New House!!!

We just bought a house!

It sits on 12 acres and has a pond.  We are excited to have a lot of people out to enjoy this great space with us!

Here are a few pictures of my favorite parts of the house.

I love the pantry!  I have a place to put food now! The inside shelves open forward and there are more behind! Whoever thought to do this was genius!

The kitchen has space for all my little helpers!  I can't wait to make meals with all my girls in this kitchen. The big windows over the sink will give me a great view of the pond while I wash dishes. 

The windows let in tons of natural light.  Most days we won't even need to turn the lights on!

This picture doesn't show very well, but to the right of this picture is the garage.  You see the a closet door which is to the right of where you come in from the garage.  To the left is a built in bench and above the bench are hooks to hang coats or jackets.  So you can come in from the garage, sit down and take off your shoes, and hang up your coat.  There is also a half bathroom in this area and a laundry room behind where I was standing to take this picture.  A LAUNDRY ROOM!  An actual room to do laundry! The door your see on the left leads to the basement, which is big and unfinished except for 2 kind of finished bedrooms.  The other door on the left that you barely see is the door that leads to the little kids room. 

This is the homeschool area, right off the kitchen.  There is a big window that looks out to the front giving us a beautiful view of the pond. 

And for the boy, there's tons of room to RUN!  The whole time we were looking at the house the kid barely stopped running! This is a picture of the deck off the side of the house.  The door you see is to the living room, but there is another door from the master bedroom to the deck.  

We loved that at our house in town we had Jones Park "in our back yard".  We love that in our house in the country we have "Jones Park in our front yard".  The house is about  5 minutes from Emporia, 5 minutes from my parents, and about 10 minutes from school and church.

I was a little concerned at first that there was a pond so close to the house.  I guess when you live in town you teach kids to not play in the street, in the country you teach kids to not play in the pond!  As long as the kids know the rules and that they must be obeyed I think we'll be fine.  

We will be ready for visitors June 1st!  We hope that we can share our home with many many people!