I saw Megan & Doniree do this and so I thought I’d do the same thing.

Sammamish, WA. I was born in Bellevue at the same hospital where my mom was born and by the same doctor. This was the perfect neighborhood to live in when it came to Halloween & Christmas time. All the neighbors were fully into the holidays. This house was best for sliding down the long hallway in socks and going up the homemade attic in the garage which was my little getaway with my girlfriends.  Disclaimer: the yard did not look this horrible when we lived there.

Anthem, AZ. We moved when I was 16. I was not happy that we had to move away from all my other family relatives, Tyler and my friends. The whole time I was just itching to get out and go to college and be with Tyler. Most of my time was spent online, at the gym and swimming at the country club pool.

Rochester, NY. The day came when Tyler and I both moved to New York to go to RIT. We spent 5 school years in New York living in different places: the dorm, on-campus apartment, and off-campus apartment. Living in New York really made me realize how much I really missed living in Arizona.

Anthem, AZ. After graduation, we moved back to Arizona after Tyler decided to move with me. We lived in the casita that’s attached to my parents’ house. I really wish we lived with my parents a little bit longer to save money but we didn’t. We only lived there for 2 months until we both found full-time jobs.

Paradise Valley, AZ. Instead we moved into our own apartment in the valley closer to work. It was indeed paradise at first until we ran into problems with our annoying neighbors downstairs who really enjoyed reporting every small thing on us. We were more than ready to move out again and not re-new our lease.

Anthem, AZ. We started looking for a house to purchase and ended up finding our dream home 3 miles away from my parents’ house. The location is perfect! We made the move back to Anthem and started a new chapter of our lives with 30 years of payments to make.

The other day I went over to my parents’ house and straight up asked my mom if she had stuff that she didn’t want anymore. I followed her to the closet in the hall way and she gave me a few things including this colander that I swear she had since I was 4 years old.

I washed it then Tyler insisted on spray painting it for me since he loves spray painting. I’m afraid that if I don’t give him enough spray painting projects, he’ll end up spray painting everything in the house!

It feels great to reuse things instead of throwing them away or just store them in the closet for years. I also added some fall decoration around the house including leaves by the fireplace. Don’t judge me but I already bought some mini pumpkins and spiced pumpkin scent for my car. I’m that desperate to make it feel like fall since it’s still 100 degrees here in Arizona.

Our to-do list for the house is getting so long every time I think about it. I easily get overwhelmed sometimes because I’m not sure which things are more important and should come first. Yard work, garage, guest bedrooms, adding a dual light switch, and the list goes on and on!

And at the end of the day, I remind myself that we own our house and will be here for many more years to come. Oh, yes I even still dream of having a pool in our backyard. We will make it happen…maybe in 2 years or 10 years!

I have been working on a new design for my blog and finally finished it after having to work on it between other clients’ websites. Check it out by heading over to my blog!

Ever since opening Yellow & Savvy Design, I have discovered to really love designing websites. It can be challenging sometimes – like putting a puzzle together when it comes to coding and I always manage to learn something new. Maybe some day I’ll be able to do this full-time at home but for now it’s in the evenings during the week and mostly on the weekends.

The only thing I find annoying is trying to make sure it looks perfect on all the browsers. I also checked to see what it looks like on Tyler’s computer… and that was a bad idea since all the colors look so different than on my computer. I am aware that of course all color profiles are different on computer monitors but it wasn’t even close to being the same colors.

Please do take a look and let me know if it looks any different than the preview I have on this post. Thank you!