Getting by with a little Help

Hooray for cooler weather here in Atlanta! I know that it's not supposed to last and we're going to heat up just a little bit again before we actually enter fall, but the husband and I are most certainly enjoying the break in the heat! 


Today, I've had the Beatles song "With a little help from my Friends" stuck in my head. . .

and really taking the time to think about how blessed I am to have such wonderful friends.  With C and I preparing to move we've been packing (big surprise, right)  and have stumbled upon so many memories of times together with friends as well as memories from before C and I were. . .well, C and I.  It's been interesting to say the least but I'm sure that C would appreciate me reminiscing another day and just packing for right now!

I will say however, that even with the wonderful people C and I have all around us, things still fall through the cracks, needs get overlooked, and people get their feelings hurt.  To this, my only thought would be that people can't read your mind and that sometimes you have to ask for what you need.  If I haven't spoken with you in a while and you're hurting then please reach out!  In a time in our lives where we don't see our friends as often as we all would like, I don't think it's fair to be rude or ugly to a friend just because they weren't aware of everything going on in your life! 

Regardless, I'm thankful for my wonderful wonderful friends and am looking forward to having them all over once C and I get settled!

Everyone at Will's Weekend 2011 (post to come!)

For some reason Blogger (not me, never me!) is being dumb and not letting me upload anymore pictures. .

Hopefully I'll be able to come back later and add a couple more pictures of our wonderful friends!

House Hunting 101

Around the beginning of Summer, C and I decided that it was time to begin the process of finding our own home!  Let me just say that this has probably been one of the most exciting and stressful things that we've ever done, but it's all been worth it!  Now for a couple of things that we learned:

1. Location, location, location!  So much can be said about this topic, but I think the most important thing here is know where you do and do not want to live.  More so the areas that you would not want to live, and stay firm to this throughout looking for a house. C and I found at least two houses that we liked a lot, but the location was somewhere we had told our real estate agent that we did not like.  We never should have gone to those houses! Because what it boils down to is you can love the house, but if you hate where you live. . .is the home really that great?  We didn't think so.

2.  Speaking of Real Estate Agents,  find one that you trust!  Ours has been very helpful during the closing process, but that was about it.  We found both homes that we put offers in on...  Be clear with what you want, and don't be afraid to gently put your agent back on the right track.  It's not worth wasting your time and their's if you all aren't on the same page.

3.  Be sure you and your partner are on the same page!  C and I really took the time to sit down together and make a list of what we really would like and couldn't live without.  With this being our first home, we tried to stay realistic with our wants and needs, and I think we did a pretty good job of that.  We also tried to stay flexible within this list so that a truly great home wouldn't be cast aside because it didn't meet the list!    

Once we found a home to put an offer in on, we were amazed at how fast the process goes!  However, the first home turned out not the be the home for us (i.e. we got outbid) but that was OK because with the market the way that it is it wasn't long before we found our home!  It goes to show you that sometimes things work out for a reason that that God's timing really is perfect because we couldn't imagine living in the first house now that we have ours!  

We're closing (fingers crossed) September 14th and if all goes as planned I'll have pictures up just as soon as it's ours!  

7 Months Later; a second attempt at blogging.

Anyone left out there?  If there is, you guys have been waiting around for quite a while!!  


Not much to talk about today, simply because there's just too much to talk about and not quite enough time to do it all, but this is my promise that things are coming. . .and no more 7 month disappearances happening any time soon!


Here are some of the things that are coming up:
Third Annual Will's Weekend
Our last summer in our Rental House
Finishing up the Roommate experience
Shopping for our FIRST HOME 
and Buying our First home!!!


I will go ahead and say that we're not quite finished with the home buying purchase, but we close mid-September.  So any of you that happen to come across this, please go ahead and put your decorating hats on because this girl has essentially overloaded on Pinterest and is going to need some serious help!


See you soon! 

Do I even want to be like these people? I'm just too tired to try...

What? I'm tired after having two snow days, two partial days of work, and this one full day on Friday at work?  AND it's a three day weekend? 

You Betcha.

Only I'm not physically tired.  I am just mentally exhausted.  Ever been there? 

There are about a million things that I feel like I need to be doing, and probably time to get some of them done, but for some reason I just can't seem to get started.  Drives me insane...because then at the end of the day you didn't get ANY of it done, and I end up going to be feeling like a big fat lazy failure. If that's not enough, I waste my time (that I need to be accomplishing something) by reading blogs.  Now I know that these women are not blogging to make me feel guilty that my life is not more fabulous and they are mostly documenting the good things in their life almost like a grown up diary (that you actually want your little sister to read), but gosh.darn.it.  they are really good at making me feel like I've got some serious changes to make in order to be a good wife and one day actually raise a child! 

After reading about every one's wonderful redecorating and what not, I start adding things to my list...
I get bothered that my house isn't spotless
I get annoyed that I don't look around me from our 40 yr old love seat and don't see a wonderfully decorated house
Crap, I get mad at the love seat...why haven't I at least put a slip cover over this hideous pink that lived in my husbands frat house and is probably covered with who knows what.
It adds up in a hurry and that's just looking around in the living room...see what I'm getting at?

Let's not talk about all the fabulous craft ideas, recipes, and fashion advice....and HOW do you people always know to take a picture of the most random things. When I'm trying a new recipe the thought to gather all my ingredients on the counter and take an actual picture to show the blog world simply does not cross my mind...I just don't think about things like that. Period.  and I'm not crafty, I don't know that I want to be....

I'm just a little grumpy for some reason today, and this trivial little stuff is really getting to me.  Well, to be perfectly honest much deeper things are under my skin these days, but this is the stuff I feel comfortable complaining about.  Isn't that funny?  I would rather document this silly stuff than actually blog about the things that are really bothering me...my pink couch doesn't really bother me, I don't want to craft, or cook, or take pictures of flour before I use it,  I have no desire for my first thought to be "this should totally go on my blog/facebook" 

Instead I'm going to try to focus on the big things in life:
I'm someone's favorite person in the entire world
      someone's best friend
      someone's daughter (and daughter in law)
     
and for today that's going to have to be enough.

Snow Day

Alright, so I'm a bad blogger...I get so caught up in reading so many other blogs that I  never seem to update mine!  Add in the craziness of the holidays and there you have it, almost two months since my last update!  There's a lot I want to catch up on, but today is all about what's going on outside my window right now...

Apparently the state of Georgia has decided that we aren't part of the South anymore!  They warned us all last week that an extreme winter storm was headed our way, did we believe them? Well, at my house we didn't really take this warning to heart.  Seriously people? It's Georgia?!?! Yes we got some snow on Christmas, but I was in Alabama (Christmas post to come) and we just saw what was left of the snow when we got back. It wasn't much; but hey it's the South, what do you really expect? Let me tell you...we expected nothing like what we got last night!

This is what Justin's suburban looked like this morning at about 6 A.M.  Yes, I was up at six, for multiple reasons...first, I had to make sure that C and I weren't going into work today (duh) and second, I was kind of like a child on Christmas morning...so stinkin' excited about the SNOW!!!

I did however wait until the sun was up to venture out into the yard to document the neighborhood, and to play of course!! 

Pretty awesome, if you ask me. It would not have been nearly as awesome had any of the three of us would have had to get out in the snow today! Thankfully all the people and the dogs are warm and toasty in the house. Maybe later today I'll be able to get some good pictures of the pups playing in the snow because it's pretty adorable!  Nova gets so cold she can only stand it for a minute or two at the time. Brady, however, could quite possibly stay out all day and have a BLAST!  

Regardless of the cold, we might just have to get out in the yard and make an Auburn snowman! 

WAR EAGLE!!

Here's a couple more pictures of the neighborhood...Enjoy!!

WAR EAGLE!!!