Our House

We sold most of our furniture before moving to Charlotte and then we sold most of what we got in Charlotte again before moving back to the Northwest (Thanks Craigslist!). Having been students for so long most of what we had was not worth paying to move. When we moved into our house we had a couch, beds for everyone, two dressers, a rocking chair, a couple bookshelves and lots of books, toys, clothing and other smaller knick knacks. So... Here are a couple pictures of Ri and T eating breakfast on the deck (we didn't have a table and the boys wanted to be outside and I couldn't think of a good reason to say no, other than it was a little chilly... aren't they adorable?!

We still don't have a lot of furniture, but we did manage to get a pottery barn farm table and schoolhouse chairs on craigslist (again, did I mention how much a love craigslist?) and a couple months later I found the matching pottery barn bar stools on CL. Ry's sister was redoing her house and generously gave us a beautiful cream and red computer armoir and entertainment center. Ry and I spent every night for a week painting the entertainment center a cream color and I absolutely love how it looks in our family room. We also spent a couple weeks decorating and furnishing our office. Our living room and dining room are still empty, but the boys love the extra space. With the wood floors its almost like their own gym... I think they'll be disappointed when it is finally furnished.

This fall we painted the boys rooms blue and they chose wall decals online to decorate. Ri chose trains (big surprise!) and T chose a mix of vehicles, a firetruck, train, cement truck and two airplaines. When we first moved into our rental house in Charlotte Ri kept coloring the walls with crayons (he really went to town one day while my parents were visiting - Grandma L took me to Costco while Grandpa J watched the boys. Grandpa dozed off and Ri took advantage and colored all over the place!) We finally figured out that Ri thought once we lived in a house we would have colored walls (as opposed to our white apartment walls) we explained to him about paint (as opposed to crayons) and promised him once we bought our own house we would paint his room.