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Friday Favorites!

Happy Friday, y’all!  I am beyond thrilled that the weekend starts at 3:00 PM today!  We’ve got a busy weekend planned and the best part is our date night Saturday to The Melting Pot and a movie!  It’s much-needed after adjusting to a new routine with grad school.  Speaking of, I just took my first midterm Wednesday night and made a 92!  Whoop whoop!  With my grades, I’m hoping to get early admittance into a certain class this summer.  So here’s to statistics this summer and hopefully one more class!  Can I go ahead a hire a tutor now for statistics??
 
I’m linking up with Andrea and Erika for Friday Favorites!
Today’s post is all about OUR HOUSE!  It is progressing a lot faster than I had anticipated, and it’s been really fun checking out each stage!  I’ve learned a lot about construction 🙂
 
When we first signed our contract in February!  We had no idea that snow and ice would be delaying our ground-breaking.
Pouring the footer

 

Putting the cinder blocks on the footer (I have no idea what the technical term is–Dustin is at work and I can’t ask him ha)
 

I think it took like 2-3 days for them to frame the whole house!  I couldn’t believe it when Dustin and I drove over one day and saw this!!!

 

This was the day they put the tubs in!  I spent a lot of sleepless nights over these fixtures.  I’m so glad we decided to upgrade to the oil rubbed bronze.  I almost went with a brushed nickel look but I am so not a gray person.  And I realized that I would need to do a grayish-white marble countertop and the antique white cabinets that I wanted were an off-white and wouldn’t go well together.  So we upgraded, and when I saw this, I couldn’t stop talking about it!  Best decision!

 

The view into our master bath.  I went to the house yesterday (and should have taken an updated picture) because there is a pocket door that was installed on the right where the framing stops.  

 

Ahh, I can’t wait to take nightly baths in this beauty!  We opted for a soaking tub instead of whirlpool because of the up-keep.  

 

This is the upstairs bath.  The bathrooms in this house are really great sizes!

 

A view from the front door.  A column is going where that pole is.  We chose an open floor plan so the dining room is open to the living room and the breakfast room/kitchen.  I can’t wait to turn that fireplace on this winter!

 

Whoa!  It went up fast!  Again, I should have taken more pictures yesterday for a better updated post because the brick stacks are placed all around the house along with stacks of shingles.  The front and back doors and windows are waiting in the garage–I’m obsessed with our front door!
 
 
We have prayed and continue to pray over this house.  We pray that we can use it to glorify God–whether we open our home to church groups, church members, or if God is calling us to sell it in a few years and go somewhere else.  We pray for obedience in everything we do.

Our First Place

While I was getting my hair done this morning, I got a phone call from Dustin.  I went ahead and answered it because he was at work and it could have been an emergency (although I felt horrible because it’s rude to talk on your phone while sitting in the chair).  He said he talked with our builder and I had to go pick out our front door.  Panic set it!  My hair stylist is in the middle of building her first home too, so we spent the majority of my appointment talking brick colors and everything that has to be picked out.  I told her that I probably needed to get on it when it came to picking stuff out, but that I just hadn’t.  And then I got that phone call.  So I went to go pick out our front door–I’ll do a post on that later after it gets installed!!  My biggest decision was double front door or single front door with sidelights–ahhh, decisions!!!
 
Okay, so this post isn’t about our new house.  It’s about our current place where we live. I took some pictures of our apartment during the big snow storm because I wanted to document where we spent our first year as husband and wife (and I had plenty of time ha).  I know I’ll love looking back on this and remembering all the fun we had in that little apartment!
 
Looking in from our front door.
Our first big purchase together.  We bought this before we got married and had it shipped to an empty apartment that no one lived in 🙂  I loved picking out the fabrics!  This was taken from the stairs.
An antique dresser that we use as our TV stand.  This was given to us by our school nurse from when we were in high school.  She is wonderful.  The door right behind it leads to a half bath.  Double doors hides the washer and dryer.
 
Our first Craigslist purchase!  Funny story behind that, but we got a deal on this table and chairs.  Also, the pictures on the wall are my absolute favorite and were our first wedding gift from my best friend’s mom aka my second mom.  
 
The kitchen.  I’m sure you can pick out what it my least favorite part of this kitchen.  Thank goodness I only have to look at those counter tops for just a few more months!!!
View from the kitchen island.  See how bright it is outside?  That’s because of the crazy amount of snow outside!
Our stairs leading up to two bedrooms and one bathroom.  I’ve given up on putting a picture in that frame.  I’ll do it when we move into our new house haha
 
They start framing our house tomorrow!!!  I’ll do another update post soon!

Friday Favorites!

I’m linking up with Erika, Andrea, and Narci today for Friday Favorites!

1. Spring break starts today at 3 PM!!!!  I AM SO EXCITED!!!!  The first half of the week is supposed to be beautiful weather, so I’m planning on being outside as much as possible.  We don’t have big plans for spring break–just getting a lot of errands done.  I’m hoping we are able to take one day trip somewhere, though 🙂

2. I started grad school on Monday and this is how I feel about the whole thing:


I’m taking 2 classes this term–one on integrating technology and one that is a foundations class.  These are just pre-requisites before I can get into my actual degree.  I’m getting my masters in Library Media!  It’s been a little overwhelming this week (as in, I had a MASSIVE project due for one class….alone) and I’m not going to lie, lots of tears have been shed.  I think things will get better once I establish a new routine and get used to doing grad school. I thrive in a routine and will just need to make a new one.

3. House Update!

This is what our land looked like when we bought it.  
In the month since we signed our contract, we had snow, extreme cold, ice, and lots of rain. Our lot was empty for what felt like forever.

I went for a run Tuesday afternoon after school and decided to run by our land to see if they had started.  (We like about a mile and a quarter from our new house.)  Once I made the turn into our subdivision, I noticed a cement truck but thought it might be for the house next to us because it is in the process of being bricked.  Nope!!!  They had started on our house!
Tuesday, March 17:
(The back of our house goes past that little green, grassy area.  Look at the footer on the left and you’ll see that it goes farther back.)

 Wednesday, March 18:

We couldn’t get a great picture because of the piles of gravel and sand in front of our house.   We have loved hopping in the truck after supper and driving over to check out the process.  I have a feeling that I’m going to learn a lot about how a house is built!

4. Has anyone seen the movie Cinderella?  I haven’t heard much about it and so I’m wondering if it’s close to the original story–or if they changed it.  I’m planning on going to see it over spring break.

I hope everyone has had a great week!  I’m so ready for spring break to get here–I’m going to get my grad school work for the week done ASAP so I have the rest of the week to do whatever I want!  Then once we start back to school, we’ll be prepping for our state’s standardized test, taking it, and then taking semester exams.  We’ll be out before we know it!