Our New Castle

Finding the perfect housing has seemed like a search of desperation for Kent and I.  We have spent the last couple months trying to figure out where in the world we were going to live.  We are very picky about our home...our requirements; enough room to walk, stand, and sit, some sort of heat, a stove, a bathroom, and under $500 a month.  We happened to get lucky enough to find exactly what we wanted!

Our new place is culturally diverse, it is called Tenda Rossa.  We are expecting fiestas every night.  This lovely apartment offers all these wonders with several additions, a washer and dryer and (drum roll please....) a dishwasher!!!!  I never realized the importance of dishwashers but in our nearly seven months of marriage we have yet to experience anything but hand washing our dishes.  Needless to say, we are excited to just push that button and BAM the dishes are clean!

Another lovely feature of our soon to be new home is that it is right across the street from the Snow building!  That is the music building and Kent practically lives there.  When I say right across the street, I mean RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET!

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The building on the right with the red Jeep-looking thing in front is our new apartment and the doors on the building to the left are where I pick up and drop off Kent every day! Just ignore the marker...I don't know how to get rid of it!

 Finding this place was the biggest blessing...I had never paid attention to this place before.  One day while dropping Kent off, I happened to glance its direction.  I immediately called the number.  We had applied to an apartment with this agency before so they already had an approved application along with the application fee on file.  It had just gone onto the market that day and I was the first person to call on it.  It was ours!

Here are some pictures...we haven't been inside yet so you know as much as we do! This is the "Before" section of the Before and After pictures. 

The lap of luxury

Living room, maybe!? It's just a one bedroom...I don't know!

Our bed is blue too...it's meant to be!

A bathroom...no kidding!

The next day they called me back and told me that they did not actually have an application from us and they had someone else sign up for it.  just was just mad and gave up.  Kent is my hero, he jumped into action and pulled up our bank statements, made a few phone calls, and made them give the apartment back to us! 

We are excited even though it won't be until the middle of April that we get to move in.  In the meantime, we are blessed enough to be staying with Grandma and Grandpa Hendricks.

Never thought I'd see you here...

I have never considered myself the "blogging type" yet here I am!  I can't imagine that I will have anything to say that will impress anyone or be nearly exciting enough to read. But I think someday I will be thankful that I started one when I actually had enough time to put in to it! 

Kent and I have now been married for six months!  Time has really flown and we are loving every second of it.  Being married has brought many different experiences, joys, and challenges! 

Our joys started on day one...our wedding!  It was the best day ever!  I married my best friend, the weather cooperated with us enough to let our outdoor reception stay in our parent's beautiful backyard, the bowling ball cannon (thanks Dad, Josh, and Uncle Dave) didn't hit anything or anyone, and all of our family and friends could be there.  It was a great way to start out our marriage.

The challenges didn't wait long to start happening...a month after the wedding Kent got mono!!  I always thought that mono meant you were just really tired for several months...WRONG!!!!  Poor Kent was super tired, was running a fever, had terrible swollen tonsils (they were bad enough to make two doctors say "Yuck!"), was throwing up everything, and at one point his entire body broke out in the most terrible rash I've ever seen!  But he handled it like a champ...some of the best quotes, "None have suffered as I", “Not even giving birth can be this bad", and (my favorite) "Why would you do things that don't make me happy!?"  It really did bring us closer together but thank goodness it didn't last for more than two months!

Right now we are going to BYU-I.  Kent is studying Music; he wants to be a college saxophone teacher.  He is in the main university jazz band, a combo group, and the lead classical saxophone quartet.  Last week He played in a concert with Eric Marienthall and this week he is off to Moscow for the Hampton Jazz Festival.  He works really hard and spends a lot of his time in the Snow's practice rooms.

I am in my Junior year studying Sociology.  I'm still not sure what I will be doing but I think I would like to work in a juvenile delinquent center.  It's taken me a while to settle on a major but I've finally struck gold!  I love all my classes and can't wait to learn more. 

We stay very busy with school and our work, Kent works at Wells Fargo and I work at City Storage.  We are loving life and can't wait to see what the next six months bring!