It's been awhile since I wrote on this here blog of mine and updated y'all on what's going on in our lives.
WE BOUGHT A HOUSE! Yep, you heard me right. It's ALL ours. As in, we can do whatever the heck we want to it and not get in trouble! I can finally put up the shelves my brother gave me for Christmas that I couldn't put up in the apartment because they are dry wall screws. I'm pretty excited (I'm sure you couldn't tell).
So far, we've changed out the front door, put up blinds and curtains, changed the doors on the workshop (yes we have a workshop! reminds me of my grandpas), made a pantry (I have theeee best husband in the world and he made it for me! Spoiled!), and changed out a more than hideous light fixture in the front room. It was one of those nasty chandeliers from the 70's that had the "candle" light bulbs. Eww. Why were those ever in style?
Changing the front door was the most annoying, pain in the butt project EVER! We measured the opening, bought the door, got ready to put the door in, and it didn't fit. Yep, you heard me, DIDN'T FIT! I was FREAKING out. We just bought this freaking front door and it doesn't fit. Shoot me. And then Jackson had the brilliant idea to cut the door. And then I started freaking out again, because if it didn't work, then we couldn't return the door and we would have a giant hole in our house where the front door should be. But Jackson is brilliant and so stinking smart and made everything work. He spent hours fixing the door, and the frame, and cutting things, nailing things, and now it's perfect. Well almost, we still have to paint the inside of the door, but it looks 1,000,000 times better than the old piece of crap door that was there before. I painted the exterior part of the door, and the frame around the window white, we put in a new light fixture, doorbell, and door handle. I LOVE it. The house looks so much better. I'm proud to call it ours. Just so you get the picture of why we changed the front door so quickly let metell you about the old door. It was this nasty brown, HOLLOW core, door. Yeah, like that's gonna keep anyone out that wants in. NOT. And to top it off, the sides were dented and there were a bunch of nail holes in the middle where you would hang up a wreath or whatever. So basically, it looked tacky. Like had to go tacky.
The pantry happened pretty quickly too. We bought some pieces of wood, measured, cut, and painted them, and put them in this grungy looking closet that used to be a coat closet. Basically what happened was they used the metal hangers in the closet, and they scratched the walls, so there were black, streaks all over the closet. NOT COOL. So we painted it white, put the wood in, and voila! A beautiful looking pantry that is perfect. Again, I have the best husband in the world. What would I do without him?
And now that we have our own yard, no landlords to tell us what to do, and a fence, what did we do? We bought a puppy! And oh my goodness she is the cutest thing in the whole world. She's a purebred Alaskan Husky, she's 8 weeks old, and fits in perfectly with Jackson and I. I love her colors, her attitude (most the time), how playful she is, and that she's ours! I'm not gonna lie, she's a bit more work than I originally thought (I've never had a dog before in my life!). We get up every 2 hours through the night to take her out potty. (we prefer having no messes in the house!) She has an attitude and whines when we put her in the crate/kennel. But regardless, We love her so stinking much! She is so spoiled.
And I don't know if I mentioned this anytime previously, but I'm accepted into Nursing school. I start August 10th. I'm SO excited and WAY nervous. I hope I'll be able to juggle everything and get good grades. But the good thing is, I have the most amazing husband, who supports me in whatever I do, and I know he'll help me get through the next two years of nursing school. I'm so excited to start school, and start doing what I love. So if no one sees me for the next two years, it's because I'll be studying my brains out. You think I'm joking, but really though. if you don't see me. I'm at my house, with my nose in a book.
