Here's a follow up of my THINGS TO CONSIDER WHEN BUILDING A HOUSE post. Let's talk floor plans. As we finalize our floor plan for the new house, I realized I never shared this process with you all with our previous house. Blaine and I loved our first home in Urbandale (12 years ago), and it was a split level. We decided to do something similar[...]
**Update! She landed her aerial at Dance Champs Dance Competition on April 10, 2021! https://youtu.be/9gighfkmHPU Original Post: The Dance Avenue attended the Celebrity Dance Competition in Ames this past weekend. Check out the video of Mariah's solo choreographed by Amber Martin! https://youtu.be/o0sClu_0DKs I'm so proud of her![...]
The Dance Avenue attended the Celebrity Dance Competition in Ames this past weekend. Check out the video of their "Think" routine choreographed by Amber Martin! Mariah is the zookeeper. :) https://youtu.be/HSHFkG22i6o Their dance placed 1st in their category and 5th overall in the Junior Group. Here are some photos![...]
Ok, I probably should have explained before keeping you all hanging from my IG stories I posted. We moved into the rental last Saturday and have already received 2 noise complaints. Our first one was last Sunday evening around 8pm. That Sunday was our 1st full day at the rental. The 2nd complaint was yesterday around 8pm. The first[...]
From my last post, March 10th was (supposed to be) the big day! That morning, I made the kids wake up early to take photos before school. Not only that, I made them wear "nice" clothes. Let's just say they were NOT happy with me, but the last time we had a family photo outside of our house was October 2018 which was when we moved in. It just made[...]
If you had read my LIFE UPDATE BLOG POST, one of the news was that we are moving into a townhome while we build again. Well, we are all moved into our rental! Since people have been asking what it looks like, here are some photos I took before we moved in. I'm glad I did because I'm currently sitting here surrounded by boxes. It has 3 bedrooms a[...]
If you're reading this, you might be considering building or maybe you're just curious. This blog post is a long time coming. There's a lot to say and am finally getting a chance to sit down and write it all for you! Spring of 2018, my husband (Blaine) and I built a custom house... without using a builder which is INSANE! I still can't belie[...]
Many of you have noticed that I've been a bit MIA especially on Instagram Stories. Well, a lot is happening! I have 3 updates for you! 1 // I feel like I just wrote the blog post "HAVE YOU SOLD YOUR HOUSE?" , and now I'm here writing a blog post that WE SOLD OUR HOUSE!! We actually received an offer on my birthday (January 15th) and accepted.[...]