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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