Houses, Haircuts and Hangovers

We got it! We got the perfect little house! I'm beyond thrilled. Last night we went over to meet the owners and it has so many great features that we weren't even aware of! The entire house and backyard is wired for surround sound (major bonus for the hubs!), they are leaving us ALL of the pool supplies so don't need to buy more, there are fans outside operated by a remote, a greenhouse (even though I'll probably kill everything in it), sprinklers set on timers, an alarm system that includes the garage...The house is ah-mazing! Both sides are super motivated to make the transition. We have an inspector going out there at 9 am. I asked if we could move in with them until they have time to move out...they didn't go for it.

I took Macee to be groomed for the first time yesterday and she doesn't even look the same! I think the second picture looks like a puppy mugshot! Haha! I didn't want to get rid of her super cute hair but I felt bad because she could hardly stand to be outside. I'm definitely going to have to keep her short during the summers.

      

Last night we went out for $2 margaritas again...Not a good idea. I think I was so excited about the house and so happy to see my friends again and I had way too much to drink...and I'm feeling it now. No more cheap tequila for me!

Will someone please just make this happen!

NEWS FLASH: Husband and I just put an offer on another house! I'm so excited but I'm really trying not to get my hopes up. I think circumstances with this one are a little different because the  house is actually built so hopefully everything will work out for us. 

We thought we were not ready to make the move out of the city but decided here recently that maybe we are more ready than I thought. There are quite a few nice suburban areas outside of Houston -- especially in West Houston -- but when it came down to it for me, I knew what area we wanted to be in. I really didn't want to move out to the west side because I want to be close to my family. Especially when we have kids! So we made an offer on a house, with a pool and jacuzzi!, in a town just a few minutes north of my family! I'm so excited -- the house is absolutely perfect! Hardwood floors, 4 bedrooms three and a half baths, two car garage and brick carport, great neighborhood, great school district (for the kids people can't see me raising), big yard for the pups. It's love...

This is me not getting my hopes up...

Bobby is working on the last few details of everything and hopefully we can close soon. 

So, say a little prayer for us that things will work out this time! 

Curbow's Out!

I did it. I skipped workout class to drink! It was a blast! I went with my sister and one of her best friends and we had a great time chatting and catching up. And guess what I forgot...MY CAMERA! As usual!

Well, it other and BIG news. Bobby and I decided to back out of our house. We are supposed to schedule in 16 days and they won't give us a completion date on the house. They are pushing our closing date which will cost us a lot of money that we don't want to spend. Also, I've been really, really stressed about this decision. Yeah, I was excited because the house was bad a** but I pretty much made the decision on my own and I really wasn't ok with that. Bobby doesn't want the house because it's really expensive and I would have to work. He wants me to stay home or work in Houston where I will be closer to home and have more flexibility. (on that subject -- I'm at a loss as to what to do!)

I've only been here for 6 weeks so I don't feel like it's appropriate to leave but would love to find something in Houston, closer to home, with more  flexibility and WAY more money. Seriously, I get paid pennies.

Tips, words of advice, encouragement...all happily accepted. 

Tonight is back in the swing of things. We thought Zumba was tonight but it's Friday so it looks like running and weights. Unless we do Core Cross Training...I have NO idea what that is though and I think it's the scary blonde German lady...who I will definitely dedicate a post to soon!

Who Knew Working Out Could Be So Much Fun

Lately I've been totally inspired. I'm kinda weird when it comes to working out. It's really hard for me to get into it when I take time off but once I do, I actually really enjoy it. Like REALLY. One of new favorite blog reads is The Fitnessista. She seriously has me wanting to quit my job and be a fitness trainer. Check out her blog for training tips and healthy (delicious-looking) recipes!

Yesterday I mentioned that my sister and I were going to take a Zumba class...Well, we did and ohmygosh was it fun! It was really hard to keep up with the instructor and for a little minute there I was wondering when they were going to bring out the poles and 4" heels, but it was a blast! We had such a good time I think we are going back on Thursday. It's not an insanely hard workout, though we both thing that if we could actually have kept up with her, it would have been harder.

Tonight we are going to do either kickboxing or spin class. Not sure which one but I think it's going to be spin -- and maybe the ab class before it. 

Things are going full speed ahead on the house! We've scheduled the inspector and appraisal for next weekend and we close in 17 days! I can't believe it's so close! We are really excited to be our little city dwelling. We talked about buying in a suburb of Houston but realized we are SO not ready for that. We both really want to enjoy the city while we can and have both always wanted to live in this area. I'll be so excited once everything finally comes through. I'll be back up there Saturday morning so hopefully I can get some almost done pics of the house to post. 

I'm so excited for the weekend! We are finally having my cousin's graduation party so that will be so much fun! Is it sad that I'm wishing away the next few weeks of my life?

By the way -- thanks for all of your sweet comments yesterday. If you couldn't tell, I was so excited that it required a second posting in one day!

No, I didn't Die...I became a grown up!

What a week this has been! Spent the weekend in NY with some of my best friends ever, ate too much, walked too much, and had too much fun! Seriously, I didn't want to come home, I wanted to tell Bobby to just move up there. The weather was absolutely perfect! I'm a rare person that detests summer. I hate sweating when I walk to my car, there is just something unnatural about that. But in NY it was probably 73 the entire weekend = PERFECT!

Here are a few pictures of my wonderful trip!

This is my new favorite picture of Ginny

Us girls out on the town

Me and G at Serendipity for her Bday snack

This is my sweet friend KBiggs that we went to visit

And this is me...begging for a job.

So in other and awesome news, WE BOUGHT A HOUSE! Can you believe it!? They are townhouses, 2,2 1/2, roof top terrace, patio off the living room and outside patio on the first floor. Best part, we have a very small grassy area and we DONT have to the lawn! OR take out trash! I didn't get very good pictures so you'll have to check out the website, hopefully I can run back over to take some more but here are a few.

Sideways picture of my amazing shower/bathtub

Rooftop Terrace

Kitchen with my sales lady in the way and no appliances yet...

View from the terrace

Ahhh, it's love....

So, I am forced to comment on American Idol. I am so happy that Kris won! Yea, Adam was good, but I would actually buy a Kris Allen CD. My nephew, on the other hand, was an Adam/KISS fan...Check out this video of him.

Finally, I know I'm supposed to announce the winner of the giveaway today, but I've decided to push it back a week. So, tell your friends and be sure to enter as many times as possible!

Puppies & Photo Shoots!

All I'm going to say about yesterday is thank you. I appreciate your responses, and I refuse to be negative or sad anymore.


So, the house hunting was no bueno! The house was surprisingly ugly! It was really old and need way too much work, and if you don't know, I'm so not a mrs-fix-it. Neither is the hubs! My stepmom, dad and brother went with me to look at it and I wish I could have recorded my dad! He was so funny telling the poor guy everything that was wrong with the house! I think my brother got a little embarassed.


After the house hunting, we stopped by my cousins house. And I re-thought the idea of having kids. Her son was literally jumping on me. From the couch to my back. The little girl was basically performing some kind of "mokey-see, monkey-do" routine because then she started! It's no wonder we hadn't seen them in a while. To give her credit, she does have 3 kids under 5 years of age! Isn't that crazy? I have to admit, I did want mine all back to back though. Not so much anymore.


Today, Jaci had to go to the vet to get her teeth cleaned. She's hilarious. She thinks the vet is punishment. So, this is my little drama queen after I brought her home.


I couldn't resist and I had to get one of Macee, too. I love this because she running around trying to get Jaci to play with her and she was really tired and thirsty but looks like I'm smothering her. What can I say, I love my babies!

We also had a photoshoot today at work. It was lots of fun. About a week ago I got to spend a day shopping for white on white china patterns that we thought were nice. So, we picked a few and held the shoot today. We had thousands of dollars worth of luxury china and only managed to break one teacup. I was impressed. It was really funny because the three of us from the magazine were all in the midst of a breakdown and the photographer, who does amazing work, was so calm and collected. I guess it wasn't her behind on the line for breaking the borrowed china though...

XOXO,

Stevy

Mama Drama

Well, I did have a good post today about my driving experiences in Houston and some cool photo-shoot stories, but that's to be delayed. I had quite the conversation with my mother today. You see, Bobby and I are looking to buy a house somewhere in the Houston area. We will be first-time buyers are really excited. Since we'll be moving around for a few more years we are just looking for a sort-of starter-home in a nice area. Being that Bobby is in Mississippi, I am having to look on my own. I found a great house that I really wanted to check out. It's a for-sale-by-owner and the owner is a man, so, obviously I didn't want to go alone. I thought that this being our first home, it would be something a mom would like to tag-along to. So I called and asked my mom if she wanted to go sometime this week (not: could she go, and I didn't specify a day). She didn't say, "Well, I took today off to spend the day at the house, can we go later this week." or "Well, I really just wanted to say in today." Nope. She said "You know, I never ever get a day off and now that I have one, you want me to drop everything to go with you. I am never at the house by myself. Ever." So, hearing the anger, I guess, in her voice, I said, "mom, you don't have to yell, I didn't even say today, I said this week. But it's fine. I'll get someone else to go." And she got mad at me! UGH! I thought she would want to go though. I mean, I have tons of family that would go and when I told my grandma about it yesterday,she offered to go. I just thought it would be fun to have my mom come and spend some time and maybe do dinner after. Then she sent me an email to tell me that I only call or come over when I want something and that we never do anything together.

I just get so upset because she does this, then apologizes and I have to forgive and forget, she is my mom. But then it happens again. Now she's calling and calling and I don't want to deal with it and I don't know what to do. It's just not fair and I wouldn't let anyone else treat me this way. I understand people have bad days and she's probably in menopause, but I don't think I should catch the wrath of that for trying to spend time wtih her. I'm not usually a very sensitive or emotional person, I like to have control over that, but I am literally a mess right now! I'm just confused and hurt. But, hey, it happens to the best of us, I guess! I'm not really sure if this is something I should be writing about or not, but you ladies are always so supportive and encouraging. So, hopefully this won't come back to bite me in the behind!

Sorry for the depressing post. Sometimes you just gotta vent. On to happier and more sarcastic things tomorrow!

Also, I'm thinking about doing a giveaway for my 100th post. Any ideas, suggestions or tips? Comment or email me!

XOXO,

Stevy

AAAHHHH!

Today's house hunt was a total disaster! I had to cut it short! So, yesterday this realtor sends me a list of houses and I decide to check out the outside and the neighborhoods to see if they are even worth dragging the hubs to. So I load up my girls (mistake #1) and hit the road. I've got an iPhone so I use that as my GPS. I had 10 houses that I wanted to check out today. That was my goal. However, out of 6, I could only find 1! The entire time I was driving, Chloe (the baby) was barking. Loudly. Jaci wasn't much better. She was whining the entire time!! They were driving me insane! 

While I was driving, I saw like 5 GORGEOUS houses for sale. I called to see if the owners would consider renting and, of course, they said no. When I proceeded to ask the realtors if they had any homes for rent, they told me to look on the internet or in the paper. Um, duh!  Excuse me for not having $500,000 to drop on a house I'm only going to live in for six months! So I gave up on the other 4 and went back to the hotel. 

I'm emailing back and forth with a realtor right now to see if she has anything. Her response was that she had one. One house.  That's all. And she only deals with rentals. I'm about to go check it out. I don't think we're going to get a pool or the lake...

XOXO,

On The Hunt!

I'm just getting ready to head out (get lost) to a few surrounding towns and look houses! I'm excited. However the place the hubs works seems to be ghetto country. You know, lots of "New and Beautiful Double Wides!", big tires in the yard, red barns; basically a Trace Adkins song. 

However, I've managed to find some really nice ones. My husband really wants to live on the lake, I really want a house with a pool. We don't have a boat and I'm not about to float around in a lake so, we'll have to see what I can find. Hopefully something that will please us both. I'm going to check out neighborhoods today before I make appointments to see the actual houses with the realtor. I don't want to have to be like, "Um, yeah, lets move on to number 15 because I ain't about to have them as my neighbors!"

So, wish me luck ladies! I forgot my camera cord back in Shreveport but hopefully I can post some photos next week!

XOXO,