New Job!

I graduate from Grad school on Dec 19th. We both have been very worried about our financial situation for a while now with this deadline approaching. Mike has a great new job as a Vault Teller in a Bank a couple of towns over. I was just worried about having a lot of new bills come up like our new house payment and my student loans. Yuck! So i really needed to find a job before I graduate. About a month ago I interviewed for a job at a place called Lifestream. This is a local Area Agency on Aging that provides all sorts of services for older adults. The provide housing, transportation, food, advocacy, and so much more. This would be the best place to work in my field. I kinda gave up hope of hearing back from them. But then today, they called! I could not be any happier, but now I have to go shopping. I have very few professional looking outfits to wear. I will be the new In-Home case manager. This means I will stop by my set of clients homes and make sure they are getting the services that they need. It's monday through friday, 8-5. Which is perfect because that is what Mike works. So we are both very excited. I think tonight we are going out to dinner to celebrate! I start the Week after Thanksgiving. (im nervous) and then I will still have school on Thursdays (so I will be part time for a while) until I graduated in December! Oh man this has been a very happy and exciting month for us.

We Bought A House!

Mike and I had been wanting to buy a house eventually. Lately we heard a lot of people talking about buying a house and we wanted to do it too, we then started looking around. Mike's mom knew a really good realtor and we started working with him. He set us up on this list where we get emails when a new house goes up on the market. One day we got an email while mike was a work I wanted to drive by and look into this one that seemed promising. When he got home he was interested in that one too (having gotten the same email while he was at work). We had looked at a million that just didn't work for us. We wanted a house that had a yard that we could eventually fence in, a garage for mike's motorcycle, a good size kitchen, and 3 bedrooms. This house we found was great it had all of that except it was only 2 bedrooms, and it has hardwoods under the nasty carpets. We looked at it the next night. We were the first people to see it and made an offer on it right away, we did not want to miss out on this great deal.

This house was a foreclosure so we got it at a great price. we can afford this for cheaper than renting anywhere else. And since we are living rent free right now we can take our time and remodel our new home and not have to deal with two payments. We have been trying to get this house for a month and a half, because it takes a long time to get a bank owned house.

This house is very exciting for us and Mike loves projects, Luckily I married a great man who knows how to: rip out a wall, ceiling, trees, hang fences, electrical, plumbing, you name it he can do it. and I'm good at supervising! (that's what he tells me!)

so here are a few pictures of our new home before renovations.


This is the front of our house. Its soo cute! and pretty close to Ball States campus so if we every move out we can use it as a rental, which is our ultimate goal in the future.


This is the sun room, it will be a laundry room/ dinning room eventually. the sliding glass doors open up into the back yard.
Here is a picture of the back yard it is kinda L shaped around the back of the garage. It will be really great to have a yard right now we have NONE, at all. we have gravel drive way with about a foot of grass, which is really the neighbors front yard..... so having a yard will be awesome!

This is a nasty bathroom. It is a good size but just yuck, we are going to gut the whole thing and just start over.


I love the kitchen. there is sooo much counter space and really nice cabinets!! the whole house has new windows in it too which is great!

This is the tree on the side of the house that mike trimmed up. If you look back to the first picture you can kinda see how big this pine tree is. It went all the way to the ground and was really thick. It is also right outside the kitchen window soo all you could see was tree.... yuck. but now i kinda love this tree.
So, Look forward for more renovations to come. SO exciting!