Our New Home

In the middle of July we purchased a home just up the street from where we were living. By August 1st we had our house completely vacant and listed with an agent. This home offers much more room for our children and we were all excited for the move. I have finally got some pictures to post. On the upper level is my preschool, Kali's room and Bronson's room.

The walls in Kali's room were blue. Rather than repainting them I thought that if I could find some cute flowers I could just paint some grass along the bottom. I had thought that the flowers I purchased were big, but when they came I realized that the 17" was not the diameter of the flower, but included the stem. They are darling wall stickers, but not nearly as big as I wanted. I decided to just paint the large flowers myself. I love how they turned out. I wish this picture was brighter, but the window makes taking a picture difficult.

The previous owner was an amazing artist and had painted a beautiful waterfall mural. This is in Bron's room. She had been working on a mural on all the walls, but had not finished. I do like to paint, but am no where near talented enough to complete her mural. We kept the waterfall, but had to cover up the other parts. The top of the waterfall was unfinished (that's why it just kind of ends the way it does). I painted the walls brown and did the clouds and sky. We need to put a wood molding between the walls and the sky. Then it won't look like such an odd stopping point for the mural. It is way fun to lay on his bed and look up on at the sky. If it wasn't such a pain I would paint the ceiling in the preschool room like this. Maybe some day . . .

Here is a better shot of the mural. She really was a great artist.

Here are some shots of my preschool room. For those of you who are familiar with my preschool, I put the Kindness Pledge on the wall with vinyl that I cut from a friends cricket machine.I found the cute animal face cubbies at Target.And then my mural!!! I love it. The walls were previously pink. I painted them brown, and then with the help of friends and sisters, we hung the murals.

Overall, I am very excited about my cute preschool room. There are two ceiling fans and lots of light from the three windows. There is also a big closet that I keep most of the toys in. The bathroom is connected to the preschool room - which is perfect.

That's all the pictures I have for now. Matt and Mike's room is in the basement. It is great to have the kids seperated at bedtime. Someday I will get around to decorating their room - then I'll post it.