end of summer, beginning of school

Splish Splash

she is pretending to run

Pokemon, the new Boone kid obsession

 this was BEFORE she saw I had the camera

 this is after...

Parker, you have something on your head... I think its a doodle

 My girls

napping footrest

Movie Time

 "lets go rest mommy"... and I thought she was going to nap HA!

peas in a pod

 Little kids trying out Sierra's new locker

 

Lilly and Magging napping

First Day of new schools for the 3 bigger Boone kids

LETS GO MOM

blackmail for when Parker is older, 

he was so excited he clapped when the bus came around

Tour of the House

Tomorrow is our Missouri housewarming party and although we are so excited to have new friends over it is bitter sweet that so many friends and family live so far away. Here is the virtual tour of the house for you :)

Okay, I hit every room in the house except the green upstairs kids bathroom and red downstairs powder room which are further down in a different blog post, oh and the laundry room, but who cares about that :)

I know you've already seen the front, but that seemed the best place to start

Then coming in you are greeted by Uncle Sam :)

 and by a certain doodle in the way 

staircase (and Lilly)

 to the left is the dining room (which may be a sitting room)

to the right is the 'computer room'

Lilly's area

Georgia on my mind ...

come in further and find a doodle on the couch...

Livingroom

the family dinning area

and then the messy kitchen

then onto the back yard

then the upstairs hallway

Our master bedroom

out of the way sitting room in our bedroom gave us room for our 2 favorite 

chairs that didn't really fit anyplace else

because what gal doesn't need to 

channel Holly Golightly once in a while...

 master bath

 other side 

then I turn around to an after dessert treat...

Sierra's Room

 The boys room

and Miss Lilly's room

THE END

New House Landscape

As most of you know, we bought our house sight unseen, kind of crazy but thats how it goes in the Army. We received orders to come to Columbia, Missouri. I researched schools and narrowed it down and we looked at 4 and 5 bedroom homes in our price range within that school district and bought the only one.

This was the photo of the front of the house that I fell in love with

We decided although I liked the height in the first picture we didn't love the trees, they had not been kept well and had an odd color bloom that really clashed with the door, the bushes were all but dead. Then we decided we didn't like the orange tint to the door. So we had the door painted a deeper red, pulled up all the old landscape and planted box woods and some flowers and then incorporated our white bench into it.

We still have some more work to do. The upper floor flower boxes need something in them, the side needs some more edging to the beds and more mulch is needed to fill in some areas, we hope to be done with all of that before the big housewarming party on the 6th of August.