Chuck-E-Cheese--of course!! Juliette has been asking to go there pretty much since we found Target because she now recognizes it and we have to drive past it to go to Target. We figured it wouldn't be very busy if we waited to go at dinner instead of lunch and we were right. Juliette enjoyed herself and even got to do "Head & Shoulders" with Chuck-E before he took a break!

As promised, below are some pictures of our new home: the outside of the house, Juliette's room, Juliette's bathroom/hall bathroom and the dining room. The kitchen and the other bathroom are unpacked and decorated, I just need to straighten them up before I take pics, so I'll post those tomorrow. The living room is unpacked, just undecorated. I'm feeling kinda unmotivated to decorate it and keep moving stuff around. Maybe tomorrow, I'll feel the urge to finish it. Nothing has been done to the guest bedroom, but that is last on my list, because I don't think we are getting any guests for at least a few more weeks. And that would leave the master bedroom and the sunroom--the thorns in my side right now!! I absolutely HATE doing laundry and hanging up clothes and it looks like ALL of our clothing is ALL OVER our room. UGH! It's so depressing to look at, but tomorrow Matt and I HAVE to get it done. I've been wearing his t-shirts because I can't get to mine and I've been jumping and hopping over stuff to get to my shoes, so I think it's time. Now, my part of the sunroom is done and I can't wait to show you my mad organization skills, which may or may not include the overuse of a label maker. And Matt's music stuff is set up and for the most part the second living area is set up, but there is still this whole sea of crap--for lack of a better word--that needs to be moved to the storage room and neither Matt nor I have had the desire to get out in the heat and move it and reorganize the storage room, which would have to be done to make room for it all. We both have high hopes, though, that this is the week--the week that the unpacking will end for good. Ok...I'll quit ranting about what needs to be done so you guys can see what has been done!!

This is our new home--complete with Juliette in the front because I wouldn't let her come in the street with me to take a picture. Eventually, we will put chairs on the front porch. This neighborhood is super cute and reminds me of the Garden District in Monroe. Everyone's homes are decorated and landscaped so cutely and Matt and I are constantly pointing out cute houses to each other. Our home is just one block from this cool looking neighborhood store that is among all these houses. In fact, the first time I saw it I thought it was just an old store that had been closed for a long time because it looks that way, but actually it is still open and they serve plates lunches as well. I just think it's really cool that we are only a block away from this little store that you wouldn't expect to find in this neighborhood! We haven't checked it out yet, but plan to.
This picture is a little blurry, but I wanted to show you the side of the house and the driveway. The driveway is on the right of the house and has a covered parking area with a large storage room to the left of it. This is all fairly new to the house. The original driveway is a little ways to the left of the house (not right on top of it) and has a two car garage with an apartment on top of it. When the owners set about to make this rental property, they rented out the garage apartment separately, so therefore they put down the new driveway, covered parking and storage room for the main house. In the picture below, you can see the car that is parked at the garage apartment.
This is a view of the back of the house/the sun room that you see from the driveway. Right now we keep the roman shades down and the windows closed because it is just too hot. Because the sun room was added to the house sometime around the 60s and because they put a flat roof on there, it does not have central air and heat--just a window unit and ceiling fan. Right now, the mornings and the evenings are pleasant--with or without turning the window unit on--but the afternoons are quite sweaty down there without the window unit, ceiling fan AND a freestanding fan on. I'm about to get back busy with my monogramming, which will take place in this room, so I quite literally will be working in a sweat shop during the afternoons!! We are hoping, though, that come winter, this room will be very pleasant and won't swing the opposite direction and be a meat locker!
The dining room is off the kitchen and you have to walk through it to get to the bedrooms and bathrooms. When the house was built, this was a bedroom and our room--which shares a wall with the living room--used to be the dining area and the wall didn't exist, so in the 30s, you got to the other bedrooms and the bathroom (there was only one then) by coming into the hallway through the dining room and you didn't have to walk through this room. When they made this house more "rental friendly," they put a wall up and made the dining area--which was huge--into the Master Bedroom and made it so you have to walk through this room to get from the living room and kitchen to the rest of the house, thus pretty much forcing most people to make this a dining room or have a bedroom that everyone has to walk through. Since it is right off the kitchen, though, it makes a great dining room and is the perfect size. I splurged on the floral arrangement on the table that I got from Paul Michael for half off. I saw it in there a few weeks before we moved and wanted it, but decided not to get it. I couldn't resist, though, and went back right before moving day to get it. The best part, though, is that when I went in there to buy it, they had put up a sign at the register that says that Paul Michael is opening a store in Lafayette in October! I'm super excited about that, because that was one store I was definitely going to miss!
I got this cute iron shelf from Hobby Lobby for $30 off, which was great because I needed something else to fill up the dining room since I've never had a separate one before. I'm really loving this room and we have actually been eating at the dinner table more since we moved in than we did before. Maybe because it looks so pretty??
This is a view of Juliette's room from the hallway. This house has A LOT of metal blinds in it, which makes it hard to hang curtains, because the top of them sticks out more than other blinds do. I bought some cute hot pink curtains that have the tie tops, but those didn't work out because you could see the top of the blinds in between the top part of the curtain and the tie, so I'm still looking for non-sheer, tab hot pink curtains for her room. During the day, though, we mostly leave her blinds open, so it's not as noticable that curtains aren't hung in there. Oh, and because Juliette's room in this house is much bigger than her other one was, pretty much all of her toys fit in there and we have NO toys in the living room. Woohoo!!
This is a view of Juliette's room from one of the corners. See those awesome built-in drawers? The guest bedroom has these built-in drawers in it as well. We are thrilled to have all these awesome built-in storage spaces. (Wait until I show you the living room and kitchen!!) She also has two closets (I was standing in front of the other one). The one you see is for her everyday clothes and the other one has her dress clothes in it.
A closer picture of the adorable painting my best friend Amanda's sis-in-law, Natalie, did for me. You can check out her awesome creativeness over at www.natkatdesigns.blogspot.com. I sent her a pic of Juliette's bedding and told her I wanted to incorporate the stripes and the pink giraffe print and she did an awesome job! Juliette LOVED it! Originally, I was going to hang it on her door, but after I got it and saw it, I couldn't NOT put it above the bed. Had her bed been on a larger wall, I probably wouldn't have, because it would have looked small on a big wall by itself, but since her bed sits on a small wall, I thought it looked perfect and am very happy with it.

This is Juliette's bathroom/the hall bathroom. There is a big closet across from the tub. I found that tall hot pink tub at the Beehive in Ruston and want to put some fake flowers in there...just waiting to catch them half off at Hobby Lobby. Oh, and the gas furnace really dates the house. They don't work anymore, though. There is one in the kitchen also, which makes me wonder how these people stayed warm in the winter when those two furnaces were their only heat. Did they just hang out in the kitchen and the bathroom all winter?

Hope you like our new home so far! Check back tomorrow for pics of the kitchen and the other bathroom--and maybe, just maybe, I will have done something to the master bedroom. We'll see!