first days in kentucky

i feel like i've been gone from washington for a long time. it has only been 4 days...crazy thought. we have loved having papa and gg here. they have been such a tremendous help and support to us. many times i have burst in to tears (i'm emotional okay!) because i've been so overwhelmed with all they are doing for us. without both our parents generosity in our lives matt and i would not be where we are today. we are blessed.

so i'm going to be cheesy and put pictures of the house. but it's safe to say now everyone who reads this is no where near me...so i feel a little justified. so best to let the pictures do the talking right? a little taste of our new life here.

welcome to our house. with some potted plants it will look a bit more inviting...but we love the brick of our building.
this is looking out our front door. isaiah and alaythia spend most their day here playing in the dirt. the neighbors have started coming over since we have a plethora of toys.
the only casualty in the move was the table. each leg split 3 times. the only person in the world that could have fixed it was mark...and he did. the black tape came off and it's good as new. thanks dad for all your detailed hard work!isaiah was so eager to help, even offering to pour our cereal for us the first morning. here he's helping matt put together a cabinet.
so as you walk in our front door, this is what you see to on the left. the painting was matt's grandfather's and hung in his home for years. matt picked it out years ago and we just this summer finally got to take it home with us. we love it!
here's our living room...we just got the rug today that has the brown, green and blue in it that we were going for. we're so excited about this new addition! the dining room table is just to the right of this.here is the kids room as you walk in the door. we love that the drums are in the walk in closet...(isaiah's studio we're calling it) so that we have lots of room to play.

this is the view of their room from the other side.

believe it or not...this is our backyard. i couldn't even get the top of the rock wall, but it's lined with trees and gets greener the higher you get. can you believe it??!! it's so beautiful! this is mark, matt and isaiah playing soccer.and one day we went driving around the campus of southern...this is just one of the buildings on this huge campus. but they all look like this.

a slice of our life here in kentucky.....