OuR HoMe!

Well here it is...

I love this place, I love the space, I love the yard and I can't wait to put a little black bench on the pavers next to the front porch under the window...someday

I'm excited to have a miniature garden in those planter boxes next year and maybe even some patio furniture. The yard is perfect for us...it doesn't take a lot of time to take care of and there are never any weeds because the flower beds have tar paper.

I'm a sucker for green and purple. I was nervous when I chose the colors because I really wanted a green and purple kitchen, but I wasn't completely sure how it would look. I love it, and fortunately there are a lot of green and purple kitchen decorations so it's been fun putting everything together.

It was fun going shopping for furniture, I was worried that two couches and a rocking recliner chair wouldn't all fit, but it does and it makes everything look a lot nicer than when we first moved in and had one blue lazy boy and a green love seat. Now we just need to get the piano moved in and then the house is complete.

It's nice to have enough room to have a clean bedroom, and one day when we have TV it will be fun to cuddle in bed and stay up late watching a movie, the bed is so much more comfortable than the couch, and I always fall asleep watching TV so I might as well be in bed.



Our basement is mostly bare, just a pool table that Landon and my brother decided would be a fun investment and then we're storing my parent's foosball for a little while too.

Sadly, I don't have any motivation to clean the spare bedrooms since we don't spend anytime there...maybe after December when I'm done with school and have more spare time I'll start getting the rest of the upstairs organized.

We went camping this weekend for a family reunion and it was fun to come home to our own little place. There's no place like home!

GrOwN Up LiFe!

Grown up life really is great...

So far we have survived our first power outage at our new house and it was even before we had unpacked a single flash light. It made for a fun morning. Landon had to sit in the bathroom turning on a light on his phone as I showered and then I was on phone duty while I tried to do my makeup and while Landon showered. We've already made fun memories and learned that a flash light needs to go right next to the bed.

I have already vacuumed my house 3 times this week. I think in our apartment I was lucky to vacuum once in three weeks. It's just nice to have fresh vacuum lines in your carpet when you go to bed and get up in the morning. It's even better that the floors and carpet feel clean and look good so we don't have to wear slippers whenever we're home (we hated that about our apartment). Having a lawn to mow every week is just as much fun too. Our house is clean (the parts we live in anyways, the spare bedrooms need some work), we have new couches, food in the pantry, a few decorations on the wall and it already feels like home.

Now to be honest, the place is probably so clean because we don't have internet or TV and it looks like that's how things are going to be for the next little while.

I guess there is always a bright side to any situation.