my house, right now, sooc...

I know I keep saying I'm going to show you our new house but then I forget or I post something else or I accidentally delete a bunch of pictures and don't feel like looking at my computer for a couple of days...yeah.

So tonight I decided to snap a bunch of pictures around the house and share them with you SOOC (that's straight out of the camera). No magazine staged pretty housey photos here folks. Welcome to the place where we live...

I'm dying to take some pruning shears to those shrubs. It has been raining non-stop for weeks -great for the yard, not so great for yard-work.
Speaking of work, say hello to my little housekeepers...

You can check out a picture of the table just a little while before this on flickr. We made play dough today and Kate was rocking her plastic sequined shoes. Man I love those kids.
ok, back to boring house pictures...

Hmm, the living room looks better on camera. What you can't see: cherrios all over the floor, dead leaves all over the mantle, dead roses on the coffee table, spackle all over the walls, laundry all over everything (that's just part of it on the couch the rest is behind me). It's a sight better than the kid's rooms though...

This is what the girl's room looked like after "quiet time". Often, I'll come in and find every single animal and doll sitting in a circle around a perfectly laid out tea party or picnic. Kenna puts on a great tea party.

That's actually the cleanest I've seen Tristan's room in a long time. I'm singing 'Pick up the Pears' in my head now. Such a sweet song, and way better than getting THIS ONE stuck in my head. Days it will be stuck there. Days and days and days...but I digress...

I was going to try to post these pictures a few hours ago immediately after taking them so they would truly be SOOC and all that, but a war broke out in the dining room over blah blah blah blah, you know, and Shawn was out studying for his flight tomorrow and I realized we could all yell at each other for a couple of hours till bedtime or go for a bike ride. We went for the bike ride. Right choice.

And now the kids are bathed and in bed and the house is quiet and the laundry is still on the couch but that's ok because I can sit on the other couch and ignore it. Good night, all!