Our New house

This past week has been a stressed out and hecktic one. Arik and I closed on our new house on July 14th, it is also the same day that my nephew turned 3, my mom had surgery, and my cousin's little boy had open heart surgery. Needless to say, a lot happened that day that was worrisome. Anyways, we closed. The following two days, my mother-in-law, sister-in-law, and I cleaned the upstairs of the house. It took us 20 hours to clean. The previous owners left it completely trashed and i have no idea how they lived like that.

We also painted Brookelyn and Kira's rooms. It was Mom J's birthday presents to them. On Saturday we had a birthday party for Lukas, Brookelyn, and Kira. With all thier birthdays within a month and with gas prices the way they are we did a joint one at the house.

This weekend while Brandee and Spencer were down to help(which was greatly appreciated) they got sick. All four Bagshaws were throwing up and not feeling well at all. I hope you are feeling better Brandee.

This is a pic of the kids that came to the party. The Crookston Clan, thanks for coming guys, Brookelyn, Sam (Brookelyn's cousin), and Brayden (Thanks Hemming clan for coming also). Lukas and kira and MIA and Tanner (Brayden's brother) didn't want to be in the picture. So here are the pics of our house that people kept telling me to post. I had to wait until I cleaned it first. The first two pics are of our living room/dining room. We actually got to use all of our pit pieces (our couch). where the guitar is, is where the piano is going once we get enough men to help us move it in.
This is our kitchen. I have a full stove with the glass top and a dishwasher, which all the way around the corner, but I am not complaining. It is a lot quicker to do dishes now.
This is our room. Of course it isn't a good picture but we fit a queen size bed, two dressers (not in the closet), a bookcase, a standing mirror and two end tables into the room with still lots of floor space to move around. For those of you from Aggie Village or that ever saw our place in Logan you can understand why i am so excited about all the stuff i fit in there.

Sorry about the angle of this pic. I forgot to move it around. This is the upstairs bathroom. We will be updating it with time but for right now if works for us.
This is Brookelyn's room. In this room there is a desk and a book case for all her books. on the walls higher up are Princess stickers everywhere. Brookelyn made the best transition to the new house. We were preparing her for weeks, we would drive past it and point it out. She loves it to death. As you can see she is really big into Disney Princesses right now.
This is Kira's room. Her theme was butterflies and flowers. She has the changing table and a dresser. she had a hard time the first few nights but now sleeps great.


This is bdroom number 4 in the basement. this is the place all our guests can stay. So come visit. we have a room for you.

Sorry about the angle of this pic also. This is a bathroom downstairs. it is unfinished (duh!). It will be nice to at least have the toliet down here because when Brookelyn is playing we have to make a mad dash up the stairs to make it to the toliet in time.
This is a den. Someday we will add double french doors and an egress window and it will be Arik's office. for now it is storage. Arik and I decided when we first got married that we wanted the computer in a obvious place with a door that had windows so we could always see what was going on. More for the kids sake then anything but it also can keep us in check as well.
Here is the toy room. Or family room. someday Arik wants to make it a home theatre with a projector and everything but we will see. For now it is a place the girls can play with all thier toys.

So that is our house. It needs a lot of TLC but we are willing to do it. We are excited to be in our own place. Sometimes I forget we don't have anyone living below or above us. I can let the girls scream without worrying about bothering anyone but me.

We enoy being house owners and look forward to all the possiblities that are being presented to us right now.