Children with Chequebooks: Around This House

For the first time in about six months life is beginning to slow down. I know that sounds dramatic but since May we have had something going on every single weekend. We either have some kind of event, or we're spending time with our friends, or I'm working my other job, or a combination of all three. It's all been great things but I am dang tired.

Looking back on all of that though, I'm seeing that it's been a seriously amazing year. We crossed so many things off our bucket lists when we went to Vancouver and Alaska and bungee jumped while we were there. We went to a magical little treehouse for Jordan's birthday. We completely neglected sleep to make the world's quickest trip to Missouri to visit some beloved friends. I went away for a girl's weekend and was in a wedding. We went on our first trip with Jordan's family to Florida. We got some amazing new tenants and said goodbye to a couple of seriously missed ones. We also repainted the entire rental unit and did lots of updates upstairs and downstairs which meant I finally got the kitchen I'd been dreaming of. All of that makes me find it so hard to believe we've fit that all into one year.

Now that it's all starting to slow down I'm grateful for all that we've done and I'm also grateful for the quiet moments we've stepped into as well.

It's getting mighty cozy over at our house and we're taking advantage of our free time to snuggle on the couch basically 24/7.

Here's what things have been looking like around this house:

<< I've never been more in love with a slab of concrete as I am with my front step >>

<< It may be super dark in the mornings now but it sure it pretty>>

<< Oh my beloved kitchen! My butchers block counter tops and subway tile make me smile. Also we FINALLY got a dishwasher this year and man oh man my life is changed. I am a free woman and Jordan and I are like "well what do we argue about now?!" *Just kidding- kind of* >>

<< I got a new rug this weekend and I'm still not over it.

My living room is finally becoming a place I actually want to spend time. We used to have a GIANT faux leather sectional that bad boy Peter had basically ripped to shreds. Now we have a perfectly sized couch and I have come to claim this as my new reading space>>