Our New Place!

Here are some pictures of our kitchen. Notice there is hardly any storage in the cabinents, thank goodness for the huge pantry!

Another picture of the kitchen.

And another picture, of the kitchen. (I didn't realize how many pics I took, oh well.)

Here is one of my most favorite features of the apartment, the pantry! I honestly now have NO excuse to not have a food storage. The picture doesn't do this pantry justice. The shelves are about 24inches deep and 6 different levels of shelves. Anyway, I love it!

So, since I haven't posted anything for a very long time, I thought that I should tell you all what Dave and I have been up to. Well, we ended up moving out on December 6th, and I had this great plan that I would take that entire week to move little by little. Well, then Josh and I both got colds. Yeah. So, pretty much my energy was shot, because not only was I still having to play "mom" to a sick baby, I also was working 12 hour night shifts at the hospital. It sucked! Well, to say the least Dave ended up doing most of the moving on Thursday-Saturday. Thank goodness for him! And we are so greatful for my dad and especially my brother Chad for helping Dave move all of the "big" stuff! We pretty much took all of Saturday and moved in, put EVERYTHING away and even started to decorate..thanks to my sister-in-law Kami! She put away everything in our bathroom and then helped me decorate! We have such a great family! Thanks to everyone for helping out SO much! And thanks to Chad and Kami we now have a washer/dryer and a "new" couch! Thanks you both! We love you guys!

Well, since we moved in we didn't have a phone (well I didn't, because Dave uses the cell phone and I'll use the home phone), and we didn't have the internet. So Quest came and set everything up and we were so excited, until we got our first phone call, that ended up being for the lady who lives upstairs. Yeah, no one had ever put in a second line! So we called up Quest and they told us we were going to have to pay $100 to have someone come out and put in our new phone line. And if we wanted to pay another $60 we could have a second jack put in. I was freaking out because that is just a ton of money! Well, thank goodness for my husband...and my brother in law Keith. He knew how we could switch some wires around and create our new line. Well after some time, Dave got it to work! We were thrilled! Thanks Keith! You saved us $160!

So now everything is set up and I can finally relax! It feels so great to live on our own again! Don't get me wrong, living with Dad and Diane was WONDERFUL and we will ALWAYS be greatful, but it really feels good to be an "adult" again, even if now we are really poor! It feels very fulfilling!

Dave is almost done with his first semester of graduate school, and he has done AMAZING! He has two more finals and if he does well on these 2 tests he will have straight A's! Well done honey! I always knew you could do it!

I'm just working. I have been able to float to post-partum and that was a nice change, from being around lots of really sick people! I love seeing all of those new babies! Lots of fun! Hopefully one day I'll be able to work labor and delivery! I'd like to see if that would be something I'd like. Those were some of my greatest experiences in nursing school, so who knows! Someday!

Josh is growing like a weed! He is now over 9 months old and he is wanting to walk! He pulls himself up and moves back and forth between the couch and the recliner and his bouncer. He is getting into everything! He will keep me busy very soon! He is so much fun and has such a funny personality! He always makes Dave and I laugh! We love him so much and we are so excited to have Christmas with him here! Even though he could care less what is given to him, he'd be happy with a box wrapped with paper, just so he could rip it open!

Anyway, this post is getting way too long! That is about it...even though I know I'm leaving something out!