Last Christmas Post

This is the last Christmas post, I promise. I'm just a month behind :) I just wanted to share our Christmas decorations, for future reference and because I had to show that yes, Jake does get his animals in my house, but that does NOT stop me from decorating them. He loves it!

This is my favorite tree. It has all of the ornaments that Jake got from his aunt throughout his whole life and the ones that we've bought since we've been married. It's quite the memory tree. 

Also, my Santa all growing up always put candy canes on the tree when he came. Does your Santa do anything fun and special?

Miraculous Monday

Well after a long.. what has it been now? 3, 4 weeks? We are moved in.. ish! We are sleeping at our house the floors are almost done, and I can start planning parties!

This whole house deal has just stressed me right out, as well as poor Jake! I am just glad its almost all over and we can slow down for a bit and take a breather.

Saturday we had a big day of cleaning. Melanie (my WONDERFUL Mother in law) helped clean the flower beds, getting rid of all the old leaves and branches laying around. Mowing the lawn, cleaning windows, while the boys worked on the floor! I feel as though we are living in a brand new house!

I am so happy to have that done, and get focused on the blog again!

Have a great Monday Lovies!

You live and learn

I'm so sorry that I have been MIA.... again. This whole homeowners stuff sure has taken up a lot of my time. Along with finals and work. BUT GOOD NEWS! The tile is done, and we get carpet today! And the wood floors come tomorrow (along with a dentist appointment)

This girl couldn't be happier. I am the kind of person that loves to see the transformation. That is the reason I like to clean.. yes you read that right. Clean. I love to see something go from ugly or dirty to pretty and clean, and fancy.

Such as this poor house. It was built in 2000 and had all of the same school carpet and linoleum in it.

But by the end of this week.. it will be a new home!!!

Last night when I got off work I went straight to the house to see what Jake was working on and what I could help with. I was so happy to see that Questar had come and turned our gas on so we can now be warm while we work on the house. It look a minute to get it figured out, but my handyman husband figured it out.

My latest project right now is transforming this blue master bathroom..

Slightly pictured here.

into something that won't hurt your eyes. I chose a light brown.. I'm a little worried about how small it makes the small bathroom feel, but i'm going for it! It's happening. And so far it is making the walls feel taller (if thats a plus) and I am now in search of a really pretty big mirror to replace the one that is currently in there!

I will try my best to come back to you when this is all over :) 

Happy Tuesday!

Printable favorites

I have been slacking on my dear Pinterest Wednesday. So today, I am back. I will do better. Honestly I only missed two weeks.

For next week, I want to know what you want to see. Comment or email me with something you want to be seeing here! Name a room in the house, garden, flowers, Love, quotes, anything! I want to make sure you loving what I'm posting as well.

If you follow me on Instagram, then you know that Jake and I are moving. Well, we moved. We are living with my ever so gracious In-laws. We have all of our stuff packed up in a trailer, and we're living in the camp trailer while we are waiting to close on our new house. Yay!

This girl is all sorts of excited. We get to redo the floors, and we have big plans to make it pretty. Hardwood floors, new carpet, tile. I'm telling you people, its going to be fancy!

So while I was browsing through my pinterest, I found so many new printables that are a MUST in our new home.

Here are some of my favorites.

these are actually by my favorite blogger, and such a cute girl Alexa

She makes the cutest printables. Check our her Etsy site Here

fact: Jake would much rather do laundry than the dishes.. 

I was thinking one of our 3 bathrooms 

you can never EVER go wrong with a Uchtdorf Quote

Front room. 

bedroom of course :) i do love us :)

great reminder.

and now my friends. This is for the front room where my hunter husband has to have his animal heads.

I figured this was fitting! :)

again just a reminder, let me know what you want to see. And have you entered this giveaway for a personalized printable or this one for down east gift card? If not, enter right now. It ends tomorrow. 

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House story

I want to thank everyone who wished me better yesterday! And thank you also for your tips. When I got home from work, I made Jake give me a back/neck massage and I have felt much better since!

Yesterday I just mentioned a house story. Well here it is. Way back in the fall, Jake and I decided when our rental contract was up, we wanted to be in a house of our own. No more paying rent, and one step closer to starting a family. We started looking and was even hooked up with a realtor and got pre- approved. Once the holidays hit we had too much to do and to think about, we put the house hunt on hold. 

At the beginning of the year we started looking again. Since our contract is up at the end of April, we made a plan to find a house by the middle of February or beginning of March. 

About 3 weeks ago Jake and I were just flipping through all of the houses that we had stared at before on one realty site. Finally, I decided to zoom out a little bit, just because. And there it was! A house out in Lake Shore. The place Jake wanted most to live in.

So we started looking more into it, and found out Jake went to high school with the kid living in it. We went and knocked on their door before sunday dinner, and asked if we could take a quick peek around. They gave us a nice little tour. Once we walked out the door, I couldn't hold it in! "I LOVE IT!" I told Jake. It has wood floors, a fire place, and a yard. everything on my check list :)

After a week of thinking, praying, and talking about it we told our realtor about it. We had an "official" walk through last friday. We got to look at all the little details. We talked about how we go about all the paperwork, signing, offering, and all the other stuff you have to do when buying a house.

Saturday afternoon we put in a offer on the house! I was so excited I could hardly wait til Monday night to find out if they would accept or counter offer. 

All day yesterday I kept reloading my email. Just waiting to see if we got the house. Finally! I got an email. They counter offered... A little disappointing, but it is still lower than we wanted to pay. I feel like the Lord is with us, and that house is where we are supposed to be. 

Like my wonderful Mother in law told us sunday, "if you're supposed to be there, it will all work out!"

We put in our counter offer tomorrow. I will keep you updated, but there you go! That is our latest big news. 

We could be house owners by the end of March :)

P.s. The URL for the blog has changed to

hansenloveblog.blogspot.com

Not a huge change, but now it's a little easier to find :)


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