Settling In

We have had a great couple of weeks.  One of the things that has happened is that we finally got our long awaited crate.  It was a very exciting couple of days as we unpacked and re-discovered many of our old favorites as well as unwrapping lots of new goodies we'd bought for our home here.  There were lots of ohhs and ahhs as we unpacked.

Here are some photos of the truck backing in the gate. 

Getting closer...

Opening the door.  At this point, the stuff looked like it had just been dumped out of the crates into the box truck.  I was pretty nervous.

Here's much of the stuff piled on the carport.

Here's some of the carnage piled in the school room.

Here's Lizzy... reunited and it feels so good!

Here's the rainbow that appeared during our crate unpacking.  It was pretty darn meaningful to me!

With the arrival of our stuff, we finally feel like we're settling in.  You may remember that I mentioned our DIY disaster of kitchen cabinet painting a while back.  Our kitchen looked something like this, and on the counter you can't see, the tiles were popping off left and right.

Then Ryan went to work with a carpenter, a plumber, some tile guys, and a painter.  

Now it looks like this...

It turned out a little darker than I'd hoped, but all in all,  I'm really happy with it.  

We've gotten all of our goodies unpacked, we've had several pieces of furniture made, and the house really feels like it's ours now.  Here are a few more pics...

 Above is our dining area.

 This is Abby's room.  It's really, really pink!  Let's just say that the color palette is pretty limited here.  She's happy though, so that's what matters.

 Here is the girl's room.  They are last on the furniture making list because they have the nicest of the loaner furniture.

 Here is our room.  

Here is the living room.  That media cabinet is missing a TV that we haven't purchased yet.  We actually have an LG store here in our town that we plan to buy a TV from, but we decided we don't need it until the opening ceremonies of the Olympics, so we've been purchasing furniture first.  

That's it, a little tour of our home now that we've settled in!