Finally.  We are all back from Korea, and settling into our new home in Virginia!  I have been wanting to sit down and write a post every day for the last week, but we have been going, going, going, and I haven't had time to!  I know lots of you are dying to see the house; I've gotten lots of texts!  While I'd love to give you a video tour of what it looks like right now, you probably wouldn't be able to see much behind the paint cans, tool boxes, stacks of homeless decorations, drop cloths, and trash.  So, what I will do is show you some pictures from the listing (sorry) and the videos our realtor took for us when we were still in Korea and had not seen the inside of the house!  I promise you, in the next week we will be finishing up a lot of rooms, and I will be posting about each and every one!  I have before and after pictures like nobody's business and I can't wait to show them off. But until then, please let these pictures and videos hold you over.
You'll have to click on the pictures to make them larger and read the caption!

So there you have it!  A glimpse at our new home!  The house is beautiful.  Very old, but very charming.  We have over an acre of property.  The house has 4 bedrooms and 1.5 bathrooms.  There is a 3 bedroom, 1.5 bathroom apartment above the garage, which we plan to rent out soon.  We are currently busting our butts painting every inch of this house and updating as much as we can!  We're working on repainting the tile in the downstairs bathroom and painting the kitchen cabinets right now.  Almost finished with both!  My mom and sister are coming out Sunday and they're going to stay for a couple days to help paint!!  Once everything is finished, I will post before and after pictures.  AND THEN I can finally start decorating!  And get a job so I can afford to live again.  I swear Lowes must love us right now; we are their most frequent shoppers!  We've been there at least once a day every day since the day we moved in and spent ALL our money there.  

In other news, Drew finally put on that uniform again.  He'd been off work since I left Korea and started going back in Wednesday.  He's still not working, working... but he has to go in for a few hours a day to in-process and whatnot.  It will be a sad day when he starts those 12 hour shifts again.  What will I do?!  It's been great having him around to help with all kinds of stuff.  

We are loving Virginia.  The doggies have happily adjusted.  They are HUGE fans of having a fenced in yard.  OH YEAH!  We got our yard fenced in on Wednesday.  It's wonderful to be able to open the door and let the dogs out.  It's been too long since we could do that!  We really haven't done anything except house work, but we really do love it here.  The weather is beautiful; so hot and sunny and not too humid!  (yet)  Can't wait to be done painting and remodeling so we can actually enjoy the weather and not just take 30 minute tanning breaks:)

I would love to write more, but the kitchen cabinets are calling out for me to finish them.  It's been 4 days since I started them, and it's about time to get these suckers done.  They will be done by Sunday at the latest.  Mark my words.  Promise I'll post them as soon as they're finished!

Until then!

Once back in the US, I got busy, busy, busy traveling all over Indiana seeing people I'd missed for the last year!  Rooney got to return to his first home in Muncie and Hoosier got to enjoy the luxuries of a fenced in yard for the first time.  Meanwhile, I got to see all of the new additions to Muncie and my two best friends, Cassie and Sarah!

I also discovered that Muncie has an amazing amount of thrift stores and flea markets FULL of treasures.

After Muncie, I got to meet the newest edition to the Schillinger family, Eloise Christine!  And I got to see Momma Schillinger and big sister Harlow!  Totally and equally excited about all three!

After one week at home, I was mostly adjusted to the time difference and 100% ready to travel to Virginia for a weekend exploring our new home!  I had to sign some papers for our new house, go to a job interview, and FINALLY see our house in person!  (Yes.  That means we basically bought a house without ever seeing it.  BUT we found a realtor from heaven who was able to send us videos and help us SO MUCH through the whole process.  We got very lucky.  And we LOVE our house!)

I am sure you're dying to see the inside of the house, but I'm going to make you wait for it!  I have some videos, but I think I am going to wait until we get into the house to show pictures.  It's so perfect.  4 bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms.  A 2 car garage with a  3 bedroom, 1.5 bathroom apartment above it!  AND we have an acre of property.  The dogs will LOVE the yard!  I cannot wait to show you all pictures.

The area around our house and around base is perfect.  There's SO much to do!  Shopping for days.  Any restaurant you could ever hope for.  And WAWA.

Base is also GORGEOUS!!!  It's so huge compared to Osan, and so pretty.  My mom and I walked along the water and went picture crazy.

We're also SO close to Virginia Beach!  So, my mom and I drove down there to touch the sand and see the ocean.  

Seriously cannot wait to get to Virginia with Drew!  There is SO much to do.  I did not want to leave to come back to Indiana, but i dragged myself onto the plane.  When I got back, my BEST FRIEND was waiting for me!

Since then, I have seen our reception venue, tasted some of our reception food, tried some reception cupcake flavors, decided on centerpieces for the reception... I think the reception is ready to go!! :)
I did some more thrifting, basically planned interior decor for our entire house, spent a lot of time on Pinterest, and hung out with Rooney and Hoosier.
I also got to go up to South Bend to visit my friend, Ally, who student taught across the hall from me last year!  That girl saved my life.  Whenever my teacher made me cry, she was there to vent to!  We spent our mornings talking shit in the copy room.  Spent our lunches quietly listening to the teachers talk about each other.  And we had amazing Panera dates to plan our units and lessons!  It was great to get to see her again!

I know, I know, this post is not nearly as exciting as mysokolife posts, but I just felt the need to post some sort of an update.  Soon, I will have DIY posts, house updates, and fun posts about new adventures!  
I am SO excited for Drew to get home tomorrow night and FINALLY get ready to head to our second duty station!  I'm counting down the hours until we move.  I can't wait to show you our new house, our new city, and our new adventures!