More house pictures

I have finally gotten a good bit of the house in order, so I can post a few more pictures. I got inspired on Saturday to get the downstairs set the way I want it because 2 friends and their kids were coming over on Sunday.

Here is my kitchen. The two cabinets that don't match are the ones we were issued through the military.




Our kitchen was very well outfitted when we moved into the house, so we were lucky. The built-in refrigerator is behind the very tall cabinet door next to the oven.

Here is a view of the front entranceway. It's a little dark, but you can see it OK.


This is a view looking back the other way into the dining/living room. There are still a few boxes around, but nothing like it was!


This is the marble staircase.


Here are a couple of views of Emily's room. I haven't had time to really organize it yet, but it was the first room unpacked, mainly so that Emily would have plenty to do while I worked on the rest of the unpacking. Most of the furniture in Emily's room came with the house. We decided that it would be nice for her to have 2 beds for sleepovers, and she has already had one with her friend Grace.



I've got a lot more cleaning and organizing to do, but most of the unpacking is done.

Yesterday, Sunday, my friend Sue and her kids, Kirsten (who is in Emily's class at school) and Charley (who is 2), and my friend Darci and her daughter Hope (age 1) came over to hang out, have lunch, and let the kids play for a while. Emily and Kirsten get along very well, and played on their own pretty much the whole time. Charley has entered the terrible twos and spent the time trying to keep all the toys away from Hope, occasionally whacking her with a block when she got too close. Hope kept a very sunny attitude through most of this treatment. The grown ups did manage to visit a little bit in between refereeing, and it was nice to do something a little different, since all of our husbands are out of town. Darci is American, and Sue is technically Danish, though they came here from the UK and she speaks English with a perfect British accent. Her husband is British.