Moving 2 miles

During the month of July Nick and I moved. The new apartment needed a lot of love and so for most of the month we worked hard fixing up the place.

Both the new place and the old one had its pros and cons. The first Con of the new place is the shape it was in..... HORRIBLE

We signed the lease because it was an as is apartment, however the landlord said we could paint and do whatever. The location is GREAT and the apartment wasn't too bad so we took it.

We stripped most of the paint off  the walls and trim because we didn't really have a choice.

You will find before and after photos here. Sorry some are blurry.

 Nick Stripping paint

 We were so lucky that the Missionaries came by to help us out often. We owe them big time!

Under the stove looked disgusting

After a short time looking at the color choices at Lowe's we discovered this color family. We took all of the colors home and narrowed down our choices to these 6. We have heard horror stories about couples trying to pick colors, so I'm grateful that Nick and I agreed and made quick and good decisions. However the colors may be too bright/bold for most.. but that's our personalities.

We had a lot of fun experiences while living in two places. After working all day I went to the new place to help Nick with whatever needed to be finished for the day. We would get so caught up in our work that we often missed the last bus back to our (old) apartment... many nights were spent walking the 2 miles back. We looked at it as time that we got to talk about everything. It worked out.

Because we were between apartments we often would bring food but not a way to hold it or cook it, so we had to get creative. Hotdogs over the burner... YUM!

 cold canned soup in a cup... not bad!

The results of our hard work was worth it though. The place looks much better and we honestly feel at home here. It's funny how just painting the walls and cleaning can do that.

More pictures will be posted of the apartment in time. If you need our new address just message me and I'll send it over.