Welp. Of course right when I feel like I'm getting my house and everything in order, and making time for everything, including updating my blog, something happens to destroy it all! Well here's a little (maybe not so little) explanation as to why I havent posted or finished revamping our blog lately.
We were planning on staying here in our cute little townhouse (its really not cute on the outside, but the inside I feel I did a pretty good job of fixing up!) for at least another year and then either prepare to buy a house or move elsewhere. It seemed when I first found this place, it was a miracle because everywhere that I had looked seemed to be super small for a ridiculous price, or super trashy and ghetto. Now we do live in a neighborhood that can be scary, but honestly I have been perfectly safe and fine here despite what others may think of it. In our ward, we have 13 different nationalities, 13! insane, but it has been awesome. So as we go in to the office to our complex to sign our new lease, we come to find out that they are raising the rent by $100! AND it could possibly go up even more. At first we kind of just took it and started filling out some application paperwork for the renewal and after we left, it hit us. UM we can't afford this with a brand new baby on the way and me not working real soon! I panicked for a quick second (or two) and we came to the conclusion we need to move asap! we call the office back and tell them we will do month to month until we can find a place, well another slap in the face its an extra $100 to do month to month! what the?! Immediately I started looking on craigslist and KSL for new apartments in areas we originally never thought we would want to live in because we tried to stay closer to the U. I had a list of about 3 places to go check out the next day after I got off work. The first one was a HUGE fail! I couldnt even walk into the whole apartment because the smell of the smoke was soo bad! I started to get discouraged, the next place was nice and clean, and had some better features our current place didnt have but it was a bit pricier than we were shooting for. On my way to the last place, I drove past a complex I recognized online but didn't have time to look into details about it, I felt the urge to flip around and check it out, why not I was right there. So I did and this ended up being the place we are moving into! The floorplan is so nice and open! We can actually have parties at our place with out people sitting on top of each other! haha. When everything seemed to be tumbling down for weeks, It is now all coming back together. Things fell into place just perfectly. The only downside is we can't move in until the 8th of sept, and we asked our current place if we can pay a prorated amount until we can move in, and nope, we have to pay half months rent! Forget that! Steven was so kind as to find a storage unit since my brain was fried from scouring the internet for a new home, and it turns out the first months rent is free! So we only had to pay the admin fee! For the week or so that we cant move in we will stay with some kind friends of ours :)
I'll actually be flying home to Cali to stay with my parents for a few days and have a baby shower there while Steven gets to move everything in! haha I feel bad, but I cant really help move anything anyways (which is absolutely killing me as I'm trying to pack!) We are hoping to move in a little bit sooner, if they finish the apartment, but as of right now thats the date. So all my friends out there with their studly muscular husbands...If you aren't doing anything within the next couple weeks, we would love your help!
SOO until then, my internet will most likely be down for a few weeks until we get everything moved and set up again. boo! My updating will be continued afterwards, I PROMISE! I will have lots more time because I wont be working as much. This little boy is getting harder to lug around at work these days. But I am loving the feeling of him moving around so much :)
