Home Sweet Home

We're all moved into our new apartment, and it's starting to feel like home!  We moved in Saturday afternoon with the help of Brad's parents and some awesome members of our new ward, who all laughed maniacally when they found out we have a piano and that Brad plays.  Should we  be worried?  Here's a mini-tour!

This is the door to our apartment from the outside.  Come on in!

We have been very blessed to receive a small loveseat and recliner as temporary seating until we can afford a couch; and the previous tenants left a big screen HD tv.  We haven't found time to enjoy it yet, but I'm sure we will.  :-)

The dining room is funtioning as an office for now since our desk can't fit through the door to the office.  And until we can get a kitchen table, we're using a card table and some borrowed folding chairs.

And we had a cute little deck outside of the dining area.

The kitchen is a bit haphazard, but slowly improving as we get organized and figure out the most efficient way to do things.  And it comes with all the luxuries of a modern home-- fridge, stove/oven, dishwasher, AND a garbage disposal! 

And then there's bedroom #3, which is a limbo room for the moment.  We thought it would be an office, but the desk doesn't fit.  We're hoping it can be a nursery for baby #2 when he/she arrives, but that's still 7 months away.  And since we're trying to save for getting a house in the next year or so, we don't know if that room will ever be needed for that, and we're still debating whether or not to have Naomi and baby #2 share a room or have their own rooms right away.

I feel like this room could qualify us for the TV show Hoarders... I promise, this is temporary!

We got Naomi's bed set up, converted her crib into a toddler bed (basically leaving off the side rail) and set up her room to sleep in, though all of her clothes are still in boxes in her closet waiting to be hung up and for us to get a dresser for them to get folded up in.   Needless to say, this will be a big adjustment, since she can now get out of her bed!  Last night she fell asleep at the door of her room crying.  :'-( sad munchkin!  Any ideas how to help her go to sleep peacefully when she can run after us as we leave the room now?  I stayed with her in her room singing and trying to sooth her for over an hour last night, and she still cried herself to sleep at the bedroom door!

And this is the "main bathroom" that Naomi and guests use-- still has a lot of unpacking and organizing to do.

Brad and I's room is still under construction.  We got all of our clothes either hung up or folded and put away.  We have a mattress and a bed frame (with much thanks to the Wright family) but are still looking for a box spring so we can put it all together.  Blankets are all over the place since we haven't found where to put them yet. 

There's a walk-in closet!!!

The master bath still needs to be organized, but is mostly functional-- except for the toilet being slightly more than an long arm's length away from the toilet paper roll.

The toilet paper roll is under the counter-- quite a stretch!

We'll have more pictures after we finish getting organized and put pictures on the wall.  Until then... have a wonderful day!

The door going outside of our building. See ya later!