Music to Our Ears: February 2009

Addison and Mabulane

I received this photo the day after Addison and Mabulane were married. It was taken on Vanlentine's Day. She is wearing her engagement ring. They have applied for her visa, and will return to the U.S. when it arrives. In the meantime, they are renting a house next to the chapel, for $20 per month. I have no idea what Addison does with his time, I'm sure he stays busy. Mabulane is still going to University. They hope to come home in April or May and they will live with us for a while.

Pics of our new home - downstairs

This is the view of the front door from the top of the stairs. Notice the palm tree out the front window?

Vanessa's messy room upstairs. She has since tidied it up, sort of....

Sean has since cleaned his room as well, you can check out his blog to see pics.

Coming down the stairs, the dining room.

The front door at the bottom of the stairs.

Walking into the house from the front door and the dining room, is the kitchen. Straight ahead is the swimming pool. There are pics of the pool on Sean's blog as well.

The family room is off of the kitchen and next to the pool.

Downstairs family room.

Half wall to the left looks into the kitchen.

The bonus room/family room is upstairs above the wall, and the archway goes to the laundry (closet) and the bathroom which also goes to the pool, and on the right off the hall is Addison and Mabulane's room. (They aren't here yet)

Bathroom and door to pool

Laundry room closet

Bathroom and door to pool

Addison and Mabulane's room. We will let them choose bedding when they arrive, and we still need to purchase dressers for the room.

Double closets, but not walk in

Back to the kitchen. Double ovens! Have always wanted those. The top one is convection, so I can bake three racks at once. It can also be used on the oven setting, and the bottom one is the oven. The stovetop is to the right of the ovens, and there are 5 of them, flat ceramic surface.

There is a double sink under the half wall, and a prep sink in the island. That little door is the pantry. It is supposed to be walk in, but you can barely fit your shoulders into it.

Isn't this amazing? Two fridges. They are identical with freezers in a pullout drawer on the bottom, and the fridge doors open from the middle to face each other.

My sewing room is off of the kitchen. This was a model home and the rest of the rooms I am showing you, are really the garage.

The overflow of my sewing room, and the beautiful red couch that wouldn't fit into any other room.

My food storage shelf.

Ricky's tools

The double doors where the garage door would be.

Our storage room

And I guess that is the end of the tour. I hope I didn't bore you with all the photos, but I wanted you to get the idea of what doors go where.

Pics of our new home - upstairs

Okay, this is the bonus room/family room upstairs. The half wall on the left looks onto the family room downstairs. The only problem with that, is you can hear both TVs at the same time. We keep having to adjust the volumes!

The hutch where the TV and Playstation 3 and soundsystem are kept.

The view from the hutch, to the half wall overlooking the downstairs family room.

If you are standing from the top of the stairs looking into the bonus room, this is what you see.

The bathroom that Vanessa and Sean share.

The Master bedroom looks onto the front of the house.

My "tribute to Joseph" quilt looks great on the wall next to the bed, don't you think? I get to enjoy looking at it (and remembering all my time intensive hours) every day.