Saturday, December 31, 2011

Trevor!!

Trevor Benjamin, Big T, T money, Trev, etc was born on Christmas (7 lbs 10 oz, 19 in.), and we still haven't gotten any pictures up. So, with a bit of my free time I set up a photobucket account to get you guys some pictures so you can see him. I love this kid!

First and foremost, Becca 4 days before the day

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Here he is, the first picture of his life!

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The happy father

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And mother

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And a couple more while we were in the hospital

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And getting him ready to go home

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Then, the day after, we learned his bilirubin (or however the heck you spell it) was high, so we needed to put him under some lights. It was no fun, but a blessing because it helped so much and we only had to do it for one day!

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He's a cute kid!

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One more with mom, who was a HUGE help! Thanks again, mom.

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One more with each parent

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He's a keeper!

Friday, December 16, 2011

another move

We moved again! Surprise! I think this makes something like six moves since we've been married. That averages out to like 3 months per residence. Crazy. But this one will be the last for a while. Guaranteed. We were promoted to Resident Managers at Cinnamon Tree Apartments in November and it came with an awesome new 2 bedroom 2 bathroom apartment and we are loving it. It definitely could not have come at a better time. So here is a tour of our little apartment 8 1/2 right before we started packing up to move out. Some of the pictures are a little stretched, making the apartment seem slightly bigger than it actually is, just because without the stretching, you wouldn't be able to see a thing due to how tiny the apartment was.

Living Room/Kitchen

Kitchen

Hallway/closet

bathroom

bedroom

Entire house

Then we sold our futon and bought a new couch and loveseat. ksl is a wonderful thing. We got the furniture for pretty cheap - it is super nice, but definitely needed to be cleaned. And microfiber is not an easy thing to clean. But Ben, being the wonderful husband that he is, researched it and cleaned them all. They look incredible.

Before

After

Once we moved into our much larger apartment, we got the TV set up. It didn't look bad, but it certainly didn't look that great. The big white wall behind the TV doesn't have anything on it, so it all looked kind of bland. But, KSL came to our rescue again! For a pretty cheap price, we got a great entertainment center that makes the living room really come together. The difference it makes is huge!

Before

As a side note, while we were getting all the chords and such put together, we temporarily put the TV on one of the "towers". She must have forgotten about them, because once when standing up, she hit her face precisely on the corner of the TV, and got herself a really nice shiner. I felt bad, but at the same time it was really really funny. She was
upset for a while, but she started laughing about it after some time.



Back to the point though - this is the after picture. Not too shabby

I don't know why it's suddenly writing everything bold and I can't make it stop. Anyway, we finally finished unpacking the last box a couple of days ago, and we absolutely love this place!