New House

Okay, so I know it's been awhile since I posted... but Ben has been gone... so I'm kind of... I don't know... He got back from Maine the weekend we closed on our new house. But then it was his dads turn to take him.. so now he wont be back until 7/31!!
So, we closed on our new house on June 26th!! It was awful until the very last minute. It seemed that everyday the mortgage guy called with another problem with the loan!! It was soooo stressfull!! But now it's all over and we have out house. It needs a little work, but it's not bad. It is a three bedroom split entry. One bathroom upstairs and then the basement is finished with a family room a three quarter bath and a den. The backyard is really nice and big!! All fence in and there is a nice deck off the dinning area.
The work we need to do is the kitchen has to be redone, most of the cupboards are falling apart, and then the downstairs bathroom needs to be gutted, it looks like the conner shower unite leaks... and it's just well nasty!! But aside from that it seems to be in good shape!
I will try to make a slide show of the house at some point, but right now I don't have a functioning camera... the only pics I have are the black and white pics the assesor sent with his ppw of the house value.
The neighborhood is really quiet, and the neighbors seem nice, one even cut our grass for us when John (bless his heart) attemted to cut the grass... but he I guess hasn't ever cut grass before and the yard got a very bad uneven haircut!! lol
We are pretty much all settled in the house, just have a few things left to move from my moms house... but for the most part we are done. I just need to put up pictures and stuff...
Our bedroom is yellow, which isn't a color I would have picked but is actually a really soothing color. The boys room is green, real pastely green with stripes of an even lighter green and there is a jungle boarder around the top and the curtains are lepard print with a monkey stuffed animal wrapped around it to hold it open (very cute all window coverings are pretty nice and were left with the house). Right now since they are still littel and like sleeping in the same room together anyways Ben and Brody are sharing a room, and the third room is their play room! Which is nice because then they understand that the bedroom is where they sleep! The play room is kind of crazy colors, green on the top half of the wall and purple on the bottom half of the wall... but it works out well for a play room... I'm thinking about painting the alphabet in white and then some shapes around the walls... maybe.. we'll see. The bathroom is blue, with one wall has wood panneling on it... which isn't my favorite, but at some point I will redo that bathroom too...
The important thing is that the house is sound with our majore problems... it just needs a bit of a cosmetic make over.
It has a nice large dirve way! But only one car garage, which at the moment is acting as our dumping ground for all the boxex I haven't gotten around to unpaking yet..
Well that is all I have to report for now... oh yeah so we figured out what school ben will be going to seems like a good school, it isn't the one for our neighborhood which I'm glad about... but it is still close and it has before and after care... so I've got him all set up to start first grade august 17th... yikes!!