What I Love Wednesday...

I have been wanting to do a What I Love Wednesday Post again so today is going to be the day!

I am loving the fact that we could be closing on our first home in less than 6 weeks! :)

We heard back from the bank (PTL!) and accepted their counter offer.

Now, we are in the last little home strech with home inspections, surveyors, and waiting to close!

I am sooooooooooo very excited about this.

From the very beginning of our house search, we kept coming back to one of the first ones we looked at. We both have pictured ourselves there and are SO extremely excited to settle in and make it ours!

I am loving finding decorating & diy ideas on Pinterest...

I am loving the fact that the Lord has provided a JOB for me!

I will be working as the Corporate Sales Manager for Doubletree here in ATL.

I start next week and again be among the world of the employed! :)

I am also loving the fact that soon I get to experience the employee store at the Chico's distribution center. After being a very patient wife (haha) and not bothering my husband with taking me because he has been working hard & learning I decided that I can't wait any more & that I HAVE to go...I can't wait to see the deals and hopefully get some new things for my new job!

I am also loving the fact that I am going to be on beautiful Pensacola beach for a week with my family in a week and a half. I can't hardly handle my excitement!!

And lastly I am loving my wonderful, supportive husband. His contstant jokes sometimes drive me a bit up a wall, but there is no other person I would rather share life with. He is a blessing from the Lord and I am so thankful for him. I really think we should start having a romantic date night once a week just like the Bachelorette (minus the group crazy Thai boxing dates). Wouldn't that be amazing if you could just fly across the world for a night, have an incredibly romantic date, and come back home? Yes please. :)

Hope everyone has a great Wednesday!

Request to Blog

So on a 3 way call last night with my mom and sister I was requested to blog.


Me: "But I'm in a blogging slump....I don't have a job yet and I don't do anything all day long. I haven't taken any pictures in a month! What should I blog about?"

Emily: "Blog about your funny phone interview, about having no internet and TV for three months, about Matt not thinking your chairs have potential, about TRADER JOE'S....write about how you got organic food at WALMART prices!!"

Me: "Okay, Em...do you just want to blog for me?"

Emily: "No but when I check your blog I want to see something new, not "Slacker to the max" which is right after the picture of Atlanta (She then proceeds to list the most recent posts in order which they show up).."

Me: "Aww Em you are such a loyal blog follower"

Mom: "I check it all the time too....I just checked it today."


Well, here goes nothin you two :)....I think I am just going to do some bullets and hopefully it will be interesting. If not, my family will still read it as loyal blog stalkers. :)

• I am very much ready for a job. I know, I know, I should be enjoying time where I don't have to worry about working every day but I am desperate to be a part of the working world again. For normalcy. I am probably going to regret this thought by the end of my first week of work but it's my thought for now. :)
  



• Matt was out of town this week and I may have watched the first 3 seasons of Boy Meets World on DVD while he was gone. Don't judge.
  



• Trader Joe's is pretty much the most amazing grocery store I have ever been in. It is all organic but so totally cheap! Even though it is kind of far from where we're at, it is still worth waiting in stopped traffic on I-85 for the awesome food. :)





• A short sale is ANYTHING BUT SHORT. Ugh, I wish I were on an episode of "Property Virgins" on HGTV where Sandra comes back in the room after a short commercial break to tell the homebuyers that their offer has been accepted! So. Not. Real. Life. We put in an offer on our house 2 weeks ago and haven't heard anything from the stinkin bank.




• We have found a wonderful church that we love! We have joined the Young Couples community group and are so excited to start getting plugged in. This is such an answer to prayer. :)



• We currently don't have internet or cable at the apartment we are renting while waiting on the house contract. My very financially responsible husband doesn't want to sign a year long contract if we won't be able to transfer it to a house. I understand. But it has made the whole not having a job yet thing just a teensy bit more difficult. But, I am not complaining. It actually has been good for me to detox a little bit from blogs and facebook and spend time outside, working out, and in the word. And then when I need my fix, I go to Starbucks or our apartment clubhouse and soak it up.

Speaking of which, I think this is all of the blogging I can handle in Starbucks sitting right next to very loud french (or some other language) women with the internet going in and out and the little cute Starbucks man sweeping under my feet. But I did it!

You're welcome Emily Beth! :) Love you all....have a wonderful weekend.

Slacker to the Max

Mattypookins & I at Fort Yargo State Park here in ATL.

I make no excuses for not posting like I said I would. Lies, lies, I tell you! Just waiting until I actually had something to share I guess. :) And there are a couple updates but I don't want to post them just yet. Sorry! :)

Life is beginning to feel less like a vacation and more real here. God has been so faithful in putting the pieces together for us here and we are so grateful. Matt and I have been praying for some really hard & tough things that have been going on with family & friends it makes praying for things like finding a job and buying a house seem so trivial.

But I was talking to my sister today and as I said the above statement, I realized that God wants us to come to Him with everything. The little. The big. The hard. The deep. The seemingly trivial. The sad. The happy. He wants us to involve Him in our lives so we can experience true joy & fullfillment. He already knows everything that is going on but recieves SUCH glory when we bring things to Him.

Thank you, God, for loving us and caring for every tiny aspect of our lives.

So, I really don't have that much to share right now and I don't have more pictures. But we're enjoying life and soaking up all that God has for us in this new phase of our lives.

Have a great weekend guys! :)

We're Here!

Sorry for the lack of updates lately.

Between wonderful sweet goodbye dinners, training my replacement at work (who also happens to be my dear friend), packing, and uprooting our whole lives....we have been busy beavers to put it lightly.

It was definitely bittersweet saying goodbye to such an incredible family of believers & our dear friends that we made in Tallahassee. We were blessed with people who came along side of us and loved & cared for us. We truly felt their outpouring of love in how we left Tallahassee. Thank you to all of you who invited us over for dinner, helped us clean (Ash you get a special shout out :)), and prayed for us.

Matt and I love you so much and we will not forget our first home city! :)

And we'll be back for an awesome football season come September...GO NOLES!

I can say, though, that in every way the Lord has affirmed this next step in our lives. We are in such a fun, wonderful & new season of life! :) I have a wonderful husband who loves me and shows it on a daily basis. I serve a great God who is paving the way for us and already has our lives planned out. Life is good but more importantly GOD is good.

I'll try to update you on our house hunt that is coming along quite nicely.

:)