Moving Days...

It should tell me something when I have to write two seperate blogs in one day just to catch up on what I haven't blogged about. Yeeesh! Well, WE'RE HERE! Our new home in Wheaton, IL. Scott started his job yesterday and it looks like he's working about 9-3pm this week. We just love all the people he's working with. Lots of couples right around our age several little bitty kiddos running around. We've had several dinners together now with a lot of his co-workers. I'm actually about to go babysit for his boss who has a 5 month old daughter. :) Everyone has been super friendly and helpful. I absolutely love it so far! Wheaton is a west suburb of Chicago and we are surrounded by probably at least 4 or 5 more little suburbs around us. So many different stores, fun places to eat & shop, lots of parks and great places to walk! It's a total bonus that we're only about 25 minutes outside of the big city and there's a Metra stop literally right across the street from us. We haven't made it that far yet...we took last week to make a big moving day up with our Mom's and Kellie (WHO WERE HUGE HELPS!) and then we came home for the weekend and trucked it back up here with another car load. So, here are some pics of the outside of our apartment so you can see where we're living:

We're actually on the top right corner of this building, you can't see our windows from this picture.

These stores are directly across the strees from us. (A retail shop, travel agency, furniture boutique, and a SUPER expensive restaurant...probably won't be visiting there soon! ;) )

This is the Metra stop right across from us, there's an actual station behind all of these stores.

So this fun name plate is on the wall beside our front door. :)

And this sign welcomed us into our new apartment! :)

The five us spent the rest of the evening unloading boxes from the truck...wait, I take that back. About 5 or 6 guys (other GRAs and both of Scott's bosses) unloaded and carried everything up the stairs for us in a matter of minutes! What great guys! AFTER that we spent the rest of the night unpacking boxes and made a pizza run to Geno's East for some Chicago style pizza (which Scott and I ate on for two days after!). So, we got most of the stuff unpacked and the next morning...what we'd been waiting for...

YAY FOR IKEA!!! :) We shopped until our stomachs started growling so then what did we do...well what else!? We stopped for lunch at the IKEA cafeteria. Scott and I had some pretty bangin' Swedish meatballs with Lingonberry sauce! Which you can also purchase at IKEA. Yummm-o!

The next couple of days we spent trying to make our apartment look a bit more like home. Here's what we've come up with so far...some of the rooms still need a lot of work in the decor department.

Our kitchen :)

And this is one side of our living room...it's a pretty big space, and we're not quite sure what to do with it yet.

This is our guest room (those clothes are actually hanging up in a closet now and we bought a comforter for the bed). Those are the desks that the school supplied us with and the desktop computer they've supplied us with as well!

This is our bedroom. :)

And last but not least, this is our little bitty bathroom...okay it's not unbearably small, but those of you who knew that bathroom we had at my Mom & Dad's...this seems tiny. It just needed a little color though. :)

So there you have it...a tour of our new apartment! Once we finish the decorating I'll post some more pics. I'll try to take some pics around campus this week too. :)

If you haven't see my post about GREASE make sure you click on the web album in the next post! :)