Home Sweet Home

Here are some pictures of our apartment!

The living room

We don't have a real dining room, but luckily we have a spacious living room so the dining table fits nicely.

This is the view looking into the kitchen from the living room/dining area.

The kitchen

The bathroom

Our bedroom is totally pink! Believe it or not, I actually didn't mean for it to be THIS pink. We got a pink lamp and when we turned it on we found out that it tints our room pink! Oops. The pink bedding was the cheapest we could find that was comfortable, and since I love pink, I couldn't complain. After that, we just went with it. Can't say I mind too much, and luckily, Michael doesn't either. :-)

Last but not least, this is our guest room/storage room/Michael's study room. Michael also uses the closet in this room since I pretty much took up all the closet space in our room. He's so nice!

We really like our apartment. Our only complaints are that some of the stuff is really old and doesn't work very well (such as the dishwasher) and there are plenty of spiders. I am beyond terrified of spiders, so that's been quite the adjustment. :-)

We have been having lots of fun and have made some really good friends. We have also been exploring the city. Some of our adventures include walking around downtown, checking out the Titans stadium, and visiting Centennial Park, which is the most famous park in Nashville. It has a replica of the Parthenon which is pretty neat, although we haven't taken the tour of the inside yet.

Wedding pictures are almost done so I will post some when I get them!

Frogs, snails, and puppy-dogs' tails....

.... that's what my husband is made of! When I got engaged, I got lots of advice from a lot of different people. I remember that my boss at the time (who is a male in his late twenties) told me, "Remember that all men are really just little boys in bigger bodies." I told him that I definitely already knew that because I have two brothers who have proven that statement very correct. However, being married has shown me that his statement was even more true than I realized. I came to this understanding one day last week when I was doing my hair in the bathroom. I realized that I hadn't heard any noises from Michael in about five minutes and my first thought was, "Uh-oh, he must be up to no good." Usually he is talking to me or going on about something philosophical or singing made-up words to a song. :-) I went to check on him and found him making a mess. Right then I realized that if not hearing anything meant he was up to no good, I really was married to a little boy in a bigger body. Haha! By the way, he doesn't act like a child in an 'ugh-my-husband-is-so-childish' type of way, but in a really funny way.... at least most of the time. ;-)

After that I started looking for more ways that Michael acts like a little boy and grabbing the camera whenever I caught one. This is what I found:

I have woken up freezing quite a few times because he steals the blanket AND my pillow!


He begs me to buy Goldfish every time I go to the store and then sits too close to the TV while eating them on the floor. Yes, I tell him to scoot back... or sit on the nice comfy couches we have.

I told him that after I took the picture, he couldn't do this anymore. :-)

Anyway, I tease him about all of these things, but really I can't help but smile when I'm picking up Cheerios off the floor. He definitely keeps my life interesting! Love you Michael! And I'm really probably making the situation worse when I do things like not let him go to his first day of classes before I take a first day of school picture. :-)


Life in Nashville is good. I am keeping busy by exploring, scrapbooking, and finishing up my thank-you notes. Michael likes school and is already planning his thesis. We are excited for fall to come - we hear that fall in Nashville is beautiful!!