Trucking Right Along: Old House, New Things

We’re a little over a year into having owned this home and just shy of a year having lived here. Since we came from a life of furnished rental apartments and small homes and suddenly had 2,200 sq. ft. to fill, it’s taking us awhile to make it feel homey and comfortable. But, we’re getting [...]

What only money can buy.

I remember the months leading up to moving into our new home. I would curl up on the couch with a glass of wine, my favorite throw, and my TV set habitually to HGTV. As homes for sale would parade across the screen, I would look at Taylor and moan, “What are they THINKING?! Why [...]

House Evolution

The fixing of the house has been a bit slow-going now that Taylor is so busy at work. We have something almsot every weekend with FRG stuff, family events, visitors, and traveling. Though the chaos of our lives is making time fly and creating memories at a rapid fire pace, we are usually so exhausted [...]

The treasures can be found if you look hard enough.

First, I have to say congratulations to my husband as he just had his Change of Command ceremony today. Love you, babe. I could not be prouder. (no, his uniform doesn’t usually have a butterly on it. gotta protect the privacy, yo) Sorry Sully squirted sunscreen all over himself in the middle of the ceremony. [...]

Weekend Warriors

It’s been a few weeks since we’ve done much to the house. With the exception of one evening where we painted trim and Taylor cussed at some baseboard, we have been taking a bit of a break. One thing we’ve learned very quickly is that it isn’t too hard to burn out on renovations. We [...]

The nesting has begun (in a totally non-knocked up sorta way)

We’re here! And everything is crazy and chaotic and messy and dusty, but we’re here! And we had to pay a $300.00 bill for air already…boo. Clearly our house is teaching us the joys of home ownership early. But it is what it is, right? And so we coughed up the money and moved on [...]

Move-in Ready

It was a long weekend in these parts. We loaded up Friday morning and headed to North Carolina where we met my mom. After a quick kiss and letting the boys run around for a minute, we loaded them back up into her car and sent them to South Carolina. Then, Tay and I got [...]

Renovations…the other side of the story.

Amidst all our “happy, happy, joy, joy!” posts about the way our house is coming along, there has been lots and lots of help and trials and errors along the way. I’m afraid I may have given everyone the wrong impression that this is just a super easy, fun project that we’re just buzzing our [...]

The never-ending backsplash job.

We headed down to the new house this past weekend with every intention of being super productive. Taylor planned on finishing laying the floors in the rest of the closets and trimming up as much as he could with quarter round. I planned on finished the tile of the backsplash in the kitchen and then [...]

Lights and Tile and Transitions, oh my!

This weekend was a BIG weekend. We left Virginia at about 4:30PM and pulled up to my parents’ house a little past 10:00PM. We got babies in bed by 11:00PM (poor guys) and crashed. At 5:00AM Saturday morning, the alarm rang a bit too loudly. I thought it was a terrible dream at first, but [...]

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