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Sunday, February 20, 2011

Valentine's Day For Me

The first part of my Valentine's Day awesomeness started back in December with me receiving a new Miche diaper bag for Christmas. For those of you foreign to Miche, of which I am now surprisingly a big fan of, it is a purse company which make bags with outer exchangeable shells. I received the base bag and a diaper bag shell for Christmas (the super trendy green one if you actually look at the site) and Danny got me a new superfabatasic shell for Valentine's Day.All of you out there who know me, know that I am not a bag/purse person. I am satisfied carrying the diaper bag that you get for free from the hospital when you have a child. However, these shells make it SO fun to carry a purse. There is a huge variety of shells, and there are several that actually fit my personality and style. Furthermore, they release new shells every month, thus retiring older ones at big discounts :) which takes a way the guilt/qualms I have about spending money on a purse.

O.k. I have rambled enough about the fantastic Miche Bag Co. On to part two. What part two, you might ask, Danny really when above and beyond this year! We acquired an old oak gliding rocking chair awhile back when some neighbors up the street moved out. It was beat up and ready for the Salvation Army as far as I was concerned, but Danny saw potential and decided to fix it up and refinish it. Well, that was months ago and I had forgotten all about the rocker. So, when I got to see it all spruced up and refinished, it just made me deeply thrilled. I have wanted a gliding chair for awhile, and even more since Sarah got one way back when in Ohio. So, this just really made me happy. I don't have any pictures of it yet because I keep forgetting to take some. It is currently in the garage because there is no room in Danny's parents home for it, but soon we will have a home of our own and there will be plenty of space to fill in our new home.

Which, leads me to part three! Not completely related to Valentine's Day, but still has made me recently ecstatic. After months of looking and walking through what seems like hundreds homes - we have finally finished all paper work, loan stuff, grant stuff, home inspections (yada, yada, yada) on our end of everything and are closing on our very first home on March 24! In just a little over a month we will be moving out of Danny's parents house! Even though it has been a great experience and we are grateful and deeply indebted to them, we are so excited to be out on our own again. So, that is the excitement that has been our life for the last little bit. I will post more about this home in the future as things become more solidified. Sometimes, these things can just not work out in weird ways. Right now we feel good about everything so we don't see that happening, but no use getting your hopes up as well as mine if things don't work out :)

3 comments:

Sarah and Troy said...

Yay! Looks like we need to make another trip to Utah.

Kari said...

Yeah to all three!

HeidiPie said...

Sweeet! I'm still checking out the bags...there are so many options. And a rocking chair totally fits a new house...guess you'll have to have a new baby to go with that new rocking chair and new house. =) I'm jealous you're actually "settling down" with a house to call your own and all. I hope the outcome is a great house soon!