A Place for Us

We are homeowners! We closed on October 30 on a beautiful, two-story, five-bedroom, two-bathroom house near Atlantic City. The house is everything we wanted - we've got a yard and a porch and a fireplace and a kitchen with a double sink and disposal. (We don't ask for too much, do we?)

The only thing we aren't crazy about are the property taxes in the city where we live and the high school is crummy. But we are good for at least 13 years. And maybe they'll change the high school by then.

Here's a quick tour of the house...enjoy!

It was built somewhere between 1890-1930. This is the front. (Notice all of the bags of leaves that F gathered today!)


The kitchen, clean and almost organized.

The living room (looking toward the dining room)...we love the wood floors!

The dining room, looking toward the living room (with a fireplace!).

The library/office has built-in bookshelves and a reading nook.

Our bedroom is in dire need of a paint job. And a closet.

N's bedroom has purple walls and built-in shelves.

The view from the back - our porch.

How big are you? SO BIG!

On the busiest Friday EVER, Miss Nina Bell had her 2-month check-up. (More on the rest of the day in another post.) She is now 9 weeks old, and weighed in at 11.5 lbs. and measured 23.5 inches. So she's staying up there, at 90% for height and 70% for weight. In the last month, she's started smiling (not just for gas) and cooing. We're enjoying our little girl and think she's the cutest baby in the world; see for yourself:

I've started smiling...but I always stop when Mami pulls out the camera. ;)

For a Harry Potter-themed Halloween party, I went as Dobby and Papi was Lucius Malfoy.

On Halloween, my friend L visited us as a duck. (I'm the butterfly.) Papi and Mami decided not to take me out Trick-or-Treating, but we had fun anyways.

I met David Archuleta at church. He was singing in Atlantic City and came to our church. He was very nice and took pictures with us.