Moved In!

I am THRILLED! We moved in on Friday (everything was done!!) and we have spent every night here since. Most of our days have been spent putting away and organizing. I love our home. I really really LOVE it. Our bedroom is the only spot that is complete at this point. I have to have at least one spot that I can relax in, so I started there. The kitchen is done too, and the guest room is getting there. I have misplaced my camera cord to upload pictures...GRR! Of course I would have put them up if I could have. Thank you for all your support through all of this. We are so happy :) Off to Lowes and Target for some supplies...

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What makes you happy?

I have been wondering this a lot lately...what makes me happy? What makes others happy? What is happiness? It is so hard to pin that down. We as humans are made to think that happiness comes from things and other people. And yes, sometimes it can. But is it real happiness? Is that the happiness that God intended for us to think is "sheer" happiness?

Through all of the renovations to our new home I have been happy. The wood is beautiful. The tile is beautiful. My home is going to be beautiful. But is that what I count on to make me happy? My husband has been amazing...toting boxes back and forth, not getting home until 7:30 every night because he stops by our new house and then comes home, sometimes not seeing me at all because I am spending the night painting baseboards and packing. Does he complain? No...he is happy. But can he always make me happy? I know the answer to this one...

Lately I have been reflecting on Philippians 4:22, "I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want."

Contentness...(not a word), is something I so need to learn. I cry out to the Lord that he will give me the ability to be so. I also know, deep in my heart, that the Lord is the only one who will ever make me happy. He is the one who will get me through bad times, rejoice in my good times, love on me when I am deeply wrong. "Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say, rejoice." I pray this for my soul, for my heart...from my heart.

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Our New Home!!!!

This is us in front of our beautiful new home :) That is our new beautiful tree and that is beautiful new us!! Just kidding, but I feel like we are new people. Very excited. We got our keys at 3Pm today after an hour of signing paper after paper.

We taped off the rooms we are painting today, replaced the "butterflied" toilet lids...see the post with the pictures of the house...and cleaned all the bugs out of the corners with the amazing shop vac.

We also had a contractor come to the house so we could tell him what needed to be done before we move in next Friday (fingers crossed!!). We are adding air conditioning to the laundry room, dropping the ceiling in the laundry room (it is just rafters with wiring showing), and adding a chandelier in the dining room. We have Bright House (cable) coming on Sunday, air conditioning repair man and bug guy coming Monday, and all flooring starting to go in starting Tuesday! It is going to be a BUSY week! I can't wait to show ya'll the before and afters.

For now, we are just happy... :)

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Show Us Your Reception and Honeymoon

I'm joining in once again for Kelly's Korner Show Us How You Live Fridays!

Here is our reception. It was at the Country Club of Orlando. Beautiful reception room, hardly had to decorate, which was nice!

All of the wedding party getting good and *happy* before taking many many pictures...

Our first dance was to "Stand By Me"

Cutting our cake...

We are HUGE Gator fans, so this was our groom's cake. It is surrounded by dry ice to make it look "swampy." Probably my most favorite piece of our reception!

You see that guy with the tamberine...I do not LIKE him! He is in almost every one of our "going away" pictures shaking that darn thing like nobody's business...grrrr

Honeymooning, the reason to get married, JUST KIDDING (but almost not)!! Here we are in St. Lucia :)

Danny in the dog house...hehe just kidding again, I'm a real jokester you see.

I love this picture because I can see that beauty of a ring on my man's hand!

We went zip lining through the rain forest. BEST experience of our lives! We look pretty ridiculous in our getup, by hey, we were safe.

There you have it!! We are glad you all stopped by to check it out :)

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Closing

We close on our first home TOMORROW!!! I am SO excited :) It has been a whirlwind and by golly, if they don't give that house to use tomorrow at 2PM, somebody is going to have a very unhappy woman on their hands! That little beauty (ahem...almost beauty) is going to look SO good when we are done with it. I am going to be the pesky one who calls our flooring contractors every day making sure they finish on time so we can move in next weekend...needless to say, they won't like me very much once they are done but hey, I need my sanity back which includes my own home/space.

Wish us luck, will post lots of pictures tomorrow! I have some linked in a past post, but will post more. Plus, in a week, there will be before and afters!! (fingers crossed).

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New Clothes for Back to School

Ya'll head to your nearest Target ASAP! I went to one today (not the nearest, more on that later) and scooped up tons of GREAT comfortable clothing for very little $$. Nothing I bought was more than $24.99. I got 3 dresses, 2 sleeveless, ruffle collar sweater tops, a cute pair of black sandals, and a pencil skirt...drumroll.....for $120!! I absolutely love all the fabrics and prints. I hope to take some pictures later today with me in them :)

Now, I went to a Target that was about 6 miles away instead of the one right down the road because, I have found, that if you are looking for certain sizes of women's clothing (2-8) you have to look hard! Target sells out of these sizes in the popular clothing pieces very quickly, especially in a neighborhood with lots of younger/early 30s women. So, I went a little further, but found all my sizes in my most favorite pieces.

I am very happy with my purchases and I hope you head to Target to get some for yourself!

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Craigslist Crazies

So the hubs and I have started listing things on Craigslist so that when we move, we don't have as much to take and only the essentials will go into our new house (our furniture is fearing for their lives as we analyze each piece). We've sold a desk and chair, a TV, a Wii Fit, among other things I had to pry out of hubby's hands...muuahhahaha. This money will help us to buy a few things "out of budget" which will allow us to be able to do more when we move in (replace the furniture we are selling).

But, the point of this post, is to see what you all think of Craigslist? We let in a man in his mid 40s yesterday to buy the Wii fit. Danny was home (he gets Fridays off YAY), and so was his brother Pete who is approximately 300 pounds and O-lineman for Tulane. Needless to say, I felt completely comfortable. But, I was also expecting a young boy, so that threw me through a hoop. Anyways, we were missing a piece to it and went to look for it and left the man and Pete downstairs. Well, finally we found the piece and got the man out of the house. BUT, was it smart to let him in our house in the first place??? Danny's brother Pete is taking a serial killer course in college and told us we were crazy for letting any of the Craigslist people in our house.

So, I wanted to know, what do you do with Craigslist?? Do you sell things and have people come to your house? Do you meet in a certain location? Do you go to people's homes to buy items? Just wondering how crazy I might be for doing what I did...

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