Homeowners

"Every good and perfect gift comes from above...."
This is the phrase that keeps coming to mind these days as I begin to digest all of the wonderful gifts that have been poured into my life lately. Sometimes I just have these moments and wonder, 'how did I get here?"...I have this wonderful man that loves me, amazing friends and family that support us and now a home in Vineland to start our new life together. Amazing! I recognize how easy is would be to take this all for granted and I desire more and more that I never will. I want to recognize that these good gifts are from my heavenly father and from nothing I could have done on my own ambition. I guess my job then is to enjoy it and give thanks in it all. So that we are doing and loving every minute of it. We officially got the keys to our new house this past Friday night and within an hour, were hosting a party. It literally came together in a matter of an hour as we closed the deal at 5pm, Brad picked up the keys while I picked up the cake and ordered pizza, and by 6:30, the party was starting. It was so fun to have friends and family in the house making it feel like home already. The weekend weather was amazing so we got right at some yard work on Saturday afternoon. We were using my Dad's truck to pick up a few tools and Brad's lawnmower, but before I knew it, Brad's dad was loading on tires and I was carrying car rims and shelves. Our parents are quite excited for us both to finally move out and they are taking every opportunity to 'help' us do that!! After being homeowners for officially one day, we ended up locking ourselves out of our house and although we had keys in hand, the stupid screen door latch locked and wouldn't let us USE the keys to get in the house. So....we attempted to break into our new house...and it didn't work, which in a way made me feel safer, but mostly annoyed that we couldn't get into our own house. Needless to say a little reefing on the door did the trick! We'll have to buy a new door handle, but it did the trick!! Anyways, the renovation and updating dreaming has begun and we are looking forward to making it our own before we get married. Its easy to dream really big and envision what it would look like with certain walls knocked down, but we won't get into that just yet. Just adding some colours and modernizing details. So here are only a couple pictures from Friday night. If you want to see more, you can check out the album I put on my facebook....yes, I succumed to the trend of facebook. Basically it was for curiosity's sake, so we'll see how long that continues, especially if I have a blog to update here. However, I have discovered it is much easier and faster to up load photos there. What the dilemma...:)
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Things are a changing...

The past few months have been full of change and anticipation. So much has changed in my life and so much more will change in the months to come as I prepare to become a wife, move out of my house and find out where and if I will have a full time teaching job. Never have I experienced so much excitment and uncertainty all at the same time before! But the journey so far as been amazing and as you can imagine, the last couple weeks, especially, have been a whirlwind of activity. Things are really coming together for the wedding though and I get more and more excited as we can start to visualize it all coming together. In addition to wedding plans, however, we have some more exciting news to add to the pot....WE BOUGHT OUR FIRST HOUSE!!! I'm sure there will be more pictures to come, but here's a first glance at our home to be in Vineland. I can't wait for the official sold sign to go up!!.It all happened really really fast last week and I wanted to wait a bit before posting about it until all the conditions were removed. We have been driving by this house for months now and wondering why it hadn't sold, so we asked to see it last Monday and that night put an offer in. The next day, the house was ours...the big reason being that we could take the house immediately while other offers had fallen through based on people selling their own homes. And since we didn't have home to sell, we get next week!! That's right, as of April 20th, we will have the keys to our first home. We love it and can't wait to get in there and make it our own. I am so thankful for the time we have before we get married to paint and update it while gradually moving all our stuff over.
I'm looking forward to many good times ahead with friends, like these two, and family. We are all sporting our "Cornerstone Home Inspection" toques, compliments of Ted and Julie. The only bummer part is that we actually still need to wear them these days!! WARM UP ALREADY!!!