I'm back!!!

hahaha... its been awhile but wow it has been a crazy couple of months!!!

time has really flown by and i can hardly believe we are coming up on being married for THREE MONTHS! it's so crazy! We have bought a house, got married, moved into his dad's house until we could move into our own home, remodeled our house from top to bottom, moved in the end of april and are just about finished getting settled!

We still have some touch up painting to do and painting in the spare bedrooms, but I'm pretty much sick of painting now... so i keep putting it off haha!

I'll eventually post some pics of the house before and after but here's what we have done:

*painted EVERY wall!
* tore up carpet in the kitchen & tiled it, along with the laundry room and 1/2 bath
* tore up the carpet in the family room and bedrooms (this is an older home, where they had original hardwood floors underneath the carpet) so we tore it up and refinished the orangy-oak floor to a drak walnut color!
* tiled in the master bath
*added baseboards in the kitchen, laundry and living room (the carpet was coved up onto the wall like baseboard)
* recarpeted the little living room
*replaced all the handles and knobs on the kitchen cabinets, they were so ugly before! hahah


Well i think thats it, but James has also been working on the sprinklers, some were broken and the lines are broken in some places and then we have just been giving our yard a little tlc.

We have been so busy with all of that, that my mom and I justa barely went and proofed our wedding photos hahah! oops! I was dying to see them but we just wanted to get everything done so we could move in and start getting settled! They are so cute though! I can't wait to post some of them!

The house is mostly decorated now and i love it! Im so glad I started buying stuff long before we got married! hahah It was nice to just start hanging stuff up and making it feel more like home!

For anyone that doesn't know me all that well I started buying stuff for our future home two years ago! haha I knew James and I would get married but just in case it didnt work out I always told myself it was just for when I moved out of my parents house and had a place of my own... (you know so i wouldn't be tempted to throw any of it away if james and i broke up) hahah. anyways it has been so much fun to decorate and though I still need to get quite a bit, it looks really cute for now!

The only downside right now is my work schedule I'm still working evenings and james works days so we still dont really see eachother until fridays when he is off work, but I'm hoping to get that changed one way or another soon! We can't wait to have the same work schedule and be home together at night all week long!

But I have had fun trying new recipes from cookbooks we got from the wedding, and seeing how they turn out! Just tonight I made some greek chicken pitas that turned out really good! I think they will be a new fave! especially since the chicken is fairly easy to make and is a crockpot recipe! I have been making some of my familys basics, that I have kind of always known how to make, but decided to try some totally different things, and i am dying to try this apple bbq pork recipe! (another crock pot recipe too) Ill let you know how it turns out! :D

Well... thats whats been going on since the wedding day! like i said it has flown by! I can't even believe it! I love my husband so much! He is the best! & handy too! hahah.. he can pretty much fix anything and keeps up on our yard and house so well, he even helps me clean every weekend! yup... he's a keeper! :)

p.s. i just remembered we have had a few fiascos too since becoming home owners... our dishwasher broke, and leaked all over the kitchen.... i already mentioned some broken sprinklers, and a few not so awesome dinners hahaha! The not-so-awesome dinners only happened because i tried to improvise... yeah it doesnt work! LOL

wel... im really done now! next time will be more fun! I'll post lots of pics of our cute house and from our wedding day!!! yay!