Our Second Apartment

We have absolutely loved living in this fun little house! In our previous apartment, because it was a basement there were only very tiny, skinny windows that hardly let any light in. On one side of the house there was a trailer that was parked right next to the window, blocking the sunlight from shining in. And on the other side of the house was a driveway and then another house right next to us, so we only got a few moments of sunlight before the neighboring house blocked the sun.

 It was especially hard when I had just delivered Kimbri and was home all day long. Being home all day long with a newborn was so fun and I loved cuddling and holding baby Kimbri but it's crazy how not seeing the sun really starts to affect you. I would go a couple of days without even seeing the sun. It felt as if I was living in a dark little rabbit hole. Anyway, so moving to our new place was so incredible! We immediately had tons of big windows and taller ceilings. In our last place Rick had to make sure and walk around the ceiling lights otherwise he would walk right into them and bonk his head! 

So, this fun house it where we live now. It's located on 640 N 300 E Provo, Utah. We love it!

We have lived here just over one year and it feels so much like home. Our home.

This is the front room. It's what you see when you first
walk in the front door to your left.

Our piano!

The other half of the front room/dining room. This is what
you see immediately to the right when you walk in the
front door. Notice the front door to the right of the picture.

The kitchen is just beyond the front room.

The other side of the kitchen.

One side of our bedroom.

The other side plus the closet.

Kimbri's room! So much pink:) Along with
the crib that I slept in and the changing
table that my dad made for my mom many
years ago!

The bathroom.

Before moving here we attended the married student ward. But after moving we decided to start attending the family ward. I think it was a great decision! It was fun to be in a ward with variety. Don't get me wrong, the married student ward was really fun and everybody was kind of in the same situation in life, either just married or have only been married for a couple years. There were always several pregnant women and always tons of women who had just had a baby. We could all relate to one another because we were mostly all students, married, working, etc...

But after moving, going to a family ward just felt right. We got called to speak like the second Sunday we were there! The week after giving our talks we were called in to get callings to teach the 14-15 year old Sunday School class. Maybe it was because I had mentioned in my talk that we were both the oldest of pretty large families? I don't know. But either way it was a fun calling. It was so fun to teach together, Rick and I. And of course Kimbri was a hit with all the teenage girls that were in our class:)

Just a couple of months ago, after just feeling like I had started to really get to know people in our ward,  the stake made some huge changes in our stake boundaries! They decided to create a whole new ward. And you would know, we were part of the whole 2 blocks that they took from our old ward and put in our new ward. So there are only a handful of families that are actually still in the same ward, because the block we live on has a ton of single student housing, and a church, so there's not many families that live on our block and the block across the street. They took people from three different wards and created a new ward, the Provo Peak 9th Ward. So here we are, getting used to a new ward and new callings but it's great! Rick is the 11-year-old Scout leader and I am the Primary pianist. 

We are loving living here! We will most likely be living here until probably next summer, maybe til June-ish? I guess we'll just have to wait and see. It depends on where Rick gets in to medical school. So we'll see where we end up moving to next summer!