this old house

Okay, I PROMISE this is the last post about moving OR the house. ha ha Please bear with me this one last time.

Soo we've been in our new house for about three weeks and have been LOVING it. For my own entertainment, I wanted to document our past "homes"on the road to being in a real HOUSE. It's been a long road. To save this post from total boringness (warning - I may not have succeeded) I went through my computer to find pics taken in each of our past houses.

HOUSESITTING STINT- When Wayne and I first were married we housesat a home for four months. During that time our "home" was a small bedroom in the basement of the house. It was a NIGHTMARE! I hated not being able to unpack all my things or set up and decorate anything. Plus, there were CATS living with us. Ugh! (TOTALLY a dog person) We were soo happy to get out of there and into a place of our own.

This is the ONLY picture I have of this house - apparently, I really didn't want to remember living there.

STUDIO LIVING - Next, we moved into a one room studio near BYU. It was so nice having our own space, be it very small. The whole apartment was one big room, but we divided the sleeping area and living area with a bookshelf. The place was newer and clean and I loved it. I remember when my visiting teachers would come, Wayne would just wait patiently on the bed until they were gone because there was no where else for him to go. ha ha. We stayed there for a year.

This pic was taken on my birthday - right behind that bookshelf was our bed. Ah. Good times.

GHETTO GETAWAY - Right before Malia was born we moved into a two bedroom basement apartment. It was a nice place (and it was nice having doors to shut), but it was in the ghetto. . . like, GHETTT-O. We didn't realize it when we picked it, but it came obvious soon after. Honestly, it was kinda scary sometimes. We stayed there a year too.

Don't have any good pics of the apartment - just of cute Malia with her Daddy in the living room.

CONDO HIGH-RISE (are you liking these names I'm coming up with? ha ha) - Before Kina was born we moved into a three bedroom third floor condo. I was so happy to get out of the ghetto and basement and I loved the extra room. There was fresh paint on the walls, new carpet on the floors and high rise ceilings - all of which we enjoyed. The three flights of stairs were taxing, but I tried to think of it as my exercise for the day. ha ha When the girls became toddlers and wanted to go out and play everyday, I started dreaming of a yard. We were there for two years.

This pic was taken at an FHE. . . it wasn't ALWAYS that messy. ha ha

And now. . .

HOUSE HAPPY - We moved into the house owned by my parents! They bought it when my family lived in Utah and we lived in it for five years before moving back to Hawaii in '98. I have very fond memories of our time here. Since then there has been many renters and other family members enjoying it - we're actually the only members of my family that have never lived in it - and we are very happy for the opportunity. It has lots of space, a big yard, a beautiful kitchen, a garage and an awesome neighborhood. Anyone who has ever done apartment/condo living knows how special those things are.

Here are some pics of the new house. . . feel free to scroll to the end, these are mostly for my mom's sake. ha ha

Living room - we hope to have a piano in here soon so Wayne can teach lessons from home.

Family room - we don't have cable (woohoo!) so the TV is only on for movies. I love it.

Kitchen - I don't like cooking or baking, but this kitchen makes it bearable . . . SOMETIMES even fun!

I wasn't going to have any bedroom pics, but I've often talked about my giNORMous bed and thought I'd post a pic to better illustrate it. We got it as a gift . . . to which I am VERY grateful. . .it's just really, really REALLY big. Someday it's gonna look really nice in our log cabin.

Whew! It's been a long road, but we are happy to be where we are. I guess the next step would be to actually OWN our own home. . . something I'm looking forward to! Until then, we are so grateful for the opportunity to live here - THANK YOU MOM AND DAD! - and are excited for all the memories we will make as a family in our first HOUSE.