Monday, October 25, 2010

What you have been waiting for...

I suck, plain and simple.  I am sorry it took 3 months to get pictures of the inside of our house posted.  I guess the only excuse I can come up with is that I wanted to have it look more "homey" in here before you guys saw it.  I wanted to put some sort of signature Cooper family mark on it. :)  It is still not quite complete, but done enough that I will share. :)  We got confirmation this weekend that our shipment is scheduled to arrive today.  They are already late, so we will see what happens.  We are sooo excited to get our things, blankets especially, our house is freezing!!  It is so sad that we are so anxious for the "things", but will help the homesickness a little I am hoping.  I promise you more blogs to come this week.  It is written in my planner with ALL CAPS!! :)  Wish you guys were here...Addi reminds me daily how much she is missing everyone in Colorado and in Iowa and she just doesn't understand why they don't come if she is missing them.  Doug did it, so why can't everyone else?!  It is a very hard concept for a 5!! year old.  Sending our love...

Laundry Room in the basement...still no dryer.

The only Chinese piece of furniture I have bought. :)

The office...the desk is so tall my feet don't touch the floor.  We were going to have them shorten it (we had it made), but it fits Mitchell perfectly so I am making do. :)


The hallway in the basement leading to the laundry room.

Living room in the basement (my favorite room!!)

Kids' toy room.


Looking into the toy room from the living room.  We had the bench  and the train table in the picture made.

Our awesome couches that I looked high and low for!! :)




My favorite part about the room are the pictures.  You can click on the pictures on this page, the ones that don't have a caption, to see the pictures bigger.


Yes we think it is quite odd as well to have the toilet encased with glass...don't give you much privacy. :)

Master bathroom.

Closet in the master bedroom...its a little lacking.

Master bedroom...we had all of this furniture made.

Master bedroom.

Spiral staircase.  I love it!!

Henry's room...he saved up his money to buy his own plant...cost him 20rmb (almost $3).

Henry's room.

We bought Henry a "closet' to try and close off his room because it only had 3 walls and no door.  He doesn't mind and loves how his room is turning out.  He can't wait for the rest of the Star Wars decorations and bedding to get here!


Addi's room.





Mitchell's $500 grill.  We are enjoying it, but the price took a while to get used to!

The little kitchen, yes there are 2.

Living room off the kitchen.


I love this plant...its in the guest bedroom.

Guest bedroom.

Mitchell didn't want to be left out of the picture taking. :)  Yes, girls he is drinking Starbucks!

Dining room.




Living room on the first floor.

 I just realized I didn't take any pictures of the larger kitchen...oops.  Will do that in the morning and add those in.  I am off to bed now. 

Monday, October 18, 2010

It is official, my baby is crawling!!

Truman took his first crawling "steps" this weekend and finally realized today that he can get where he wants to go! :)  It is so much fun to watch him learn and discover new things.  Henry and Addi are thrilled that he is getting so big.  They absolutely love playing with him and making him laugh.  They have both been encouraging him and following him around, crawling themselves.  It is so great to watch all three of them interact.  The little joys in life are so precious!!  I will try to post a video of him tomorrow.  :)

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Pictures of the house...finally. :)

Henry the gargoyle
Ok, so I hate to admit how long it took me to get this posted...and it still looks goofy.  Oh well, I know you want to see pictures, so here you go.  I am almost done furniture shopping and am excited to post pictures of the finished product soon.  Check back, I will get more things posted this week for sure!!
The back of our house




Our sidewalk
Our house


Our house with the "garden" below. 



Our mailbox that is only for decoration...they hand deliver our mail to our door at night (we have only gotten 2 things...hint hint) :)

Our gate and sidewalk

Heading to the pool

The stairs can be a bit much at times...good thing we opted for the big stroller! :)


The entrance to our garage.



Tree with an IV.


Entrance to the park, we have no idea what it says. :)


The park is gorgeous!!  Lots of room to run around!




The pool at the park.


He loves his shirt. :)







All of the parks have areas with exercise equipment.

Ping pong. :)




I thought this was so bizarre...I am pretty sure they cut down more trees to hold up the new ones than they actually planted. 

This is exactly why I don't give Mitchell the camera very often.  :)

The back of our house.



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Our front door
More pictures to follow soon...I will write about Doug's visit next.  We had a fantastic week and I have a lot of pictures to post our adventures too!!  Will do my best to do it tomorrow.  We have a huge week ahead of us (Mitchell and I will be married for 9 yrs on Tuesday and Adeline turns 5 on Wednesday!!).  Love to all!!