New house mode :)

Today me and Mom went to Granbury to have both of our cars serviced. So we decided to make use of our time in G-town and scope out Home Depot and Lowes. We had a random assortment of DIY tasks that we wanted to check out for each of our homes (Mom's current and my future home of course). I am pretty sure we were just "checking" on some projects and I think we brought home almost everything that we looked for.

She got some stuff to help with the air conditioning at her house.
 I came home with cushions for my front porch furniture...

stuff to add a shower to my future bath tub...

and stuff to make a headboard out of a door :) yes we can thank pinterest for that last one!!

We we got home a package had arrived for me...

My brand new bedding... I was in DESPERATE need of a new one before I moved, but I decided to wait until I moved to get new bedding kind of a fresh start.

 So then I got home and started dreaming of my new headboard and getting all excited about my Sat project of putting together and painting it... then this brilliant idea hit me... why wait until Sat, when I can do it right now?!?

So I went outside and asked my step dad in the sweetest voice possible, "How hard is it to run the nail gun??" then he agreed to show me how to operate it and help me set up my work station...

This is what I started with... $17 door + $5 molding + $5 paint = one happy Paige :)

Then I whipped out the nail gun... my new favorite toy (I have already told Mom I would like power tool for Christmas... I know very girly huh??)

And here is how is progressed from there...

So projects like this are making me REALLY excited about my new adventure!!

Ready to Move in!

Yay!! In a week this is where I will call home. Not that I mind living with the parentals, but I am DESPERATELY tired of living out of a suit case. I have been blowing Pinterest up lately with my dreams that I hope to turn into reality in this new home. It's funny how moving into a new place gives you a sense of getting to start over, a clean slate. This makes me all kinds of excited!

This will be the first time I am have ever lived in Dublin and not in my mom's house. I will be teaching/coaching in a town where I grew up. I will be living with my brother, who I have never lived with. And I will be going to a new church where I have a chance to plug into the youth ministry.

If I could rewind time to a few years ago none of this would have been in the plan that I had made for myself. But it is really AWESOME how God works. God really does know what is best for us and he doesn't make us wait on him as a way of punishing us, but as a way of preparing us for what he knows is best for us. In the last couple years God has put so many amazing people in my path and it wouldn't have happened if everything would have went the way I wanted it.

So with that being said... God bring on this new adventure. I am ready for whatever you have in store for me!!

New Beginnings and Coming Home

Well I haven't posted at ALL in 2012 to keep you up to date on how well things are going for me with my Operation 2012 challenge. But I have been working towards my goals and haven't achieved them, but I have made what I would consider a lot of progress and I have had an AWESOME 2012 so far.

 First I want to mention that I have had the opportunity to teach, coach, and be around some of the coolest kids, students, athletes, youth (whatever you want to call them) on the PLANET!! I meant these guys are awesome. And I truly have God to thank for that. I have been living in Bowie the last couple years and it was 100% a God thing that got me there. Over the last two years I have had the chance to fall in love with the community of Bowie. I have got to teach 6th grade Science, coach freshman girls volleyball, keep basketball stats, run the clock at many girls games, help with the youth at Southside Baptist... and there were times I thought I wound up at Bowie on accident. I know now that it was by God's will that placed me there. I don't think the community of Bowie will ever know how much they have impacted my life! So thank you Bowie for helping me to grow over the last two years. 







 So recently I have been given the opportunity to come back home to Dublin and get a chance to impact and be impacted by the students of my hometown. I am very excited to the chance to come back home (even though I will dearly miss so many people in Bowie). I will be teaching 7th grade Science and be a girls coach at the Jr. High. Oh how blessed I feel right now! Now only am I coming home, but one of my best friends K'rin Young and her family are coming back as well. I am very excited about reunited with her and many of my hometown buddies!! (Jess you for sure know that includes you and so many other great Dublin people)

 Also my little brother will be attending Tarleton starting in July and we are going to be roommates. We have never lived together so I am very excited about this chance that we get to just be siblings. I am sure we are going to have plenty of laughs, mixed in with plenty of arguments, but I am so excited about this new venture! We found an adorable house that we are going to rent from my new friends Amy & Tony Cortez (Good luck to you guys in Sweetwater)



 My parents have also been going to Timber Ridge church in Stephenville and I am excited to come and be a part of the great things that they are doing there and plugging in a getting involved. So 2012 you are half over, but I know that there are so many great things to come! SO BRING IT ON :)