We are buying a HOUSE!!

I'm so excited! and just wanted to share.

I am very excited to share our wonderful news!  We got through negotiations and we are buying a new house!!  I feel like I should wait til closing to share, but I"m so excited.  Here are some photo's.  I copied them off the internet from the realtor, so they are a little blurry enlarged, but you can get the idea.  Here is a link to a U-tube video of the house

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAo3kGjoiLg&feature=related

and for all my card swapping friends, my new address starting in March will be:
18535 Blanca Springs Ct, Humble, TX 77346
Ok, I'm getting ahead of myself.  I should wait til closing to start passing out the address!  We should close somewhere around the beginning of Feb I think.

We have a few things we want to do before moving in. 

 We want to put wood down in the livingroom and dining room area's.
And replace that dining room lighting fixture.  I LOVE the plantation shutters in the dining room and study area's. 

 This my friends, will be my studio!!  I'm sooo excited!  This is a study at the front of the house and we are going to extend the tile into this area and put up french doors at this large opening.  I've been thinking about paint.  I think I'm go to go with 1 maybe 2 walls of RED!!!!  This is the room I am most excited about!!

 Eventually upgrade the counters but there is nothing wrong with these and the cabinets on the other side are 42".  Plenty of room for storage as well as a pantry at the end near the frig.  The great thing is everything is nuetral, so we have a blank canvas to work with!

The hardest part for me will be deciding on paint here.  The breakfast area, kitchen and livingroom are open, so it needs to coordinate.  We are replacing that back door with one tha doesn't have glass so we can install a doggy door.  Oh how I have missed the doggy door we had in Florida.  And the best part ... I want be locked in the house with my daughters 2 cats!  Hmmm, wonder what the odds are of them "getting lost"???  sshhh, don't tell my daughter I said that, teehee.

I'm shopping for a new couch and chair.  Ours are really old.

 This bedroom is huge and I love all the big windows.

There are 2 other bedrooms and another bathroom as well.


This was such a great deal for us in comparison to the house we had in Florida.
I am praising God for this blessing.  I still can't believe the deal we got for a house in this great condition.

Lots to do before moving in!!

The neighborhood is wonderful and the community has a sports complex, which is not a plus for me, but I'm going to let you in on a little secret ... Fred wants to do an Iron Man someday (shhhh don't tell him I let the cat out of the bag).  So the olympic size pool and gym will come in handy for training and he want have to go far.  He had been driving to down town Houston to a park and meeting with a running group.

Thank you so much for letting me share!
Have a great day,
Melisa

Just My Sketches Challenge

Good Morning!  I'm excited to share with you a unique and fun challenge blog today.  Deanne over at Just My Sketches has decided to add a little twist to her sketch challenges that I think you will find is wonderfully creative and different from the other challenges blogs.  She has decided to combine her sketches with MUSIC!!  I thought this was the coolest idea because I LOVE music and listen to it when I'm creating (when I'm not listening to political talk radio).  I'm convinced it makes me more creative.

I have always admired an artist expression through lyrics and have found many songs express perfectly how I feel in a much better way than I could ever express it.  So when I saw an opportunity to apply for this unique challenge blog, I jumped at it!  Guess what?  I made the team.  I'm so excited.  Deanne  will be posting new challenges on the 1st and 15th of the month.  She will post a sketch and a list of songs/lyrics to inspire you.  It could be a central theme or just a couple of words from the song that inspire you.  Check out all the details here :  JUST MY SKETCHES

So I used today's sketch and was inspired by "Put Your Records On".  What a fun song.  For me, it says don't take everything in life so seriously.  Let your hair down, relax, and enjoy yourself every now and then.

And here is my card that expresses that!

I hope you will be inspired and hop on over to the Just My Sketches Challenge Blog and join us!

On a personal note :

We finally had a warm spurt down here in Florida.  It was so nice to open up all the windows and get some fresh air flowing through.  Here is a photo of one of my daughters cats sitting in the window, enjoying the fresh air as well.  I refer to her as "girl cat", teehee.  And yes there is a "boy cat" as well.  I'll have to catch a photo of him as well to post some day.  I think this photo reminds us that our pets can sometimes remind us that we should slow down and take time to soak up some fresh air and sun as well! 

"Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty had of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your cares upon Him, for He cares for you."  1Peter 5:6-7.