Happy New Year!

Wow! What an original and creative post title huh? I am totally ashamed that I have neglected my blog for months and have not posted since September. Life has really just been crazy the past few months. The biggest news to report is that my husband and I bought our first home. We closed on the home November 24th. The few months proceeding that was spent getting the last few items on our credit reports paid and cleared off so that we owed no one anything and all creditors were reporting correctly. Then we began the process of finding a lender and house hunting. It took us about a month and about 50 houses to look at till we found our perfect home. The new house sports 5 bedrooms and 3 baths, a large living room, nice kitchen, a family room in the basement, a kitchenette in the basement, 2 car garage (stockpile!) and a nice fenced in backyard. It had everything we were looking for in a house (except a coat closet and the dining area is a bit on the small size). The day after we closed on our house we were off to California for a family vacation to visit my family (mom, dad, brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews..the works), we had planned and paid for (cash) the vacation before we had even considered buying a house. We had a blast seeing the family, eating at all our favorite restaurants and visiting all our old haunts back in CA. We enjoyed the great weather, the beach, the mountains, Disneyland and all the great shopping. It was nice to visit, but alas California is not for me, too many people, too much traffic and it all just felt very overwhelming. We were in CA for a little over a week and came home to freezing Wyoming and had to get packing and moving.

I was not organized and ready for the move and couple that with not having any real time to re-coop from the vacation the house was a wreck, I did not have a chance to go though everything and weed stuff out before packing and so the moving process has been slow. We spend a weekend solid packing up all the necessities that we would need to live day to day at the new house (major furniture, clothing, kitchen stuff, TV's, computers, bath stuff etc. But we still had (have) stuff over at the house and we have slowly been bringing over stuff everyday a little at a time. Tomorrow Rusty and I are going over to pack up the last bits of stuff (we hope) and begin the cleaning process to get ready to turn over the keys.

Combine vacation+moving+Christmas+kids on vacation = crazy, hectic and chaotic life. The kids go back to school on Monday so maybe we can get back in the swing of things...

So theres my story on why I have not posted to my blog since September...and I am sticking to it!

On to the New Year!