Excited!

I love love love the thought of the holidays coming up and us spending it in our new house!  Halloween went well last night and we probably had a total of 40 kids come to our door!  Somehow we still have candy left which is not good for me.  As a friend said, I'll probably have diabetes by tomorrow. :P

Things have been busy as usual, and I just realized that if I don't get out and plant some bulbs now, we probably won't have any pretty spring flowers.  We do have flower leaves (is that what people call them??) out in our yard now, but I have NO CLUE what they are, if they are flowers or weeds, and what I need to do to maintain them??? Does anybody know anything about gardening that can maybe help me?!

Anyway, here are a few pictures from randoms lately:

We tried to give Zoe away with the Halloween candy, but nobody would take her.  Poor thing.

Intense game of tug of war...guess who won?

I got to spend time with Norah Mae <3 already="already" changed="changed" much="much" p="p" s="s" she="she" so="so">

Chris, Emily & Rena came down to visit last weekend!  Rena feeding mama some Sweet Frog! I took lots of  other pics on my good camera - I'll upload them soon!

View of the sunrise over the reservoir right near our house one morning...so pretty!

I'll post more later!  Hope everyone had a fun Halloween!

Woah woah woah

Did September go by as fast for you as it did for us?  It's like I blinked and the month was over and we somehow bought a house in between!

We officially closed on our house Friday :)  I had in my head that we would be surrounded by a million people with stacks of paper to the ceiling and after we signed papers for 2 hours Ryan would whisk me away and carry me into our beautiful new home. Something like this:

How it really worked:  we signed about 20 papers, it took about 30 minutes, we were handed the keys and told congratulations.  After that, it was off to go back downtown to get our small Uhaul van.  We then went to our friends house where we had to get stuff out of their storage room because they just so happened to be moving that weekend.  After that, we went back to the south side to drop off these things into our beautiful home that not only had the For Sale sign still up in the yard, but they also didn't even have a SOLD sign on top and the lock box was still sitting on the front porch.  Really Realtor who sold the house?  We dropped the stuff off, waited 30 minutes to have dinner with my parents, went to get my car at the title company where I left it, went to drop off the Uhaul van then went to get Ryan's car.  We finally got to go back to the apartment to sleep after that.  WHEW.

Ryan doesn't know this yet, but we'll OFFICIALLY be living in our house this Sunday.  I bought Ryan tickets to a show he wanted to go to in DC months ago, so we weren't going to back out of going to Fairfax just because we bought a house and needed to move.  After Ryan got off work on Saturday, we went up to Fairfax and I hung out with Amanda while Ryan and Justin went to their show.  Sunday Ryan & Justin entertained themselves at a gun show while Amanda and I took a nice long trip to Ikea.  That place excites me and gives me a ton of anxiety all at the same time!  We didn't get home until almost 8 last night and the next thing I know I was waking up to go to work this morning.

Since Ryan was off today, he was at the house today installing a new digital thermostat and put together the kitchen island.  I'm proud of him for installing the thermostat all by himself!  Here's a pic of the island he put together:

Obviously that isn't the exact one he put together, but you get the idea of what it looks like!

Our master bedroom is getting painted Wednesday and we'll hopefully have some living room furniture picked out by Friday!

I already can't wait to be settled and have it feel like HOME! :)

Hope everyone has a great week!!