I know, I know, I've really been neglecting this blog & all of you, but it's only because I've been sooo busy the past few months!! We've had so many big changes & so many exciting things happening in our lives together. To try to get you caught up, I'll start with the fact that we started house hunting in the beginning of Sept. We weren't planning on starting to hunt so soon, but the prices are sooo good & we really didn't care for living in the apt. complex we were in. So we found a bunch of houses we wanted to see, contacted a realtor, & went to go check them out. We found OUR house the first day we were out & put an offer in that night. We still did quite a bit of searching to make sure it was "the one", but we couldn't find one better for us than this one. So we put an offer in Sept. 13th, got a counter offer the 14th, then got our counter offer accepted on the 17th. We were sooo excited, yet nervous! What do we do now? We've never gone through any of this before & our parents were over 2300 miles away, haha. Somehow we managed & got things figured out to be able to close Oct. 20th & start moving in! Of course this meant we had to get out of our lease for the apt. & take care of getting everything switched as well. All of this was happening so fast, we didn't even have time to really think & let it all sink in. And on top of all of this, my parents were coming to visit Nov. 1st-11th, so we had to prepare for that. But everything worked out & it was a blessing to get this gorgeous house we love & to be able to accommodate our guests better.
And here's a little peek at what else happened the past few months...I'll let some of the pics speak for themselves. My friend Jenn's bachelorette outing w/the girls (Oct. 9th)
Jenn & CJ's wedding day (Oct. 23rd)
Me w/some of the Nestie girls
Dad & Mom's arrival (Nov. 1st), which included lots of travels & exploring during the week:
a trip to the Phoenix Zoo, the AZ Science Museum, hiking at Papago Park, 2 days at the Grand Canyon, the Desert Botanical Garden & some other fun things, since this was my parents' first time in AZ.
Me at the Grand Canyon
The 4 of us at the Desert Botanical Garden
hiking into the Grand Canyon (Nov. 5th)
And here's a little peek at what else happened the past few months...I'll let some of the pics speak for themselves. My friend Jenn's bachelorette outing w/the girls (Oct. 9th)
Me w/some of the Nestie girls
The 4 of us at the Desert Botanical Garden
plus some other fun things! Whew! I'm sure I've missed some things, but at least you get an idea of what we've been up to lately. Now that I'm caught up here, I'm hoping I can keep up with this better, but we'll see how it goes.