Where we call HOME

We moved to our rent house in Royse City in July 9,2008, the day before we got engaged! It is the halfway point between Colt in Commerce and me in Dallas and it has worked out perfectly for this point in our lives. I was willing to keep doing the long drive from Commerce to Dallas but Colt talked me into at least going to look in Royse City and man am I glad we did because now I can't imagine making that drive! We've lived here a little over a year already but I just got around to taking pictures of it.

Entrance

Our living room and Colt's pride and joy TV


Lucky and Alex are both playing a little "where's waldo" in all of these pics! They think they have to be in all the pics!

The kitchen

and our wonderful doggie door

Colt putting up our new "Smithson's" sign that my mom bought me on our trip to Canton.

I love it!

Our office

Colt's side of the office. This is where he spends the majority of his time, or actually we both do!

Master bedroom

Master bathroom (and Alex)

Spare bedroom (also known as the storage room)

Spare bathroom

And Colt's sometimes organized garage

We will be here at least until next summer and it has been a great first house for us! We have definitely learned some things we would never want or do when we go to buy or build a house in the future though!!

October

I can't believe it's already October. October means another tax deadline, Alex's (our lab's) 1st birthday and Colt's birthday on Halloween!

It also means I got to make a new desktop calendar Wednesday night, or I should say add pictures to because I didn't actually make it! Here's my new desktop for October. I love these things, especially for my computer at work. I ran across these at shabbyprincess.com when I was looking for information on digital scrapbooking. They are premade little layouts, but they're still fun!

And this is the first one I made for September. Now Colt asked for me to make him one for his computer but he wants a more "manly" one so that I am going to have to make from scratch. Needless to say, I am still working on that one, and October may already be over by the time I get it made! As for digital scrapbooking, I haven't decided yet. When I get time, which will probably be when I get done taking CPA exams and get a break from overtime, I do want to start scrapbooking again, one way or another! Hope everyone has a wonderful month of October!