Joy, Peas and Little Loves: Our new place!

So to celebrate moving, Sunday we had a large slew of people over for a grill out, volleyball and a fire! It was an awesome time! We have so much space now, it makes having people over fun! I think it's so neat watching God answer even the silliest prayers! Ben and I didn't have peace with buying this year, so we asked God to provide the right place for us! On our list was: A Large room indoor for the kids to play, a nice neighbrohood were I could feel safe jogging in, a large backyard, good landlords, a yard Ben could mow and take care of (which he gets to do now for a discount towards our rent year round!), a clean bathroom (only because I am still part germ freak and can't live with a groady bathroom), nice carpet, lots of trees (because I LOVE being surrounded by trees), and finally a place inside that I can use to do projects...oh and I wanted to have a washer and dryer (I haven't had one for the past 2 years!!)...and yes we wanted all of this at 1. an affordable price 2. Near Ben's work....to top all of this off, we get to pay month to month...which means NO lease! So when the Lord brings our house to buy in our path, we are in no rush to get it done!
So because we serve a BIG God, he was faithful and went above and beyond what we had wanted! We received EVERYTHING on our list and
MORE! The funny thing, our apartment complex needed to know 30 days prior to the end of our lease, whether or not we were staying. The EXACT day we had to give them our answer, I came across this duplex on craigslist. The following week we were told it was ours if we wanted it! How awesome is that!! So for those of you who have been waiting for this (Sarah), here are the pictures!

I am still working on painting and decorating, so I will post pictures of our upstairs later! There is also an "unfinished" Basement that I didn't' get pictures of, but will later! Enjoy the pictures, because there are a lot!!

So this is our first living room..Not yet full, because we are waiting on them to fix our carpet.

This is looking into the kitchen
from the living room.

This is my kitchen!
Ben wanted orange...so he got it :)
It actually looks nice!

More Kitchen

This is in the kitchen, looking down to our big family room.

More Family room!

Here is the family room the the left

So here is our family room
on the right side

Ayden LOVES playing in the family room!!

He Loves this little car from
great aunt Shari

So this is looking out of our screened in porch, and towards our yard. We have a volleyball net back there, as well as a fire pit (two of our favorite summer time activities)