Our home away from home

Don’t get jealous but this is our new house. We looked all over Teopisca until we found the color scheme that we thought would be the very best for us. And look what we came up with!!!











These next 4 photos show just how out of control the back yard is. As you can see, Amos is almost swallowed up in the height of the grass. But one day I will go at it and clear all this up. First I need work on the inside for my little Sarita. But as you can see from the last photo, we do hav a nice view of the mountains so all is not as bad as it seems.



























The next 3 photos show our two neighbors. We really preferred the color scheme of the house to our left cause blue is our favorite color and orange is such the perfect complement color, but alas, the house was not up for rent. We will just have to do with neon green and yellow. The photo of the wooden shack on the house is the backyard view of our neighbor in blue and orange.





















The next 3 photos were taken before we painted any rooms and before we did any cleaning or decorating or anything. Our house has two bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen, an office, a bathroom and a little room with our bathroom sink. It is just perfect for us. It is about the same size as our house in Garland, but without a garage and, of course, our little front porch swing. Our house here is probably about 850 square feet and is plenty big enough for us to grow into….if you know what I mean. One of the rooms was already painted pink but my little wiffey wanted a different shade of pink so we gave it another shade....no hay problema!!!




















These 2 photos show Sarita hard at work cleaning scrubbing the walls and floor of the bathroom and the kitchen. Actually, it seems that Sarita has been scrubbing since we moved in but I know that she spent a lot of time cleaning at the beginning to make our little home livable. My little Sarita is such a great homemaker…..you go girl.












The next 3 photos show Sarita and I painting the various rooms of the house. To date, we have painted the kitchen, the living room, one complete bedroom and about ½ of the other bedroom. Painting these concrete houses is not the same as painting drywall in the states. It takes forever to paint these walls. It took me almost 5 hours to paint the first little bedroom and that is a long time….at least I think so. Day by day and little by little we are getting things done.




















This photo shows Sarita trying to figure out what we where going to do with all our stuff. I just unpacked it all and put it right in the living room for the first week or so. We now have all of our stuff at least put into the different rooms that the stuff goes in. We still really don’t have any shelves (2 little ones is all) so right now we are still living out of our boxes….but no big deal cause we got a good roof over our heads and we aren’t getting rained on so it is all good.











Next 3 photos show Sarita at work doing a little decorating. She has plans to hang all of the photos that we brought with her but it is just a little more difficult than in the states because you better be sure you want something exactly where it needs to go because putting in those concrete nails into these concrete walls is more challenging than just driving a nail into drywall. I can’t tell you how many nail heads have gone flying across the room since my Sarita has been working on hanging pictures.





















Our first meal in our new rent house. Home sweet home!











Sarita hard at work hanging the laundry in our backyard. She makes it look fun doesn’t she.












Sarita and one of our new friends. You never know what you might find playing in our front yard. One day we woke up to find all these horses eating our grass and then another day there were some sheep just hanging out by our house. Gotta luv it here south of the border.












Well we will take more photos and post them as we get the chance. I need to post some photos of our progress on the backyard and maybe some other decorating we have done....or should i say that sarita has done.