When we were looking for a house, folks kept asking us "Why do you want a house so badly? What's so bad about the apartment?" to which I would inevitably reply, "Dude...why are you so nosy? You don't know my life!" Okay, no, I didn't really say that.
I always said the main reason we wanted a house was so we could have space to let more people into our lives. Let them stay with us, eat with us, break things, see how messy our kitchen can get, be disgusted when they see a cockroach in our house, ya know...the usual.
Little did I know just how much we would use our house in this way. Since we've moved in, we've had about 2846234 overnight guests and 4123423 dinner parties.*
*Numbers are approximate.
No, but seriously, we've had a lot of things happen in our house since we bought it. Here's some highlights:
- 60 people coming over for our housewarming party (Our house has never seemed smaller than that day!)
- 10 teenage girls spending the night (complete with ding-dong-ditching done by 10 teenage boys at midnight)
- 6 foster kittens for 2 weeks
- 1 foster dog for 2 weeks (complete with accidents in 3 rooms of the house)
- 1 bachelorette party at our house
- 6 friends spend the weekend with us for a wedding
- 1 sister stay with us for the weekend
- 1 family stay with us for vacation for a week
- 3 cockroaches and 1 large spider found (iiiiicccckkkkk!)
- 3 small group meetings (complete with kids/teenagers trying on my clothes and makeup)
- 4 groups of friends over for dinner
- 1 life-size rastafarian banana stay with us for a week
- 2 grandmas over for dinner
- 1 guys' video game night
- countless hang out sesh's (sesh-es?)
- 2 weeks of Insanity workouts in our empty living room
It has been 4 months (whoa, already?), but it feels like every day something new is happening at our place. And I gotta say, I love it.
If you're a "visual learner" (aka too lazy to read), here's some photo updates:
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| Girls at the wedding |
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| So good to see friends from Illinois! |
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| Our foster puppy, comfortably sleeping on my previously perfectly folded clean laundry. "Why didn't you put it away the night before?" you ask? Because I'm not that smart, that's why. |
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| A photo from downtown Chicago, while I was on a business trip last month. It was HOT! |
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| Our first fig harvest is underway! So far, I've made 2 batches of jam... |
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| Matt at a local festival. They had tons of cool cars. |
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| They even had a LOTUS! In Smithfield! |
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| I had the opportunity to participate in "Bright Beginnings" with Smithfield, where I went shopping with this cool 10 year old for new school clothes and supplies, which were free to her. Her name is Asia, and her favorite movie is Madea Goes to Jail. My kinda girl. |
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| I love my new(ish) breadmaker! It makes all kinds of yummy things. |
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| I finally got around to buying new shades for and spraypainting some old lamps my mom gave me multiple years ago. They look so much better! |
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| Because I know you were wondering what the "life-size Rastafarian banana" looked like... |
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| Some of the girls and I hanging at the bachelorette party |
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| The dessert table. The banner I made says "Miss to Mrs" |
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| Matt and I hanging out at the rehearsal dinner |
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| College Housemates reunited! |
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| 3 seconds before that group photo. |
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| More college housemates and close friends. |
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