Moving day!

When we got married, we found the nicest place we could find in dirty, old down-town Salt Lake that didn't cost a billion dollars. Let me tell you, it was hard. But we finally found citifront which were new apartments for reasonable rent. We got the cheapest apartment they had!

Our apartment was small. Like seriously you guys, SMALL. We didn't need a ton of room and we loved that little place. But it was tiny. TINY! Very little room for anything more than we already had. So when we started purchasing stuff for the baby, our tiny apartment filled up quickly.

We knew all along we were going to move so little lady could have her own room and we could have some breathing space. We talked a lot about leaving down town and living where rent wasn't so high and neither was the homeless population. But we felt right about staying close to Nathan's school and work. It's super convenient that he can walk or take the trax most days. Plus, we do love this dirty little city.

We ended up realizing the cheapest and nicest 2-bedrooms around were in our complex! So we asked if were any opening up in the next month or so. Oh, there was one opening up. The apartment DIRECTLY across from ours. Not down the hall. Not next door. DIRECTLY ACROSS. Like.. 8 feet. Our peep holes lined up (That sounded dirty). So all we had to do was shove our stuff across the hall. It was amazing!!!!

So last night was finally moving night. We signed the contract transfer at 5 and started moving. We were done by 7:30. Now when I say done, I just mean we got all our crap into the new apartment. The organizing is a whole different story that may take me many moons to tell.

We are IN LOVE with our new place! It's still nothing massive. (City rent is redonkulous). But it's SO MUCH BIGGER than what we crammed into before. I have counter space!! And drawers in my bathroom! And a full sized bathroom mirror! And we have a full-sized washed and dryer. Not the tiny stack-able ones! We have lots of windows and lots of space. We have a room for our baby and a guest bathroom. Our bedroom is a bit bigger and we have our own bathroom! It is absolutely perfect.

Hanging out with baby M in her new room! She was pleased.

View from the front door. Kitchen is off to the left as well as the guest bathroom. Baby's room is on the left, balcony in the middle, and our room on the right.

DO YOU SEE THE COUNTER SPACE?!!? THERE IS SPACE TO PUT STUFF ON THE COUNTERS!!! I HAVEN'T HAD THAT IN A YEAR!!! I literally had to mix bowls in the sink when cooking and baking in the old apartment. Also, washer and dryer in the kitchen is kinda weird but I can manage.

Here's half of our room. Taking pictures of bedrooms is hard. Our closet looked super small at first and it scared me but it actually is super deep and long. I was impressed.

Here's the view from the front door as of this morning. Told you there will be a lot of organizing done. You should see the baby's room. I think half of our apartment got thrown in there just so we could shut the door and not look at the mess.

If you'll notice the sink, you will see that I simply transferred the dirty dished from one apartment's sink to the other. It was lovely. Also, there's my breakfast in the left corner.

When all is said and done, I've gotta say the best part about this new place is no more poopie balcony! Those same dang pigeons from last summer had already started to build a nest on our balcony again, no matter how many times we destroyed it! Our new porch is a beautiful, crap-free zone.