Welcome home!

A few months ago we started looking for a house. Rent is expensive and we are going to be here for a while, so we decided to buy. After seeing quite a few houses we put in an offer...

...and that offer was declined.

So we took a few weeks to regroup and started looking again.

One day our realtor sent us a listing for a house in the neighborhood we wanted to live, for the best price we have seen! So we looked at it, loved it, and put in an offer.

Then during our anniversary weekend, we fond out that WE GOT THE HOUSE! Eric and I are both overly excited!

Today was our inspection, so I went and took a few pictures (the owners still have some things to move out).

Front yard

Back yard
Living room/dining room
Kitchen
Master bedroom
Master bath
Guest room #1
Guest room #2 (soon to be man-cave, so I've been told)
Hall bathroom

We love our little 3 bedroom, 2 bath, fenced yard house! We close in mid-January and will be moving in!

Come visit!

Crafting fool

My crafting life goes through peaks and troughs- sometimes I can't glue cotton balls on construction paper to save my life...and other times I have cranked out 4 scrapbooks, curtains for the living room, and a new dress by noon. Over the past few weeks I have been in full craft-mode!

Backstory: Eric's sister is giving us our FIRST NEPHEW in January!!! We are excited to welcome baby Will to the Hildebrand family!

Most of my crafting had been centered around him. Months ago when we found out Will was on his way I bought some fabric with the intentions of making something...what the fabric would become was to be determined.

So I finally got the sewing bug and sat down to work. And about 30 minutes into sewing, my machine BREAKS!!! I usually can troubleshoot my sewing machine, but this was beyond me. Off to the doctor it goes.

Fast forward a week and I'm sewing again.

And here is what I made...

Burp cloths

Baby blankets

I cannot wait to give these to Will! Come quickly January!!!

Unable to resist making something for my fur babies, I made then some harnesses. I think it dresses them up a little more than a collar.

Now that I have discovered Pintrest (where have you been all my life!?!?!) I have lots of projects lined up!

Long overdue update

My name is Linda and I'm the worst blogger ever....

But Happy Fall to everyone! We have been going about the typical fall activities...

Pumpkin carving fun for Halloween

How cute are my fur-babies?!

November 20th marked ONE YEAR since Eric and I got married! What a busy/fun/ stressful/ adventurous year we have had! To recap: May 2010-I graduate from Alabama, October 2010-Eric accepts a job in Virginia, November 20, 2010-We get married and go on our honeymoon, mid-December 2010-Eric graduates from Auburn, late-December 2010-We move to the strange land of Northern Virginia, January 2011-We both start new jobs and we are off to the races! Things slowed down a little after that (haha). We learned how to share a space and be married. We have had our ups and downs, but we have made it work. Everyday is a learning experience.

But for our anniversary we went out to a nice dinner at a Churascaria-which is basically and all you can eat meat restaurant. They bring around delicious meats on a sword (can you tell Eric picked this place?). We also exchanged gifts. I gave Eric a Kindle Fire-which he has not put down since! Eric gave me a beautiful pearl and diamond ring.

We went out the day before our anniversary because we both had to work Monday after our anniversary, so when our actual anniversary come we decided to stay home. The night of our wedding we were in our hotel, starving because we didn't actually eat at our reception. So we decided to order Dominos Pizza as our glamorous wedding day meal (the delivery person was someone Eric had worked with there when he was in high school). We decided this would be our anniversary tradition. Dominos pizza!

Of course we dove into our year-old cake that was frozen for us. It was still very good. Way to go whoever wrapped our cake for the freezer!


Next comes Thanksgiving! We stayed in the area since we will be taking a LONG trip to Alabama after Christmas. We went to Maryland to my great-uncle and great-aunt's house. My aunt and cousins were there. We had a great time getting together and STUFFING ourselves with Aunt Nancy's delicious cooking! It wasn't Thanksgiving at Grandma's but it was very close.
I am so thankful to have family not too far away!

Parking attendant

I never pass up an opportunity for a good picture!

My cousins!

Happy Thanksgiving!

That's about everything for this post. There is a lot coming up in the near future so I hope to be blogging more!

Stay tuned for more exciting happenings!