Closing Today!

Here is a more recent photo of our new house! (Well, it will be around 11:00 a.m. today :)
This is the backyard. The white room is a 3-seasons room.
Here is another angle of the back of the house. The living room is on the left and the bedrooms on the right. The bottom windows are part of the family room in the 1/2 basement.
The little blue building is a gardening shed.
This corner, which looks amazingly dead right here, will probably be the location for next year's garden.Unfortunately, this white fence is hanging over the neighbor's property...The backyard lawn does not look like this anymore... we had the electric line trenched and that ripped up the lawn diagonally all the way across the yard (as well as breaking almost every sprinkler line our yard had). We are very excited to start moving. God worked the timing out perfectly. We were not sure we could close today because the electrician was still working at 9 p.m. last night and our church friend was still working on the garage venting yesterday late afternoon but it looks like it is all done in time. I wish you could all help me move and set up home :)

Moving Process

I apartment looks a little better than this now (since most of the boxes are gone) but I thought I would share a little of the chaos of the last week. Here is a shot of our kitchen/dining area full of boxes. We don't own a table small enough to fit here so it is not the dining room. We do however have a dishwasher which is a Godsend since we have a small single sink and very little counter space. When the dish washer is running the hot water for our apartment (and I think our building ) does not work because we have very little hot pressure. I have to choose times when I think other apartment dwellers are out of the building to do laundry and do the dishes. This is our living room/bedroom. We are glad for the futon which helps transform the space to a usable living room during the day. I will have to admit i don't sleep to well on it but this too shall pass. :) The air conditioner (which I can't reach) up on the left hand corner is very helpful in blocking the street noise as we live downtown. I appreciate the big window plus the other 2 windows in the living room because they are keeping my plants alive so far and make the place much cheerier. the precious tenant left 2 bookshelves (score 2 for Andrew! :) and an entertainment center so we have a place for our books and little t.v. :) We also moved in our other 3 bookshelves so there are bookshelves almost lining the walls. I think it is a dream come true for Andrew, being surrounded in books :). I use 2 of the shelves for pantry/appliances which really helps since there are very few cupboards. This is a pile of paper I unpacked from about 1/3 of our boxes. It almost reaches the ceiling! I know that the movers did not want to break anything but this is a little over kill! Especially when I went to unpack this box and found that every single one of my spices was packed INDIVIDUALLY! No wonder it took the movers about 11 1/2 hours!!! (I was trying to figure out how they could ever move a family of 4+ in a day if it took this long for a family of 2!) not to mention we had about 1/2 the stuff packed already for them!
I think Lucy was the only one that loved all the paper :) I am happy to report that our temporary home is just about in a state of normalcy. Almost all the boxes are out and the paper is all gone. I have to still decide exactly how I want things to be set up but it is very livable now. I will hopefully post some pictures of our apartment in a clean state soon. I have to come to the library to post things now so it will take a little longer than it used to. Hope you all are doing well!