The grand tour...

Abi wanted to give you a tour of our "new house". She posed in most of the pictures, but she was right there beside me the whole time showing me what to take pictures of. I guess this tour is for her friends back in Connecticut by her "old house." (I tried to make a slide show on Slide.com so that this post wasn't a mile long, but it wasn't working right, so I apologize right now for the long post...)

This is our living room. We got a new couch that we love! Also, I got my Al Rounds autographed picture of the Nauvoo Temple out of storage...I am so happy to have it back, this is my favorite picture!

Here is the view from the balcony off of our living room. It looks right down 200 East. This is where Abi likes to spend lots of time yelling "Helllloooo down there!" to the people walking down South Temple.

Here is the girls' bathroom. This first picture is of a cuckoo clock that I bought in Austria before I got married. Abi found it in one of our boxes and fell in love with it, so I thought it would be fun to hang in their bathroom since the colors all matched.

This is the picture that we found at Tai Pan trading. As soon as I saw it, I knew it would be perfect for their bathroom.Here's the shower in our bathroom. Steve was replacing the showerhead because the old one would spray you in the face throughout the whole shower whether you pointed it up or down-it was messed up. We love the new one!Then there is our lovely bedroom. It is still a bit of a work in progress, we're trying to find something to hang right above our bed. If you have any suggestions we would love to hear them. We got this bedding from Steve's parents-it was some that they didn't use anymore and we were in the market for a new comforter since ours was old and gross (too much Emma spit up!).This is one great room-the TOY ROOM! Yea!!! No more toys in the living room making it consistently dirty. The kids love having a room with all their toys in it and I love that most of the toys stay in there. Occasionally one or two escape out of here, but they always find their way back. Now this, well, this is obviously not done. We're debating whether or not to get a new entertainment center that's smaller, so we don't want to put this together just to take it apart again. The problem is, all those boxes are full of books, DVDs, X Box games, etc that we have always stored on the entertainment center shelves, so if we downsize, what do we do with all this stuff??? Well, I guess we better decide soon because it sure looks bad!Then, on a completely unrelated note-look how darn cute Emma's hair looks in piggy tails!!! Her hair has grown like a weed over the last few weeks so I decided to try the piggies-I think they turned out pretty well.She was quite excited about them too. (Plus she just learned how to say "Cheese" for the camera)

So there you have it, the grand tour of our new apartment. We are really liking it here, especially with all the extra space for our stuff.