I found this website through Pinterest, and I'm seriously floored by these pictures. Check them out!
http://twistedsifter.com/2012/06/top-50-pictures-of-the-day-for-2012/
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Monday, August 27, 2012
HOUSE UPDATE
I'm so scared by talking about this I'm going to jinx something! And I don't even believe in Jinx's! HA!
So, to compromise with myself, I'll talk about the house but not post pictures or list the address. :) I'm weird...I know this.
Anyways, we're in LOVE with this house! We probably looked at 20 houses before this one, so we really knew what we were willing to compromise on and what we weren't willing to compromise on. The house has almost EVERYTHING we've wanted in a house!
Seriously! Great schools. Great community. Open floor plan. Near water. 2 car garage. Perfect master bathroom. Fenced in backyard and squirrels around for Zoe. Renovated kitchen. Fresh paint. Fresh carpet. Within 5 miles of a Plaza Azteca (okay so maybe that's more me than Ryan :) ).
We negotiated and our offer was accepted on Friday. We're doing the home inspection on Thursday, so we'll have a better idea then how the rest of the month goes and if everything will still go through as planned.
As of now, we're planned to close on September 28th. :) :) :)
As scary as a loan is and as scary it is knowing how much money we're going to have to fork up for things we've been living without the past 28 years (lawn mower, grill, furniture, etc), we are SO SO EXCITED!
Wish us luck and I hope everyone has a great rest of the week!!!!!!
So, to compromise with myself, I'll talk about the house but not post pictures or list the address. :) I'm weird...I know this.
Anyways, we're in LOVE with this house! We probably looked at 20 houses before this one, so we really knew what we were willing to compromise on and what we weren't willing to compromise on. The house has almost EVERYTHING we've wanted in a house!
Seriously! Great schools. Great community. Open floor plan. Near water. 2 car garage. Perfect master bathroom. Fenced in backyard and squirrels around for Zoe. Renovated kitchen. Fresh paint. Fresh carpet. Within 5 miles of a Plaza Azteca (okay so maybe that's more me than Ryan :) ).
We negotiated and our offer was accepted on Friday. We're doing the home inspection on Thursday, so we'll have a better idea then how the rest of the month goes and if everything will still go through as planned.
As of now, we're planned to close on September 28th. :) :) :)
As scary as a loan is and as scary it is knowing how much money we're going to have to fork up for things we've been living without the past 28 years (lawn mower, grill, furniture, etc), we are SO SO EXCITED!
Wish us luck and I hope everyone has a great rest of the week!!!!!!
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
House Hunters - Hibbard Style & Pics
I don't know if I mentioned this in previous posts, but Ryan and I are in the process of finding and buying our first house!
This is all very exciting because after moving 8 times in 10 years, having a permanent address is more appealing than having a million dollars (almost).
I don't know if it's because I've seen one too many episodes of House Hunters, but I really didn't know it would be this HARD to find your first house. We've done all of the things we've been told to do - decide on your 'must haves' and 'can compromise' items, narrow down the location, and look past easy cosmetic fixes.
I guess I'm more amazed by the condition that home sellers choose to sell their house in. It's pretty disgusting. I understand life gets crazy and it's hard to find the time to clean yourself much less clean the whole house, but I'm amazed. For example, we looked at a house that had an outdoor pool but it had a nice deck around it. When we looked at the pool, it wasn't even being used (had a tarp on it) and had dirty deflated floats all around it. Really, homeowners? You couldn't take the 2 minutes to throw away the old floats so we could possibly PRETEND the pool was somewhat maintained? It's insane!
Anyway, we've found a few that we're interested in but we aren't ready to make moves yet. We have to be out of our apartment by October 20th, so we figured we should have an offer in and accepted no later than mid September. Eeek!
Enough boring talk - here's some pictures for you:
This is all very exciting because after moving 8 times in 10 years, having a permanent address is more appealing than having a million dollars (almost).
I don't know if it's because I've seen one too many episodes of House Hunters, but I really didn't know it would be this HARD to find your first house. We've done all of the things we've been told to do - decide on your 'must haves' and 'can compromise' items, narrow down the location, and look past easy cosmetic fixes.
I guess I'm more amazed by the condition that home sellers choose to sell their house in. It's pretty disgusting. I understand life gets crazy and it's hard to find the time to clean yourself much less clean the whole house, but I'm amazed. For example, we looked at a house that had an outdoor pool but it had a nice deck around it. When we looked at the pool, it wasn't even being used (had a tarp on it) and had dirty deflated floats all around it. Really, homeowners? You couldn't take the 2 minutes to throw away the old floats so we could possibly PRETEND the pool was somewhat maintained? It's insane!
Anyway, we've found a few that we're interested in but we aren't ready to make moves yet. We have to be out of our apartment by October 20th, so we figured we should have an offer in and accepted no later than mid September. Eeek!
Enough boring talk - here's some pictures for you:
Saturday night beer Olympics - so much fun!
Newlyweds! Can you see the love?
Love
From left to right: Greece, Ireland, Australia, and USA. We won GOLD! Woot Ireland!
We will never grow up
Cindy, Kendall and myself at Isabella's & Jayden's birthday party in Fredericksburg!
Birthday boy Jayden! Can't believe he's 3!
Taiten cheesin' it up
I had the cutest picture of Bella eating her bday cake but I think I deleted it by accident. :( Boo!
I love our life back in Richmond. :) If only Ryan can find a job he loves and we can find a house we love, then all will be right with the world!
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
My 100th Post!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
...I only know that because when I go to write a new post, it just told me I had 99 previously. Who's counting?
I don't feel like explaining what's been going on in our lives lately because honestly I can barely remember what I did yesterday. I just know that we've been busy, Paige is a married woman, I have the cutest niece and goddaughter in the world, and we unfortunately lost Ryan's Grandma from a heart attack.
Ryan's Grandma Marks had a heart attack Friday and they unfortunately weren't able to bring her back to life at the hospital. I had the chance to get to know Grandma Marks better when we were back in TN for a bit. I wish I had more time with her, but I can say that she raised great sons, had a genuine heart, and was SO proud of Ryan's work overseas. Her service was on Tuesday and we weren't able to make it because of the drive to TN being such a long drive and it being our anniversary. We were thinking of our family in TN all day and wish peace for everyone who knew her. We love you, Grandma Marks!
On a brighter note, here are a few pictures for ya:
I don't feel like explaining what's been going on in our lives lately because honestly I can barely remember what I did yesterday. I just know that we've been busy, Paige is a married woman, I have the cutest niece and goddaughter in the world, and we unfortunately lost Ryan's Grandma from a heart attack.
Ryan's Grandma Marks had a heart attack Friday and they unfortunately weren't able to bring her back to life at the hospital. I had the chance to get to know Grandma Marks better when we were back in TN for a bit. I wish I had more time with her, but I can say that she raised great sons, had a genuine heart, and was SO proud of Ryan's work overseas. Her service was on Tuesday and we weren't able to make it because of the drive to TN being such a long drive and it being our anniversary. We were thinking of our family in TN all day and wish peace for everyone who knew her. We love you, Grandma Marks!
On a brighter note, here are a few pictures for ya:
Because our loft is all inclusive, we like to turn the air down to 69 or 70 at night and snuggle up in our warm comforter knowing we won't see an electric bill. (When I say snuggle, I mean snuggle with Zoe because we all know Ryan and I don't touch in bed). I forgot to turn it back up in the morning, so when I came home from work I found Zoe like this. Oops.
Chris, Emily & Rena came into town one weekend, and we got to spend a little time with them. Rena was not in the mood for a picture :) Love her!
The beautiful Bachelorette sporting her 'stache.
The only pic I took on Paige's wedding day!! Getting her make up done!
Flash mob at Ryan's company picnic!! SO COOL! Ryan had to hold me back from joining them.
The front page of the Richmond Times Dispatch the day before we started house hunting. How convenient.
My beautiful Goddaughter, Riley. I babysat and she's obsessed with her belly button right now :) LOVE!
She's going to break a lot of boy's hearts when she's older.
Elliot suckered me into giving her a cupcake before dinner. Don't tell mommy :)
Chunk chunk
I tried to save some of the cotton candy balls from the bouquet Ryan made for our anniversary. Apparently this is what happens to them when you put them in an air tight container.
And that's about all I have for you, folks. Ryan and I celebrated our blissful 2 years of marriage together at Bookbinder's last night. I asked him what he wants most for our 3rd year of marriage and his response was "to get an awesome job and get deployed again". Mine was "buy a house and start popping out babies". So glad we're on the same page. ;) Food was AWESOME, service was okay. We had fun, and I find myself everyday thinking how lucky I was to find such a good catch. Love you, darlin!
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