The house is almost ready!!

Well, we've spent the last 2 days buying beds, mattresses, appliances, rugs, and curtains and today we finally began moving the stuff into our new house!

Here's a photo of the delivery truck bringing everything in one load to our house!

Here’s a view of the front of the house.

The garage is the big set of doors towards the left-hand side. We’re planning to convert it into our home school room (below) by throwing down some carpet and putting a few desks in there. The big doors allow for a very nice breeze through the room, which should make it very pleasant for studying!

For our kitchen, we purchased a fridge/freezer combo and a tintsy-tiny electric stove (they call it a "cooker"). We probably won’t be able to cook a turkey in this bad boy, but we could probably bake a chicken. In any case, we’re thankful to have a stove at all, so we’ll take what we can get!

The boys’ room is really taking shape with two sets of bunk beds. We wanted to make sure that we had a spare bed for friends to spend the night.

Just outside our front gate is a big soccer field where the neighborhood kids play. I think we’ll turn it into a football/baseball field, too!

Tomorrow we get to hang the mosquito (or as they say here, the "masqueeto") nets and maybe try to get some carpet for the living room as well as some couches and dining room table/chairs. Monday we go to try to get a vehicle. I'll be so glad when all this "startup" work is done so our lives can settle into somewhat of a normal routine!