The blogging break is over

I will pretend that all of you were missing me terribly and it prompted me to get back in the blogging game.

 That.

And certain family members kept kindly informing me that I had yet to give a tour of our house. So here I am finally getting all my ducks in a row.

 Here we go. Let start by a look at the outside of our house. (I just want to note that there is snow in the mountain behind our house. It has been somewhat "cold" here.)

A more close up look of the front.

And a look at the back of our house. We know. We've got some nice weeds going on. We hope in the future that they will magically disappear. Here's the view from the front door. To the right of the front entry way there is a door to the garage. To your left is a hallway leading to Alayna's room, the spare bedroom, a bathroom and the laundry closet.

But anyway, this is our living room. (FYI: the lighting is off in all these pics. Sorry. Every thing has a yellowish tint.)

Another view. You can kind of see a doorway before the entertainment center. That leads to our master bedroom.

Oh, and what do you think of the entertainment center? We finally upgraded from the card table. Not to shabby, huh? In fact when we unpacked it, we both commented that it felt weird having some nice, quality furniture in our house. Everything else we own (furniture wise) has pretty much had a previous owner.

Looking from the couches back at the front entry way.

This is a shot of the kitchen from the living room.

Another picture of the kitchen from the living room.

And yet another view of the kitchen. I have loved the size of my kitchen. I have not loved the sweeping that a kitchen this big entails. :)

This door is the pantry. It is a nice size and I love having an actual space that will fit all of our food/food storage.
Now, let's go back to the master bedroom. Here's a shot from the door way. Who could that little girl be?

A picture from the bed looking out. While in terms of space this room is marvelous, I would have to say that this is one of my least favorite rooms in terms of decorating. Do you ever feel like all the leftover decorations end up in your room and they never achieve the look that you want?

And here's a picture looking from the bed to the bathroom area. The door on the left is the bathroom. And the door on the right is our walk-in closet.

The bathroom. Don't worry. It's not really light green. It's just the lighting again.

And a look into the closet from the bathroom.

Now let's go back to the front entry way. Remember how I said there is a hallway to the left? Well, here it is...mostly. There is a door before the door you see on the left. The unseen door is Alayna's room.

A look into her room from the doorway.

Another view.

What you see when looking out her doorway.  The laundry closet.  I predict that behind those doors is a basket of clothes waiting to be folded.  The joys of life.

Here, in the second door to the left, is the spare bedroom or the computer/craft room.  The view from the doorway.

The wall on the left.

The wall on the right.

Now, the bathroom at the end of the hallway.
A shot from the doorway.

One last pic.

And there you have it. 

Our house. 

I am loving living in something other than an apartment.  The only room not pictured is our garage, but I figured you didn't really need to see it since they are pretty standard.  Dan would probably say that it is my favorite room since it allows me to work on projects that I have long been wanting to do. :)

Hope the tour satisfied our family members until they can get out here in person (hint hint).