Our first pets

We have been telling the boys all along that once we are moved we will get some cats and a dog.  They are very excited about this.  Well, some friends of ours had some kitties they wanted to give away so we took them.  We are out there at least once a day anyway.  The boys love them.  They come from a home with a 3 year old so they are incredibly tolerant...perfect for us!

Jackson named them (with NO help) Buttercup, Lola, and Rosebud.  They all look exactly the same so I guess those names are interchangeable.

Floors!

The carpet and upstairs bathroom vinyl got installed last week!  We got all our flooring from Furniture Showcase, and I LOVE it all!

 Our bedroom

 This is my favorite!  Upstairs bathroom.  The downstairs bathroom will be the exact same, the entry way/laundry room will be the same style just gray instead of brown.

 Jackson's room, carpet doesn't photograph very well, but you get the idea.

 Tristan's room

 Stairs, upstairs hallway and loft room are all the same carpet

Living room

I've already vacuumed :)  

Painting done! Next up, flooring...

I am so happy so share that I'm done painting!  ...for now.  I have to remind myself that there are 3 rooms that haven't even been drywalled, so they will need to be painted at some point as well.

 Master bedroom.  I decided that I was going to do this room in MY favorite color, so it is purple!  Good thing Karsten doesn't really care!  The color on the left is just a shade darker than the one on the right.  I did the 3 walls on the left the darker color and then the rest of the room the lighter color.  This is looking at the closet (doorway on the left) and the master bathroom on the right.  This bathroom is one of those rooms that isn't even drywalled.  It will likely be the last room we do.

Looking at the other side of the master bedroom, this is the lighter color.  I'm very happy with it.

 Karsten has also tried out his skill with laminate!  This is the formal entry in the living room, the rest of the room will be carpet.  Anybody see that kid in the closet?!

And he got the dining room done.  I've never had laminate flooring before but I really like what we picked out!  Thanks Furniture Showcase!  This same flooring will be in the kitchen, but he can't finish it until the cabinets are are in.

The carpet and vinyl will be installed this week!  Stay tuned for pictures!

Still painting...

I had another long day of painting last Friday.  Luckily, Mom came out for the morning and then my good friend Jill and her daughter Jessica came to help for a few hours.  It goes so much faster when there's more than one person. As of today....the downstairs is completely done except for the kitchen pantry and the living room closet, the boys' room are completely done, upstairs hallway and bathroom are done and the loft room has first coat.  All that I have left is master bedroom, second coat loft room and the previously mentioned closets!  Another couple days and I'll have it done!  

 Tristan's room

 Jackson's room

 upstairs hallway

 loft room

 Kitchen!  I love the lights and cabinets.  Unfortunately, we had a couple issues with some measurements of a couple of the cabinets so it will be a couple weeks before they will all be up.   

 Dining room, have I mentioned how much I love this giant window?

Living room

I know some people think it's boring to have basically the same color throughout the house but it's really what I wanted.  The house has very large doorways from room to room which makes it very open so I really wanted the colors to "flow" well.  Plus, I really don't want to get tired of a color soon because I do NOT plan on painting for a very.long.time :)

Spiderman?

We woke up one morning last week and found Tristan sleeping like this....

We thought he kinda looked like Spiderman.  He didn't come downstairs until nearly an hour later so it must have been comfortable.  He's such a funny kid!