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Sunday, December 21, 2008

Pictures and Explanations

In honor of our closing on Friday, here are some badly-taken pictures of our house. I don't have photography skills or a very good camera, so you'll just have to take what you can get here.

This is most of the front of the house. With some snow.

This is sort of what you see when you walk in the front door. You're standing in a living room, which looks like...

this. As seen from the loft/landing you could see in the previous picture. That room is the office, which looks like...

this. This, of course, is the second level of the house, where our bedroom and a couple of other bedrooms (one is currently the "box room," and the other is YOUR ROOM!) are located.

And because I told my mom I would send a picture of our new-to-us dining table...

here it is, all Thanksgivinged up. Note the Norman Rockwell turkey (purchased fully-cooked at Honeybaked Ham because I don't so much love raw meat) and my father-in-law about to rip into it with great zeal. The people to the left of Daniel are some new friends from church.

Around the corner from the dining room is the kitchen -- sorry, I don't have any pictures of that one yet. It looks like a kitchen. And then there's a family room, which looks a little something like...

this. Except there are couches that you can't see here because, again, I am a bad photographer. And that's Daniel playing Guitar Hero.

Then downstairs there's a basement with another bedroom/bathroom (YOUR ROOM??) and, the real crowd-pleaser, the ping-pong room.

I think that covers it. I know this photographic tour makes it all sort of hard to picture, but you know what? There's an easy solution to that. And I think I've already dropped enough hints that you can figure out what I mean.

Now to explain my cryptic reference to my second job (which, by the way, ended today! Woot, woot!). I worked at a doll store called Mollycoddles, and here's the schpiel I gave new customers: "Mollycoddles is a newborn nursery for baby dolls. When a little girl comes in and finds a doll that she loves and wants to take home, we take her through an adoption process. She gives the baby its first bath, weighs and measures the baby, we give the baby a birth certificate, and the baby and 'mommy' get matching hospital bracelets [please excuse the lack of parallel structure there]. Then she can bring the baby back in for free checkups, and she can borrow our strollers to stroll the baby through the mall!"

Does that help you picture it all a little better? The store is supposed to feel like a real newborn nursery, so I was supposed to act like a real nurse. That sounds a little creepy, but it really wasn't.

And here's a freebie for you: Last night I applied to be a student at Pike's Peak Community College so I can take a hip-hop dance class next semester with two girls from our college group at church. For reals.

In conclusion, the Wigintons wish you a merry Christmas. Especially Justin.

9 comments:

Mackenzie said...

I love your new house! It's so big and beautiful.

Thanks for explaining your ex-job. It is all so clear now.

Justin is amazing. Tell him I said Merry Christmas.

Susanna said...

Justin looks so unhappy. What's his problem??

Your house is so fun!!!

Unknown said...

Crack. Me. Up. !!!
Love Justin's picture. Now that is real photographic skill I see blooming :) I wish I could've seen a picture of my room. Maybe next time, eh?

As for the doll stchick. I would've TOTALLY fallen for it. Even now. I was such a doll freak when I was a little girl. I would've given anything to have gotten to go that. In all honesty, you really did make someone's Christmas by doing that. I'm jealous that I don't have a girl that is into dolls. Let me know when you do and I'll fly over and we can all three go to the store :)

Daniel said...

Our son looks so happy.

Elly Gilbert said...

We can't come visit, but we'll send the kids...all three of them, for a nice looooonggg visit.

I'm so glad things are going well for you. You know how I know God loves you? 'Cause you aren't teaching eighth grade language arts.

Ashley H. said...

I disagree about your lack of photography skills! Your house looks beautiful! Next time Daniel and I are in the area we'll have to stop by (seeing as how we've never been, I don't really know when that will be.)

Unknown said...

Hey, I resolved to return to xanga for New Year's and I found you had moved (by the way, this is Steph's friend "texanagain"). Congrats on the move, the house, the job(s), and everything working out to confirm that it was the right thing to do. We had a very similar situation last year, and we moved in early November too. It's funny how God shows you so many things when you just pay attention!

Here's to new homes, new friends, and new adventures in 2009!

kristenhen said...

You are back! Hurrah! Congratulations on everything working out perfectly- we have been experiencing that blessing lately, too, and it is awesome. Your house looks SO cute and SO Colorado!

We may be taking the middle schoolers on a trip to Colorado this summer. Stay tuned. Maybe we can ALL stay with you! Just kidding, I don't wish that on anyone.

Enjoy getting reacquainted with the snow and un-acquainted (disacquainted?) with newborn baby dolls. Your job sounds almost as creepy as the Cabbage Patch museum/hospital, where Mother Cabbage gives birth and they tell you over a loudspeaker how many "leaves" she is dilated before the blessed event. And I don't think she even had a face, she was just a giant cabbage plant. WHAT THE HECK.

Tina Braswell said...

I love your house! It looks very homey, a place I sure would love to go visit. :) Maybe someday.......