kitties and we're ready to have all of our belongings in one place.  When we separated out our stuff before moving we thought we'd be in a house by now (we were originally planning on buying, not building) but alas we are not so we are making things work.  We know they are just things in storage but a lot of those things so make our lives easier and better so we'll be thrilled when we liberate our possessions from their exile in the storage unit.  I've been taking house pictures, just haven't really had time to post them until now.  Okay, enough chat, here are some pics from the last several weeks:

Week six has already passed but I didn't include it in this post since I didn't take any pictures last week (bad Molly).  They have installed and painted the trim, completed the laundry chute (Squeal! I'm so excited about it!), finished and painted the siding, and done lots of little things inside.  Worry not, faithful readers, more pics to come soon :-)