Nashville!!

I can't believe we've been here for 3 weeks already! It's been a crazy time.

Since we didn't have much help packing the truck back in CA. and it took way longer than we expected, we didn't end up leaving town till 8pm (despite our plan of 1:30pm). We were wiped out from packing that we were unable to go to far... we found a hotel in Ontario, Ca. and crashed. Then the next day, Sunday the 18th, we drove to Flagstaff, Az. (9 hours). The next day, we drove to Santa Rosa, NM. (about 8 hours or so). Then the 20th was a much longer day, we drove all the way through Texas, Oklahoma, and stopped in Fort Smith, AR. (12 hours!) That was a tough one! The next morning we took a break and visited my friend Kristin in Fayetteville, AR. It was really nice to see her after.. gosh, 6 years!!

Then back to the road.. on the 22nd, another 10 hours got us to West Nashville, TN (right outside of the city) at 3am. We were definitely wiped out that night.

We crashed at another hotel and stayed there for the next 5 days. We didn't account for the 3 day weekend where most people were out of town and couldn't show us houses till Tuesday, which was the day after the truck was due. We were definitely not going to unload the whole truck to storage, rent storage, keep renting hotel rooms, re-rent another truck, re-load a moving truck, then unload all over again. Whew, that was exhausting just thinking about it!

Anyway, we were SO blessed to find an awesome house for rent last minute. It's huge: 3bed, 2.5 bath, 1677sq feet!! garage, front porch, screened in back porch with a hot tub!! All for less than what we were paying for a one bedroom 850sq ft back in CA!! So Awesome! Only downfall is the decor and wallpaper, it's hideous. lol. but good thing we like to fix up and DIY! :)

So, here are some photos of the house... remember, these are the before photos - We've been working on painting and improving and I'll post some after photos soon. Enjoy.




Only Half empty!















Front Porch


a little creek that runs underneath our driveway. This photo is the neighbor's drive, but ours looks the same. There's even little gray fishies in there. :)



The very very ugly Kitchen wallpaper. Thank God for paint!


not to be topped off by the equally ugly hallway wallpaper... notice the shimmery silver in the patterns. elegant!


More to follow tomorrow, I promise, cause I'm wiped and have a headache. time for bed. Later! B.