Before and After

We closed on our house today. WE CLOSED ON OUR HOUSE TODAY!!!!! We are more than thrilled. We hope to be living in our house by this weekend. It sure has been a process. We found out that our offer on the house was accepted the day we had Kellan's birthday party: December 3rd. So, now after 2 months (and 12 days...who's counting) we can call it our own!

Thankfully, because the process was a bit longer than expected, we were granted early occupancy and were able to move our things from the storage unit in the house. We also were able to start making home improvements.

Here's a few before and afters...

Kitchen before



Kitchen after





K's room before

K's room after



Living Room before

Living Room after



Guest Bath before



Guest Bath after

We are looking forward to making it more of our home as time goes by. We are looking forward to laughing, crying, learning, growing, teaching, and much, much more in this home of ours. God is good.

"I want to be a kitty"

"I want to be a kitty!"

No joke....she busted out with "I want to be a kitty" this morning. I thought...why not? So, she became a kitty today.

I love Instagram!

I would have absolutely no pictures of my children if it weren't for my iphone(thanks to  my hubby who got me one back in July) and Instagram (a fun photo editing app).

These are a few of the pictures I've snapped over the past month-or-so with this fun tool:

"Like a Star"

Every once in awhile I get the itch to do something to K's hair. I dreamed of fixing my own little girl's hair when I thought of having children one day. I'm so thankful that I get the opportunity to make this dream a reality.

I decided to put rollers in her already curly hair to see how it would turn out. I kept her distracted with my phone and got all the curlers in her hair. When she looked up and saw herself in the mirror, she looked at me and said, " Like a star, mommy!"

I don't know where that girl gets the things she says, but I tell ya...she keeps me in stiches all day!!!!

Fat Lip

I'm not sure where Kellan got this one but he has discovered the big ol fat lip. He sticks that thing out so far if he's upset...it's pitiful, but oh so cute!

Our new house....almost!

Drew and I are thrilled to make roots here in Savannah. We moved here in 2009. Since we've moved here we have rented due to our short sale in Ohio. We were extremely blessed to have rented from a family in the church for almost two years. Unfortunately, our time in that house had to come to an end in October 2011. We were extremely blessed again to have my parents here so we could move in with them while we searched for the perfect home for our family of four.

Well...we found the PERFECT house to make our home in December. Amazingly when we first began looking this house was under contract so we couldn't look at it. We had looked for about a month and wasn't able to find anything we loved and were moving towards building a home. About a week after we started talking with a builder this house came back on the market and we were able to look at it the next day. God is good, yes?! We made an offer the next day!

It's a great house, with just what we need. It has a great fenced in back yard for Ollie and the kids. We love it and can't wait to make it our home. We've be dreaming about improvements we can't wait to make...once we get in! One of the best parts about it...it is literally right around the corner from my parent's house. A 15 minute walk from doorstep to doorstep. What a blessing!

We are waiting to close, it's been a longer process than normal because it is a house that is listed with an owner and the government. The program is called HAP and basically it's a government short sale. We are blessed to be where we are, not needing to move in right away. We are anxious to get in the house and start making it ours. We can't wait!

Here are a few sneak peaks of the inside. I can't wait to show before and afters!

Kitchen

Laundry Room

Living Room

Foyer

Guest/Kids Bathroom

Kerrington's Room (with KB in it)

Kellan's Room (with K in it)

Master Bedroom

Master Bath

Dining Room/Piano Room

Double the Trouble

 Right around Thanksgiving, Kellan started showing signs of walking. He worked on it all through the holidays and now has become a full fledged walker! No more crawling for this boy! He is doing a good job keeping up with his sister and I know in no time he will be running just like her!

It's bittersweet to hit this milestone with my lil guy, its sort of the one that turns them in to a toddler! Ahhh! How does it go by so quickly!