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Yesterday, Sebastian & I signed the lease on our first apartment. It's so perfect!

When we were apartment hunting a few months ago, this complex was the one we liked most. It's close to everything, had almost no crime stats, is spacious, & had great reviews from people we personally knew who had rented there before. Plus, there's only one main intersection between my parents house & ours. ;)

At the time, the lady told us that one bedroom & three bedroom units are hard to come by & have a pretty long wait list, but two bedroom units are always available. There is something like thirty-two of the one & three bedrooms, & one hundred & twenty-seven of the two bedrooms. So instead of applying for the apartment then, we decided we'd wait until the beginning of September & do it all at once.

At the end of August, Sebastian had me call to make sure there wasn't any one bedrooms available, & they said they only thing they had coming available was ONE two bedroom unit on September 16th. So we left & went to do our application right away, got approved, & paid our deposit all in one day.

The way their complex is, all first floor apartments have a patio, & all second & third floor apartments have a balcony. Most of the buildings, though, are in a "U" shape, so everyone's balcony's are just facing their neighbor's balcony! When we went that day to do our application, we talked about how we would atleast like a unit that faced the pool or playground, rather than our neighbors, but since there was only one available, we obviously weren't going to get to choose which one we got.

Let me tell you, the Lord saved this apartment JUST for us, & it is seriously the BEST one they have! Before we left, I asked the lady if she could tell us which apartment we were getting, & she gave us the number & told us how to get there. We're in the very back overlooking the LAKE! It's the quietest & has the most visitor parking, which has already come in handy when we had people over yesterday. :)

We have a third floor unit which is even better than the model we saw on the second floor. The living room is bigger & dining room is smaller, which is just how we'd rather it be! The closets are huge, plus we have a storage unit on the side of our building, too!

We had big plans to paint the whole thing yesterday since it was our only day off together before the wedding (NEXT WEEK!), but I've picked up some kind of stomach bug that totally ruined all of those plans! We had our parents over to see the apartment & we started taping off the trim, but we never even opened the first can of paint. Now, I'm home sick from work laying in bed, so tonight isn't looking too bright either. But I know we will get it done!

There are still some people we want to show in person before they see it on Facebook, so I'm not going to share too many pictures of the apartment itself yet, but I did, of course, take a million pictures yesterday. :)

We're so excited to begin our life together in our first home.