Saturday, May 27, 2006

Welcome to Second Street!

When I first heard of the concept of blogging, from LT in Spriritual Disciplines, I thought it sounded like fun...who wouldn't want to live out their dream of publishing their journal, even if it is just online? I pushed the idea aside, thinking "I don't want to be a nerd...and only nerds have blogs." So I continued on with my merry life (and marry, I did...) and next thing I know everyone I know has a blog! I decided that I couldn't just follow the trend and get a blog because everyone else did...But today I changed my mind. Who
am I kidding? I want a blog, so here it is. My thoughts from Second street.



As most of you probably know, Nathan and I recently moved into our first house. (It happens to be on Second street, which is why my thoughts are from Second street.) I know that many of you have been awaiting my promise of pictures, so here is a little mini-tour of our humble abode. The first picture is our house from the outside. It's a nice mix between mint and glow-in-the-dark green. One comment I got was, "It suits you guys." Never thought glow-in-the-dark mint would suit me...you learn something new everyday! The outside/yard is where most of the work needs to be done.


The next picture is our kitchen/dining room. This picture was taken right before Trevor and Rebekah came over for supper...we finally had the house cleaned...we had to take pictures of it! jj













Next is the living room. We're enjoying having our new furniture finally fit where we have it. It was fairly squished into our apartment.



Our bedroom is much smaller than our last one (our last one was wheelchair accessable or something). But it's red, not white, and that makes up for every square foot we lost.



Our second bedroom is storage/computer room/scrapbooking room/library. It's dark blue.







Downstairs we have a large rec room (aka. Nathan's work out room - "man-space"). We also have a third bedroom (caramel coloured), second bathroom (blue-ish teal) and laundry room downstairs too.


Overall this is a wonderful place to start out. It's a good size for two but is able to easily hold company and youth and, someday, kids. It is very much home, and my dream is that it becomes a home to everyone who steps foot inside.

So that is our place on second street...the place where I think and ponder and write from. Enjoy!










9 comments:

Anonymous said...

NIKI!

Your home is lovely! So good to see that there is somewhere I can go to be updated on how you are. You may be only one day my senior, but you seem to be faring perfectly fine in the land of grown-ups and the workin' world (still a scary place for me!) :D.

I will be a regular reader!

Bonnie said...

Hi Niki & Nathan! Blogging is a great way to keep up with what is going on with each other ... if you can remember to update it!! (that is my problem!!) I love your house ... it looks so cute and homey!! Good luck with the new house and the new blog!!

Jennine said...

Hey Girl! Glad to see that you got yourself a blog.... they're not all bad ;)

Anonymous said...

Oh your house is so cute! haha i love it, hopefully i will be abelt o make a trip to see it when i move to brandon. :)

Anonymous said...

I love getting a glimpse of YOUR house, not just the pictures of the house that was to be yours. May God bless it with His daily presence and His overflowing love!

Mom McC

Anonymous said...

Hey there Niki! You have a very cute house. Thank you for sharing your blog with me. I had a nice trip with your parents to Endeavour yesterday, it was fun. Have a great day!

Love ya,

Heidi :o)

Brad and Karla said...

those weights must be for you niki because i know corky don't use em!!!!

Anonymous said...

Hey I do to use the weights... sometimes... occasionally...
Nathan

amy said...

I really like your flooring!! We actually have something very similar in the back part of our house. The bedrooms and hallway.
I wasn't sure if it would be good in a kitchen though. Do you feel like you can get it clean without too much water or do you use lots of water when cleaning? I didn't know if it would be hard to make it look really clean or if I'd be cleaning all the time! That I wasn't interested in!
A lot of decisions to make in regards to the renovations though, thanks for your input!