I just love this condo. I’m actually hoping we stay here for longer than just the year lease we signed. The guy who owns this condo lives two condos down and is wanting to sell it so it’s an option to consider. We just love it here. One huge difference I’ve noticed is the air conditioning and heat, and how efficient it seems to be. At all the houses (all haha yah it’s funny to have to say “all the houses” ) we have lived at, the air/heat will run and run and run trying to get to the temperature it’s supposed to be at, and once it’s there it never stayed there very long. The air ran pretty much non stop at all our other places so I know it wasn’t just a problem with a particular unit. Well here at the condo, the air hardly ever runs. Each floor has it’s own unit so that helps too. I’m sure that having the ceilings much lower instead of huge and open helps with the air too. I’m really loving the more closed in feel of this place. It’s more homey feeling this way. Anyway, I’m looking forward to hopefully not having $600 electric bills anymore. Now you can see why we have been wanting to save money! Cutting $1000 off rent and hopefully cutting the electric bill in half or more is going to be so helpful. I don’t care how many times we have moved. It’s better than staying in one place and continuing in the direction we were headed. I just laugh when people tease us about moving so much. It’s like, big deal? We made some mistakes. So does every other newly wed young couple. You live and learn, right?

Anyway, I love the attention to detail that went into building this condo. The little storage places throughout the house are so great. I always want a lot of storage space and it seems like every closet, drawer, or cabinet I open I’m surprised with a huge amount of storage space. They really used every inch of this place that they could extremely efficiently as far as storage goes. I particularly love how some of the kitchen cabinets and the cabinets in the built in TV entertainment thing down stairs have pull out shelves. There’s also an intercom system through out the whole house that also plays music in every room, and of course provides a way to talk to people on a different floor. But, I think one of my favorite things is the bathrooms. In the down stairs bathroom the wall sconce is so pretty. It’s similar to this one except it’s brushed silver color instead of brownish gold. And of course the sinks in the master bathroom are gorgeous. I just love it here. I’ll have to upload some pictures of what it looks like now that we are almost 100% moved in. Anyway, enough about the condo.

Kathy and Jason (sister and brother in law) and their kids came up Friday and are leaving tomorrow. I love when they come to visit, they’re fun. They’re just like Preston and I so we all get along really well. Right now Preston, TJ, Kathy, and Jason are in the entertainment room playing Rock Band. LOL! It’s actually a really fun game. I think I better get off here and go hang out with them. I brought the girls up to put them in bed and got called over by my Mac. I think I also hear my home made apple pie calling my name… hehe. Oh speaking of food, the girls ate green beans for the first time today! It was so cute! Preston got some pictures so I’ll have to post those soon. And I took them to the doctor last week because of their tummy issues, and they did have a virus and it seems to finally be gone now. But I found out that Emma weighs 14lbs 7.5oz and Ava is 15lbs and some odd ounces. It wasn’t technically her appointment so I just had the nurse weigh her real quick and she didn’t write it down. All she remembered was 15lbs but they both have their 6 month well check on the 30th so I’ll know for sure then. I can’t believe how big they are!!! And that they are almost 6 months old! Crazy!

I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving! We haven’t had our Thanksgiving dinner yet… we’re doing that on Saturday when the whole family is able to come up. Preston’s parents have been here since Thursday though, and so has Ashton. I’m still trying to get the house completely unpacked before everyone gets here today. I actually don’t have much left. I finally got my computer set up. The little break from the internet has been nice.

So, today is Black Friday. The crazy day where women stand in line at Walmart in hopes of snagging up the last of the newest toy their kid has to have or getting a great deal on one of the microwave ovens. I think I’ve been shopping on Black Friday once, ever. I might go out today and get something at JC Penney since I have a card there. The girls are to long for their Carter’s bodysuits now, which is expected since they are 3 month size, so I want to get some more while they are on sale. We’ll see though. I haven’t decided if I’m brave enough to take on the madness or not.

Here’s a random thought: I like having our checking account accessible online. I used to balance my check book the old fashion way and I hated doing it. I also like that I can pay our bills online through our bank account. I have things set up to automatically come out before the due dates so I don’t forget to pay a bill. Which, comes in handy when you’re doing something like moving.

I posted pictures of the condo. They were quick shots but you get the idea. I’m soooooo sleepy!

Well, we are moving today! We go and pick up the keys at noon. I stayed up late packing but I still have a little more to do. I can’t wait to get this over with though. I’ll say it over and over again, I hate moving. It’s going to be fun for Preston and TJ to carry stuff up to the third floor! Some stuff will be interesting to watch them move… Workout equipment is always interesting to see… like ellipticals and work out benches. The ellipitcal is really hard because it’s oddly shaped and kind of tall. Good thing it’s only going on the second floor though. And I always get nervous when the TV gets moved. I just picture it being dropped down a flight of stairs. That would suck so bad! Nah, they are really good at moving though. Hey, you’d have to be good at moving by now considering how many times we have moved so far! Pretty soon we’ll be catching up to my Grandma or Preston’s sister. Teasing. Really though my Grandma has moved something like 28 times. She’s even stayed in places a shorter amount of time than that one house Preston and I moved into. So, if you think we move a lot… we’re not even close to my sweet Grandma! Seriously though, we can’t get a better lease payment than this for the space we want so we’re not going anywhere for the next year or more.
Preston is watching a movie with Ashton right now at her house so once he gets back we’re going to get the keys. She had her tonsils out yesterday. She’s doing pretty well. She just wants to be here with her Daddy, so since she can’t be, he went to watch a movie with her. She’s a sweetie pie. Anyway, I still have some things to do so I better get my butt off the computer.