Concert Time

April 18, 2009 we had the great opportunity to work a concert for Compassion International. Compassion International is an organization that allows you to have the opportunity to sponsor a child for just $38 a month. Trenton and I sponsor two children. Compassion gives us the opportunity to write our children and they can respond to us. It is a special way where we can serve God and share his love with children around the world. If you are interested in compassion you can check it out at http://www.compassion.com/.

The concert was great. It was call the Rock and Worship Roadshow. There were several bands there that performed that night including Tenth Ave North, MercyMe, and Hawk Nelson. It was a great night to come together with christians throughout the city and worship the one and true Savior.

Random April Pictures

Not sure how well you can see it, but there is a robin on the ground. I was very shocked by the excitement of seeing a robin, however, I guess it is the first sign of spring. In fact the first time Trenton saw one this spring we were driving down the rode and he just starts yelling, "It's a robin, it's a robin." I was so confused, but now it makes a little more sense.

We have recently found out that Guardian loves to chew on Jezebel's bones. Here he is chewing on a lamb bone.

Here are a couple of pics of Jezebel.

Guardian and Jezebel love the new house! They especially love to lay in the sunlight that the windows and back door let in.

Home Sweet Home

Here are pictures of our new beautiful house! We closed on April 1, 2009 and began our journey of moving items in the following weekend. We were blessed enough to be able to work with amazing previous homeowners and buy the house as a for sale by owner. I would not have wanted to do it any other way. We weren't quite ready to buy a house, but we had been looking and when we found it we knew there was no way it would still be on the market if we waited. God was amazing (as He always is) and has helped us work through each part of this. We now have a home and amazing neighbors. We could not have asked for anything more!

This a picture looking down from the top of the stairs.

Here is a picutre of the living room. The gigantic windows are one of my favorites of the house. It is amazing how much sunlight comes in from these windows.

Picture of the dining room (directly across from the living room).

Picture of the dining room. There are sliding doors that go out onto the deck and into the backyard.

Picture of the kitchen from the dining room.

Another picture of the kitchen from the dining room.

Picture of the kitchen heading into the hallway. Behind the closet doors is the pantry.

Picture inside the kitchen.

Picture of the kitchen from the hallway/top of the stairwell.

Picture from outside sliding door onto the deck and backyard. Our back yard backs up to a city golf course. Tee hole number 3 is right behind the house.

Some how I forgot to get a picture of the front of the house. I will try to remember to get one and get it on here soon! Enjoy the rest of the pictures of the house.

Home Sweet Home

The following are pictures of the bedrooms and bathroom: This is looking down the hallway from the living room. The bathroom is the first door the left. The master bedroom is the second door to the left. Straight across from the master bedroom is a spare bedroom and all the way to the back is the guest bedroom. This is a picture of the bathroom entering it from the hallway. To the left is a closet and if you walk in a few feet and turn right you will enter the master bedroom. This is looking in the bathroom from the master bedroom. This is a picture of the bathroom from inside the bathroom.

Here is a picture of the master bedroom.

Picture of the master bedroom.

Picture of the master bedroom and closets.

This is now our guest bedroom.

More of the guest bedroom.

More of the guest bedroom looking at the closet.

More of guest bedroom.

This is the spare bedroom. It is straight across the hallway from the master bedroom. It served as our office for a few months until we found out we are expecting. It is now going to serve as the babys room.

More of our soon to be nursery!

More of the spare bedroom and its closet.

Home Sweet Home

The following are pictures of the basement:

This is taking the steps down to the basement. If you were to go to the left you would go thru a door to the garage and if you would go to the right you would enter the living room area of the basement!

After you get downstairs and turn left, take another right and you will enter the laundry room.

The laundry room holds our 2nd toliet, which has seemed to be a lifesaver when we have had family over to stay! :)

Here is a picture of part of the living room area. As you can see the door the left is to the laundry room, the door straight ahead is to the garage, and if you were to turn right behind the television you would be heading up the stairs to the front door!

Another picture of the living room area. The little door is basically our only storage area under the stairs since we have vaulted ceilings (meaning no attic)!

As you keep walking into the living room you can take a slight right and enter more of the basement. The shelves along the back wall are built-in!

This is the rest of the basement looking out from the area into the right.

As you can see there are tons of windows downstairs, which lets tons of sunlight in and it is beautiful! Guardian loves it!

This is heading back upstairs, at the bottom half of the stairs.

And last but not least this is the top part of the stairwell.

Like I previously stated, this is all the previous owners items inside the house. These pictures were taken when we had our inspection. Hope you enjoyed, and we will get pictures of the house with our things in them soon...along with any renovations that we do!