Friday, July 22, 2011

Our New Home

Oh hi!



Welcome to our new home.

Yes, those are plants in my front yard. I did not put them there. Housing did and they expect me to keep everything alive.

Don’t worry about the plants. I’ll take care of them.

No, really, I will.

At least, I’ll try to.

Come inside. You don’t even have to take off your shoes.

Have a seat on our brand new couches.



They’re chocolate colored. Seriously, that was the name of the color so I knew I had to have them.

And also, dark brown covers stains that children (and messy adults) make.

Are you thirsty? I would be too. The weather we’re experiencing is the worst. Come down the hall into the kitchen.



What would you like a drink? I have water, Diet Coke, milk, and…well, that’s it. I drank all the sweet tea. Sorry.



The kitchen is nice, right? I hope I don’t mess it up. Want to see my favorite part of the kitchen?



The fridge with the water and ice maker. I’ve never had base housing come with a fancy fridge like that before. It’s probably sad that I consider a fridge that makes water and ice “fancy”, but there you go.

Would you like to sit down and chat? Come into the dining room.



Let’s discuss Brendan and Rachel on Big Brother. Do you wonder how Brendan puts up with her? Do you wonder if Brendan’s family is like, “Really, Brendan? This is the woman you want to marry?” Do you wonder if Brendan ever feels the urge to stuff a sock in her mouth so he won’t have to hear her annoying laugh?

Oh, you have to go to the bathroom? Go ahead.



Yes, that is a Titanic picture up there. I’m not just obsessed with the movie, I love all things Titanic. Yes, I realize that’s strange. Yes, I even want to go on the Titanic Cruise even though people tell me it’s morbid. I think cruises have their lifeboat issues worked out by now though.



Yes, that is my laundry room/cat room. Don’t go in there. Max the cat just took a dump and he’s not good about covering his treasures.

You want to see my garage? Err…okay, but it’s a mess.



Don’t say I didn’t warn you. I know. I have a lot of stuff in there. I’ll get it organized.

In the year 2012.

Let’s go upstairs.



I know, the stairs seem to go on forever. Try carrying a wooden nightstand up these stairs. Twice. With your mother. And getting the giggles halfway up.



Here’s Tommy’s room. Oh, careful, you almost stepped on a Transformer. Those things hurt when you step on them. I once had Bumblebee’s head wedged in the middle of my foot. I thought he was supposed to be the good guy.



This is Natalie’s room. Yes, she rearranged the word above her bed. It’s supposed to say Dream. I swear I can spell.



Here’s Natalie’s closet. Yes, those are all her shoes down there. And that’s not even all of them. Is it sad that she has more shoes than I do?



You need to use the bathroom again? Go ahead. This is the children’s bathroom and I just cleaned it so you won’t have to worry about a scary toilet. I do have a boy, after all.

This is my room. Pardon the mess.





I got the bedding from Kohls. I think it was 60% off. I know! Great deal. Doesn’t Kohls rock? Oh, that box beside the bed? It’s full of Tom’s stuff. That’s his side of the bed. He gets to go through it when he gets back.

And this is our bathroom.



Want to see the walk in closet I blogged about before?



I know, it’s not as big as I would have liked but it will do.

Yes, some of my clothes are hanging on Tom’s side. I ran out of room. He doesn’t realize this since he’s in Korea. He probably won’t like it.

So that’s our new home.

Now that you’ve seen it, how about we go out to Steak N Shake? It’s one of my new favorite places. They have the best Diet Cherry Cokes and afterwards, we can share a triple chocolate milkshake.

Sound good?

(Actually, we’ll probably have to get our own milkshake. I’m a bit of a milkshake hog according to Tom.)

57 comments:

  1. I LOVELOVELOVELOVE the fridges with the water dispenser and ice maker!! I can never ever go back to a normal fridge again after having had one of those.

    Your new home is nice!!

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  2. Great pictures of the new house! My daughter has way more shoes and purses than I do. I don't think that is weird. It's funny that Natalie rearranged the letters on her wall.

    I like the chocolate couches. I would have bought them for the same reason. Hello...chocolate!

    Have a great weekend. Try and stay cool!

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  3. You have a beautiful home and yes a fridge with a ice make is a fancy thing. It is something that I have always wanted. I hate filling ice trays with water.

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  4. I love the house! The ice/water make sounds fabulous, I've never had one, so I think they are fancy too! I think you are well within your rights to have more closet space. Girls have more clothes. I stole part (um, most) of AJ's side and he didn't even notice. Or very nicely pretended not to notice. I'm not sure yet!

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  5. What a great house!! I'm kind of pissed that you just moved in and it's way more neat and tidy than mine. And you have more kids than me. Come to think of it, you've just made me feel really bad about myself. Way to go, hotshot.

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  6. The place looks great. I'd consider a fridge that makes the ice for me fancy, too.

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  7. Love it! And yes, I wonder every single day (well maybe not every single day, but every day big brother comes on, which is almost every single day) why Brendan puts up with Rachel. She is so annoying. And I love your bedspread! Kohl's does rock!!

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  8. Awesome tour! I feel like I've visited you in Oklahoma :)

    Roxy has more shoes than I do, too.

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  9. VERY NICE! Can I just say that you have more pictures on your walls then I do and I have lived in my house almost 5 years now!!! Do you want to come over and hang some pictures for me? Love the new furniture too!

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  10. Its BEAUTIFUL!!! I love it! Congrats on scoring the water/ice in the fridge!

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  11. What a fun post Amber! I love your new house - glad you like the new location too!

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  12. Fun post! Loved the tour :) And 2.5 bathrooms? Jealous! Except that is an awful lot of toilets to clean...

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  13. Beautiful home. I'm jealous of your large bathrooms. It really is a nice size for you. Love that bedding too!

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  14. Three bathrooms? Sorry, all I can think about is you having to clean three bathrooms with guys living there.

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  15. Congratulations on the great house!!! Wishing you much happiness in your new home!!!

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  16. 1. Nice couches, cool hallway, sweet kitchen!
    2. My cat doesn't cover his poop either and it's gross. He also spreads litter all over the laundry room...
    3. Brendon must have some hearing loss...

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  17. Thanks for the nickle tour!!

    Now who gets the nickle?

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  18. The new place looks great! You have been quite busy getting unpacked!

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  19. In this heat the fridge that dispenses ice and cold water is better than all the tea in China.

    I love your house and how you settled in. Well done!!!

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  20. That was a great time we spent together! I loved your house. And even the garage that you called a "mess" looked pretty good to me.

    Hurray, Natalie! You go girl!! More shoes than mom. You are my kind of girl!!

    Our three cats not only cover their poops but they keep on covering, and covering, and covering. After a while, they think the litter is not enough, so they scratch the sides of the lid on their "bathroom". Annoying. I have to shout: "Enough! Nobody will ever find it!"
    xxx

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  21. WOW! That is some NICE base housing!! I loved the tour! :)
    *And when we bought our house, the fridge came with a fancy fridge -- I thought it was wonderful! (Jerk Face's parents had one, so he wasn't as excited about it.. puff-puff <that's him being too fancy to be excited about it.)

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  22. What a nice house! Will base housing allow you to replace dead plants with plastic ones? My mom did that for a while...people thought she was just an awesome gardener until she forgot to bring them back in when fall came around one year. Oops! :)

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  23. What a beautiful home! I love your bedspread.

    Also, I totally consider water and ice in the fridge door fancy.

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  24. Lovely house and I am swooning over your bathrooms of all things. Mostly because you have more than one. My husband lives in ours and Alex and I have to make these mad scrambles to the bathroom if we see him get up because we know as soon as he goes in there we will have to pee, and it will be an hour before we can do so.

    My bathroom has more books in it than anything else.

    I so need that toy chest with the shelf over it that is in Natalie's room. Alex is the queen of toys and books!

    Really love the new place!

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  25. Beautiful house. Everything is so nice and neat, well except the garage but whose is.

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  26. I loved this post! What a great house!

    Yes, I love the ice/water dispenser in the fridge too. Except for mine. My ice dispenser doesn't work right. When I called the repair guy - he basically told me that I have a crappy fridge and that there was nothing he could do. So here's hoping that yours works PERFECTLY!

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  27. I love your new house. How organised are you with your photos already on your wall! We've been here since December and I still haven't put photos up.

    Also, ice maker is lush!!
    xxx

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  28. Oh, what a great house you have. Love the 'fancy' fridge.

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  29. What a nice house. You got it all set up fairly quickly. Looks like you have settled in nicely. Hope all goes great there. Love the walk-in closet, and do not feel bad about being excited about the water and ice in the door. I still do not have one of those but my mom does and every time I am there I have to use it just to see if I can.

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  30. I love Steak N Shake. Welcome to the midwest girl. Umm no, I don't live there, but i did, so I knows my way round a Steak N Shake. Anywho....thanks ever so much for the tour. It was so excellently documented, I really did feel like I was in the house. Awesome to have 2 1/2 baths and your pretty little kitchen. It's super cute from the outside as well.

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  31. Very nice! I had no idea base housing was that nice! Enjoy your new home!

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  32. Gorgeous house. I love the plans on the wall. They almost look like they are flying at you.

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  33. Looks like a really nice spot! Lots of bathrooms, which I like lol.
    As for Big Brother, I think Brendan gets so whiny and childish sometimes himself that they work well together. Like that time she called him some pet name and he cried about it for what seemed like forever.

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  34. Beautiful. I love how you wrote this post as if I was really in your house. :)

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  35. Wow! Awesome new house!!! A total SCORE! And you've unpacked and decorated so quickly!!! Is it a duplex then??

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  36. I love it! and I love how you gave us a tour- too cute!

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  37. What a gorgeous new house! Great pictures. I loved your virtual tour. Especially the ice-maker on the fridge. I'm immensely jealous. I chew ice like it's my job (year round), and with this heat, I've been going through all of our dozen ice trays every day. Big cubes aren't as yummy as fridge ice. :(

    I'm so glad to see you're settling in well! How long until Tom gets to see it?

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  38. Dude...base housing rocks here. The new place is amazing!! I'll have to post pics of my cute apartment once it's completely fixed up. I've had to redecorate since the ex left. Took a while to get the motivation to do it.

    Again....gorgeous! And you can totally blame this ridiculous heat if the plants out front die. Over a month of 100+ degree heat can't be good for vegetation in general :)

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  39. So, I adore you. You are extra hilarious! You're new home is amazing! I am quite fond of your chocolate couches. Ours our dark brown, sadly not chocolate. They still look pretty good after 8 child-filled years, so long as you don't hold up one of those germ lights to them.

    And I've had an ice maker for over a year now. I still get a little thrill every time I use it. Enjoy!

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  40. What a great house. I always imagined base housing would be kinda crappy, but I'm glad to see I was wrong! I hope you have a wonderful life there.

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  41. OMG!!! That's the nicest base housing I've ever seen! All we ever got were the old crapster ones.

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  42. Great house, great furniture, and yes, I'd love a fridge with ice-maker, too. Stay cool, and get some more sweet tea.

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  43. Loved the tour of the house! I'm nosy so I appreciate that you let us see not only every room, but also the closets! This was deeply satisfying, thank you!

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  44. that is pretty nice base housing! I am loling at your fancy fridge. I hope one day to have a fancy fridge too. i would be so happy as I love ice..I seriously get pissed off if my husband gets me a drink from burger king if it's not full tot he bring of ice. he says you get like 2 ounces of coke that way ..and I say I don't care I need ice. So anyway yeah I love your fancy ice maker/water dispenser!

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  45. That might be some of the nicest base housing I've ever seen! We lived off base in Enid, but it was definitely not that nice, and it was infested with spiders.

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  46. Looks great! I couldn't live without a ice/water dispenser. I miss having a walk-in closet.

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  47. Beautiful house! It looks like you've lived there for ages, and your refrigerator looks just like mine with all of those magnets. . . glad I'm not the only one with every LeapFrog magnet set ever invented ;)

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  48. It's a lovely home. Thanks for the tour!

    Stopping by from SITS.

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  49. Thanks for the tour, it's a very nice house!

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  50. Wow, lovely house, really enjoyed the tour. I love your photo wall, and yes I think a fridge with ice dispenser is fancy :)

    are there no curtains? I didn't notice any.

    2.5 bathrooms?? sigh...I have one combined bathroom laundry....under renovation...

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  51. Awesome house!

    Can I just tell you that to my husband, having a fridge with an ice maker is THE sign of having finally made it? We still don't have one, but seeing yours gives me something to aspire to! Enjoy it.

    I am also jealous of your three beautiful bathrooms, as well as the ceiling fan in your bedroom...I'm a bit of a ceiling fan freak!

    Thanks for showing the house, and congrats!

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  52. Thanks for the grand tour, that's actually very Italian of you, did you know? People here always show you every corner of their house the first time you go over. I feel right at home here!

    Stopping by from SITS.

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  53. You're all settled in! Are those couches from Ashley? They look just like mine!

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  54. Wonderful new house. I like Tommy's airplanes. Perhaps you can take out the second bathroom and make it a giant closet.

    LisaDay

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  55. Cute house! I have never seen base housing that nice. I had a friend that lived on the base in Corpus Christi and it look more like prison housing. lol. =)

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  56. Nice house!!!! It looks like you have added the love. Enjoy and be happy there...

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  57. I missed this post the other day, but enjoyed the tour...better late than never. Nice digs! I'm glad they're providing such nice housing for our military. And just for the record...I'd consider a frig with an ice maker in the door "fancy" too. I've got one big enough to stuff a cow in, but why we picked one without ice and water I will never know.

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