Finally..!

Well, we are finally in our house!! After 1 sweet month of waiting we finally closed on June 30th, the last day of our home loan interest rate, the last day we qualified for the homeowners tax credit and the last day of our sanity. Wednesday afternoon at 4:30pm, also the last closing of the day my husband and I entered a room that was full of papers for my sweet signature. I have to say it was such a rush signing all those papers and then the closing agent handing me an envelope with keys inside. Seriously? this house is ours????? I jumped up and down and screamed.

Although the waiting was hard I must say that we are so blessed. Some people are paying for hotel rooms while we stayed for free at my parents house. Some people crowded their kids in with family and had a miserable waiting period. We had a blast hanging with my parents, going on double dates, swimming in their pool and feeling like we were at a bed and breakfast because of my fabulous mom. Some people after waiting for days, weeks and months didn't close in time or were denied their loan or never found the right house. We finished just in time and couldn't be happier. PTL that everything worked out for the best!!

I am sitting in my new living room and honestly still don't feel like this is our house- I feel so grown-up! I mean this is my house- I live here and I own it!! Obviously I have been married for a year and a half but I must say that buying our first home made me feel very married. I realize this doesn't make sense but I just can't explain it.

I also need you to know that I barely had to move a thing because of my tall, dark, handsome STRONG husband. We hired movers up in FW but since everything was delayed we had to put everything in storage for a month and then on our move-in day some awesome youth guys and the youth director's wife who I absolutely adore came to help and we got it done so quickly- less than 3 hours!! The girls only had to carry the light things because our youth guys were so great!! Thank you moving help, yall were fantastic!!

Since that blessed Thursday afternoon of moving I have been an unpacking machine. I have not started decorating yet because we want to paint and so I don't really want to put holes in the wall for no reason but pretty much everything is in it's place! My family was a huge help and we got it done! Whoo Hoo!!

Ryan left Sunday morning for Student Life Staffers Camp where he is a Rec Leader- Ryan has never been to SLC and he had no idea what was in store but I took him down memory lane to fully prepare him and he is having a blast! One funny story for you about camp... he is in charge of water tug-of-war and for fun decided to help out one of groups- while pulling as hard as he could on the rope he ripped his swim trunks. in half. down the front. in front of elementary students. Luckily no one saw and he was able to hobble back to his dorm room to change but the youth group knows and are totally teasing him. It's hilarious!

Anyway, while he has been gone I have been spending tons of time with my girls!! 4th of July was funny this year, my sister and I decided to be total bums since it there was a monsoon and we watched movies all afternoon and then took a night swim at our parents house. We have always loved sparklers so we watched the fireworks at the waterway here in the woodlands and had a blast with our sparklers. We had a blast and it was so relaxing. Monday my family and I swam all day and grilled out and then that night my friend Laura came to visit! She was my first sleepover in the new house and we had so much fun! We went to eat at Lupe's just to be disappointed by it closing early and so we headed next store to Red Robin... Yum! Then we came back to the house and stayed up way to late laughing and it was totally worth it! Then Tuesday we woke up and I worked and then we did lunch and she headed out! Tuesday afternoon my sis and I hung out for a while and then my friend Dana that I used to work with came over and we ordered a pizza, watched movies and stayed up way to late as well- we had such a blast!

This afternoon I enjoyed a much needed massage! Ryan demanded that I get one while he was gone because when I went tubing a few weeks ago I got a tad banged up and for some reason my back has not been the same... moving didnt really help and all the unpacking has taken a toll so I took Ryan's advice because come on, what girl wouldnt go get a massage?? I am now exhausted and just got back from dinner with my sister and Charish and think I am going to go to bed before 11 because the last 2 nights have worn me out!! I am so excited for Ryan to come home tomorrow! I have missed him so much and can't wait to hear more funny camp stories!! This weekend is going to be fabulous because my FW besties are coming to visit!! Can't wait to see them!! Yall have a great week and thanks for reading my random thoughts!! :-)