Moving

I thought I'd take the time to introduce myself a bit since I'm kinda starting this blog thing over.  

Hi, I'm Aubrey and I live in Fort Collins, CO with my husband and 6 month old little girl. My husband got out of the military in May and we move back home from Hawaii :( I miss it! and we've been staying at my parents house ever since. We've been so thankful to have a place to stay while searching for a place to live since this market is absolutely insane...apparently everyone wants to live here. We didn't qualify for a lot of rentals and the ones we did, would be snatched up before we could even apply. My parents played with the idea of buying a place for us to rent from them but that was even crazier as people were listing way too high and offers were often done in 24hrs and $20,000+ above list. 

Anyways, we were going a little crazy but still knew that God had it handled and we would find the place that we were meant to be in. And then we found our cute little townhouse!! It's a little more than we'd like to pay and the cabinets are in pretty rough shape but we have everything we need, it's the perfect amount of space, there are some really fun features and our landlord is super cool.

Our movers are coming tomorrow and I am so excited!! I can't wait to get in and set everything up and decorate again. I'm sure it will be quite the adventure with a little baby rolling around...like today when I hauled in a vacuum and bags with her in the carrier up those stairs. I probably was quite the sight. And I will be honest...

I struggle with wanting everything to be done right away. Which makes me lose the value and fun of the process which, I think I love the most. I'm not sure if it's anxiety or expectations or what but I don't want to rush it this time. I'm really trying in this house to simplify. I only want what is useful or beautiful to be there. If I'm getting it just to fill a space...I don't want to get it. I'm trying to really work on just being. And if we don't need it, then I don't buy it!!!

I'm interested to see how all of our ragtag furniture will fit inside this house. Thankfully, we have a garage if something doesn't work. Those items will probably get makeovers and get sold just an fyi ;) I'm excited to make this home really us and put my time and energy into projects that up the value in the home and our life. 

Here are some before pictures from the listing and I'll probably add my own photos in other posts. Woot woot! Here's to new projects and a new home!

This is the master

This is the baby's bathroom (ours is similar except we have a walk in shower...and our landlord put in new vanity lights)

Living room (from the kitchen)

Kitchen

You can look forward to pictures of the half bath, the baby's bedroom, our bathroom and the eat-in kitchen. And of course all my future projects throughout our home :)