What I look forward to in our new home....

    Having garden,

we went to Lowe's the other day to browse ideas on what we want to plant...and ummm I think we'lll need a bigger yard! How neat will it be to make juice in the morning from your own citrus fruit? So for sure an orange, lemon and grapefruit tree. Not to mention what is going to smell like in our yard!

                                                   this is my yard, YES PLEASE!

We also would like to have a little Veggie and herb garden, Tomatoes, basil, mint for mojitos ;) A kiwi tree....lots of flowers...Peach tree.... grape vine around the patio...I could go on and on... lets see what we can actually fit without making our yard look like a jungle.

I look forward to watching our garden grow, as well as our family - (no, no babies yet) we want get another dog...Charlie would enjoy some company while we're at work all day.

Scrabble nights by the firepalce...

yes, it does get cold in Arizona in winter months.

Not having to do any work to the house besides put in grass!! We looked at so many homes that needed TONS of work. Its so nice to have a move in ready home.

Having His & Hers sinks in the master - Dan & I like to get washed up and ready for bed at the same time, now this has always been a challenging task in a small one sink bathroom.

Having a walk in closet. What woman doesnt love that?

I cant wait to get my OCD-organizing action going in it

A large 2 car garage

in the summer months, it will be nice to get into your car and not get a heat stroke

community pool!

I would hate to have a privet pool

1. it takes up almost your whole yard

2. money pit

3.dangerous for kids, unless you have a gate put in ( those are pricey)

I know its silly, but I like having HOA...It keeps the neighborhood looking nice. We have looked at homes in neighborhoods without HOA and you were able to notice it for sure....weeds, paint cracking on homes, RVs in drive-ways. It just looked unkept. Our HOA is a bit higher than we anticipated, but the community pool & grassy parks all around make it worth it

Our awesomely upgraded stainless steel & granite kitchen! I cannot wait to get my cook on...( I hope we have smoke alarms)

I look forward to all of our visitors!

Starting a family, not for a little while but...we picked a room for a future nursery already ;)

I like having an upstairs, I think its cozy to have bedrooms on the second floor...I know I'm nutty, but I'm really not a fan of one story lay-outs

I cant wait to decorate & furnish

And of course what I look forward to the most is making wonderful memories together in our dream home, the place we can call our own <3

House update

The new & supposed closing day is suppose to be this Thursday,  I pray that it is because we are getting a BIG furniture delivery on Friday. Our entire bedroom set & 2 sofas. Cable & internet is shedukled to be set up this Friday as well, so if this doesn't pull through we are going to go on a rampage. We already had to reschedule it once.

Thursday also happens to be the day of my procedure, which means I will be drugged up on vicodins. Fun way to go to a closing. Should be interesting! I also will not be allowed to lift anything over 15lbs for a while, so poor Danny is on his own with moving everything into the house. I feel bad. But at this point he says hes willing to do anything and everything to make this happen already!

Apparently, because we are not married this process is taking twice as long because the underwriters have to do our files separately
..But the window is replaced, everything is set... all we need is that final signature from the underwriter that will release the loan and give us the closing date.

Its going to be a bittersweet Thursday,

hope I wont be too drugged up and capable of signing the insane amounts of papers!

"Remember the road that leads you home"

     "Remember the road that leads you home"

so many scraped knees & bike rides on this path

Childhood home

My mom reminded me today that 2 days ago marked 15 years since our big move from Poland to the States. 15 years seems like such a long long time but really, it seems like it was just yesterday. My first plane ride, the goodbyes with family, leaving everything behind, and at 9 years old being oblivious to it all.

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"It's a funny thing about coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what's changed is you."  

- Benjamin Button

My sis & I

same bed we slept on as kids - 11 years later

Danny & my cousins, he fit right in with the family

Us & the home - 2009

Decor Inspirations & Ideas...

So Ive spent a lot of time browsing online for ideas to decorate our new home, we definitely want a chic & modern feel to it

Here are some things I came up upon that I love...

I love this particular paint color, grayish blue.

great idea for the staircase wall

                                        love love this quote! goes so well with the photos

                             

This idea is for our spare bedroom/office...We want to get 3 of the same clocks, one slightly bigger than the other 2 and label them as "Phoenix" "New York" "Poland" Of course we would set the times accordingly and have the slightly bigger one as the Phoenix, and have that one in the middle.

cute idea, for when we have children

This I'm thinking above our bed

and of course lots and lots of plants & flowers throughout the house!