welcome to our new digs

…the official move-in date isn’t until this sunday, but you lucky folks are gonna get a peek right now…

…let’s start in the foyer, shall we? so this is by the front entrance to our new condo…here is where we will take your coat and give you a hug and a pat on the back and welcome you into our home…if you look to the left, you will see a long, narrow (and i mean NARROW) hallway…

the first bedroom is down thisaways, but i don’t have a photo of the bedrooms because i didn’t have my wide angle lens with me…the bedrooms are boring anyways…

…next to the bedroom further down the hall is the bathroom…as you can see, cadence was very excited about the new bathroom, with its lovely tile floor and new toilet to explore…her hands have already splashed around in there…this bathroom is almost twice the size of our current bathroom, which i’m very happy about…plus, there are windows, so we won’t have to turn on the light in here during the day…

…further down the hallway will bring you into our dining room…it is a nice sized room, and we plan on getting a big old table and some chairs so that we can throw some bona fide dinner parties…teddy has found a company in the heart of amish country (lancaster, PA) that builds farm style furniture, and we will probably give them a lot of our money…

…past the dining room is the kitchen…the cabinets are not my favorite, but it gives us an opportunity to do some renovations that will potentially increase the resale value of the condo…

…one of my favorite parts of the condo is the walk-in pantry, which has plenty of space so we can stockpile our food in case of a disaster…if we do get our furniture from lancaster, PA, we’re gonna buy jars and jars of jams and pickles from the amish so we can line ‘em up real purty in our pantry…

…alright, let’s go back to the front entrance and look to our right…here you will see our living room with the huge bay windows, which create a space that will be our sun room/music room…this is where the instruments will go…that is a full southern exposure, which means lots and lots of light!

…if you look to the left, you will see our decorative fireplace and built in bookshelves…i’m usually not crazy about fake fireplaces, but i totally dig that 10’ mantle and i totally * heart * built-in bookshelves! cadence is gonna LOVE pulling out books from there…and can’t you totally see christmas stocking hung over the fake fireplace?

…cadence loved the living room so much, she was ready to call all her friends and tell them the exciting news!

…i really love that those windows in the living room are so big and low to the ground, that even cadence can look out of them without much trouble…she really liked that…

…she sure spent a lot of time looking out those windows…

…even after it got dark, she was still gazing out at the exciting world below our windows…

…she looks so small leaning against those huge windows…and this is where she’ll grow during her most formative years…it feel so significant on a variety of levels…*sigh*…