Our New House and Spring Break!

No, we didn't by a house. We are renting, but have never had a house and a yard and a garage! We moved into this house on April 4th and were so blessed by so many of our friends and co-workers helping us move. We started at 8am and had all of our boxes in our house AND the apartment cleaned before noon! There were about 15 people who helped and I couldn't believe how fast it went. Thank you to all who helped!

This week, April 13-17, is our Spring Break from school and it has been a great time to get unpacked and settled into the house. The kitchen we have is really cute, but there was only one drawer with the rest of storage space being cabinets. We bought a neat little kitchen shelf from IKEA and Justin put that together. It has two drawers to hold our silverware and we'll eventually buy some baskets to hold more kitchen items underneath. The living room is pretty much set up. The baby room is being put on hold as we figure out how to move this huge hide-a-bed couch downstairs to the office. When we have visitors, it would be nice if they could have their own room and not have to sleep on the couch. :)

The living room in three pics from left to right.

The kitchen and our IKEA buy.

Yesterday, April 16th, I went shopping at a place called OBI. It's like a Home Depot and I bought several flowering plants and Justin and I did some landscaping in our yard. (The weather has been really nice lately and it was great to be outside for a few hours.) Our landlord had these bricks beside a wall in our yard and I used them as a border around a cherry tree right outside our porch. I planted pink impatients and blule lobelia under the tree. Can't wait for them to bloom, and hopefully in those colors! :) I also planted red geraniums in window containers. Almost every Hungarian has red or pink geraniums on their windowsills and I can't wait to see if they bloom for me they way they bloom for them! :)

Landscaping around the cherry tree.