We finally figured out how to make it a little warmer in the living room... yes that is plastic encompassing our entire sliding glass door... except for the all important doggie door :)

It may look silly but it is super warm!!!

AND
The joys of puppy-dom

This


Plus this




Equals this

We seriously have NO idea where it went.

HVAC

So... it has finally come to this... after much shivering it has been decided that our HVAC unit must be condemned. I only wish that we did not have to wait 3 freaking weeks of living without heat to find this out.

It looks like our new unit is gonna cost around 5 grand :*(

Its a good thing that Matt and I are not newly weds and that we planted that money tree in the back yard.


Well enough whining for now. At least I have a fantastic home to live in and a husband and new puppy that love me very very very much!!

<---- New puppy. Everyone meet Torro :)

Keys

So... we signed for our house yesterday (dec 31st) :) Which means if all goes well we will get our keys tomorrow!! I am so excited!! Finally a house of my own (well matts too :P) And if we get the keys tomorrow then we have 8 days to move!! That is the really awesome part! I am so excited!!!

Once there was a snowman...

This is my match stick snow man. I made him in about 2 seconds


The before pic... I promise there is snow coming down... you just cant see it.


Now for the after pic... all after just a couple hours.



This is the view from my patio... so picture perfect :)


Be safe out there!!!
and

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

And the winner is...

The house on Canyon Dawn!!

My lovely Realtor called today with some extremely fantastic news!! We got the house we really really wanted!! YAY!!!

I am so excited and thrilled because it all happened so fast!



If all goes well we will close in mid December. So lets hope that all goes well :)

House Hunting

Today was a very awesome day. Matt and I spent 4 hours looking at 13 homes. Our Realtor (Laura Reide) has been so fantastic and awesome. She initially sent us 74 homes to look at and we narrowed it down to 15 and were able to view 13 today.


My rockin' Realtor Laura!!!

The hunt was fun yet extremely tiring. In then end Matt and I decided to put an offer down on 2 homes.

The first one was Canyon Dawn


This is the ML pic of the front. Its so pretty!!



This is the window in the front. The window sill just screams to be decorated for christmas!



FIRE PLACE!! Gotta love the fire place



This is the kitchen. Now I really don't care too much for the painted cabinets, however, I loved the rest :)


And of course my lovely husband... in front of the gazebo that has a built in bbq (well the space for one anyway)

The second house we put an offer on was on Summer Sun

Its so cute!!


I had to take a pic of the crazy tree! It rocks my world!!

Look at this rocking back yard!! I just loved it!!

All in all it was a really good day. Hopefully Matt and I will get some positive feedback on one of the houses. It would be really nice to be home owners :)

Let me know what you think :) Or if you want Laura's phone number :)

Sleep

I really need to keep up on these things...

I have been having this problem. I am sleeping through my alarm clock. Last Sunday I slept through 3 alarms and I don't know what to do. I want to go to church and enjoy the little bit of church time that I get to have... but I KEEP SLEEPING THROUGH THE STUPID ALARM!!

It may be because I am out of practice as the only day that I need an alarm is Sunday but that is really no excuse. So does anyone have any ideas for me? (The place it across the room thing is not helping)

Becca said she will call me on Sundays to make sure that I am up; and as appreciative as I am for her doing this I feel like a retard. I am 25 years old and cant seem to wake my butt up for church... any suggestions would be very helpful.