Meeting Our New Home

I have heard you!! You want to see adventures from our new place!! Today I bring you just that!

Last Monday...a week ago today...Ryan went to work and I resumed my Spencer-sitting. {That was the Great Dane we had for a couple of days last week, if you missed that post.} In the late afternoon, I loaded up the car with Spencer and all kinds of things I imagined we'd need at a new place on a first day and drove over to meet Ryan at work.

It was our first time to go in our house together as its owners. The last time we'd seen the house, it was filled to the brim with a life that didn't belong to us. On this day, it was filled with wide open potential. The only signs of the former owners were the smashed down carpet, betraying all their furniture placement, and the smattering of things they left behind for us to keep or rehome.

We had Spencer with us, but he really struggled at the new home. A few people have suggested it is because the former owners had a female dog {who was obviously not there, but her scent was, I guess!} and Spencer is a male dog, and he just really freaked out being inside. As a result, we didn't get all the photos I'd envisioned, but we got enough to make it work!

First dance in our new home.

Back when we thought we were going to build a house, we planned to do the thing you may have seen on Pinterest, where you write Scripture on the studs of the home before they're covered with walls. Obviously purchasing a home made that impossible, but I just modified the idea to write on the walls we planned to paint instead. Ryan and I made our rounds and wrote verses we hoped would mean something to this home:

Was it a perfect first evening at the new house? Nope. But it was still ours and we will always cherish the first moment we stepped into the first home we purchased together!