my house :)

Well, now it's time for a house tour.
First off we have the sign outside the apartment complex: Cedar Springs IV. It's really nice and feels quite safe. In the apartment above us is a group of Moody guys. We've done bowling, movie nights up there, and I even got a ride to school this morning. It's nice having other Moodies nearby since we don't have the dorm thing out here in Spokane.






Our living room! Yep, it's pretty boring and doesn't contain much furniture, but this is it! Our little futon and disk chair and plenty of floorspace if we decide to watch movies on our DVD player (we don't have cable).












Our dining room. Isn't that the most beautiful card table ever? Just kidding. We like that too. We have so much cabinet space in this house - there are some pillows, sheets and an air mattress in those cabinets. We also have a mini fridge - we use it for bottled water and juice :) The flowers are from Molly's brother.









Molly and I had fun picking out all that brightly colored bedding. Our room is full of color - it will be great when it gets really cold and ugly outside. The cubes are my nighttable/bookshelf/desk. The other side of the room has Molly's desk. We each have our own closet - very nice!










Our bathroom/the guest bathroom. It matches our bedroom - yay! It's pretty nice too. The door closes so one person can shower while another gets ready by the sink. Across from the sink is a sliding door that opens to reveal our washer and dryer - another great thing about this apartment!










Our kitchen. It looks really ugly from this picture, but it's not that bad. I'm quite fond of it. Several experimental recipes have already been created in here (courtesy of Molly and I).












Our fridge and freezer. We buy most of our food separately and distinguish who has what with colored dots. I'm yellow. The top half of the freezer is divided in half (the pizza is the divider)... Molly and I have pre-made meals on the left side (we spent all last Monday cooking) and Maddie and Amanda's food is on the right.














The cake we made for Dustin's birthday. Molly and I had too much fun making this cake and placing each sprinkle in the shape of the number 18. The boys thought we'd put something in it to poison them when we brought it upstairs. We didn't. And they enjoyed it.











Frosting the cake... you can see more of the kitchen and some of the dining room/living room in the background.














The banana bread we made. It looks NOTHING like banana bread but surprisingly does taste like it. We made our own recipe because we didn't have all the ingredients for either of the recipes we had on hand. It tastes really good with peanut butter. We were proud of it.











You may have noticed that our living room was totally boring when you looked at the picture of it. We decided that it was depressing late one night so the four of us piled in the car and drove about two minutes away (everything's super close) to Michael's to find something for the wall. This poster was colorful and a good motivator for the two that were freaking out about the amount of homework. We bought it, very excited about our find.







And there it is on our wall by the back door/Maddie and Amanda's room. We moved the couch back to take pictures with it... we were crazy that night. Our living room is no longer (as) boring.











Molly and I had a movie night on Friday: West Side Story, which I've had for awhile but haven't ever watched. We put pajamas on, popped popcorn using her Whirly Pop (I'd never seen one - they're so fun!) and brought our stuffed animals into the living room with us (thanks Dad or Scott or whoever randomly put the monkey in my suitcase - it made me laugh when I saw it). So far I really haven't gone out at all to explore... if we're not studying at night, we're sleeping or watching movies.






I saved the best for last: TEA! Dad, Beck and Scott sent two boxes of "house stuff" to me on Friday. I finally opened the tea that I bought in Ukraine (this one is mint - so good that it doesn't even need sugar!) and am using the travel mug from Jasmyn to bring hot tea to school. I've been sick with a cold for a few days so the tea is very nice to have around - perfect timing.
I'm still in love with the fact that my tea kettle whistles and that it's bright blue :) It's nice to have our own kitchen to create in.