I think this is a great quote that can be applied to so many areas of your life. Happy Monday. Be motivated! :)
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
I'm Back.......Finally!!!!
Fear not my friends, for I am alive and well. I know that you've all just been sitting on pins and needles for the past two months, waiting for my return. Ok...so maybe not. But, nevertheless I am back and hope to return to blogging on a regular basis.
So, we are finally in our new home! We moved in, exactly four weeks ago. Selling and buying a house at the same time is definitely an experience that I'm not ready to go through again anytime soon. It was an emotional roller coaster with so many twists and turns. Major props go out to T for dealing with me, who towards the end was becoming quite a little upset.
But, all that is behind us now and we are so happy, excited and blessed to be in our new home! It's a much newer home, in a better neighborhood and has all the updated features that we always wanted to do in our first home, but never could.
Hands down, my favorite room is the kitchen! I love to cook, so that was a pretty easy one. But our kitchen is awesome. We have tons of cabinets and drawers (something we didn't have at our first home) and there's several that I don't even have anything in! There's granite counter tops (AHHHH!). And, the kitchen is huge. Our old kitchen was big, but horribly laid out and had almost no cabinets or counter space. I absolutely love our new kitchen. Another huge feature that I love about the kitchen is that it's completely open to the living room. This was probably my number one must-have in our new home, and it couldn't be any better. I love it!
With our first home we always had a million projects that we wanted to do, but with this home everything is already updated. There is one thing that I can't wait to change. I love everything about our new home.....except one thing. When we bought our new home there was one thing that I didn't like, and when I say didn't like, I mean really didn't like. I shed tears over this. Probably because I cry at the drop of a hat and tend to be a bit too emotional. Bless my husband for dealing with me. The funny thing is that you're going to laugh so hard when I tell you what it is that I don't like about our new home. Ready?? A wall. Yes, a wall. The wall separates the front of the house, where there's a small sitting area and formal dining room from the back of the house where the family room and kitchen are. We knew going into this home that we would want to make a change to it and we should have it done within the next two weeks, and I couldn't be happier. A remodeler/contractor is going to turn the wall into a half wall and it will completely open up the space. We don't want to completely take out the wall because the separation of the two areas is nice and if we took out the whole wall we'd have to re-do our floors, which would majorly increase the cost!
So, we are finally in our new home! We moved in, exactly four weeks ago. Selling and buying a house at the same time is definitely an experience that I'm not ready to go through again anytime soon. It was an emotional roller coaster with so many twists and turns. Major props go out to T for dealing with me, who towards the end was becoming quite a little upset.
But, all that is behind us now and we are so happy, excited and blessed to be in our new home! It's a much newer home, in a better neighborhood and has all the updated features that we always wanted to do in our first home, but never could.
Hands down, my favorite room is the kitchen! I love to cook, so that was a pretty easy one. But our kitchen is awesome. We have tons of cabinets and drawers (something we didn't have at our first home) and there's several that I don't even have anything in! There's granite counter tops (AHHHH!). And, the kitchen is huge. Our old kitchen was big, but horribly laid out and had almost no cabinets or counter space. I absolutely love our new kitchen. Another huge feature that I love about the kitchen is that it's completely open to the living room. This was probably my number one must-have in our new home, and it couldn't be any better. I love it!
With our first home we always had a million projects that we wanted to do, but with this home everything is already updated. There is one thing that I can't wait to change. I love everything about our new home.....except one thing. When we bought our new home there was one thing that I didn't like, and when I say didn't like, I mean really didn't like. I shed tears over this. Probably because I cry at the drop of a hat and tend to be a bit too emotional. Bless my husband for dealing with me. The funny thing is that you're going to laugh so hard when I tell you what it is that I don't like about our new home. Ready?? A wall. Yes, a wall. The wall separates the front of the house, where there's a small sitting area and formal dining room from the back of the house where the family room and kitchen are. We knew going into this home that we would want to make a change to it and we should have it done within the next two weeks, and I couldn't be happier. A remodeler/contractor is going to turn the wall into a half wall and it will completely open up the space. We don't want to completely take out the wall because the separation of the two areas is nice and if we took out the whole wall we'd have to re-do our floors, which would majorly increase the cost!
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| View of the wall from the formal dining side. |
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| View of the wall from the family room side. |
I'm sorry it's been so long since I've blogged. I promise to try and get back into the swing of things now that all the craziness has settled down.
Saturday, December 22, 2012
One proud sister!
I am so proud of my little brother. On Thursday, Rusty graduated from college! It has been a long and tedious road, but he did not give up! Rusty graduated Cum Laude, with a degree in Business Administration, majoring in Infrastructure Assurance and Information Systems. He's one of those computer genius people. It took Rusty a little longer than maybe your average college student, but he worked the entire time he was in school, often juggling two jobs and school. He also supported himself, living on his own while he was in school and volunteered his time as a firefighter.
It also took me longer than your typical four years to finish college, but for the past several years I've offered Rusty the same advice that I always told myself, over and over again. It doesn't matter how long it takes, as long as you keep going. Education is something that no one can ever take away from you. They can take away the degree you hang on your wall, but they can't remove the knowledge that you hold within you.
Rusty has already begun a job in his career field that he's really enjoying. We are all so proud of him for his accomplishments and know that his future looks very bright!
It also took me longer than your typical four years to finish college, but for the past several years I've offered Rusty the same advice that I always told myself, over and over again. It doesn't matter how long it takes, as long as you keep going. Education is something that no one can ever take away from you. They can take away the degree you hang on your wall, but they can't remove the knowledge that you hold within you.
Rusty has already begun a job in his career field that he's really enjoying. We are all so proud of him for his accomplishments and know that his future looks very bright!
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| Rusty and I at my college graduation, December 20, 2008 |
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| Rusty and I at his college graduation, exactly four years later, December 20, 2012 |
Monday, December 10, 2012
Motivational Monday
This is such a beautiful Bible verse and such a beautiful reminder. I need to be reminded of this on a daily basis. It brings such a sense of peace and strength.
Monday, December 3, 2012
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Tickle me pink...and purple, and blue, and green, and yellow.....
Several months ago, before the craziness of moving and T traveling for business for the next two weeks popped up, we had signed up to run a 5k that was scheduled for this morning. We've had to change a few of our other plans, but I'm too frugal (cheap) to not do something that I've already paid for. Plus...this was not your typical 5k race. This was the Color Me Rad race.
Here's our before picture.
The Color Me Rad is basically a 5k where at various stations throughout the races you run through a little area where people throw colored corn starch all over you! By the time you get to the finish line you look like you've been swimming in a pool filled with melted Skittles. You can also get Color Packs and throw extra color all other each other.
We got some extra packs, and went a little crazy. Here's T before the race even got started.
I'm usually super competitive when it comes to running in a race, but not today. This was just for fun, and it was a blast!
Here's a picture of the finish line. No, it wasn't raining.....that's colored corn starch flying around everywhere!
My friend Callie and I at the finish line! I must say, Callie definitely had the best tie-dyed face out of all of us! It was awesome!
T and I at the finish line. Definitely a different look from the clean picture at the beginning of this post!
Here's our before picture.
The Color Me Rad is basically a 5k where at various stations throughout the races you run through a little area where people throw colored corn starch all over you! By the time you get to the finish line you look like you've been swimming in a pool filled with melted Skittles. You can also get Color Packs and throw extra color all other each other.
We got some extra packs, and went a little crazy. Here's T before the race even got started.
Here's a picture of the finish line. No, it wasn't raining.....that's colored corn starch flying around everywhere!
My friend Callie and I at the finish line! I must say, Callie definitely had the best tie-dyed face out of all of us! It was awesome!
T and I at the finish line. Definitely a different look from the clean picture at the beginning of this post!
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