Home, Sweet Home

I've had quite a few people ask about our apartment so here it is!  It's absolutely perfect for us.  Granted, it's not decorated beautifully and we don't have a ton of stuff...but it's just perfect.  From the moment we moved in we knew it was where we were supposed to be.  We actually had never seen this style of apartment before we moved in.  We'd seen ones at this complex that were bigger (2 bedroom) and smaller (1 bedroom w/ less square footage).  Well, as I've said...this one is perfect. 

I have to admit that I am not much of a decorator.  All the decorations in the pictures were done by my fantastic husband.  I can't make decisions about stuff like that so he just hung stuff up while I was at work and I'd come home and love it!

Here's the outside of our complex.  I believe there are 15 buildings total. 

Step inside our humble abode and you'll walk straight into the living room.  This is just one wall...the other has the couch on it.  All the decorations we have are from our reception basically.  This wall doohicky went around our cake table and the frame we got as a present (although it isn't quite filled with pictures yet!).

To the left of the living room is our dining area.  We don't have real chairs so when we do sit at the table to eat we use the black cubbies on the sides of the TV.  The table we have is short so it works well :)  I love our kitchen!  I wish it had a window but can definitely live without it.  It is stocked FULL with all of the fun appliances we got for our wedding and I'm pretty sure we've used just about everything at least once.  Again, as a reminder, Nathaniel did the decorating.  There are also some nice decorations on the side you can't see from this angle.

Lastly is our bedroom.  After three weeks of sleeping on the couch/ floor we finally bought a bed (king size at that)!  I was getting kind of sick of the living room honestly.  I felt like that's the only room I was ever in because we only really went in the bedroom to get to our closet.  Hopefully within the next few months we'll be able to find a bed frame we like so our room looks more like a room....but it's 10X better than the floor!

So, as you can see, it's not much.  But it's a perfect first little apartment and I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.  It's gone below freezing outside at night the last few weeks but I think because it's so small it stays nice and warm and we haven't even had to turn our heat on yet!  Oh, we do have a bathroom too but it just looks like a regular bathroom...although all these rooms look pretty regular too sooooooo yeahhhhhh.  We do have a washer and dryer which is FANTASTIC.  On the down side, the washer has broken three times (yesterday being the most recent) and yesterday the dryer stopped working too.  This morning the dryer had risen to life so we could dry all the sopping wet clothes we had but I think they're going to have to get us a new washer.  I'm just glad we got all our underwear washed and dried before they broke so we're good for a while!

Welp.  That's the tour.  It's small, but it's home.

On a larger note, I thought all my non-western-living friends would like to see our chapel.  The church building is our stake center as well and all the wards that go to that stake center actually meet in that building.  There are two of every room (including the chapel) and all the bishop's offices for the entire stake are in there.  At each meeting time there are actually TWO congregations meeting.  It's crazy!

That's our life.  Hope you enjoyed stalking it for a moment in time.