The Traveling Kind

Well, hey party people! I was so worried about not sleeping that I couldn't sleep! So here we are! I decided to make 2:23am productive -- welcome my blog post about Phoenix (and the surrounding areas). Initially, I thought Phoenix would just be a dry, flat desert with the occasional tumbleweed, but I was  wrong! This city is beautiful with mountains in, and surrounding, the city. There are trees galore...not really grass...but tons of trees and cacti. Fun Fact: palm trees, which are all over Phoenix are not native to the area (makes sense when you think about it, they seem like they belong, ha!). They are seriously ev-ry-where-uh. There's art all over the place too! We've visited the Heard Museum which displays Native American art and we went to many galleries in Scottsdale. Most recently we visited the Art Museum at Arizona State and enjoyed a couple of exhibits of Mexican art. We've LOVED it here! We have 6 weeks left and intend to fill it with more art and advent...

Ugh. I really didn't want this to my next post but I'm getting a lot of folks asking about our tiny house, so I guess I can't put it off...and it's been a month so that's fair. So about that tiny house. Remember how I said we had everything figured out and we're doing this and we spit shook on it and everything? Well, long story short: no tiny house for us right now. In the end, it all came down to funding. Which I never even considered because my income is sufficient and my credit is great. As it turns out banks don't like that we don't have a house and you can't see my "housing income" from my company on my W2. Oh, and we haven't had a loan that big before. Uh, duh. It would technically be our first house, of course we haven't had a loan that big before. But you can't tell 'em that. I'll say more about that later. Okay, so here's the long version: CHAPTER ONE: The Home and Garden Show On June 20th - I'll n...

...And we're building ours on wheels! Ryan and I have decided to build a tiny house! So no, I'm not pregnant for the millionth time! Can everyone (probably just my mom) just stop wishing that on us already and just give up?! :) Ryan and I have been doing our research (read: watching days worth of HGTV and YouTube videos) for the past couple of months and tonight we sealed the deal. Like with any big life decision we make, we spit shook on it. There's spit in there! Ryan's got a few more hours invested than I do. He's actually lost sleep over it, like an entire night. I had to work the next day and and got a hot breakfast out of the deal. WINNING. We're like, actually doing this. We have a lender, the company we're buying the plans and trailer from, Ryan has the floor plans all drawn up, and I'm working on getting my next assignment in a tiny house building friendly location, AND I've gone into a Home Depot...and no one had to drag me. I wen...