Apartment Adventures

Life has been full of excitement these past few days as we've started our apartment adventures. We closed on Thursday and immediately headed over to our new home with a bottle of sparkling wine from our trip to Napa. It was a surreal experience for me as we stood together in what will become our living room. We took a few moments to let the moment soak in and then we opened the bottle to celebrate with a toast.
The celebration didn't last long before we decided to get to work right away. We've decided to paint the whole apartment ourselves--a fun (sometimes daunting *smile*) project to really make our place feel like home. Thursday night we tested our paints and they were exactly what I was hoping for. I will share photos once the rooms are done...but as a hold-over, some photos of us working:

We were really lucky to have Ryan's parents up from PA to help us out our first weekend--thanks Chris and Troy!
We'll be back on the ladders (I feel so tall up there!) painting this upcoming weekend (and probably the weekend after) but we're having a lot of fun along the way. It's really cool to see it slowly come together and to know that we're doing it together.