Apartment

Well, it's been 2 months since Chris and I have moved into our new place and I just realized I haven't posted about it! It's pretty exciting :) We lived with Chris's parents for our first year. It helped us pay off a lot of debt that we wouldn't have been able to, and save up for our own place! And after a long time of looking at many different places, praying and trying to figure out where we are supposed to be (for a moment we thought we should move to either Vegas or Boise, but we ended up not feeling good about those places), we found an apartment that we love!
At first we actually didn't want to look in this area cause we wanted to live on the other side of town, but when Chris got the job at the University, we thought it would be a good thing to live next to where he worked since he has to be there so early. And that's how we were led to the Park Place Apartments!

Our friend Melissa lived in these apartments for 4 years and told us that she loved it, so that made our decision more clear. And when we came to look at the building, we knew we wanted to live here. The hard part was trying to decide whether to go with the 1 bedroom, the smaller 2 bedroom, or the big 2 bedroom (which comes with a balcony). :)
We finally decided on the big 2 bedroom! Yay! It has a lot of space, washer and dryer hook ups, dishwasher, and a storage unit. And we are also 2 blocks from the Temple, our church building, and the River! Walking around the river is one of my favorite things to do!
Here are some pictures of our place! :)

This is what you see when you walk into the front door:

Our Dining Room/Kitchen area:

Rest of the Kitchen:

Our cute little bathroom:

Our bedroom:

 

And our spare room (which is a storage room right at the moment. You like the curtains? haha):





And this is our pretty christmas tree that I am super excited about! Our first tree! Target was selling 6' pre-lit trees for $30 on Black Friday and I am so glad we got it! It was difficult trying to decide what kind of decorations I wanted to do, but I love them!

And then I attempted to make my own tree skirt. I found a tutorial for a no sew ruffle skirt, and since I had a bunch of table runners from my wedding that needed to be used up, I decided to try it! It took a lot longer than I thought it was going to take. The girl who did the tutorial said it only took her 5 hours to make, and it took me like 12! I must be super slow or something. But I think it turned out not so bad! :)