Our beautiful Bloomfield home

I'm not good at blogging.... we have established this. But I need to make more space on my camera so I'm going to post a million pictures I have taken of our gorgeous new home we are living in!! 

For those of you who do not know.... we have been living in Northern New Mexico (about 20 minutes from the Colorado border) since the beginning of the year. Erik has taken a job with ConocoPhillips- it's actually a co-op position. He has a few credits left before graduation but Conoco (an amazing company and Erik's number one choice to work for) snags their potential engineers before they graduate and trains them and sees how they "fit in" with the company before offering a permanent position.  Their original offer is to go work for them for 4 months (looks AMAZING on resumes and we knew this is their hiring process so we accepted immediately). The next step is for you to rock it.... and for them to love you..... and then they formally ask you to extend your employment/training with them for another 4 months. So... obviously Erik is awesome and we are here for the entire 8 months (until the middle of August).  They pay you and treat you just like the rest of their engineers (which is AWESOME!!) and he is loving it there!!  From there we will be going back to Los Lunas (baby is due the second week of Sept) and Erik will finish his last few classes of school and will officially be a Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineer in December!! Yay!! In Sept ConocoPhillips will let Erik know if they are offering him a permanent position and which location he will be at (right before career fairs start and other companies have a chance to grab him). Either way.... We should know by October where we will be PERMANENTLY (thank goodness... we have had 4 homes in the past year) come January, 2015!! 

With that being said..... everything is still up in the air! This home has the potential to be a permanent home (we would love for it to be.... but there are still lots of pending factors). And even if it is not, it is definitely a home we will always remember and a home we will be basing our ideas from if we ever have an opportunity to build a custom home!! I love everything about this house.  So I'll stop writing and let you enjoy it all via pictures (p.s. I'm horrible at taking pictures and I feel my skills do not give this gorgeous home justice- so just come visit us and see it in person- but at least you have an idea!)

**Note: I'm very aware we still have lots of work to do. I could use lots of art work.... rugs, more bar stools, furniture, decor, etc.  But if we wait for my allowance  the funds and time to finish filling this huge 3,000 sq foot home.... I would never get around to posting pictures. 

THE TOUR:

When you walk in.... you will come into this gorgeous entryway.  The custom 10 ft huge front door is something in and of itself.  The floor is beautiful and the crazy high vaulted ceiling in the entry way is immaculate!  

Once you are in.... this is what you see:

Our open living room....

With a gorgeous wood burning fireplace.

And it then opens up into another room that we use as Collin's toy room (I thought I would hate having a toy room out in the open but I actually love it!)

It also opens up into our dining room

And then into the kitchen!! I love, love love the kitchen!!!

I love the detail in this kitchen.... from the gorgeous custom cabinets and granite counter tops, to the cute chalk board inside the pantry for grocery lists or meal plans, to the built in spice racks, and the awesome wine rack and wine cooler (for our purposes it is a juice and pop cooler... but still awesome!).

Moving on.... right off from the entryway is the office. 

 And off to the other side is a hallway with a guest bathroom.

 Again, with the detail! I'm obsessed with this sink.

 And down that hall we have our guest bedroom (come on.... I know you want to come stay with us!!)

 The guest bedroom has a nice big walk in closet, this vanity.... and access to the jack and jill bathroom (love the jack and jill bathrooms!!)

 And here is the view from the opposite side of the j&j bathroom..... Little man's side!!

Both have good size closets and tons of shelving (again, not shown through my pictures).

 And Collin's cute room!!

On the opposite side of the house (off of the kitchen)...... we have our master bedroom! It is huge! It makes our furniture look tiny lol. But I love how open and huge it is (we WILL have a king size one day!!)

 And here we have our master bedroom (perhaps my favorite room in the whole house!!). The make-up vanity, the counter tops, all the cabinets and space, THAT tub, and.....

 this shower!! Oh.... this shower!! A huge, walk in.... double headed shower! Love love love!! It's hard to photograph.... but trust me...... it's freakin awesome! Erik and I are not fancy and don't NEED any of the fancy things this home has (although we definitely love and appreciate it all), but we have both said this is the one thing we love and it would be hard to go back to a "normal" shower after being spoiled with this guy.

 off the bathroom we have our walk in closet.....

 that leads to the laundry room (genius?? I think so!!).

 Love the big folding table and the built in laundry hampers (this lady does pinterest doesn't she?? She seriously thought of everything!!)

From the laundry room, you are guided out to the back hallway. Which has another HUGE closet that we use to store brooms, mops, vacuum, and it has tons of shelving for all our cleaner..... and then a door to the 3 and 1/2 car garage. It is also massive and probably Erik's favorite space of the house (I don't even have a picture of it... oops.) 

From the built in surround sound throughout the entire house (including the garage and back patio), the crazy details in even the lighting and electrical work, the details and molding in all the ceilings, anti-slam drawers, cordless blinds, all the closet/shelving/cabinet space.... there is not any wasted space in this house, plus all the other details I've already pointed house.... This house is custom-ed to the T! And I love how open everything is! The home owners and the builders did an amazing job with this house!!! 

I don't feel comfortable posting a picture of the front of our house..... but just to give you an idea of the style:

We are located on 1.5 acres.  It's pretty much just all grass (which we LOVE!) and they have this cute playground/swing set.

 There is pastures every which way your look from our property. We are VERY country out here! This is our view from the back of the house. Gorgeous?? I think so!! I love sitting outside and watching all the horse run.... and behind the horse pasture is the San Juan River. There is tons of wild life back here and it is not unusual to see an entire family of deer on the back side of these pastures (tonight I watched our neighbors cow clean her brand new baby behind one of the trees... I didn't watch her give birth- thank goodness- but our neighbor said it had just happened).  It is so quiet, peaceful, and gorgeous! Water just came in to the irrigation ditch last week so I'm excited to see it all green and even more beautiful! We love living in the country... we love all the space..... sugar is in heaven out here! And so is Collin!! 

  

 So.... there you have it!! Our beautiful Bloomfield home!!