Our Crazy Little Home (And Why We Love It)!

This week I did a lot of cleaning--I was thinking about how the kitchen is the only room in the house that I find boring. I decided to pull out a bunch of our old stuff we have kept from the 80s and 90s, stuff we have from the 70s and even things that were given to me that were made YEARS and YEARS ago. After I finished the kitchen I decided to take some pictures and post them on a blog for people to see some of the cool things we have--and I guess, see how weird we are.  I have friends who have seen pictures of certain rooms/things in our home and made comments about wanting to see our house because it sounds interesting.  We love art and have tried to incorporate it into our home--I think it shows. 
I hope you enjoy these! :)

We'll start in the kitchen!  I hung some old pot holders that were given to me from my mom.  I want to say my great-grandmother made some of them, if not all of them. I framed two pictures of fish that the boys colored with markers, we hung our "Cotton Ball" painting in the kitchen, and you can't forget the straw bouquet!  (The door leads to the utility room).

Above the cabinets on both walls we have old games, tins, Thermoses, glasses, toys, and cool watches from the 90s that have that interesting 90s vibe.  We have an old Tomato can wrapper that Jacob's parents gave me from an antique store they visited, an old monkey money bank that was Jacob's, and an old Pluto glass and Care Bears glass.

Here are two masks the boys painted, old Raggedy Ann & Andy and Campbells Soup pot holders, and (of course) the I LOVE LUCY clock.

Old pot holders given to me by my mom

Craziness, craziness--right?  A fish in a frame painted by Logan, a cool and crazy kite made by Logan, a Father's Day poem for Jacob from Alex, old pictures and other fun things.  Oh, below the spice rack is a round thing with a picture of a baby on it.  It is a music box from Germany that my mother bought before I was born.  It still plays music and every so often one of the boys will walk by and pull the string so it will start playing.

Our dining area!  We love this dining area! It's easy to clean and so fun!

The boys' chalkboard in the hallway outside their bedroom (complete with a cow Alex made at school last year).  They draw on it almost every day--they will draw villains and super heroes on it and have them battle--which ends in some one getting erased.  They have a lot of fun with it!

Now entering the living room.  This is the wall directly above Jacob's guitars.  We switch out our vinyls on the shelves to display them, have old tins, Jacob's guitar cords, and pictures we took in Boston and Cambridge.

Here are two of Jacob's guitars, the microphone, amps, speakers, and of course, Alex's keyboard that he plays quite often while singing into the microphone--He always talks about RUSH and how the lead singer sings into the mic while he plays his keyboard.  We love it!

The fireplace, which we never use and is therefore full of candles (which we DO use), photos of the boys and us, and a pair of baby shoes that the boys wore when they were babies.  There is also the ASTLEY LANE sign and Alex's star from school last year.

Our love seat with pictures of Boston and Cambridge hanging above it.  It was a beautiful place and we got quite a few great pictures!

There isn't anything too exciting about this picture--it's Jacob's chair (remember that story?), more pictures of the boys, and our mailbox.  Yes, a mailbox.  A mailbox covered in old stamps.  Why?  Because it holds our remote controls for the TV, DVD player, etc.  The boys love it!

THE shelf.  It holds some of our favorite books, board games, movies, and most of my cook books. It also holds our record player, our vinyls, and the yellow box with the RUSH sticker on it holds childrens books on vinyl that the boys listen too.

The boys' room!  Here are their beds and the names above their beds made out of ceiling tiles.

The boys comic book rack, Spider-Man table they use as a Lego table, comic book covers on the wall, masks, and tin signs.  There is also a Batman basketball goal and some Spider-Man shelves.  They seem really happy with their room.  Alex's bed also has a cave or club house (as the boys call it) beneath it that the boys can go into!

And now for the playroom!  Here is the V-8 Engine Jacob plans to work on with the boys in a few years--and the dart board.  (We have rubber-tipped darts for the boys to use.)

The boys' little TV, some of their books, and their ottoman full of balls--and some Star Wars toys, of course!

The boys' art table in the play room

Art supplies and the boys' Rail Road crossing money bank! When the boys drop change into the bank the lights flash and there is a train whistle--they are always looking for change for the money bank!

Jacob's old arcade game which now belongs to the boys and lives in their play room.

The boys' space ship (with the stick pony falling onto it).  They have a lot of fun with this as well.

The boys' bathroom, complete with paintings and artwork they have made

One of the walls in the boys' bathroom.  This is the shirt and hoody the boys wore when we brought Logan home from the hospital. Alex was barely 16 months old when we came home and I swore I'd keep these little shirts.  There are also pictures of the boys when Logan was about 3 months old and Alex was about 19 months old--and who can forget the canvases with Alex's hand prints at 19 months old and Logan's foot prints at 3 and a 1/2 months old.

This is the little shelf where the boys' rags for baths and washing their faces are kept--we also have the flushable wipes because, well, I think it speaks for itself--ha ha.  We have this dry erase board that the boys draw on--and from time to time ask me to draw or write things on it.

A is for Alex and L is for Logan!  Here is a picture of the boys from a couple of years ago.  It is one of my favorite pictures of them--it hangs above the sink in their bathroom.  The red thing hanging from the ceiling is a gourd that the boys painted.

Our bedroom.  Nothing fancy (fancy gets broken pretty quickly in this house!), but it's comfortable enough.  In the background, to the right, you can see a gun--it was Jacob's grandfather's from WWII. 

Our entertainment center in our room, along with all the boys X-Box games, other games and game systems, Jacob's third and final guitar, and of course, a 4-year-old boy who likes to hang around.

This is Jacob's horror movie collection (well, part of it) and another old picture of the boys.  It, too, is one of my favorite pictures of them. We also have two framed paintings, one by Alex and one by Logan--Logan's is the one that looks like a human heart--LOL

Our bed--again nothing fancy, but we are happy with it for now.

I hope those of you who have asked to see our house (or pictures of it) because you have heard about certain things we have enjoyed the pictures. We are happy with our fun little home and have really enjoyed getting it where it is today. 
Until next time . . .