Valentines Day 2009

(looking out into our backyard with the city lights)

Chris and I both had to work on Valentines day this year.  So we didn't really get a chance to go do anything to exciting.. Chris got off at 5 and I got off around 7:15.  I had asked Chris what we were going to do that night and he never would tell me.  He just assured me that he had plans:)  What a cute guy.  So after I got off he told me to come up to our house and we were going to eat up there..  This was our first dinner in our new home and it couldn't have been more perfect!

You have to realize at this point our house is a mess.. Seriously not to cute at all:)  But when i got there he had our little table set up and had a whole candle lit dinner ready for me!  He is so sweet.  We had delicious Boccia de Italia.  He had everything perfect.

  Except that we didn't have chairs.  So i got the comfy chair and he had to sit on a ladder.  After dinner he surprised me with taking me to our bathroom and had this new bathroom set I wanted all set out!  I was so excited!  Thank you honey for such a great day.  You make me so happy and I can't imagine my life without you.

Me at work with my flowers:)  I always love how different the arrangements are the he gets me!

Our row of flowers got quite a lot of attention all day at work:)

What would be a Valentines Day without sugar cookies!

Parker loved my flowers too!  I had to keep a close watch on him to make sure he did eat them all up!  Little stinker!

It's cute, It's old, Best of all it's OURS!

I finally took a picture of the outside so I could post a picture!  It still doesn't seem real that we have our own place.  Maybe it won't sink in until we actually move in.  We had put offers on 3 other houses before this one and didn't ever end up with any of them.  It was very frustrating...  But as soon as our offer got accepted for this one I couldn't believe it!  It is in the best location with 1/2 acre lot, and plenty of room for our family to grow(much better than any of the others).  We always said when we were looking at houses how much we love the old red brick houses.  Now we have one!  It won us over when we went to look at it and we walked into the back room  and looked out a huge window over the valley.  Yes it needs some work.  But that makes it so we can make it just how we want it.  I can't wait for our adventures to start in this house.  It is a whole new beginning for us to do together.  We are very blessed.  We feel like it is the perfect spot for us to be now and already met most our neighbors.  They have already helped us so much and been so overly friendly I can't believe it.  It has been so nice to show up at our house late to work on it and see that our driveway has already been plowed!  

Goodbye Apartment

Well it finally happened.  We bought our first house!  

We found out that our offer had been accepted right before Christmas and we closed on it Jan. 12th.  We were so excited to have our own little house! Then it hit me that we needed to get all of our stuff out of our apartment first!  It was CRAZY...  

To all of you that have moved multiple times I don't know how you do it!  It took me forever to get everything into boxes and trying to keep organized was overwhelming.  It was even harder because I had to decide what was going to be kept out for us to live for a month and what could be packed up.  

That's right.. As of right now we are so so lucky to be living in my parents basement.  Our house needs some work before we get into it and I can't even imagine living in it the way it looks right now..  Aren't parents great!?  It really has been fun for me to be back home with my family!  It's like a party every night!