Our new home!

July 2011 we bought a new home in Mesa, AZ.  We now live 3 doors down and across the street from 2 sisters, and about a mile away from another sister.  We also live 1-2 miles away from 2 of Wills siblings and Dad.  The first month we spent painting the house, fixing drywall, and stuff like that.  We had someone install carpet for us the week we moved in.  Since we have moved in, we finished painting the kitchen and living room.  Will and his Dad put in new cabinets and counter tops and the inside is complete for now.  We have been working on making our yard look nicer with the cooler weather.  I have to say my favorites of the house are:

 

1.  We have a HUGE pantry to store lots of food!
2. 2 car garage with a washer and dryer in the garage instead of the house
3.  A yard!  (I know that means yard work, but what better way to get a tan?). Since it’s started to war m up my rose bushes are blooming!  It’s so fun to see what colors they are because I’ve never seen them before.

Kitchen before: broken tile on floor, very old cabinets, yellow counter top
Kitchen after: new counter tops, cabinets, painted

Hallway before: lots of holes in wall, no carpet
Hallway after: painted (not show completely in middle pic.), and carpet (as seen in pic on right)

Living room looking into kitchen before and after

 Kitchen looking at pantry wall before

After: all new light fixtures, filled in missing tile, and lots of shelves with a nice way to hide it

The pic of the one rose blooming right now