Our New Home

Many of you have asked to see pictures of our new home, so here they are!  Come on in (imagine my hand waving you in)........

The front....which I love!  I have always wanted a brick 2 story

Main Level 

Front entry way

Front living room....yeah we will be painting this room

Dining room...*note: all window treatments must go!

Eat-in kitchen :) *needs to be painted!

Deck off the kitchen

awkward pic...powder room off the kitchen....also needs to be painted!

Main level family room...*ugly window treatments...again

BASEMENT

Full bath in the basement

2nd Floor (bedrooms)

When you are at the top of the stairs to the right is TJ's room, his bathroom and our room

T.J.'s room...needs to be painted AND the window treatment needs to be removed.

Main upstairs bathroom...I love the double sinks!

Master bedroom

Another awkward pic....this is taken form the master bath looking into the bedroom, what I was trying to capture was the 2 walk-in closets!!

Master Bath...double sinks!! *paint

Ok, back to the top of the stairs, to the left we have 2 bedrooms and laundry room

*paint

*paint

So that's the grand tour!  We are so excited about this house.  For those of you who don't know, there are 2 important details that make this move so exciting for our family....First of all, our home in Hawaii was a 2 bedroom 800 sq ft condo.  I now feel like I am living in a mansion!!!  Secondly, we bought this house without EVER seeing it in person!  So it was such a relief to walk in and love it!! 

 We have a ton of space and would love some visitors!  Plan a trip to the east coast and stay with us!  I will post some more pics once we actually get some painting done and our furniture/stuff arrives from Hawaii!!

Starting .HERE.

Life has been in a constant state of change for us over the last few months.  I finally feel like I am settling in to our new life and couldn’t be happier!  I have started multiple blogs over the last few weeks, but I find myself constantly trying to “catch up” on things I should have written about months ago.  SO, I am going to start HERE and maybe do some "catch up" later……

Fall + Friends/Family + Apple Orchard = A Happy Girl!

Now that we are living in a place of "seasons" my heart is tickled just thinking about all of the activities the next few months will bring.  I searched high and low for the best apple orchard around, I called ahead to reserve my cider donuts and confirm the picking schedule for Saturday.  Let's just say I was a bit excited :) 

Tim had been out of town for the week and would be returning late Friday night....just in time to wake up Saturday morning and escort me on my adventure!  My wonderful sister-in-law was staying with me for a few days to visit (and make sure the boogie man didn't get me while I was sleeping alone in our new big house), so it was a perfect time for some family fun! 

While going over the plans with Tim on Friday night we realized I choose the farthest possible apple orchard to go to.  After some pouting looking, we decide to go to Rockhill Orchard, a bit smaller, but only about 30 min away.  The bonus was that the orchard was close to some of our friends, and they were able to join!  It was not quite the extravaganza I had imagined, but it was a quaint little orchard with some delicious apples!   

Our friends Mike and Angie

Auntie Kim with T.J.

What does one do with 15lb+ of apples??  Why, make apple crisp of course!!  I looked up multiple recipes and came up with this make-shift recipe:

• 4 cups (about) peeled/chopped apples
• 1 cup flour
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup oats
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• Dash of nutmeg
• 1/2 cup of melted butter

Mix all of the dry ingredients in a bowl.  Add the butter to the dry ingredients.  When mixed well, add the apples (I just used my hands to do the mixing for this part).  It's that simple.  Bake at 350.  This mix will fill an 8x8 pan.  I decided to try it in a muffin pan and there was enough to fill exactly 12 muffins.  Using the muffin pan I baked it for about 25 min (or until golden brown).  When I make them again, I may sprinkle the tops of each muffin with brown sugar and cinnamon to give it a little something extra.  They were delicious and gone by the next day!

All in all, it was a great start to the fall!!!