September - Our new house & apple pickin'

In September, we moved into a new apartment in American Village in Durham, and we LOVE IT. Brigham specifically asked for pics, so here you go!!

After moving in all of our junk, before organization:
It seriously took me 15 minutes of excruciating pain and pee-pee-dancing to find the FREAKING TOILET PAPER!!

See: new treadmill from craigslist!!

Last look at our old apartment building in south square. 

New townhouse in American Village!

Our backyard/ side of the house

Family Room

Dining area:

"Cupboard under the stairs"

Downstairs bathroom

Tiny Kitchen

Cluttered kitchen, with treadmill looming over you

Entry way/stairs

Overflowing basket of shoes

Upstairs

Upstairs hall

Laundry area

2nd bathroom

 2nd bedroom

Matt's little office space in 2nd bedroom

Our bathroom

Sadly, I do not have pictures of our bedroom because... well it just never got to the point where it was clean enough to take a picture. So there is a bed, and two dressers, and two night stands, and two closets, and piles and piles and piles of my clothes everywhere. Pictured it? Good.

Other September happenings... 

Labor day, we just spent unpacking and organizing. Kind of lame. But I did get a chance to take a break in our new backyard, read some harry potter and birdwatch.

We had our Ward welcome barbecue which is great. And I signed up to make pasta salad. It was also a really rough day to make pasta salad because it was just a rough day all around. Moving while starting out the school year = rough. Anyway, I was in a bad mood and stressed, and I put the delicious pasta salad on the back of our car, and forgot to bring it in before driving off. And you can imagine what happened next. You shoulda seen the road. 

Needless to say, in my emotional state of craziness, I cried almost the whole way to the barbecue. And then I was fine because it was delicious. 

We also drove 2 hours to go pick golden delicious apples with some ward friends. I think it was probably worth it. We picked like 20 pounds of apples and went home and I tried to make as many things that I could think of out of them. 

I don't know why I'm laughing in this picture, but it probably has to do with Matt's tongue sticking out.

Washing dem apples.

Pork chops and cinnamon apples.

Caramel apples with some friends.

Mostly just failed, because everything dripped to the bottom of said apples.

We had an apple dessert night with friends where everyone brought something made with the apples. I made apple cheesecake.

That is pretty much it for September! We spent most of September trying to unpack things and organize the craziness that is our apartment. But we seriously love it here. We have 6 other families in our ward that live on our circle, which is fantastic, and I am a wee bit closer to work. We are still trying to recuperate from an amazing summer and getting back to the daily grind. But we love it here!!