first night in OUR first home: according to Kyla

My first night in the new place.

Its almost one in the morning and I cant sleep. Kevin predicted that I would stay up all night arranging things and starting to make our place look like home. True, however I cant actually do as much as I would like because the homeowners still have a few maintenance things to fix tomorrow and Monday.
So after an hour of moving boxes into the middle of the room and putting away bathroom stuff I am still wide awake thinking of all the lovely things I will soon be able to do to make this apartment the first Kevin & Kyla Ford home.

As you may have guessed by now, today Kevin & I (mostly Kevin) moved my things and his big furniture into our new apartment. It is still just as beautiful as the first time we looked at it and I am still just as in love with it. Maybe a little more now that OUR things are in it and I will get to give it a "Kyla Touch". I didn't realize how much stuff Kevin has. I am sure he will say the same when we bring the rest of my boxes over from Mark and Catherine's, but between the two of us we have a lot of "Stuff". Kevin did pull out his photo albums from his mission and that was very cool to see!

Uhaul.

Lots of stuff

Kitchen still under construction

That cabinet in the middle is new :) More space!!

Skip's Tools.

I went to the store tonight and purchased as many "basic essentials" as I could think of to  get me by. My "essentials" list consisted of:
Milk
Special K Cereal (With Strawberry's)
Powerade
Bread
Peanut Butter
Jelly (Raspberry)
Tangerines
Toilet Paper
A Shower Curtain & hooks
Laundry Detergent, Bleach and  Dryer Sheets

These are the first things I bought for our home and I'm really excited to have some things in here.
Cant wait until Kevin and I can go shopping for the STOCK THE HOUSE list :) That's always fun.

After a long day of moving , on our way to get the last of my boxes , I took Kevin on a date to J-dawgs (my new boss told me to) for his hard work and being such an awesome mover! It was so good.

Dinner Date after a longgg day.

Well, I just wanted to write a quick entry on how thankful I am for Kevin and for all his hard work. Also thank him for forfeiting the KING size bed we received as a wedding present (that he's been using for the last month and a half) to bring to the new place so I had a nice bed to sleep in.
Sometime after the wedding we will have a small house warming party and you Utah friends will get to see it. For everyone else I will post a new blog once we are settled in and once its had the magic touch.

Car full of boxes

Our living room with boxes

Bedroom.. in all the chaos I still have the bed made!

furniture purchase numero dos!

Our New Table.

Our Table In our New Home (pic courtesy of Kyle & Carly Sipherd)

Tonight Kevin and I had the fun experience of purchasing our second major piece of furniture for our home. 

We have been looking for great buys online for awhile now.

Looking for things like a bed frame, dresser, couch, coffee table and dinning room table.

Tonight we checked off dinning room table from our list :) 

We are so excited about this purchase (not only because I get to Blog about it) but because it was just what we were looking for and when we saw it, we knew it was THE ONE! 

I guess our theory on furniture purchasing is that we are young, not wealthy and have a small place to start (don't most people? ) and so we don't want to spend our future children's college funds on fancy/shwanzy furniture. So for now, buy something nice for an inexpensive price. Kevin has converted me to KSL and Craigslist. Since I'm still looking for a job right now I am almost addicted to checking the websites as often as possible to see if something new has been listed. It's serious out there people. We are in a bad economy and everyone knows you can get an awesome deal  online. We saw a couch list and 26 minutes later get sold! 

So today we were looking online and we saw it. It matches the cupboards and storage shelves at our new place perfectly!

Kevin called right away and the nice lady (Katherine) said we could have it.

Kevin, being the get the best deal possible person he is (that I love) asked if she would sell it for $130, twenty dollars less then what she was asking.

It was here that we found out our second K2 purchase of $150 was originally purchased for over $1600 from Ethan Allen. Nice :)

We were so excited and told them we'd come get it tonight.

The couple who sold it to us was so great. The lady told me how it had been their FIRST big purchase as a newlywed couple and they had it for years and they loved the table but it didn't match their new contemporary theme in the new home they purchased. 

I could absolutely tell this little table had great sentimental value and such a dear place in her heart. I really felt like I was being given a great responsibility to take care of this table and give it a good home. I even promised the lady that Kevin and I would love the table and put it to good use! 

We also got to take it to our new place tonight. Kyle and Carly were so great to help us move it in :) We are so excited to start getting all our stuff in there starting next week.... stay tuned for that blog that will probably drag over a couple months as we slowly get me moved in and then Kevin in March :)

Oh and last night I made the OFFICIAL COUNTDOWN until our wedding

(I love fun crafts like this)

57 Days until I Marry My Best Friend.

Thanks for Reading.