It's Friday!!!

High Five for Friday!  I'm linking up with Lauren from Lauren Elizabeth again this week!  Here are my highlights from this week!

1. This week I started my new job! I'm really enjoying it so far! There is a lot to learn! I really like the people I work with and they have been so sweet in helping me to learn and adjust. This is my desk at work. I'm not completely settled in yet, but its good for now

2. Slowly we are getting settled in to our new home! I love where we are living now! It's such a blessing to be here! This picture is of our sweet Bella.  She took a break from unpacking and fell asleep on her daddy's foot. 

3. After work the past few nights Austin and I have taken Bella for some very relaxing and enjoyable walks around our new neighborhood! Our neighbors are so friendly and it has been great getting to meet so many of them already.  We even have a bark park for Bella to play in.

4. Mr. Goodies. That should require no explanation for anyone who lives in Lynchburg, but for everyone else Mr. Goodies is the most amazing ice cream place in the world. This ice cream stand always seems to have a really long line when we go but it is always worth the wait!

5. We have had a couple beautiful sunsets around here lately!

That has been the highlights of my week!  I just feel so blessed and thankful!  It has been a wonderful week and I'm really looking forward to a nice, relaxing weekend with my hubby and puppy!

Moving

Moving is hard.  Our move this past week made me never want to move again.  At least not for a good, long time.  Moving takes a lot of organization and a lot of boxes!  I can't tell you how may trips my husband took to different stores to get more boxes.  But moving was well worth it!  I just know we are going to be so much happier here.  Our apartment is a little bigger than the last, but the layout of the apartment is the most wonderful difference.  

My kitchen is much more open now.  And the oven door has glass to look in.  One of my least favorite things about our last apartment was the glass-less oven door!    

Our master bathroom is also another plus!  It's huge!  With lots of cabinets!  And a huge, wonderful bathtub!  
I also have a walk-in closet!  There is nothing more wonderful than a walk-in closet.  

The move itself would not have been possible without the help of our wonderful parents!  Both Austin's parents and my parents came down to assist with the move as well as two professional movers that we hired for 2 hours.  Getting professional movers was a great idea!  It was relatively cheap and they moved all of our heavy items and packed our moving truck for us!  It was such a blessing!  

I'm now in the unpacking stage.  This is no easy thing either.  But I'm so excited about our new home that it makes unpacking fun.  I have constantly checking craigslist for some of our furniture needs.  We have a growing list of items we would like to find for our apartment including some kind of a stand or a bakers rack to be used as a coffee station, 3 bar stools for our breakfast bar, a vanity for me so I will stop doing my make-up while sitting on the floor in front of my full-length mirror, and too much more.  Because of how expensive this list could be, we will be stretching out our buying process for these items until we find great deals and just the right items.

We will most likely be settled in this apartment for two to four years so I'm looking forward to the process of making this apartment our home.  

High Five For Friday

Today I'm linking up with Lauren from From My Grey Desk for High Five For Friday.


1. This past week we moved!!  We have been wanting to move for so long. But God had the perfect plan for us and we couldn't be more thankful for the opportunities He has blessed us with!

2. Both my parents and Austin's parents came in to town to help us move.  We could not have done it without them! It was such a huge blessing! I love our family so much!

3. On top of all that wonderful news, Austin and I both start our new jobs Monday! I will be working as a leasing consultant at an apartment complex. I can't tell you how excited I am for a new opportunity and a chance to develop new skills!  

4. I'm also so thankful for the extra time I have been able to spend with my hubby. Most of that time has been spent packing but I'll take what I can get.

5. One other piece of really exciting news...we now have a beautiful kitchen! The one we had in our last apartment was very small and two people could barely be in the kitchen at the same time, let alone the two of us and the dog.  The one we have now much more spacious. I also have glass on my oven door!! This is huge for me! I spent the last almost 2 years with an oven I could not look in. I'm way too happy about this oven!

The last two days have been such a blur that I didn't take many pictures.  Here are just a few from the week. Sorry for the quality of the pictures! I'm pretty sure I took them all as I was jumping up and down in pure joy from our new home!

This is our empty living room.  

And our beautiful kitchen!! 

Disney

     We just went on a 10 day vacation to Disney and had a wonderful time!  Instead of telling all the details of our trip, here are some pictures to show what we have been up to.

In the airport

The next few are from Animal Kingdom

Our next day in the park was Magic Kingdom

Following that, we went to Hollywood Studios

Epcot is by far my favorite park!  Here are some pictures

    Those were just a few of my favorites.  We were so blessed to have a such a long and wonderful vacation.  We were also able to spend so much time with my husband's family.  I couldn't be more thankful for so much family time!  Overall it was a great vacation and I was sad to see it end!