New Home/Family Photos

Happy Hump Day! 

I was reminded last week that I never posted my family photos from our "New Home Phase 1 of 3" photos. (What a title...)

I told y'all that we are doing a three part photo series to document our new home. 
We purchased a piece of property last year, sold our home, and now building a custom home on that piece of property. In the mean time we are living with my parents...it's not that bad. :)

We FINALLY got the plans approved by everyone (HOA and County), but still waiting for some papers for the loan, digging up the septic tank, the well, and about 2 feet of dirt to bring in new dirt since the land was a phosphate mine many many years ago. Do you know what all that means? That means the actual building hasn't even started and there is still things to do before it starts. Boy..oh boy has it been a process! 

Just talking about it requires a martini! 

But getting these pictures makes this waiting game a lot sweeter.

Enjoy!

Don't hold your breathe for part 2 because at this rate it'll be awhile! :) 

XOXO

Hump Day News to Celebrate

Hey! Good day to you all!

First things first;  I don't know where Monday's "weekend recap" post disappeared to. Must be somewhere in the internet clouds...who really knows?!

I got the greatest news of the year this week and I was like

and

Short story even shorter, the next stage in Operation:Build Me a Home has begun!!!!! 

If you don't know, we've been trying to build a house on a piece of property we bought last year. It officially started in March when we sold our house. Since March the land has basically been untouched (except for a lawn mower and a few survey people). The county has rejected the plans twice, our loan process was on hold until 2014 taxes were complete, and some additional land surveys had to be ordered. It was literally one piece of "pump the breaks" news after another and I'm praying that it's going to be a smooth ride from here on out. One can pray and hope, but I know there is a slim chance of that actually happening. I've tossed out all expectations at this point, and I haven't been disappointed since. :)

I'm come to the realization that ALL THAT ABOVE is why people don't build custom houses more often.  I can only image the stress that will come with picking out every single little thing that will do in the house; light sockets, baseboards, windows, doors, light switches, cabinets, and the list goes on until there is no room left in a 500 page notebook. Some of that stuff has already been decided and I've been Pinning Home ideas since last year, so if all else fails, just go to my "Home" Pinterest board. 

In other news, I have a new found love...and it's name is Spin Class. Not only did I love the class, but the teacher was my old cheer mom growing up! She's phenomenal! I figured this was a good way of training for the triathlon on Saturday. 

Excuse the face matching the shirt color...it was a killer class!

That's all the news I have for this HUMP DAY! Hope you all have a wonderful day, and maybe get some news of your own to celebrate!! Sending #GoodVibes

XOXO

Current Situations: Portable Closets

Happy Hump Day!! 
I hope your week has been busy and productive OR relaxing and rejuvenating. Either way, hope it's been good! It's almost done and the weekend is in sight! YAY weekends!

Yesterday morning I had a school PTF meeting which ran until 11:00 a.m, then I met Alisha for lunch at our favorite local place, Dellas. 

Lunch with best friends is always fun because there seems to ALWAYS be something to chat about! If Alisha and I don't see each other for a week or so, we can sit there and talk for hours about our lives just in that past week, even though we text daily. Isn't that something? Women be talking...

Afterwards it was time to get Sophia, come home, and put up my new "closet"! 

Since we are living with my parents at the moment, we are basically living in 2 bedrooms. One bedroom has our beds, and the other is a big closet/living room/man cave. We have a lot of stuff packed into this "all-inclusive" bedroom and it has been functional to the minimum. Gymnastic moves and hurdles were needed just to get dressed every morning. 

With two bedrooms, that means two closets. The girl's clothes are taking up one and Angelo's clothes are taking up the other. That leaves my clothes with no where to live... The solution to this problem has been portable clothing racks. I bought one at Target for $20 and the other day I noticed it leaning heavy towards one side. If a bookshelf (the room is also a library) wasn't there to hold it up, I'm positive it would have already been on the ground. When I tried to fix it, the plastic piece on one side completely snapped apart, alas, sending all my clothes tumbling to the ground. Let me also tell you that this happened LAST WEDNESDAY. So for the past week, all my clothes have been on the floor. 

This is the rickety rack my clothes was slowly destroying. 

Target

Finally on Saturday, I was able to get to Target to buy a new closet. This time I splurged and bought the $60 one with side shelving! Much cooler and so much more exciting than the last. It's stupid how excited I was about this closet system. Well, obviously not THAT excited if it took me another 3 days to set it up. (Never enough time in these days, I tell ya!) I was patiently waiting for Angelo to do it, but that never happened... :)

So I am happy to show off my newest pride and joy... this closet system. If you live in a studio apartment, you may be familiar with these.

Target

I should have taken pictures of it in the room to show you the masterpiece! I did on Snapchat, but that's no good for this blog post. Use your imagination and hopefully I'll get some pictures of our living situation on here to show you what we're working with.

This leaves me to tell you the current situation with our new home build. The property we purchased to build a home is in a small "equestrian" neighborhood, therefore, we have a HOA. The HOA denied our house plans on Friday. Something about the garage being a certain way and blah blah. Give me a break...
Our builder, Kevin, is drawing up some options for us...and that's the latest in the "Building a New Home" saga.

XOXO