The Traveling Kind

Y'all. Arizona has exceeded all of our expectations. We have found a [winter] desert oasis and we're so sad to leave! But also, it got up to 98 degrees last week sans Nick Lachey and it was NOT CUTE. Cue frantic packing and purging. Just kidding, we don't purge anymore. We just keep everything and I'm pretty sure our RV is leaning. Like, While -You - Were - Sleeping - Joe - Junior style. If you don't get the reference do yourself a favor and just watch it. It's Sandra Bullock's best work and you're not living your best life if you haven't seen it. Also, it's streaming, so no excuses. We've been squeezing out every last little bit that the Phoenix area has to offer. Except Tombstone and Saguaro National Park-we missed those-regretfully so. I'm sure we'll be back to visit [in the wintertime] sometime soon. Sand Storm in Phoenix! You can usually see blue skies and mountains behind the cityscape. Dinner views in Sedona C...

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...