MOVED IN

It is official, we are all moved into our townhouse.  For the last two months, we have been living in our townhouse in Australia but, we have been living here with very minimal furniture.  Stryker was kind enough to rent us furniture for the last two months and it is great however, nothing makes a house feel like a home more than your own furniture.  The wood floors in our house are brown, the walls are a light off white color and there is brown carpet on the top two floors.  Most of the rental furniture was brown - the sofas, bedding, pillows, etc. The girls were dying to get their items here because, although we like brown, we also love other colors...pink, orange, green.  Now they feel like they are alive again.  It feels very warm and like HOME!  The girls said that it felt like Christmas when all of our things arrived.  They are so HAPPY!

Everything was delivered on the 20th of May.  All of the rental furniture was picked up and our items were delivered at the same time.  It was a little hectic coordinating things considering there were 180 items (furniture and boxes) that were delivered and we already had a semi-full house of items that needed to be removed.  Tom was so sweet to stay home with me to help with this process.  For all of the other Stryker moves, we have moved in December.  This is a really hard time to move because of the holidays and it is the busiest time of year for Tom.  Often I have been left to my own devices or my mom has come to help me with the moves.  Tom will often return from his business commitments with everything unpacked and set in place.  This time, he got to experience things first hand and he was a FANTASTIC sport about it.  I could not have done it without his help.

A look at all of the boxes that we unpacked - I was exhausted at the end of this event - 3 days of fun.  :)

As an American, I recognize that we are first and foremost consumers.  I have literally bought into this concept for YEARS and we have way too much stuff!  When all of our stuff arrived, it became quite challenging to fit it all into this spacious townhouse. :) We only brought about a third of our furniture and WOW we estimated just about right.  We only had one item that would not go up the stairs to the third floor.  We quickly moved it to a spot on the second floor - the movers were appreciative with the quick decision because it was a LARGE heavy armoire.

Pictures of our new abode below!  BTW, Mom - we followed your lead and got the pictures up as quickly as possible.   I may have to sleep for a week to recovery from working like a dog, but I can say that we are finally settled into to our place.  It is a great feeling!

Master Bedroom

Little Den

Jane's Room

Grace's Room

Claire's Room Above and Below