A Preview Of Our Home

Our New Address. 210 Sweetbay Drive!

A view of the front Garage/Dukes new hangout spot.

Backyard Attic. We have future plans of closing this in and making a bonus room up here. But for now, reeeaallly great storage!

Office looking out on the backyard.

Spare Bedroom (this room is still a work in progress)

Hall Bath (also a work in progress)

A view of the Living room from the hall (sorry for the weird shadows).

A view of the living room from the front door.

Living room from in front of the fire place looking at the front door.

Front Foyer area.

Formal Dining room.

Eat-in kitchen area.

A view of the kitchen from the dining room.

Master Bedroom (it was hard to get a good shot, so here's one of our bed:-) ).

Master bath (also a hard one to get a good shot of. It's actually a lot bigger than this picture shows).

I'm sorry for the poor picture quality and bad picture angles, but this has taken me over an hour to upload these photo's so it's gonna have to do for now. I'm gonna try to get some photo's on here of the lake area across the street, but just didn't have time today. Enjoy!

Pics to Come, I Promise.

So I know that it has been over a month since I've posted a blog, but life in our house has been pretty hectic lately. Let me just recap the past few months for you: At the end of May/First of June, Josh and I went on a vacation to TX with my sister and brother inlaw (Adam and Bentley and the girls) and spent a week there on the South Padre Island beach. It was alot of fun, but like all (and I do mean ALL) of our trips that involve flying, our flight to TX was delayed a day (no, not an hour, a day). Of course that meant spending the night on a couple of comfy cotts with some airplane plankets in the Dallas Fort Worth airport (wouldn't have it any other way!). But hey, it wouldn't be a trip without airport/flight drama would it?
As soon as we arrived home from our week in TX we started our hunt for houses. We had decided that we were ready to settle down somewhere and it just seemed like, despite our efforts of searching for Josh a new job elsewhere, God just wanted us to settle down right here in Maylene/Alabaster, Alabama. Now that we've let ourselves accept it, this place really feels like home to us and we wouldn't have it any other way.
After about 3 weeks of solid house hunting and praying, we finally found a house that we both really liked and found at peace about. After all, this is supposedly one of the biggest decisions/purchases you make together as a married couple, so we were not taking it lightly in the least! The next step of course was to put in an offer (which of course was imbarrassingly low, but ya never know right?), the sellers came back with a counter offer that of course we didn't accept, and we came back to them with our final offer. Offer accepted! Annnnd yada yada yada...we closed on the house about a month later, moved in about 2 weeks after that, and the rest is history.
Point of the post is: We are now homeowners (YAY!!), and it is my plan to have pictures posted of it least most of the house sometime over the weekend. There are still some rooms that need to be painted (the old home owners were ever so gracious to leave us with screaming bright blue and lavender) but we're working on that as we have time. Keep a lookout!