Our very own Fixer Upper

Raise your hand if you've been under the spell of Joanna Gaines since Fixer Upper debuted in 2013. I have a strong feeling I won't be the only one with my hands up in the air. Yes, both hands.

Fast forward 5 years. My husband and I are now seriously starting to look for a house to buy after settling in to our new town. I was no longer just stalking Zillow for dream homes that are way out of my league and far above what our bank account has to offer.

We looked at a few houses with our awesome realtor Tish and waded through the first round of looking. Then one day we happen upon an unassuming home in a smaller, quiet neighborhood. We walk in and it hits me - at first not with beauty and potential but with a strange smell - years of dog pee and funk. It was like a palpable scent. 

I was in love.

Not with the odor, of course, but with the potential. Beautiful brick fire place in the large, open living room. A decent sized kitchen and large back yard. After the second walk through we were sold. A few weeks later, luckily so was the house - to us! 

Time to get to work! Luckily, Jeremy nor I had ever had any experience working on a house in any capacity, but I had years of HGTV shows cataloged in my brain and ready to go. 

This was our time to shine.

I'm going to be going room by room sharing in our trials and triumphs of what we accomplished and what we learned along the way. Hopefully this series will be inspiring and entertaining because after a long and somewhat traumatic experience we all deserve to look back and laugh, right? 

Thankfully everything has turned out for the better and we have been blessed with a stronger marriage, lowered "perfection" expectations, faithful friends who showed up to rescue us in the pits of our despair, and our trusty sidekick of a pup who is just along for the crazy journey.

I hope you'll stick around and see what our fixer upper has to offer!