El Paso pics!

Finally, I got around to it. Here are the pictures from our first week in El Paso.

First off, here's Erin outside the Ft. Bliss housing office. No, we do not live on post, but we went to the housing office to use the computers to find off post listings, through which we found our house, so it worked great! This was last Monday, the first weekday we were in town.


And later that afternoon...... drumroll please....... WE GOT OUR FABULOUS HOUSE!!!

Here it is! (Yes, I'm aware this first pic is horrible. I took it late in the day, so the sun was directly to my right, and made it way too light on that side, but you get the idea. Cute terraced lawn, two car garage, court yard, etc...)

The outside:

Inside the courtyard:

The living room:

Dining room, which we use as an office/sewing room:

Eat-in part of the kitchen, which we do, in fact, eat in:

The kitchen, and by far the most functional one I have ever had!


The master bathroom! Check out the shower! It's so cool. The tub is basically like a pit. It has steps down into it, and it's all tile. It's big, too, way bigger than it looks!

Yes, the sink area is in a separate room from the shower/toilet area. The door to the left is the closet, which is HUGE, by the way.


The bedrooms just look like any other bedrooms you've ever seen, except that the windows are huge, and our ceiling has some cool little detailing of it, not unlike our master bedroom ceiling in Georgia.

Here's the really cool part! The big back yard which is entirely enclosed by a stone wall! It's so nice to be able to let Erin and Frank out, and not have to worry about them being in the next county if I look away for a second. Stone walls in backyards. The rest of the country should take note because El Paso got this one right.

Oh yeah, and we have a huge covered patio, which is AWESOME!


The one I took of the other side of the yard didn't come out well because the sun was so bright, but the right side of the yard looks a lot like the left, in that we have another raised area, and it's still sandy, but with grass roots which will grow in again as soon as we begin watering it. What's cool about the other side is that you can see the mountains from that direction. Literally, you want to see the Franklin Mountains? Open the back door of our house, and look to your right. There they are. Awesome.

That's our house! We love it!