Ready for Guests

Hello Everyone!

We have been busy putting our house together and mostly getting our "guest suite" ready.

Since we only introduced our house from the outside on our last blog, let us show you around our house from the inside.

Please keep in mind that we still have tons of rearranging and decorating to do.

As soon as you walk into the front door, this is your view.

To the right, we set up a study. As you can see, we did put away everything towards the wall, but nothing is organized yet. We are hoping to make a really nice study soon. Since this side of the house gets most of the sun, our kiddies spend more time in the study than us.

To the left, is supposed to be our formal dining room. However, since we don't own a dining room table yet, we thought it would be a GREAT idea to make it into a gym. :) It is so convenient to have all the equipment here at the house and yes we do use them on a regular basis.

Follow me down the hall and to the right, there are the stairs to the upstairs bedrooms. And the door on the right of the stairs leads down to the basement, but it isn't finished yet. Anything that we brought from Okinawa that doesn't fit into any of the rooms were sent down to the basement for now.

To the left, there is a powder room and a closet.

Now, our main area is at the end of this hall way. We have our living room to the right and my favorite part of the house, our kitchen to the left. We probably spend most of our time in this area, especially since we bought a 61" TV that has the Direct TV connection with Sunday NFL ticket. (Phil is very happy) You have to realize that we only had 9 AFN channels to choose from in Okinawa for three years, and we are so fascinated with this HDDVR that can record your shows and stop and play whenever you want. Can you tell that we've been far far away from real life for a long time???

Sometimes we'll find the kiddies basking in front of the fireplace and it is really really cute.

The empty space near the kitchen is where a casual dining is suppose to be, and as I told you earlier, since we don't own a dining room table at this moment, we decided to make this area a home for our kiddies, Gator and Ali. Opposite to this is a sliding glass door to our back yard.

Well, it is a small backyard, but perfect for our lifestyle. Do you know what I mean? There is no grass to mow!!! We are so glad that our kiddies are not too picky about where they go do their business, because they seem to do fine on these rocks. :) Don't worry, they get to go on grass too when we take them for walks. It is hard to see in this picture, but there is a mini waterfall in the middle of the yard.

And then one last thing left on this main floor is the laundry room and the door that leads to the garage. This is where Gator and Ali eat their meals, so they get really excited when we walk into this room.

Let's go upstairs and this is where you will see what we've done so far to the "guest suite". There is still more that needs to be done, but we couldn't wait any longer to show you.

You walk up the steps, and to the right is the master suite and to the left there are two rooms that are connected by a jack and jill bathroom. All the way to the end is our linen closet.

The first room to the left is the guest lounge room. There is only one frame up right now of Chris Leak when the Gators beat the Buckeyes to win the National Championship, but slowly more will go up on the wall as we find cool stuff. Our next thing on the list is the actual helmets for both the Gators and the Sun Devils.

The second room to the left is the guest bedroom. We just got the furniture set up, but this room needs lots of decoration. At least it is ready for guests to sleep comfortably. There also is a air mattress that can be blown up if a family of more than two are visiting us.

Finally, let us introduce you our master suite. This bedroom set was purchased in Okinawa and was delivered safely with no nicks or cracks. (Thank Goodness) Between the bedroom and the master bath, there are his and her walk in closets. This was one of my favorite parts about this house.

And... Here is the bathroom.

Did you notice the double shower heads in the shower? Phil really likes that one. He loves high strong water pressure or he doesn't feel clean or something. :)

The tub is jetted and we've only used it once. Now that the weather is cold, I'm sure we'll use it more often.

Before we leave you, here is a picture from back of our house. You can check out our new cars too.

The family who lives left of us has a dog named Cassie and Ali and Cassie play in the grass area in the front of the house and they are so cute to watch. Gator thinks he is too good to be playing with the youngsters and does his own thing.

So, I hope this was a good tour of our house for you. There will be many more updates before you visit. Our first guests are going to be my mom and dad on the 7th of November. We are very excited about it. And Aggie's family is thinking of making the trip out sometime soon as well. Please let us know when you would like to come see the real sunshine state. (Florida is apparently partly cloudy most days of the year.)

We hope everyone is doing well. We'll be cheering for another big win by the Gators this weekend as they go against Kentucky.

We love you all.