The Big Move

What happens when you find out that the owner of the home you are renting has put the house up for sell in attempts to keep from being foreclosed on and your contract now ends at the end of the month? Well, you start searching for a new place to live and hope that being mid-semester doesn't ruin all chances of finding a decent place in Provo. We were lucky and we actually found a number of places to look at, and even saw a few we wouldn't mind living in. We finally picked "the one" and hope that this was our last move for a while. (Note: this is our third place since being married for 9 months.) After a whirlwind weekend and thanks to help from our old ward (and awesome home teachers!) we are finally settling into our new place. We've had a week to settle in, and we are loving it. Despite the hassle of moving, we really think this was a good move for us. I mentally compiled a list of reasons to be excited and went over them multiple times during the ordeal.

Pro's of our new place:

• Still has 2 bedrooms and dishwasher and a washer/dryer
• The washer/dryer are hid away (not open to the living room) and have TONS of storage above them
• The closets are twice as deep (yes, seriously... the other closest barely fit hangers) and longer (Brett can finally bring his clothes back to our bedroom closet.. haha)
• Still has nice carpet
• Kitchen is decent sized
• Covered parking for Kirsten
• On street parking for Brett - he doesn't have to walk as far as he used to
  
• Heat/AC that we control
• MUCH more natural light
• A new [smaller] ward in which we can make friends
• We now live on the top floor, no more basement = no more footsteps
  

Problems we ran into:

• Child locks on almost all the cupboards in the kitchen and bathroom
• The burners on the stove are crooked making cooking difficult
  
• The heater startles me- it seriously sounds like someone is breaking into the front door
• We've heard the neighbor baby cry once.. hopefully that doesn't become too much of an issue

Things we will miss:

• The beautiful kitchen with nice cupboards, counters and appliances.
  

Here is a collage of the few pictures we took of our old place....


And this is what our new place looks like so far....


For those of you who have been anxiously awaiting the "after" pictures of the couch covers you can see them in the above picture. I don't love them and honestly now that we have moved out of a basement I wish I had the cream color back, but such is life.