And a few desperately needed sunny shinny days
(or I should say not rainy days)
To motivate us to start exploring our new landing, which was greeted by easily the most adorable peddler dog in the world at the Portland Saturday Market complete with his own "smile" sign!
How could you not smile even as we watched the clouds start moving right back over our heads minutes later...
Rain or shine I decided that it was time to start home-making this place into a home!
So, grab your own cup of tea, take a seat and I'll give you a little look at our new digs!
Ding dong!
Come on in...
Don't be shy now!
Here is our lovely living room adorned with far too many pictures for the wall space...
but I've had a hard time cramming our already too full house in Phoenix into this smaller house in Portland. So um, yes, you'll have to just tell me it looks ok anyway :)
Exhibit 2 of cramming...
Turning our entertainment center into a dining room hutch...
We just took out the middle part and the TV and voila!
Wouldn't have guessed it would you?!
Then we have the much coveted, loved, played on and yes, fallen down STAIRS!!!
We've never had stairs in our houses before and the kids just love them.
Up those glorious stairs are 3 bedrooms, but my 2 most important critics voted best room in the house to be the special princess and prince charming room...
Don't ask what makes it that besides it's inhabitants, but that's what the kids call their room. Hey, if it gets them to go to bed there, then call it the Taj Mahal if you want to!
Along with the royal theme we've got going here, Sienna likes to tell me to go to sleep in my queen room after I tuck her in bed every night...
So, alas, our "queen" room.
(Apparently Daddy doesn't have any of his own rooms in this house...)
Even the back yard is claimed by the Great Window Streaker!
We wash windows a lot around here as you could probably guess...
But that shouldn't make Daddy feel too bad since my kitchen is no longer sacred space as our landlords "conveniently" designed it with bar stools directly in front of my main counter space....
Perfect for little diggers to sneak in a pre-taste or two while I'm cooking!
Another great part about this house are the beautiful green views we have out our windows.
I love Phoenix, heat and all, but you do tend to get a lot of cinder block views from first floor windows...
And last but not least, the most spectacular homemade home-making part of our new home:
Of course!
What else were you expecting?
Oh ok, the Welcome Home Mommy and Baby Sebastian sign Daddy made with the Sienna and Jonah was pretty spectacular too!
That's about as far as I've gotten lately with crafting and home making... but you have to admit that growing a baby while moving to a new city is no creative task to scuff at!
(or I should say not rainy days)
To motivate us to start exploring our new landing, which was greeted by easily the most adorable peddler dog in the world at the Portland Saturday Market complete with his own "smile" sign!
How could you not smile even as we watched the clouds start moving right back over our heads minutes later...Rain or shine I decided that it was time to start home-making this place into a home!
So, grab your own cup of tea, take a seat and I'll give you a little look at our new digs!
Ding dong!Come on in...
Don't be shy now!
Here is our lovely living room adorned with far too many pictures for the wall space...
but I've had a hard time cramming our already too full house in Phoenix into this smaller house in Portland. So um, yes, you'll have to just tell me it looks ok anyway :)
Exhibit 2 of cramming...
Turning our entertainment center into a dining room hutch...
We just took out the middle part and the TV and voila!
Wouldn't have guessed it would you?! Then we have the much coveted, loved, played on and yes, fallen down STAIRS!!!
We've never had stairs in our houses before and the kids just love them.Up those glorious stairs are 3 bedrooms, but my 2 most important critics voted best room in the house to be the special princess and prince charming room...
Don't ask what makes it that besides it's inhabitants, but that's what the kids call their room. Hey, if it gets them to go to bed there, then call it the Taj Mahal if you want to!Along with the royal theme we've got going here, Sienna likes to tell me to go to sleep in my queen room after I tuck her in bed every night...
So, alas, our "queen" room.(Apparently Daddy doesn't have any of his own rooms in this house...)
Even the back yard is claimed by the Great Window Streaker!
We wash windows a lot around here as you could probably guess...But that shouldn't make Daddy feel too bad since my kitchen is no longer sacred space as our landlords "conveniently" designed it with bar stools directly in front of my main counter space....
Perfect for little diggers to sneak in a pre-taste or two while I'm cooking! Another great part about this house are the beautiful green views we have out our windows.
I love Phoenix, heat and all, but you do tend to get a lot of cinder block views from first floor windows...And last but not least, the most spectacular homemade home-making part of our new home:
Of course! What else were you expecting?
Oh ok, the Welcome Home Mommy and Baby Sebastian sign Daddy made with the Sienna and Jonah was pretty spectacular too!
That's about as far as I've gotten lately with crafting and home making... but you have to admit that growing a baby while moving to a new city is no creative task to scuff at!
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