House Tour!!!

It's here!!!

I told family for a long time that I would have pictures of our house for them once we got settled in. This seemed like the easiest way to share those :)

Taking pictures of my house with my iphone camera sure makes me appreciate those professional realtor pictures! ha!! Anyway, I certainly didn't clean up everything for these pictures...I mean, I am definitely not trying to sell this thing anytime soon. We LOVE living here!!!

First up, our school room - 

We don't currently use our school drawers, so they are pushed into a corner for now. 

The white boards were a Valentine's gift...no, seriously.

I actually texted Derek and said, "You know what you can get me for V-Day? White boards."

Bam

#iamateacher

Living room - 

Seriously, how do they get their pictures so bright?!!!!

I can see from my kitchen into the Living Room, and I LOVE that!

The kids never, ever eat at the bar....I mean, it's over the carpet for crying out loud...but I do love how it looks and functions :)

Kitchen - 

This particular area was so odd, but I quickly decided it would be the kids' craft area, which has worked out wonderfully. We also have my Grandma's old table, and that comes in handy often for extra seating (we entertain countless kids at the Frye house...very rarely do we entertain adults.) God knew how much this little area would bless our family and neighbors and friends!!!

And this is our actual eating area...with the table we all fit around (well, actually we don't all fit around it...but Naomi is in the booster seat in a chair away from the table currently.)

I. love. this. kitchen.

Another sweet blessing? If you recall, we redid our kitchen at our old house...it was for our own enjoyment, but also because we knew it would help us sell the house when that time came. That time came quickly, and I was so sad about leaving a kitchen I loved. This kitchen is way higher up on the totem pole in my heart now!!!

Front entryway - 

No, I didn't set those laser tag guns like that just for this picture...the boys actually store them like that. Hilarious!!!

This is our Dining Room - 

Again, my kids don't eat on carpet, so this is a playroom for us.

I didn't even bother cleaning this up for a picture. The boys are prepping for a garage sale, and it is all being collected here. Plus, like I said, it's a playroom. 

Playroom = lots of stuff

(apparently)

(just added this picture below for context of where the stairs are...

walk in the front door, dining room is on the right; straight ahead is kitchen on your right then Living room...also past the stairs and to the left is the downstairs full bathroom, laundry room, and school room. Clear as mud?)

At the top of the stairs is our playroom. It's giant. It's awesome. It even has a basketball goal. If my kids are inside and not doing schoolwork, this is where you will find them. Playing basketball...which is very loud when you are in the Living room right underneath!)

Justus and Josiah share a room - 

Titus and Eli share a room next door to that - 

One kids' bathroom upstairs -

(sorry, Naomi)

But she does get her own room :)

Our room - 

Our bathroom -

(I didn't even bother cleaning this up either)

And the best and messiest part of our house,

Our closet -

a.k.a. the Lego room

This closet is gigantic!

I would go so far to use my own made up word...

It is gargantuan.

Like, when we looked at this house with our realtor, Derek and I walked in here and said, "Naomi's room!!!!"

Everyone walks in here when we give them a tour of our house and either drops their jaw or laughs hysterically. There is no other proper response to the size of this thing. 

We knew we would never come close to filling this monster with clothes, so we did the only logical thing we could think of - we filled it with tiny land mines that we have to step on every time we need to get dressed. The legos are supposed to be secluded into the corner to the right as you walk in the closet, but they are undergoing a giant organization campaign at the moment. Once that is complete, there will be ample space for our clothes, the legos, and whatever else we can think of for this spot in our house.

That's our house!! We have a good-sized backyard and a garage, and it's on a cul-de-sac. We have a TON of neighborhood kids who are here on a daily basis. We are so happy and thankful that God placed this house in our laps. I knew while we were looking at houses (and even moved into our old, little rental house for a short stay) that God was probably preparing a place for us right around the neighborhoods we were looking. I made the comment a few times during our search: "Here we are, driving around and looking at all of these houses, and the Lord probably has one picked out right in the middle of all of these. We are probably driving right past the house He has for us...we just have to wait!" I'm so glad we didn't settle for a house that didn't have the things we wanted and felt like we "needed." I don't know if we will move mountains for God's kingdom here in this neighborhood or anything like that, but we have been so blessed already by our neighbors. The kids who come here, the homeschooling mom I walk with, the park down the street...I could go on and on.