Hello friends good morning I am so excited
for today because we are headed to our
house
and we are going to write on the beams
lots of scripture
and verses and just kind of pray over it
and make our mark at our future home and
i'm just so excited
and today's a sunday so it's just been a
beautiful morning so far
we had a church online and just had kind
of a slow morning which is so nice
but now we're headed over we're gonna
make a pit stop at
target to pick up some sharpies like the
thick ones so we can really
write successfully because i think the
little thin ones will be tricky to write
with especially for writing a lot on the
wood so
we're gonna stop there and then i'm
really excited to show brandon because i
went to the house
last week with my mom and i've seen that
they already have the roof on
and the walls in um so i'm really
excited to
see his reaction and just see what he
thinks so it's gonna be really fun
but before we leave i have a lot of
things packed because i'm bringing
like my big camera and stuff because i
want to
take photos of course i'm trying to
document this process because i think
it'll be really fun
to look back on one day and see our
house being built and all that good
stuff
so i want to measure this neon sign we
have in our bedroom because
i want to see if it'll fit in a wall in
our study which is right when you walk
in we have like a little study where
we're going to put our desk and stuff
so there's two window windows which
you'll see later on either side of the
wall where i think i want to put this
so i just want to take a measurement to
make sure that it'll fit
so we're going to do that now and then
we're going to hit the road
i started a google doc of some of the
verses and messages but we'll probably
just look
some up while we're there as well and
brandon he wants to
write certain ones that go with our room
so like once about marriage and
love for our master bedroom and what's
about work and our study and all that
good
stuff and i just watched melania
sisciotti which i love her she's an
amazing youtuber if you haven't watched
her videos yet
she did this when they were building a
house too and i love that video so much
and i'm so excited
that we get to do it as well it's just
such a cool
little part of the build process so i'm
glad we're making it happen
and i'm glad the weather's good so we
don't get rained on but i guess we have
a roof now so even if it was raining
we would be okay so kind of crazy
there's no windows now so
more shingles yeah so i don't know how
that would work
all right we got the goods we got our
sharpies we got this
huge one brandon didn't think we needed
the huge one but
i think we do i think we really do if we
want to write something really big
it's going to be very helpful because we
got two of the kind of more fine tips
they're thicker but they're fine tip
and i think this will be great for like
the longer versus messages but
that one will be premium and then i also
ordered some things for order pickup um
because i needed a new wallet because
mine is
just getting very sad looking this was
my mom gave it to me she just
it was kind of a hand-me-down but it's
getting sticky i don't know something
with the material is like
it's getting really dirty and sticky so
i got this one it had great reviews
and it's a trifold and i like the color
and it has so many pockets so i think
it'll be perfect so i'll switch that out
and then i also ordered this sweatshirt
it is so cute you guys are gonna love it
it is disney
and it says let there be love with a
little rainbow
and the characters it's so cute and i
actually got
matching joggers sweatpants that go with
it
but my store didn't have my size
available actually i don't think that
any of this is available so
i just ordered it and that'll be there
that'll be at home in a few days so i'm
really excited and we also
got an iced coffee for
fuel we usually get a cold brew but they
were out of cold brew so it's kind of
crazy but this will be great and coolest
off because it is
quite toasty in florida today and it's
just a caramel iced coffee with half of
the caramel
pumps that they would normally put in a
grande and
rand and i were talking kids that we
used to get this all the time
when we were in college we would go to
a starbucks in the downtown area of our
university's town
and we would always get a caramelized
coffee and get refills
and all that stuff so it just brings
back lots of memories
and then it was so good it was very good
look how incredibly thick the tip of the
sharpie is
it is no joke granite keeps making fun
of it saying that
once i start writing one verse it's just
gonna cover the whole house because it's
so big but
i think it's gonna be perfect you'll see
we'll see who's right
welcome to our home
this is where our office is right when
you walk in
and then over here we have our stairs
which be is there a door here to get
under the stairs too or is this open you
think
i don't remember like right here because
this is the powder bath
but this is under the stairs so i don't
know if there's gonna be like a door
here if it's just all open
i don't know and then this is our
kitchen
this is our pantry our kitchen
yeah our tv um okay our living room is
flooded
so we gotta you know get the mop out
oh and this is a cute little baby door
for under our stairs on that side
um but this is our kitchen like i said
and then over here
is our dining room it's not technically
a dining room but it's just like our
dining area
so we want to put a little bench here so
it's like a little booth situation
but b look how uh low these windows go
yeah that's cool it's cool but i don't
think we can really put a bench i think
that'll be too low to like sit right
here
maybe not i don't know it's hard to
start to say
what do you think i think you wouldn't
want to go really lower than
like that yeah yeah for under the stairs
i really
want this part to be storage like right
here
this section but then this section with
the little baby door we have like a
little smaller door right here
i want this to be our dog's little own
room without their bed
and their toys i think that'd be so cute
and we can put like a little sign with
their name and stuff
we're really i'm really my dog favorite
wow so bright
my dog fever is so intense and brandon
is actually like really getting excited
for
a dog a couple of our friends just got a
baby boxer and we went to game night at
their house on friday
and they it was the day they got their
baby
their puppy boxer and it's the cutest
little nugget ever and i think that
really got him excited to get a dog so
we're getting closer but wouldn't it be
the cutest little dog room
brandon's hanging on the lanai i want to
go upstairs we still haven't gone
upstairs yet i'm so excited for him to
see like our master and stuff
but you're just checking everything out
thoroughly
inspecting we're getting a third party
inspector as well but wait is that our
bathtub
that's totally our bathtub i think that
is our bathtubs
oh my gosh
here they are yeah that's the master
oh yeah here's our bathtubs
wanna take a bath anybody that's so
funny they're just chilling in the
garage
oh my gosh this is our garage yeah
so when this is a pretty low project
on my project to-do list once we get at
the house but
i really want to make like a little
section of our garage into a gardening
center
so having like a wall with all my
gardening tools and seed packets and
just like super cute
and a little gardening situation so i
think i'll probably put that
um maybe maybe in this little corner
over here this side of the yard where b
is standing is where i want to put my
gardening boxes
because we have like a good little side
yard and then
our garage is a rear garage so we'll
have this like
middle backyard area and i want to do
string lights and vines
along our garage i think that'll be
really pretty all right we're finally
going upstairs you lead the way b
or do you want me to lead the way
okay i'm leading the way i've already
been through this so
i was so nervous the first time my mom
was in front of me and i was like
mom be careful i was just nervous the
the wood would just fall through
there's our master okay so i'll give you
guys a little tour
right here is our laundry room has a big
window which i'm trying not to show too
much of the windows because
you know safety privacy
i know yeah the stairs have a great
window too
and then over here will be my office
until we have babies
so i got a lot of windows in here which
is fabulous and then in here is another
bedroom which will be our guest room
until we have babies no we'll probably
keep this as a guest room and then
here's the bathroom
for um the two bedrooms yeah
so we only have two and a half baths
perfectly fine for us
you like it isn't the view beautiful
we have some lake view
we love the lakes and water one day we
really hope to live on the lakes or some
kind of body of water but took the
shortcut to the master but this is our
master
lots more windows
so pretty and our restroom and our
closet
yeah that's the closet
and it's big
i don't know what that is um
so this is where our shower will be
we'll have our shower
and then our bathtub right there which i
love the window
and then over here we'll have our vanity
with two sinks which is nice we only
have one now which has been fine
but i definitely have had moments where
i'm thankful we'll have two
and then our potty room our toilet room
which i'm also
very thankful for
till the fall
i didn't pick the best place for this
one because i ran out of space but i
like this scene
it says love grows best in cozy houses
where you eat and sleep so close
together
you can't help but communicate if we had
more space between us think of all we've
missed
love grows best in houses like this
you're crying we wrote some messages to
the workers
brandon wrote one over here i hope they
like it
we're so thankful for them it says thank
you for all your hard work
god bless you and your loved ones
oh
oh
uh
uh
he's writing a verse for our future
babies
this one it was actually my idea but
in the powder bath we had to write a
little encouragement
oh my gosh so funny i put my hair up
it's getting kind of toasty
doing this it's so fun though i'm so
glad we're doing it it's really special
but the florida heat it's kidding me
you wrote work hard to play hard in the
laundry room
us
all right we have made our mark this was
so fun we're both getting
really hungry though it's almost 1 p.m
now we've been here for a few hours
and what did you just say to me b i said
you were right about the marker
good choice this big marker is the move
if you guys ever do this definitely get
the thickest marker you can get if you
want to do big writing we definitely use
the
smaller print ones too as well but the
big marker was clutch
we did measure this section where i want
to put the neon sign and it
is like barely too small so we might be
able to fit it
but it's definitely cutting it close but
if not we can put it on this wall right
here
all right we just got home i changed to
my new sweatshirt it's so
cute and comfortable and we did make a
pit stop at chipotle on the way home
because
we are hungry we did not think we would
be doing that for so many hours
we were just caught up in the art of our
beam writing it was just so fun
and since the meat ones don't come with
guacamole i'm just gonna make us a
little bit of guacamole
right now and then we're gonna dive in
because it's almost 3 pm we're very
hungry
all right here is our liner spread
my key to good homemade guac is a lot of
lime juice and a lot of spices and i
make it really spicy with cayenne pepper
and hot sauce and garlic salt
all the goodies and actually we always
ask for inside of the um
chipotle tabasco it's super yummy
and we're doing our navigators council
marriage journal we're almost done with
it
oh my gosh we only have one more page
which is so crazy but we
love love love this book it's been
really fun and we might need to find
another one to do
after we finish
today was such a good day and thank you
guys so much for watching
and just being so encouraging about our
home build and all that good stuff i
know not everyone will
really care about that sort of thing and
not everyone is really into
home building or even home decor or
anything like that but i know
it is definitely a passion of mine and i
think it's so so
fun and definitely home decor and just
decorating and house and architecture
all that stuff is so fascinating to me
and i love to watch videos like that on
youtube so
hopefully some of you all do as well and
as we were really praying and dreaming
of building a house on our own
i would watch so many videos so many
house tours so many
you know build videos and build videos
build videos and stuff like that so that
really
provided so much inspiration and
motivation was just watching that kind
of content so
hopefully this can be some inspiration
for you as well and it was really cool
as we were
um we finished our navigators council
marriage journal
and we reflected on some of the early
um submissions that we wrote down
and there were so many at the beginning
you know back in 2019
where we were really praying for a house
and just trying to decide
and all that so it's really cool to kind
of look back and see how far we've come
and
just the growth and the answers to
prayers
and all that good stuff so really
thankful
and we have it all documented so that's
really cool but
thank you guys so much again for
watching and i cannot wait to see you
super soon
bye
