Update on the new house

It's been a busy month getting settled in our new home!  The first 2 weeks was spent getting the bedrooms painted, fixing a wall, carpets cleaned, and putting in a fence around the pool.  We were able to move in the last weekend of June.  We were grateful for the help from the church missionaries who are trying to stay busy here in the Imperial Valley.  They helped us clean the new house, move our furniture, and clean the rental.  Since we left our rental before the lease term was up we assisted our landlord in finding new renters which didn't take long.

Here is our new home in Imperial, CA!

 The pool fence turned out so nice!  Ryan's dad came down to help him with this. It was quite the project, but now we have more peace of mind for the kids' safety and can now utilize the rest of the yard.

 The girls love their pink room!

 Auggie's room is a soft yellow.  We had a spare TV that used to be in the loft of our rental house, so we decided it should go in his room because he's still young enough to allow other people to hang out in his room and he would'nt be able to hack into it to watch it in the middle of the night.

Austin chose blue for his walls.  We put our old king bed in his room so that it can be used for guests as well and then he can sleep in Auggie's room.  

We did a light mint green accent with a soft whitish color in the master bedroom.

 The two bathrooms upstairs need to be painted and we are in the process of rebuilding the shower in the master bath.

This is the front room downstairs.  We really like the dual toned walls with the chair rail molding, but we plan on repainting with lighter colors.

 I love the open kitchen with the island and pantry and side cabinet area that is over to the left.  I was able to downsize a lot of our furniture with all the built in storage in the house.  We plan to paint the kitchen with a lighter color and add backsplash tiling.

Ryan was able to paint the accent walls in the family room so we could mount the TV.  The rest of the family room will be painted the same lighter color as the kitchen and then we will put up curtains on the kitchen window and back sliding glass doors.

The hall leading to the garage entrance is off of the family room.  There is a storage closet with deep shelves and laundry room off to the left and the half bath is to the right.

The kitchen/family room area has been such a great space for the kids to play, watch shows, and use the computer so I can keep an eye on them while I work in the kitchen and do laundry. 

These are the baby birds that hatched a few weeks ago.  We have 3 citrus trees in the backyard (we think they are all oranges) and there are several nests in them.  Our covered patio also has wiring to prevent nesting, but of course, a very small bird found her way in and has a nest in there as well.      

We are so grateful to be in this home and excited to continue all the projects to make it ours!