Our New Home and A New Year

We have finally completed our move to the new apartment. The curtains are hung (but in need of ironing and hemming) and the pictures are on the wall and I don't care to pack another bag for a long time. 2009 could be summed up in one word: TRANSITION. It seemed every few weeks we were transitioning to a new baby, a new home, a new city or a new country. 2010 will hopefully look very different.

Tomorrow Jeff and I begin our formal language training. We are thankful to have found someone to watch the girls on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings while we both attend language school. Jeff also officially begins his new job in the office and his seminary course work will be beginning soon as well. Chloe is enrolled in a Kindermusic class on Tuesday afternoons to get her out and involved with other kids. And Ava turns one year old in just a few days.

Here are some pics of the new place:





This is the master bedroom.

And the girls bathroom. Spacious, eh? We have an identical bathroom attached to the master bedroom minus the Dora stool and lime green diaper pail. :)

And the girls bedroom. When Ava gets a bit bigger, she will transfer to the bottom bunk and Chloe can graduate to the top (with rails, of course).

And their playroom.

This is my oven. But I have a two-burner gas stove this time instead of a two-burner hotplate. It only takes two minutes to boil water as opposed to twenty minutes in Thailand.

And here is the kitchen.

And the dining area.

And the living room.