September 29, 2009

Florida Fun!

Once again I'm a little late at posting this, but I wanted to share a fun little vacay Dan and I took this summer. Dan had to do some training in Fort Meyers, Florida for work, so we thought it would be fun if I tagged along! It was especially fun for me- because I spent the entire time chillin on the beach while Dan was in meetings. But as soon as he was done we would party it up!
This is the AWESOME view from our hotel room:

In the evening, sting rays would come right up to the shore!



We had so much fun... I'm hoping for another business trip in the near future! :)

September 22, 2009

It's FINISHED!!!

(Drum rolls please) For those of you who haven't seen yet- here is the finished product!! Ok, so this post is a little late. The house has been finished for awhile. But at least I'm getting around to it, right? After a VERY long and stressful few months, our "little" project was finally completed. Whew! Here are a few pics of the stages the exterior went through:




I never had a chance to blog throughout the building process, because we literally had no spare time. None, zilch, zero. Every spare second was spent at the house- tiling, painting, building a deck, landscaping, and all the other random stuff we naively thought would be easy to do ourselves. We'd usually crawl into bed around 12 or 1, and wake up around 5 or 6. Let's just say we learned a lot of new skills and lessons throughout this project! Mainly, that it's worth the extra money to just pay someone to do it!! :)

Although we had a lot of "situations" happen that weren't quite planned for... like when renting a tractor cost us an extra thousand dollars because we broke it... (whoops!) or when countless subs charged way more than was quoted... or when I lost my wedding ring working on the house...and many more, it was such a great experience. We grew together, learned how to work together, and have such a better relationship for it! I truely am so grateful for this huge blessing in our lives!

But, as Julie so correctly put it: we are now officially 30 years in debt.
Ah, the American Dream.