We won our first game!!

 

 

more photos and details to come….

if we keep winning, that is.

Chris and I bought a house at the end of June.

Here’s Chris mailing our first mortgage payment.

Yikes, that was painful.

 

While I’m not living there yet

(we’re waiting until we get married to move in together)

there’s no rule that says I have to wait

until we’re married to make it fabulous!

 

I don’t really have any amazing photos yet of the transformation;

they’ll come later in a big reveal!

 

but for now…

here is one corner of the living room:

This is a big chair that some friends of my parents gave to us.

My 2 favorite paintings are on the wall behind it

I can’t, for the life of me, find a lampshade long enough to fit this tall lamp properly.

 

here is my fabulous green chair from world market

along with the green lamps I spray painted earlier

 

and now begins the process of removing hideous wallpaper

and applying a bazillion coats of primer

to cover over red paint in the kitchen …

 

Chris vs. Wallpaper

 

ps: comes of much nicer with a heavy-duty steamer, but still a very tedious process.

 

me vs. primer

the primer won…. this time.

(eek…crazy eyes!)

 

by the way, that little bit of primer was hiding on my elbow

(in the shape of a heart, I might add)

for at least 24 hours after I’d showered

I wonder what clients at work thought?

why didn’t anyone tell me!!!

and how did I not notice it when I brushed my

teeth or did my hair that morning?

hmmm…

silly paint.

Hey Y’all!

Things have been crazy lately.

And while ‘crazy’ around here usually means lots of juicy things to blog about…

this type of ‘crazy’ means all my free time has been sucked up by the wedding and working monsters, leaving nothing for the socializing and blogging monsters in my life (so to speak).

what?! you don’t have monsters?

moving on.

Chris surprised me, oh… about a month and a half ago (remember the time sucking monsters I mentioned?), with tickets to see Rascal Flatts in concert!

It. Was. Amazing!

this is us in our seats. yup, big spenders.

pardon my ginormous hips in the photo below.

after seeing this photo i will promptly burn that shirt. 

 

the opening acts: Chris Young and Kellie Pickler

       

       

I’m not a big concert-go-er…but I’d go see them in concert again in a heartbeat!

a.maz.ing

ok, can I first just say that my computer hates me.

I got on ‘real quick’ to write this blog post

(yeah, I know it’s been a while… I’ll get to the excuses later)

anywho, I opened up windows writer and (gasp) opened up Firefox at the same time

You’d have thought the second coming was upon us the way my computer wacked out so fast…

all I can say is that I hope I never see the words ‘dumping files’ paired with

a ‘blue screen of death’ again.

 

This post will be a 3-parter:

(3-parts of excuses for not posting recently, that is)

Part 1: Babies

firstly, I just wanna say I love this little guy

(wish it was a little more clear… you can blame the photographer for this one)

my nephew, N.

and I love his brother, J.

 

(They live in the great North, well, anywhere past Virginia is ‘great north’ for me.

can people even survive at that latitude? inconceivable!!)

wish I could see them and my big Sis more often

(AHEM, eat more chicken, and maybe that will be possible!!)

 

This little fella was born on June 22

little chunk-a-lump is what he is.

Congrats to my friends Tiffany and Carl.

You guys are awesome parents already 🙂

love, love, love that grumpy-old-man face

so those are the baby happenings!

 

Part 2: Big Girl Job

remember this?

my big-girl graduate degree!

well, I was fortunate because after that came…

BIG GIRL JOB!!!

God is SO good; He always provides!

Yup, I’m one of the newest speech-language pathologists

at the Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters

as most of you out there know from experience about having an adult job:

It’s HARD!

the end.

 

Part 3: Buying a house

Yup! We’re Homeowners 🙂

can you tell I’m about to yuck all over that nice big mahogany table?

it was SO unbelievably stressful…

even right up to the last minute.

not even kidding.

Chris crunching some numbers on his phone.

 

Let’s play a game:

Which of these doesn’t belong?

 

I’d love to explain why the money we brought to closing included a one-dollar bill… but it still gives me heart palpatations.

so no thanks.

Just showing the picture is enough.

 

Well, there you have it: babies, big girl job, and buying a house.

More posts to come.

cross my heart.

I’ve got so many craft projects going on, not to mention wedding planning!

SQUEEL!