Our House

A while back I posted pictures of what the outside of our home looks like.  It is high time that you see where we have been living since January.  We have put a lot of time and effort into furnishing our home and making it, well, homey.   

Below are pictures of our living spaces.  We are blessed to live in a home with SO many rooms.  I have spared you the photos of the foyer, storage closet, laundry room/guest bathroom, spare bedroom/clothes drying/deep freezer room, kitchen, and other 2 bathrooms because  1) we hardly spend any time in those rooms  and 2) they really aren't that exciting!

Our formal living room. 

 In the mornings, while our cleaner is cleaning the bedrooms and family room, we spend our time out here playing.  We entertain guests out here if it is not too hot (there is no A/C in this section of the house).   

Our dining room. 

 There is a sink by the window which is very convenient.  Most dining rooms here will have sinks because the people here do not use silver ware.  We use it to wash our hands before and after eating (and sometimes during, depending on how dirty BJ gets!)  Although BJ knows how to use utensils, he still prefers his hands!  The open door to the left leads to the foyer, spare room, laundry area, and front door.  You can see our cook in the kitchen (back right).  I am standing in the formal dining room taking this picture.  On the other side of the wall on the right that juts out is the door into our "personal" space.  This door is kept closed most of the time, which allows privacy for our family from our house help and keeps the cool air-conditioned air in!

Our family room.

This is where you will find us most of the time.  The theme is "blue".  We purchased our beautiful cane furniture from a store in town.  We have an abundance of floor pillows that are used in many ways (BJ loves to run and jump into them!).  Usually this room is cluttered with BJ's toys but I took this picture during nap time :)

One of BJ's toy shelves.

The other half of our family room.

The door to the left leads back to the dining room.  The doorway in front leads to BJ's room.  Just outside of this photo on the right is the doorway into our room. 

BJ's bedroom.

This is what BJ's bedroom used to look like when he slept in here.  It became so hot at the end of April that our one A/C unit in our bedroom failed to cool BJ's room (we left all the doors open).  On the second night of a temperature reading of 90 degrees in his room with the A/C BLASTING we decided to move him into our room.  It was about 11 pm and Brian and I picked up the crib, with BJ sleeping soundly inside, and brought him into our room!  Now this room is used for sports. We've rolled up the carpet, set up the basketball hoop and soccer goals, and have a bucket full of all types of balls!  

Our bedroom.

Yes...we found a KING SIZE bed here!  It has been absolutely heaven!  BJ's crib is now located just to the right of this picture.  We have moved our dresser to create some personal space for him.  Now our room gets nice and cool at night and we all are sleeping better!