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Wednesday, December 1, 2010

The New Digs

We've been in Columbus just over two months now so we figured it's time to post about our lovely little townhouse since everything is finally put together. This post will hopefully convince my family that we're not using cardboard boxes as furniture (which we were for a time).



I love our blue door. It's friendly.


The Kitchen:

BEFORE
I'm not sure why we didn't move the bike earlier, but we weren't using the dining area so I guess we figured something should enjoy the space.


AFTER
The flowers add a nice touch, but they aren't usually there. I bought some roses and gerber daisies to inspire me for an upcoming wedding I'm doing in December, but it was really nice to have them around for so long.


One of the best parts of moving to Ohio has been using all the wonderful kitchen appliances/gadgets that we received as wedding gifts that were kept in storage while we lived in Scotland. It was a Beauty and the Beast moment (think Be Our Guest) when we finally unpacked and used everything. The rice cooker is my culinary bff.



The Pantry
Still in a chaotic state, but we love it.


It's family and friends that make a house a home. This picture is evidence of my love of Saturday mornings - waffles and crazy friend sightings. HA! Joe didn't want to feel left out of the kitchen/cooking madness so we let him wear an apron too.


Downstairs bathroom


And now that brings us to the family room:

BEFORE
That cardboard box was our dinner table before the real one arrived from D.C. We had lots of fun with dinners those first couple weeks.


TOTAL CHAOS
This is the day all our stuff arrived. I don't think I touched any of it for two days due to the sheer overwhelming-ness of the situation that was our living room.


MORE CHAOS

But funny chaos.
We received a gift-card to Walmart (also from the wedding) and figured we'd use it to print off photographs that we wanted to hang up on the walls. Walmart messed up our order a couple times and ended up giving it to us for free. SCORE! I thought they had to be joking considering how many pictures we were printing off, but they weren't. It took us forever to figure out what to put where.


AFTER


MORE AFTER from a different angle.


I found Steve like this one evening and couldn't help but laugh.
Pretty sure it takes some serious skill in order to study in that position.


Another fun thing about our place is having room to hang up paintings I finished a few years ago.
The door on the right side leads down to the basement, but I didn't take any pictures...


Upstairs bathroom - very exciting.


Joe made this sign, which will remain on the door until a new visitor occupies our spare bedroom. And even then, we'll likely refer to it as Uncle Joey's room...


BEFORE


AFTER
Steve totally lucked out when he married me. Why? Because of the sweet desk I brought into the marriage. That, my friends, is my favorite desk from my days at BYU. I've been excited for five years to put it back together again, and I'm glad Steve puts it to such good use.


Girly? Yes. Super comfortable? Yes, yes.
And, even better than all that - it's a trundle bed! The more the merrier in these parts.



Master Bedroom.



That's the tour!
We hope you've enjoyed a glimpse of our lives here in Ohio.


And since it's now December, I figured I'd include some pics of the Christmas decorations that are making debut appearances at the Adams residence this year.


Wha-lah!

The tree.

We put up Christmas decorations a week and a half before Thanksgiving because we only get to enjoy them for about three weeks since we'll be heading to Utah in no time at all.

However...

Three days after putting everything up, my visiting teachers came over to visit and that's when I realized that our townhouse is NOT kid-proof. Both women brought wee ones that loved to touch, squeeze, and likely, lick everything that looked sparkly, shiny, or fragile.

Yikes.

Here's our brilliant plan to child-proof our decorations for our own kiddos:

We took pictures of some the ornaments that we acquired over the last year so that we can print them out and either: a) do something easy with hodge-podge and a backing of some sort, or b) stick with time-tested cardboard and glue. It depends on how ambitious I'm feeling when that time comes.

So...the following ornaments are temporarily comfortable on the Christmas tree, but in future years we'll opt for the replaceable/bendable/tearable versions so as to protect the originals until the little munchkins won't destroy them:


Vienna, AUSTRIA


Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS


Coolest Santa I've ever seen.
Edinburgh, SCOTLAND


Paris, FRANCE


Florence, ITALY


Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS again


London, ENGLAND


Innsbruck, AUSTRIA


Cinque Terre, ITALY


Hong Kong, CHINA


Inverness, SCOTLAND


Marrakech, MOROCCO


And since we haven't found a cool tree-topper yet, Frosty the OSU-man is proudly adorning the top of our tree.



In other completely random but fantastic news:

1) Steve's last day of class is TOMORROW! Where, oh where, does the time go? I'm so proud of how he's done this quarter.

2) I officially graduated last Friday (in absentia) as "Kristen Kathleen Irvine" (too many hoops to jump through to get U of E to let me graduate with my married name on the diploma. Sad.), but....

3) I officially became "Kristen Kathleen Adams" TODAY!
(I finally made the name change official on government documents...it only took 15 months.)

4) It finally SNOWED here today! It made me so happy.


8 comments:

TheCoys said...

You guys have an awesome townhouse, and it's HUGE! It does look pretty different in the pictures compared to the virtual tour we got. I love all your pictures too. We'll come visit and change Uncle Joey's room to Brother Tyler and Sister Lindsey's room.

I love all your ornaments too. That's the best souvenir idea. I'm really excited to see you soon. Love you guys.

Jen Holtkamp said...

your place looks amazing! you guys did a great job!!! looking at all your boxes makes me wish we never had to move again :) oh yeah, i just got a driver's license and passport with my married last name...it's only been 4 years.... :)

Jalene said...

yay! i love seeing the photo i took on your dining room wall. ;)

Lauren Kay said...

I love the ornaments!

Mary said...

For some miraculous reason, your blog posts still come into my google reader even though you have gone private. And so it's like a double prize- a post from you AND it came straight to me! Makes my day every time.

Cullen said...

Congrats on the sweet new digs! Looks super comfy.

Also, congrats on FINALLY becoming an Adams! Will you start moving to new homes together at this point? ;-)

So excited to see you guys later this month!!

FilippaochNiklas said...

I love your home! It´s adorable! :-) BUT Heeeey! Where is the ornament that I gave u?! Didnt u whant to take a picture of that??? Thats rude! *wink wink*

I Miss you 2!

Ann said...

THANKS! I really like that you have 8 MILLION pictures to hang up. And the ornament idea is awesome. I love it. And I can't wait until I can stay in Uncle Joey's room. Although we'll have to change the name when I come. :) I'll start thinking...