Slowly Settling In

Well we have been here almost two weeks and we're slowly settling in. It's hard to find a functional place for everything so it takes some time. Plus I'm a little leary to put pictures on the walls until I know for sure where they go. It's hard here, once you put a hold in concrete there's no covering it up, so I must plan ahead.

I did take a few pictures of the outside of the house and the kitchen. So that there is no mistake, we are not rich missionaries we just serve a rich God. We are renting this house for just a little more than the last old raggedy one we lived in .

house from the street

I always wanted a yellow house ever since I was a kid and God just seen fit in His goodness to give me one even if it's just for a few years. I like it and it's first class compared to normal Croatian standards.

from the front door looking toward the garage

front yard looking toward the road

The yard is really nice and landscaped very nicely. We signed the contract today and it has to be exactly the same when we leave for the next city in 3 years. I'm not the best gardener, I wanna be but I usually kill more than I grow. Hum, better fix that. Oh yea the yard is really nice, the gate can only be opened if we BUZZ the visitor in and then there is the garage we can go through and those are the only ways into the yard, good for kids.

I know you all wanted to see KD, she's our Croatian Golden Retreiver. She's Croatian only because she was born here but she has an American heart. She's bilingual too. :0)

the front door

It's prety modern but we like it. The kitchen, dining and living rooms are all together. The outward wall is pretty much all windows. I have lot's of sewing to do to get the curtains ready for that wall.

Oh yea the kitchen. It's samll but very functional. I love the way the cabinets open, from bottom to top. Oh yea that pot of the stove is hot beef stew, we had it with corn muffins. Yum!

One more, this is the stairway going upstairs. I have to figure out what to put on that wall between the windows. Any ideas are greatly welcomed.

So that's a few pix of the new house, I'll post more and I clean up all the clutter everywhere. Thanks for being so interested!