In our fifteen months of marriage we have moved FIVE times. That's an average of every three months! We lived in Rexburg for 1 month, the townhouse for 7 months, the Cromwells basement for 3 months, and the Rices house for 4 months! We hate moving!
We live like 10 minutes away from Lia, 2 minutes away from Carlisle Beauty (where I work), and less than a minute away from the road we take to go to Rexburg for school and to Jake's work. It's a great location. It's a super nice area so I feel safe being home alone.
We started looking for an apartment in August because the Rices got home from their mission in October. I wrote this back in September. The Rice's are home now) and that's going to be the middle of the semester and we're both going to be in school and working 20-30 hours a week so that would just be too much to add moving to our list (sure enough, we would have died. We were so busy with school!). So we decided to move before school started. We found an apartment and went to go look at it. It was okay... super super tiny (our king bed would not have fit in either bedroom.) and the neighbors were SO scary. It was also a scary looking area and we were going to have to pay ALL utilities- trash, sewer, water, power, gas, everything. Jake asked the lady if she had a list of other apartments for sale and she did! So we saw this one on there and I recognized it as where one of the hairdressers I work with lives so we went to go look at it and we loved it! We called to see if we could look at it and they said that the people had moved out of it the day before! So the maintenance lady met us there and said that the apartment hadn't even been checked yet to make sure it was cleaned out. Well it was. It was spotless. And it wasn't supposed to have a washer and dryer but the previous tenants left theirs!!! She asked if we would want it and we said YES! (We had so been hoping to put off buying a washer and dryer for as long as possible!). She had us fill out an application and we went on our way! Well in the next couple of days the lady who handles applications had so many problems with ours. My background check was saying that I didn't exist, none of our references were answering their phones, etc. Finally I told her that if it helped, our previous landlords (at the townhouse) had moved to Utah and hired Jake and I to be their onsite managers because we had the cleanest apartment they had ever seen when we moved out. I also mentioned that we were going back to BYUI in a few weeks. She loved that. So she said she'd pass that on and call me back. Well the next day she called and said we got it!! YAY! We feel so blessed and lucky because if it hadn't gone exactly like it did then we would not have been the first application and we wouldn't have gotten it.
We LOVE IT! Its' small, but not Rexburg apartment small! It's just right. I wish the pantry was bigger but besides that I don't think I would change a thing.
We went to our new ward last Sunday and they are so nice. There was a cute couple with a little girl sitting behind us and they introduced themselves to Jake and I. I love people who are friendly like that, it makes it so much easier! From what we can tell (it was labor day weekend so maybe a lot of people were just out of town) it is mostly an older people ward... There was one young man passing the sacrament. The rest were old men! Even the two blessing the sacrament were old! It was adorable, actually. There were a few families who had little kids. For Sunday school Jake and I went to a family relations class that they just started. It was AWESOME! There was only 12 people including Jake and I and the teachers! At first I thought it was so intimidating because it's easier to make everyone participate f there are not a lot of people and what if I have a stupid answer?? Haha. But I really ended up loving it. It was so much more personal and it's a topic that I love and it was easier for me to comment and participate. The teachers were AWESOME. I hope word doesn't spread about how great the class is because I want it to stay small and personal like it is! ;)
Update now that it's been a month or two... We still love the ward. We spoke in sacrament meeting the week after conference and since then people know us a little better. We work in the nursery together and LOVE it but miss our awesome sunday school class. But it's worth it because heaven knows I need my baby fix.
So, here's the grand tour of our new apartment!
Family room-
Kitchen-
Laundry... Closet?
Bathroom-
Bedroom-
Spare room-
It was easy to keep clean and cozy so we were happy here!
