Saturday, March 16, 2013

Love Sisters: Take a Tour ....


Welcome to our home.  Let's take a little tour.   This is the original structure.  My Grandmother's old cottage with no bathroom ...  but, we worked really hard to make this place a home for all of us.
We extended the old cottage, and made the room bigger.  It's now our front entrance, and our kitchen/dining room.... That's some of Rose's artwork there above the pots & pans and the one by the food bowl and counter....
 There is our sorority rose we got as a gift.   And our grandma's table and chairs along with a new one we got.  The only thing my grandmother had that we got rid of was that jurassic computer.  But some time, we'll have to upgrade the stove and fridge.

This is our room... Brad's and mine.  See the glass door between the fireplace and the bed, well, that's the door to the new nursery that we are STILL working on....  the yellow door there that you see part of, that's to our bathroom.



This is our bathroom....


And Rose's Room and bathroom.......... Our rooms are pretty much identical, like us.  And right across the hall from each other.


Here is her bathroom...



This is the entry way of our living room/den ....  there's Brad in the hallway ....  outside the bedrooms... you can see all the way down the hallway that painting in the kitchen.  The paintings on the walls are ones Rose did while were in college.


 We don't have a cat yet, but we're prepared for when the right one comes along.
 This is looking from the living room to the small room with the staircase for the basement.   Eventually we'll fit one for upstairs too when we need to expand....  again ....

Here is the small room

And the extra bathroom at the end of the house....


Then downstairs is awful crowded right now.  We're already talking about expanding a music room down there .... or maybe we'll put it upstairs when we expand up.  Not sure yet.... but right now, it's just ... there...

The archway there leads into our laundry room/basement bathroom....

And in the door that's to the right of that green room is my alchemy room ...


I'm getting quite a collection going of wildflowers, and bugs ....  and other stuff in my little mini fridge there next to the bug huts.

So ...  the last room is our Science Room.......


Stuff we got while at college and stuff.... to continue our education and so our children will have it.. The fishtank is between the Science Room and the Alchemy Room ...

Here is the garage.... the truck is his, the purple one is mine.  Need something safe and sturdy with triplets, right?


Here is the house lay-out ... just upstairs, and the garage....



and the basement....


And here is our newest room........ the Nursery ....



Here are a few exterior photos of the house....




Hope you enjoyed your tour!!

Love Sisters - Chapter 6: Triple Trouble




A few weeks went by and we worked hard on decorating our house and landscaping .... Brad is a cop and I am cranking out books, Rose has her job as an Art Critic where she makes mega mula and she's been doing some amazing paintings!  I have to say - the house does look A-MAZE-ZING!   But then (rolling eyes) ...  the stupid fireplace in our suite ... I mean really?   After I put out the fire, I quickly fireproofed all the fireplaces in the house.  ENOUGH of this already....
 We adopted a tiny dog and named him King.  Thought it was rather fitting.
 Rose saw a stray dog knock over our garbage can and start digging through the contents trying to find something to eat.
 We love all animals, so we made sure to get a food bowl out there.... check out our landscaping....
 This is our house after a lot of hard work....
 I did end up pregnant from our honeymoon, and I spent the next few months reading anything pregnancy related I could find.   King thinks he can take on a horse!  But Frost loves him and she is really gentle...
 And she's very affectionate too...
 We started to prepare the nursery .... and Brad read a lot too....  he was so excited to be a dad!!
The whole time I was pregnant, I swear all I did was read - so all Brad did was read.


 but towards the end, I got super affectionate.  I still couldn't woohoo, it was too risky.  Everything was super risky.
 We found out we were having TRIPLETS.  That's right folks.  THREE babies!!  Brad and I started to practice childbirth positions.
 Where did this evil little gnome come from?
 Right around the time the evil gnome showed up, I went into labor.
 OMGawd!!!!!!  It's too early!!!!!!!!!
 I rushed to the nursery and pointed out we only had one of the three cribs up!
 So while I labored, Brad hurriedly put the other cribs up.  And then - it was time.
 It's a GIRL!!!  We named her Madalyn Grace.
 More labor....  now I knew what my mother went through having Rose and I.....

 It's a BOY!!!!!!!   We named him Max Bradford....
 I got a slight break and got to enjoy holding Max for a moment....  but as soon as I got him in a crib...


 It's a GIRL!!!!!!  Her name is Meghan Rose ....  after her grandmother and aunt....
 OMGosh ........ I am the mother of TRIPLETS.......
 TRIPLETS........ I need to sit down......