Making the house our HOME!

YAY! We finally got our stuff.... well most of it. We can't go getting to excited ya know. Last Wednesday we received 4 out of 5 of our crates. The last one arrived in country the 15th of October and is currently going through customs. Hopefully it will arrive early next week. In the mean time we have been organizing our life and the house is really looking like we live here rather than we are just a group of squatters. It is nice to have stuff that belongs to us around. Right now our biggest annoyance is we actually have extra furniture since the loaner stuff is still in the house. But the good news is its getting picked up tomorrow!

The first load coming in!!!!

Kitchen Stuff, but there was no silver ware our pots and pans... maybe next time!!

View of the lift, it makes me very nervous!

They help you unpack every thing because they take the boxes and packing paper.

We have furniture!!!!

EMPTY BOXES!!! YAY!!!

Riddle time... How many Koreans does it take to put together a crib? Answer two and they still did it wrong!!!

Our bed room full of stuff! OY!

One of the bins we unpacked had the kids Halloween costumes in it. So we had a little fun playing some dress up! Ellie was hanging out with us so we dressed her up too!

"My crazy sister actually thinks she is a dragon?!"

One of the things we did this week was finally buy a rug! Now this may sound like a simple task but it has been quite a long process. We have been trying to decide what we wanted first of all, plain or Persian. We went Persian. Then it was machine made acrylic or hand made wool. We really wanted hand made. Then design and of course price. So after going to 3 different rug dealers we finally found one we agreed on. Of course I have extremely good taste and always liked the most expensive ones! There was one we saw that was $15,000 US dollars! I am trying to get pictures off my I pod but its not working. Anyway it would have been worth it due to the detail and the fact that it took 2 people 10 years to make it. (If any one wants to send me the money I would love to go buy myself that as a gift!) Anyway the rug man and I spent almost two hours together at his shop yesterday (which is also attached to his restaurant.) He taught me all about quality and different kinds of wool and all the knots. He showed me pictures of the whole process. It was very interesting. Then I picked 3 rugs that I thought Mike would also like, and the rug man offered to bring them to our house that night. Long story short we picked one and here it is....

Its a cool geometric design with animals hidden in the pattern. Totally me!!! The wool was imported to Pakistan from lambs in New Zealand and then they did this down under animal design. It is truly and amazing original! I LOVE IT!!!! I also like how it makes the whole house more homey. The kids love it too, Rhyon was having a blast rolling on it!  The rug man included dinner at his restaurant with the purchase of our rug, so we are excited about that this weekend.

That's the fairly brief version of whats been going on here. The whole getting our stuff situation has been quite a nightmare but I will save you all the full story, as we are just happy to have our stuff. There were also some minor issues with our car this week but the mechanic was awesome and fixed it all in less than 2 hours. Life here is a daily adventure!

Oh yeah one more thing, a video. This was from 2 weeks ago at dance class. This is practicing the routine. Enjoy!