Happy Wednesday. I’m answering the top five questions that I had as a first-time home buyer. But first, some housekeeping. If you haven’t read (or watched) The Bachelor, you can read my recap here. This is my second week back to work after a glorious week-long hiatus during Christmas week. And I’m hitting the ground running. This week, I’m prepping…
How is everyone’s Tuesday going so far? Mine if off to a great start. I have a cup of my matcha (I went with an organic matcha this morning), and I’m ready to get through these last four days before my week off! Aaron is in Austin today for one of the companies he consults for. I used to live…
I had so much fun decorating our new house this year. Nothing makes me more happy than putting on some Christmas music – and pulling out years of cherished memories packed away in my Christmas boxes. I’m here today with a Christmas home tour of our new home. Since we are in a new house this Christmas, I got to…
I’m here today with a house update. I mentioned in yesterday’s post that our dining room table finally arrived. This table had been on back order since September. Here is what our dining room looked like with the prior owner’s furniture. Now, we have a similar rug, which is a couple of years old. It used to be in our…
When Aaron and I first got married, things were super busy. I had just receive a promotion at work and started about two weeks before the wedding. We moved about a month before the wedding. And Aaron’s business was still relatively new, so he was working 24/7 (you can read more about what we both do for a living here).…
When Aaron and I bought our house, we weren’t quite sure when our exact closing date would be. Your lender won’t give you the “clear to close” until a couple of days prior to the actual closing date. As soon as we received the good news from our lender, we put in our 30-days notice with our current landlord. Knowing…
I hope you had a wonderful Halloween weekend, I’m here today to talk about the first three things you need to do before before you buy a house. But first, I want to share some photos from our Halloween weekend. Halloween in the new ‘hood We moved into the new house just about a month ago. At that time, our…
Happy Monday, ya’ll! Hope your week is off to a nice and productive start. The weather is beautiful here in Houston. I think it’s a bit too warm to call it official “Fall weather,” but I guess it will have to do. This weekend was all about assembling furniture, welcoming a houseguest and a really interesting turn of events in…
As I mentioned in my introduction post, Aaron and I just moved from one of those three-story townhomes near downtown Houston. Aside from wanting to actually start building equity in a home (hello, adulting), part of the reason we bought a new home was for my 12-year-old golden retriever. He was having a really hard time going up and down…