Home sweet home

I'm happy to report that we officially closed on our house(*FINALLY*) last Thursday, the 14th. I know, I know a heck of a Valentine's Day present to us! :)

To be honest, that was about the extent of our Valentine's day. We closed at 4:00(surprisingly, quick and painless), then went and picked up Natty dog and took him for his visit to the new house. We let him run around the yard and the empty house and we just basked in the moment of realizing it was really ours after months of visiting just to see the construction. We took the dog back to my parent's house and proceeded to spend our Valentine's mattress shopping and eating dinner. I know we're very romantic, but you have no idea how exciting this was for us!

Since we both had to work all day Friday we decided just to move in Saturday. So we spent a last few days at my Mom and Dad's house. I'll admit it was really nice being there, don't tell him but I don't hate my dad's crazy idea of living in a commune. They're some of our best friends and I enjoy just hanging out with them doing nothing. Not to mention my Mom is an amazing cook and I enjoyed eating there for almost 2 months! :)

Saturday bright and early we loaded up our cars and started the moving process. I had been stressing about it because I *HATE* to move. But it was surprisingly uneventful. We were beyond blessed by the amount of help we had from family and friends. All of our belongings were in the house in under an hour and a half and most everything was put where it belonged by that afternoon. I'm still finding places for little things and attempting to organize but overall it's pretty well together and feels like our home already. I am a terrible blogger and didn't manage to take one single picture on moving day. (Cut me some slack, I was a little preoccupied!) But if you missed my last post you can see pictures of our house here, it looks the same it just has stuff in it. Eventually I will get it all decorated and post "after" pictures.

Leave it to my terror I mean dog to make a mess within minutes of moving in. It was a record for him, it took all of about 5 minutes (if that) for him to figure out he can dig under the fence on the side of the house where there are no neighbors. To the right of our house is still an empty lot for sale which makes the ground uneven where our fence is since the lot isn't cleared and our sod hasn't completely taken yet. All he has to do is use his paw and pull up a piece of the sod right along the fence then it's just clay and sand that he can easily dig out and roll under the fence. LOVELY!

We thought we had rigged it up enough to keep him back there while we finished moving until he came running through the garage door into the house a lovely shade of orange/brown from the dirt. Onto my new beige carpet. Luckily we caught him and wrangled him into the garage before he could make a mess, but he was definitely giving us a run for our money that day! I'm still trying to decide the best way to remedy that situation until a house is built over there(which could be years!). Electric fence is sounding like the most reliable option, but we'll see. I might try chicken wire and bricks first. Gah, the things I do for that fur baby!

We were pretty wiped out still Sunday. We shopped for some things we needed right away and for groceries. After putting the groceries away we took a two hour nap.(We're incredibly productive!) We did finally get up and hang all the blinds, hook up the washer and dryer, and organize a couple closets. I made burritos for our first dinner in the new house and we went to bed extra early. (Think before 9.. sad truth: I STILL didn't want to get up for work this morning!)

But that's about it for our Valentine's Day/weekend/home buying/moving experience! I promise to post some furnished pictures soon, once it looks a little more together.

Until next time....

Happy Monday y'all! :)

Our first house

We went to the house yesterday for the first construction walk through. The house is completely finished save for the few repairs we discussed with the super yesterday.

I LOVE IT! It came out even better than I had imagined! The construction phase should be completed within two weeks and ready to do a final walk through.

Unfortunately were probably looking at another month until closing because were waiting on mortgage paperwork to be finalized. Were(hopefully if all goes well) getting a great deal on a rural development loan. If you're looking at buying or building I highly recommend checking out it's availability in your area. Because it's a government backed program were now at their mercy and we all now how quick the government gets things done! (NOT)

In the mean time I took a million pictures yesterday to leave you with.

Happy Thursday y'all!

Why hello, Fall

So as you all have probably noticed, I fail at attempting to blog more. I'm sticking to the excuse that I'm on the computer all day and when I get home I don't want to be. It's true, I never even pin anymore! (*GASPS!*)

There's just so much going on these days that at night the few hours my hubs and I get together before bed, we try to actually spend together and not plugged into media outlets. We're like old people, we literally go to bed before 10 every night. It's kind of sad.

I'm stealing a few minutes tonight to catch up though. Nothing too terribly interesting has happened. Both still working. House is still under construction, but it's going a lot faster than anticipated. The lot wasn't even supposed to be cleared until this month, but they already have the lot cleared, foundation laid, and framing going up. I'm hoping to be in the house by the first of the year, but we'll see how progress goes over the holidays. Don't worry I have pictures of the progress for you. :)

Sadly, I suck and they are in reverse chronological order so they don't make much sense, but I'm in no mood to fight with blogger tonight!

The only other exciting thing we've really done was go back to Tallahassee for the big FSU/Clemson show down. It was both of our first experience at ESPN's College Gameday AND at a sold out game. Both parts were incredible and we had an absolute blast!(Winning the game definitely had a lot to do with that.) We're *hoping* to make it over there one more time this season for the FSU/UF game after Thanksgiving, but we'll see how that goes. We're starting to plan for the first Baby Volheim in our hopefully not terribly distant future, so who knows!

This week has seemed exceptionally long with some family things going on. It's been a rough week for my Sister-in-law and I'd really appreciate it if you all could keep her in your prayers as she goes through this time. Hopefully I'll be able to share more at a later date, but I don't really feel like it's appropriate right now. Thank you all for your prayers and understanding.

Let's see... what else? Oh! My little, tiny baby sister has finally turned 21! We went over to Tallahassee with the family last weekend to help her celebrate. Hard to believe she's already legal. Stephen will be celebrating the big 2-6 next weekend, but other than that and some fun Halloween plans we actually have a fairly mellow next few weeks coming up.

I have some pictures to share of our recent adventures, but other than that I don't think I have anything of much interest to share at the moment. I do plan to eventually get around to making a big post with all my recent pinterest recipe successes to share. One of these days... until then have a great week! Happy Wednesday y'all

Playing catch up

Wow... the last time I blogged was the night before our 1st anniversary! (May 20th) I admit that's beyond a little ridiculous... If any of you are still following, hello again! I'd like to think I'll get better now that we're in a routine, but I doubt it.

I love to blog for us. One day I'll be glad I did so we have all these memories written down in detail, but lately since I work on the computer all day the last thing I want to do at home is get on the computer.

But anyway, I digress! Let's get back to the important stuff. It's been over 3 months now, but let's recap our 1st anniversary.

We both had to work because our anniversary was a Monday.(Boo!) But after we met out at the hotel on the beach. The same hotel we had gotten engaged at 2 years earlier(I know, aww!), the Springhill Suites. I looooove that place. I would live there if I could. We got dressed up all fancy schmancy and went to dinner at Hemingway's(the restaurant we had our wedding the year before). It was delicious as usual. We ended up with a rainy night, but Pensacola beach is always beautiful regardless! After dinner we went back to the room and tried our cake. My mom did an excellent job of wrapping up the top layer of our wedding cake and it was seriously just as good as the day of our wedding!

After that we ventured down to the pool bar and enjoyed the hot tub. We met another couple down there and ended up walking across the street to the Irish Pub and doing karaoke with them for a while. It was a blast! The next morning we enjoyed a little time in the hotel's gorgeous pool, and then our mini vaca ended way too soon as we headed home to relax around the house for the rest of our day off. Can't wait til the next anniversary! ;)

Another major reason I haven't written much is that there hasn't been a whole lot going on around the Volheim house this summer. Too much work, a little playing when possible. Mostly trying to stay cool and dry during this ridiculous hot and rainy summer! So much for Florida being the sunshine state!!

We do have some pretty exciting news!(No, we're not having a baby... yet!) We signed a contract last month and the building has begun on our first home! We're beyond ecstatic! They've actually cleared our lot, but nothing will really get started until the end of next month(that hasn't stopped us from driving by to check once a week though! Ha) It's expected to be finished in February. Needless to say my pinterest has become overrun with house decorating ideas.

Other than those two things and a Corey Smith concert.. we pretty much spent our summer tubing, slip n sliding, beaching, and avoiding the heat! Below are some pictures from our summer.

Now that summer is winding down.. well ok, let's be realistic, it's still going to be a million degrees for the next couple months, but my favorite season is finally back! FOOTBALL SEASON! Namely, Seminole and Saints football seasons are in full swing! We went to the first home game this weekend and it was so much fun! I don't think I fully realized how much I missed it. Stephen even had one of his lifelong dreams come true as our friend Anthony, a Seminole tight end, took us down on the field after the game to take pictures. He was like a little kid on Christmas! It was also my sweet baby Trae's first game and he LOVED it! I thought for sure he would be bored by the end of the 1st, but nope! That boy was cheering, chopping and watching the entire game! I was such a proud aunt. I think it's safe to say he will be a little Nole for life!(At least if Aunt LoLo and Uncle Tephen hve anything to do with it! ;)

Now that we're all caught up, thanks for hanging with me! Let's see if I can get better about this blogging thing again! Hopefully there will be more FSU games, house updates, and other fall fun things in our near future to keep you posted on. Happy Tuesday y'all!