Life in the Breeze!

Sorry to let you know that I can't find my camera! The one time I actually have time to sit down and do a post, I can't find it. Therefore, you will be updated with pictures at a later date. We now have walls built up and will have a roof by the end of this week, weather permitting.

So today, as most of you know, (if you watch the news) we are expecting a little tropical storm action coming to town this evening and tomorrow. I awoke to Adam and some roofers out back building an additional temporary wall to go over our current temporary wall. I suppose they were nervous about the wind. I think all will be fine.

I have been a bit under the weather this past weekend, but I thought I would share some things that have been going on around here!

I am.....

...realizing that there is a need in women that simply need must decorate for fall.... this is not happening this year. The most that I have up in our tent house, is a mulled cider candle and a wreath made by my sweet sister-in-law. Hopefully, we will remedy this in the next 3 years soon.

...just now getting used to the new schedule of me getting home at 8:00 two nights a week...as long as I get Modern family in on Wednesday and can catch a little bit of So you think you can dance I will survive

...cooking alot more in my crock pot, which I am loving. I think the turkey chili with zucchini has been the best by far. The boys may have different opinions

...loving being at home lately. I am such a homebody, it's a little ridiculous.

...loving that our cute little town had "ride your bike to school" last Friday. What a fun time to drive to work on Friday and see all the kids around and their parents following behind them.

...so, so thankful for my husband and his ability to read my mind!

...loving that the Greater Gulf Coast Arts Festival was this past weekend and it was bigger than ever. We will probably never buy anything at the festival, but it is still so fun to walk around and look at the art and jewelry!

...missing dressing up except on Sunday's. I wear athletic clothes everyday to work and I feel a bit absent from the "dressy" world these days.

...SO very excited that my mom and dad are coming down to the breeze for Thanksgiving! We are going to get to spend the week at Portofino! So totally excited and can hardly wait. It makes me incredibly giddy.

...starting a notebook full of magazine clippings of future ideas for our house. This continues to grow. We will be tough when that time comes to make those decisions!

Hope you all have a great rest of the week and will be back soon with pictures!

Concrete done and other happenings!

Gosh I know that it has been too long since I last updated! I just wanted to find enough time to fit everything in that I wanted to update on!

I feel like we have been crazy busy with work and the house progress. We are slowly but surely making progress and are so excited to see the process through each step! I know most of my readers probably aren't that intersted in the pictures of our process, but I know that my family really wants to see what has been done! So for now, I will leave with you pictures! I will update on life at a later time! Enjoy the progress:)

Looking into where our half bath was

CONCRETE IS DONE!

YIPPY!

LOOK HOW THICK IT IS!

DEMO on the Half Bath(I bribe my bro in law with food to work:)

Looking through gues bedroom into our half bath

BEFORE:)

Where the french doors will go in our office/guest room

Adam working hard!

Trip to Arkansas, House Progress and Birthday!

Sorry it has been a while! I feel like we have just been going going going! We have started playing in a co-ed soccer league which has been fun but tiring also! Our games are either at 8:00 or 9:00, and if you know us, we are in bed by 9:00! It is something fun for us to get to do together as well as some serious exercise!

I am also still working at The Funplex! I am continuing to do the bookkeeping there but have added about 8 classes during the week! In January I will be taking over the PreTeam program which I am VERY excited about.

A couple of weeks ago, we had the wonderful chance to spend a week up in Arkansas! It was really fun to get to see mom and dad at the cabin, then we made the trip up to Northwest Arkansas to spend more time with them. We also got to spend the second half of the week with Julie and Adam in their new house! AND I got to see Julie's little belly, which is precious of course:)

AND I got to see this little bundle of joy! Beckett! SO CUTE!

We continue our work on the house. I come home every evening to see what Adam (and sometimes, Jason) have accomplished! We are progressing, but slowly might I add. I guess there just isn't quite enough time in the weekends or the days!

Adam the birthday boy, got exactly what he wanted! An edger for his weedeater and some running shoes!

Adam using the concrete saw to make a place for the plummer to do his thing!

Funny Thoughts and What I came home to....

I saw these random and funny thoughts on another blog that I read. I thought I would add a few of my own and share them with you. ALSO, at the bottom of this post you will see what I came home to today! YEAH ADAM!!

-Nothing stinks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.

-I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.

-Do you remember when you were a kid, playing Nintendo and it wouldn't work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all know how to fix the problem? There was no Internet or message boards or FAQ's. We just figured it out. Today's kids are soft.

-I think everyone has a movie that they love so much, it actually becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I'll end up wasting 90 minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone's laughing at the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little bit harder (and a millisecond earlier) just to prove that I'm still the only one who really, really gets it.

-How the heck are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?

-I would rather try to carry 12 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.

- How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear what they said?

- I find it hard to believe there are actually people who get in the shower first and THEN turn on the water and people who get in the shower on the end where the water faucet is....that's all just strange.

-Why is it that during an ice-breaker, when the whole room has to go around and say their name and where they are from, I get so incredibly nervous? Like I know my name, I know where I'm from, this shouldn't be a problem....

-You never know when it will strike, but I believe that there comes a moment at work when you've made up your mind that you just aren't doing anything productive for the rest of the day.

-Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don't want to have to restart my collection all over again.

-I like all of the music in my iTunes, except when it's on shuffle,then I like about one in every fifteen songs.

-Even if I knew your social security number, I wouldn't know what do to with it.

-I think the freezer deserves a light as well.

-Why is it that I always forget to use my twelve reusable grocery bags?

Do you guys have any fun random thoughts of your own?

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Lately around the Purdy house!

I have lots of pictures to update you with, I am not sure if everyone knows, but we have decided to tear down the addition on the back of our house(aka. room with the old fireplace, purple walls, yellow ceiling, multi-colored tile floor). We discovered that it was very poorly built, so we are going to tear down and build it back the right way! This of course increases the time on our HUGE LITTLE house project.

Our temporary insulation wall(this was the opening to the purple room)

"After"

"Before"

Our new plants:) And I have since cleaned the bricks that look so gross!

The beginning of the tear down!

Additional views

From Inside looking Out!

END OF THE DAY SATURDAY BEFORE THE RAINED MOVED IN!

ONE WORD...

PROGRESS!

Conversations with my muscles...and our weekend

I awaken this morning with my body saying to myself...

"What in the world were you thinking starting to lift weights again this week, then deciding to do Pilate's on Saturday morning, followed by hauling bricks from your brick wall? I will have to make you pay now...."

In other words, I am VERY sore. The most sore that I have been in FOREVER. Yes I have decided to get back into the gym and I am paying for my time of absence. Hopefully things will begin to look up. If not, I will just be standing forever, as I am unable to sit down and get back up:)

Our weekend consisted of:

Friday night: Went to Aegean Breeze, rented this: Adam has wanted to see if for a while. I would just say average. Not a must see.Saturday Morning: Pilate's. With Adam might I add.


Saturday Afternoon: Rest from Pilate's.


Saturday Afternoon, after rest: Tackled the last brick wall in the back room. Hauled bricks until dark.

After cooling off : Rented this: I really like Nicholas Cage, but this wasn't a favorite. Just weird is how I will put it.

Today we went to church out at the beach. Then came back and rested a bit until lunch. Ate lunch at Chili's, one of our personal favs, then went to see this:
It wasn't meant to be a movie weekend, but ended up being one and we finally ended with a really cute one! I would suggest seeing it! Adam even enjoyed it. Although he also said he enjoyed Pilate's...


Have a great start to your week everyone!

Shampoo and Drawings

Beware: Random Post:)

So I had one of those morning where I just wanted to ask myself “why in the world do I do this?”

Yes it came while I was in the shower when I was getting ready to grab my shampoo and I realized that I have 3 bottles of shampoo and 4 bottles of conditioner in my shower…all of them have about 2 oz. left in the bottom and for some reason I can never make myself throw them away. I don't know what goes on in my head. I even thought afterwards...hmmm need to make a trip to CVS to get me some new shampoo! Why do I do this???

I do the same thing with Shower Gel too! How strange....any great explanations?

Well that was a bit of humor for your day:) I also wanted to share with you all some drawings of the house. The first is our original house plan and the second is where we are slowing going!
Enjoy!