My favorite place in Rexburg

We have people come over to our apartment all the time! We have double date dinners and friends come over and hang out and play games. Any time either of us has a group project, we always opt to meet at our place - we prefer to be home! The awesome thing about this is that our apartment is super cute and everyone always compliments on my decorating! We have even had a few couples move into our complex because of how great our apartment is! I really feel like we have the greatest set up here at Hyde Park and have gotten a lot for our money. It was really a miracle that we got this apartment in the first place. This is our second one here in Rexburg since we have been married which is pretty great since we have been married for 2 years. Our first apartment was a hot mess. We were scouring Rexburg for any open married housing and were looking online from Ferron, UT which is 6 hours away. We finally found one and drove up that day to tour it and sign the contract. It was not the most amazing apartment we could have got, but it was seriously the ONLY apartment open that we could find so we took it! We moved in a week later in December with no furniture and slept on the floor in our new bedding. It was a basement apartment which basically equals very dark and freezing. We had Little Ceasars in the second bedroom on the floor, which has now turned into a "thing" that we like to do. It is our "first meal" sort of thing now and we did the exact same thing when we moved into our second apartment too - its the little things right! Our furniture finally came but our whole bed set didnt even fit into our bedroom. That was our first sign! Matthew's mom came to visit us and she was nice enough to say that our place was lovely....I know she was lying, but I love her anyway. Anyway, the winter was pretty harsh that year and needless to say we found a whole lot of mold one night. It was all behind our bed and into our closet which ruined 3 of my dresses and some pillows I had on the floor. We immediately pulled everything out of the room and scrubbed down our very new and very expensive bed set. We moved out the next day! That was a whorlwind if I ever knew one. I cried all night long and half of the next day wondering what in the world we were going to do. It was now March and in the middle of our college semester. I was on the phone all day and we must have visited at least 7 apartment complexes all saying they were full. I was so heartbroken and we had no idea what we needed to do. I was not spending another night in mold-ville and Matthew was furious at our rentor for selling us now obvious lies. Our rentor told us he would come by and clean the walls and that it is really not that big of a deal. Is he serious!!! No, it is in the walls buddy and we are not staying here. Well needless to say we lost A LOT of money moving out with no notice even though we were inhaling mold every night while we slept...I am still very bitter. We finally found a place that was open and unfortunately out of our price range but where else would we go. We drove there and were wating on the realtor to come and visit us and I just felt this pulling that we should leave. We left and pulled into the parking lot across the street to talk and figure out what we should do. As fate would have it, we pulled right up to our future apartment, called the number on the sign outside and BAM we had an apartment! The apartment manager drove right over and we toured it right there on the spot. We followed her over to her office right after the tour and signed papers. Crazy right! I cried again, but this time in total disbelief and thankfulness to my Heavenly Father for having a plan for us. They hurried and cleaned the carpets for us and moved in everything that we could fit on the kitchen floor while the carpets dried. Thank goodness Rexburg is not that big of a town and we did not really have to "pack up." The apartment was the total opposite of everything that we had just moved from which made me over-the-moon happy. It was brand new, second floor, has huge windows in the living room and big windows in the master and second bedroom, was in our price range, washer and dryer, garbage disposal, dishwasher!!!!, and covered parking as well. We hardly ever use the lights because of all the natural light that we get all year around. The apartment faces the east, so we get all the light from the sunrise in the living room and all the light from the sunset in the bedrooms. And we can see the Temple from our frong door. PERFECT! It is the biggest married housing that I have seen for the price we pay and has the most going for it. We have lived in our miracle apartment for 2 years next march and I am going to be so sad the day that we move. We have really made this place our home and look forward to living here for another 2 years while Matthew finishes school. And to top it all off, I am seriously in love with our ward family. We teach the Sunbeam class together which has been one of the greatest things to happen to us since marriage and we love each of our children so much. My favorite place in Rexburg is my HOME. I love my life, I love my husband, and I love my home. Thank you Heavenly Father for always watching out for me and my family.