The reason I haven't been blogging lately is because I've been packing, moving, unpacking, putting away and decorating.
Let me start you at the beginning. On Feb. 10th, we found out that Dustin was going to Alabama on the 11th (yes, the next day). On the 11th, I found out that we were moving to our new apartment starting on the 12th (the next day). Our landlord called me and asked me leave asap so that he could get the new renters moved in sooner. This was two weeks ahead of schedule. I was happy to oblige since I hated the old place and the new place had been ready for us for weeks. No worries, we had our families come up and help. The only problem was that Dustin was stuck in Alabama because of snow (a whopping 3 inches). He had to rent a car and drive 13-hours home so that he could help move. (The reason he went to AL in the first place was to work on a AF base - it ended up being closed anyways.) He got back to Michigan at 1am on Saturday morning and we started moving 7 hours later.
It ended up going swimmingly. We got all moved thanks to my Mom, Dad, Gina, Bob, Bailey, Keegan, Kaden and a couple of Dustin's friends.
Here are pictures of our last apartment in Michigan. We are NOT moving again unless it's to move out of Michigan.
So here's the view when you walk in the door.
How cool is it that our walls aren't stark white?
This is the little "nook" immediately to the right (behind the door). I love that we have a place for purses, jackets, shoes (no shoes on in the apartment, please) and other stuff. Inside the bench is extra blankets and pillows.
I saw some antique match holders like these on a blog that I read awhile back. I found some this fall at an antique shop with Dustin in Shipshewana when we were "vacationing" after he took comps.
Here's the view from the dining room looking towards the door. Note our new couch. Much better and smaller than the old one. Our recliner is coming in sometime in the next two weeks. It will go in the space on the right (in the picture) under the shelves.
The door that you see open in this picture is where Dustin's office is. It looks the same as his last office
did. The only difference is that he doesn't share it with me anymore. If it's ever clean, I'll take a picture.
Here's a shot of the shelves.
This is the dining room/scrapbook area. I decided to move my scrapbook table into the dining room because I have a better view of where Henry will be spending all of his time.
It's hard to tell, but outside of the window is woods. Every window in our apartment looks out to woods. It's so wonderful not to have to see other buildings or cars.
Even though I don't have a scrapbook room, I do have a very large closet.
I still have major organizing and cleaning to do in here. Our bedroom technically has two walk-in closets. This is the bigger one.
Henry's bathroom. I was so excited to make this a kid-friendly bathroom. I still have a few things to put up, but I think it's cute :-)
Next comes Henry's room. Side note: Terri, I finally put up the vinyl animals that you gave Henry. They are so adorable!
We were going to paint in here, but the apartment doesn't allow people to paint for themselves. You can paint, you just have to hire professionals to do it.
These are pics from our bedroom...
The other closet.
My little bird sitting on our headboard.
Here's the master bath. Hellooooooo counter space!
The kitchen. It's clean and it's the biggest apartment kitchen I've had. I love it.
This bookcase is in the hall across from the kitchen.
The sign on my laundry room door.
So that's the apartment so far. I still have little things to do, but I'd say it's 98% finished. I should tell you some other things that make this place awesome.
1) we have a carport
2) we have an ice-maker
3) we have a pool
4) our building is smoke-free
5) the maintenance guy is so nice and friendly
6) no more shoveling or raking
7) Henry has free reign... no baby gates!
It's so nice that Henry can just crawl wherever he wants. He follows me into the kitchen, into the bathroom, into the laundry room... etc. He's getting a workout!
Also, all of the vinyl stuff comes from Stampin' Up!, which I now sell. If you want a catalog let me know. They have tons of cute things.
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