Our new place: Bare Naked

Welcome to our new west coast home! I've been here for exactly a month and since then all of our boxes have come in and so has my hubs!! Here's a look at our place with just a little bit in it on my first night here.

Here's what you see when you first walk in and to the left is the hallway to the bedrooms (please note our current furniture is still camping chairs):

Here's the fireplace in all its glory and the slider to the right which leads out to the porch and storage unit: 

Here's the living room with the first shipment of boxes ready to be unpacked and the little tile patch to the right is the front door: 

To the right of the front door, separated by a 1/2 wall is the dining room and ironically the only room with a ceiling fan: 

This is the kitchen with the laundry room tucked in the back ( I LOVE that we have a washer and dryer now!):

The view from the kitchen (sorry it's a little dark):

The teeny tiny kitchen drawers which don't fit our current silverware/utensil holder so the search begins again for a new one:

The ginormous pantry(YAY!!!!):

The hallway to the bathroom and bedrooms and a coat closet on the right: 

At the end of the hallway there are three doors to choose from - bathroom to the left, master bedroom straight ahead, and spare room to the right:

The bathroom with tons of storage and it connects to the hallway and the master: 

The spare bedroom/office and it's closet: 

The master bedroom with a little bay window: 

The huge master closet: 

I hope you enjoyed your tour of our new place. A lot has changed since we first got here and there is a lot more still to change! Today we'll be putting up our photos and wall decos and we'll hopefully be getting some regular furniture and maybe a little paint soon!! 

P.S. The weather is currently a lovely 66 degrees :)

The big move...

So August 10th was the big moving day and I can honestly say it was much easier than expected. My hubs and bestie took me to the airport to send me off. It was a tearful goodbye which was cut short because my suitcase was 30 lbs. overweight - Yikes! They were able to help me get my luggage to an appropriate weight which helped me put the sadness to the side for the time being. I know that with all of the available ways to contact people these days it'll feel as if I'm still there but I miss them both dearly (not to mention everyone else I left in FL). I am so grateful that I was able to say my goodbye's and leave the apartment packed with just a few things left for Ricky on his to-do list. I was welcomed to the west coast in true Seattle fashion with over cast skies and open arms from my big brother and sister-in-law. I've been hanging at their place for the past few days since they actually have furniture, entertainment, and well food. I will actually be spending my first night in my new apartment tomorrow because I get to pick up the first wave of our stuff from the train station first thing in the morning! I'm so excited to finally start getting the apartment together and making it our own.

For now this is our only piece of furniture...

...it's essential, right? I know it'll come in handy when I get bored and need something to do on the nights when I'm by myself in my empty apartment :) 

Ricky will be here in 14 days and I CANNOT wait! I know that I won't consider our new apartment home until I have him and our furry babies here with me. For now I'll just unpack our boxes, explore a little bit of the city, (of course keeping the good stuff until Ricky joins me) and get some reading done (Thanks to Borders for the great deals!). I hope that things keep going the way they are because I really think I can make it here for a while :) 

Coming up next - a virtual before tour of the apartment...

It has to work out, doesn't it?

"It will all work out" is a typical mantra that we say around here but what happens when it doesn't work out? I've been saying it more recently and I'm not quite sure if I'm believing myself these days. With this move there seems to be so many variables that are stacked like a tower of Jenga - one wrong move and its all going to come tumbling down. How do you keep it from all crashing down? How do you build it back up if it does fall apart? I guess we are just playing a waiting game because every step needs to happen in sequence and the next step has a big hold sign on it. How can I be sure that this too will all work out? I would like an answer sometime around yesterday so I can have the next month or two figured out. I'm the girl who likes to have things planned, things worked out way before they need to be executed plus a backup plan for when "Plan A" falls through therefore this is killing me! I guess I just need to be patient and wait for my hand to be dealt to me...

Maybe this saying will help "If anything can go well, it will."

10.5 years and counting...

Today, the sixteenth of July, marks 10 years and 6 months since my now husband asked me to be his girlfriend. While packing for our upcoming move, I found the note that he "asked me out" in and it's been determined that his spelling and penmanship were not what hooked me ;) It is such a sweet note and brings me back that brisk day in January when all I could do is smile.

Over the past decade we've been through so much, growing up and together while making sure we find ourselves as individuals too. I've been blessed to have the ability to finish my degree and start a career that is also my passion. Throughout my schooling Ricky has been my one of my biggest cheerleaders and always gave the me strength to keep on trucking. We are now moving across the country so he can complete his education and fulfill his dreams. I can only hope that I'll provide him with the same amount of support and encouragement that he has given me all these years.

I can't imagine my life without him and the family that we've created. I know that the future is uncharted territory but I can't wait to discover what is in store for us with him by my side.

Here's to many more decades my love...