The rest of our new place

Alright all, here's the rest of our house pictures for those who are interested, then I'll get back to the cute baby pictures for the rest of you :)

So we're starting out with the dining room. Alex and I have learned that we have the maximum amount of stuff that will fit in an apartment (well we have some stuff and Olivia has TONS of stuff...), so our dining room is a little storage, a little office, a little craft room, and a little dining room. This angle is from the recliner in the living room.. We are looking at our dining room table (to match the red/black kitchen we will finish someday ;) ), with a stack of photo frames that will soon become our picture wall (wall above the table). We are waiting for Olivia's 1st birthday pictures and all of our wedding pictures, then will arrange it eventually :). Also, the white table (Thanks Gary!) is our desk/craft table. The desktop computer that is in our near future, and my bow making stuff will be on that table.

Now we travel to the kitchen. You can see Alex working at putting locks on the cupboard (suddenly completely necessary...), and the typical apartment kitchen. The nice thing about this apartment is the bar/kitchen counter area right in the front of the kitchen, is a nice place for the junk/mail piles :) and eventually decorations.

And the stove area, complete with about a month's worth of taco soup leftovers...at least it freezes! We miss the friends and family in Oregon that we would normally share this with :(

I don't really know why I'm including this picture. All it shows is that the dishes are NEVER done, there's always snack messes and bibs and everything left. However, in our defense, everything in this picture except the bib in the sink is clean and drying :)

And we're traveling to the room where the magic happens ;). The beautiful quilt courtesy of my wonderful Grandma, who made it for as a wedding gift. Our room is where the boxes will never be empty. For some reason I brought the box of guest room stuff (quilt, decorations) with us, and we just have more stuff than storage. But maybe we will find something to decorate the walls with. Can somebody be my personal decorator? This is definitely not my strong point.

As far as bathrooms go, we have a half bath in our room, and the full bath is in the hallway. It's sad for us to downgrade from two bathrooms, but we are glad to have a place, and have settled in very well.

This is the part where I say how glad we are to be in Fresno, and how we are loving it. However, it's been a pretty hard move for me, and I think the stress is spreading to Alex and Olivia. I really miss Oregon, but mostly I miss seeing people that I know. That said, it's so great to have my little family all together, and to be settled into some sort of a routine. This summer was INSANE, and I don't plan on repeating anything like it for a long, long time.

There are some things about Fresno that are awesome, so I'm making a list to share with you :)

1. Garage saling - it still is going strong, and the deals are great! Both weekends that I went out I went to 15+ sales, and took advantage of some great deal (my proudest being a new, wrapped in plastic Cranium game for $2). In Oregon there is about 4 garage sales with baby clothes in the entire Corvallis area, which means driving ten minutes in between each sale. Also, the prices in OR are about $2 per piece of clothing ($1 if you are lucky), and here it's .25-.50 per piece.

2. Library infant times - Olivia and I both love these story times, and we library hop throughout the week, so far we have gone to two different libraries each week. She gets to play with other babies, and we get to sing songs and learn new rhymes

3. Shopping - need I say more? Oregon shopping is dismal at best, nonexistent if you are being honest. I live within five minutes of everything shopping-wise I would ever need, and a 3 story Forever 21 is about a block from Alex's work. :) My bank account may not thank me later, but it has been fun to explore all the shopping centers around my house.

4. Going to a corn maze tomorrow, in shorts and tanks...I know I will miss the rain and clean-ness, but right now not needing sweaters all the time is great :)

And that's all for now...not because that's all that is good here, but because Alex just got home from his volleyball game, and it's time to write some thank yous (they never go away...)