Houses, babies, etc.

Happy 1st day of November! This is by far my favorite month of the year...it being both the month I was born and the month of my favorite holiday, Thanksgiving! The cold air has finally started to descend upon Austin and I'm already wearing fall clothes despite the fact that the high yesterday and today was in the 80's. I'm just so ready for it to be cold! I can't wait to light a fire in our house and start relying on my slow cooker to do my work for me. :)

3 weeks from today I will turn 29 which seems like a very ho-hum kind of birthday. Nothing too special really. I'm definitely no longer young but without hitting the 30 mark I wouldn't say I'm old yet either (unlike my old man Max who is already 31). I'm looking forward to it though entirely because I took the day off from work to have a spa day all to myself. Ooo lala, I know. I can't wait!

I already mentioned my obsession with reading wedding blogs but I've also recently become totally enchanted with DIY home blogs. I love reading one in particular, Young House Love. This particular couple is about the same age as Max and me but they already own their second home and have a baby. Now, I'm still not ready for the baby part but I'm pining after a home of our own. Maybe the nesting instinct after the wedding and before baby is taking a hold of me? Whatever it is, I read these articles about how to make a shelf or paint a room and just droooooooool. I wanna do that!!!! And, with the help of these blogs (and the always wonderful HGTV) I know that I CAN do it.

Max and I are on the fast and furious savings plan to attempt to get ourselves in a spot where we can buy a house. Step 1: Crawl out of debt. Check, pretty much done. Step 2: Stop spending, save more. Yikes, this one is hard! Step 3: Go for it. We're going to wait a few more months I think but I hope that when the spring rolls around you'll find us house hunting and fixing up a place of our own.

If you're curious what our future home might look like, I've been adding to my Pinterest Home Decor board quite a bit lately. I think it will pretty much be the most fab place you've ever been! I doubt we'll be able to get our dream house but we'll try to get close. :)