I love the Basement

Ever since we have moved into our new house with the basement we haven't had not one fight. That basement is awesome. The hubs already has a chair and table and the radio down there. His hung up some things on the walls and it's slowly become his man cave.
His always wanted a man cave and now he has one. Hell he has a man cave and a whole room just for his clothes so I don't have to see the mess he makes with them. He can now get his "me time". I know how important me time is. I get me time every time Skylee takes a nap. I don't know what I would do without me time.
It's also his cool down place. If he gets mad at me or something, I say something because I don't wanna admit that it's me mostly, he just walks down stairs and listens to his music really loud and cools down. I think a basement/man cave is the secret to a good marriage. Also the basement door locks on the outside so I can lock him in whenever I feel like it. LOL It hasn't happened yet, and I said yet.
I hope he likes his man cave. His always wanted one. He can hear the excited in his voice when he talks about getting a pool table. And his even talked about building a bar down there. I say all the power to him as long as my washer and dyer area is left untouched.
So there you have it. I have found the secret to staying married for 80 years. Give your man a man cave.

Say Hello to Casa Boca

This is our new house. Yes it call it Casa Boca. I don't have any good pictures of the inside so that will have to wait a few more days. We sold our house Friday and We sign the papers on this new one Wednesday! I'm so excited. This house is everything I have every wanted. I even have a dishwasher!!!! Yes I'm super excited about that dish washer. I have been washing dishes by hand of over a year now and I hate it! I hate dishes with a passion.
and the washer and dryer hook up in is the basement. The one we have now is in the hall. I hate it being in the hall. It's so hard to hide dirty clothes when their setting in the middle of your hall way. Now I can hide those dirty clothes!!!
And the hubs has been craiglist.com hunting for a pool table to put in the basement/man cave. I said it was okay maybe that will keep him out of my hair lol.
We have been packing sense Saturday and we are no where near done. I have so much to pack. It's shocking how much stuff I crammed into this little place!
So be looking out for excited new stuff coming from us and our new house!

Fingers and Toes and Everything Crossed

So yep we found our dreams house.
Let me back up. So we close on our house Friday. Yep that's right we finally have a serious buyer, thank God. So we went out yesterday looking at houses. Mostly everything in the town we wanted were those "need love" homes. I sorry but I'm not a handy person and I really don't wanna work on a house we don't own and are going to stay in forever. Nothing worse than making something look all pretty and then moving a year later or something.
So then we went into another little town and found The One! Oh I wish I would have took pictures for you guys but I was so excited that it didn't even cross my mind. It is everything we want down to the tee.

• Hard wood floors though out
• a big kitchen
• a DISHWASHER!
• three bedrooms
• lots of closets
• fenced in backyard with a deck
• full awesome basement
• lots of parking
• in our price range

It's just amazing. My heart fulled with so much joy when I walked into this house. It just had happy vibe all over it.
So last night we dug out all the things we need to finish the application. We emailed it in and now we are waiting.
I hardly slept last night for worrying about the house. And of course planning what it's going to look like when I;m done with it.
Gosh I'm praying so hard about this house. I so hope we hear something soon about it.

Ding Dong His DEAD!

Yesterday May 1st, 2011, we found out that this horrible man, Osama Bin Laden is DEAD!!!! It's a historical moment in American history.
Where was I on 9/11?
I was in the 7th grade. I was setting in my class room, out on a trailer behind my school in Decatur Georgia. We were moved into the build and put on lock down. Our teacher was crying and we had no idea what horrors that were going on outside. Some kids were being took home early and the rest of us were giving work sheets to keep us busy.
When I got home and saw on TV what had happened, I lied at the foot of my parents bed and cried. They said we were going to war. All I knew about war was in the movies, strange soldiers coming into homes and killing the whole family. I was terrified.
Where was I when they said Osama Bin Laden was dead?

Picture of our TV as Obama made his speech. 

I was setting in our living room next to my husband, who is a Afghanistan Vet. We cheered and made comments as the speech went on. We hugged and I thank him for his service to this country. He told me who he thought did it and told me about his time at war. I felt my heart swelled with pride as I thought about my husband and thought about being an American. I thought about my daughter who knows nothing about war and bad people. I thought about her safety and what her daddy did what he did for her. 

To all our service members I send out a Thank You! 

As a former Army Wife I know how horrible it feels to not sleep and hold on to the phone every minute of the day as your husband is out on a mission and can't call home until his back at the FOB. I know the fear of not hearing from him when you think you should. I know how it feel to give birth to a child without her father there because his at war. 

If it wasn't for this man we would have never had to feel those things. We would have never had to hug our soldiers good bye for 18 months. We would have never had to stand beside flag covered coffins.   

Thank God that man is gone. The world is now a better place!

It just shows you shouldn't mess with the best!

Preparing to Shop

So I have been learning more and more about couponing. I'm addicted to TLC's Extreme Couponing. I wanna be one of those ladies soooo bad. I have my coupon blogs I follow. I search for  all the good coupons. I'm going today to buy myself a coupon binder. I'm really excited about that. I know it's silly to be excited over a 3 ring binder, but I really am.
We shop at Kroger most the time, so I started following I Heart Kroger. This way I see all the coupons and deals going on there. I also follow I Heart the Mart too. I still love wal-mart. I have my coupons right now I still have to make my shopping list. I hope to one day save more than I spend.
Wish me luck because we so need it.

Facebook Comment War, really Grow Up!

Ok so I'm not on to keep drama going. And I hate people who do. And posting crap all over facebook because I guess they think their so bad ass that they can do that. I find it really childish. Like really is that what high school kids are doing these days, bad mouthing classmates and what not. Then why is a grown woman/women doing it.
So yea put your business out on facebook where I could see it. I commented like the sweet little southern belle I am , " Bless your heart. " LOL. Then you cuss me. Really these women need to grow up. Then they wanna comment on my page about being the bigger person.
One thing cussing me is not being the bigger person. I did what the bigger person would have don't and I deleted the drama from my page and hopefully my life.
I don't like drama. I left drama back in high school where I belongs. Well and in the army with all the other drama mama army wives. I have been working hard to simplify my life. Cutting out the drama and stress wherever I can.
I feel I am only young once. My daughter is only this small and cute once. My hubby is not going to be this hot and buff forever. ( LOL ok he is LOL I love him ) So why worry about the little things like some crayon marking on the table or someone wanting to cuss me on facebook. Life is just too short. I mean come on those who think the world is going to end in 2012. I wonderful if those people are living it up right now.
But I know I'm off to live my life to the fullest and enjoy my happy little family while I have them here in this moment.

Okay i know that was all a ramble, but that's how I write best.
Hope everyone has a wonderful Thursday.
How are you trying to simplify your life?