Jul 29, 2008

Moved in

Friday we had a housewarming party.  We have been in the house for three weeks and had decided we needed a goal, so we threw ourselves a party and invited friends old and new in the area.  We had friends from our pre-school and elementary school days, college, and newly-made friends!  We borrowed a yard game from the Conards (German horse shoes?  Polish horse shoes?  whatever...) and had drinks and desserts for  everyone.

Included in the evening was a tour, so I've included pictures for anyone who couldn't make the party.  The house is a quad-level built in 1978.  There are some quirks to it, mostly from projects by the owners before the folks we bought it from.  It is great space for us, and we are definitely feeling home!  I hope you enjoy the "tour."

The entryway... the stained glass is from Ridge UMC's old fellowship hall.


View #1 of the front room.  The doorway to the right of the piano goes into the kitchen, as you can tell from the refrigerator.


View #2 of the front room, the front window.  It has a ledge, which we might put some pillows in some day.


Looking from the dining room into the kitchen.  Jeff's dad and my step-dad installed an above the range microwave.  The pantry door is back on, but we still have to repaint it.  (That's a fun story if you haven't heard it.)


Looking into the dining room from the kitchen, and further down into the family room.  You can also see the stairs up to the bedrooms. To the right of the dining room table is a sliding glass door that goes out onto our deck.


Dining room looking to the family room.  There's a fireplace (we need to have it inspected).  As you go down the stairs, you can turn to go down to the basement, or go out to the garage.  You can see the second sliding glass door between the dining room chair and table, that goes out onto a patio.  Kayla really likes lying in front of the door to be in the sun.


The stairs going up to the bedrooms.  There is a bathroom, then the master bedroom on the left, the guest room straight ahead, and the nursery on the right.  There are also two closets up there as well.

This is the nursery, obviously not yet moved in here yet.  :-)


Master bedroom.  Jeff and his dad hung new closet doors for me.  The old ones were also mirrored, but they weren't on the tracks right and needed replacing anyway.


Guest room.  Jeff's closet is on the right (the closets are smaller than the one we had in Indiana) which he volunteered to use.  We are still looking for a mattress and box spring, maybe a small dresser as well.


Basement office/exercise room.  The window has a "lovely" view of underneath the deck.


View #2 of the basement/office.  The box above the tv is the electrical box, and the door between the tv and the shelves goes into what could be made into a small bathroom.  It would have to be closed off from the laundry/utility area, but it has the piping and electrical stuff necessary.

So welcome to our casa!

Shalom,
Heather

Jul 14, 2008

Back in Kansas

This is my first blog entry living in Kansas.  We are in the process of getting things unpacked.  It was almost exactly a week ago this moment that the movers finished unloading all of our stuff...crazy.  

We had a mishap with the pantry door, and it is currently leaning up against the kitchen wall.  The short story is that it self-locked and we couldn't get it unlocked, so we tried taking it off the hinges (didn't work), breaking a couple of the slats to open it from the inside (still locked), and finally Jeff beat the heck out of the handle until it fell off and he could turn the mechanism with a pair of pliers.

Jeff started work on the first and hit the ground running.  I've been getting us unpacked and doing the "to-dos" in the meantime.  I start work tomorrow.  I will be leading the contemporary worship service at the West Campus for Lawrence 1st UMC, the church where Jeff and I met and were married.

Baby Clinger is doing well.  We're on our second doctor since leaving Indiana.  Back in April or May, I had set up an appointment with a doctor is the KC area for June 30.  When he walked in for the appointment, he told us he stopped doing OB on June 12th.  But his office was great--he recommended and had his office get us an appointment later that week with another doctor, whose office is actually closer to our house.  We were really bummed, because we had had a great experience at his office.  When we went to the next appointment, we went in thinking they had a lot to live up to, and they did!  The nurse, doctor, and office staff were great!  Yay!  

I have heard that some people would like to see "baby bump" pics.  Here's the story:  So far I have not intentionally taken any belly pics.  Really, there's no other time when anyone else wants to see the evolution of someone's belly, and we all know that my belly will keep getting bigger.  So you might get to see pictures of me that include my belly, but I'm not going to stand in the same pose month after month so you can see how big I'm getting.  Sorry.  However, here is a recent picture that shows the "bump."