I'm going to miss this

There is a country singer, I'm not even sure who it is, who sings a song about appreciating the stage of life you are in. The chorus says something like, "You're gonna miss this, you're gonna want this back, you're going to wish these days hadn't gone by so fast. These are some good times, take another look around, you may not know it now, but you're gonna miss this."

This is how I feel about the impending change about to happen in our lives! I am so excited to move on to the next stage, actually have us both graduate from college (in two months!) and move on to bigger and better things. However, I know that part of me will miss this stage. Ben and I have had such a fun couple of years being newly wed students in Provo. We've enjoyed the time we've had just together, the wards we've been in and the friends we've made. One thing I know I'll miss is our little apartment. It's small and pretty simple, and it's the first and only home we've had together. I love this little apartment.

This is what I see when I walk in the door

This is our awesome family room, complete with an old couch my parents had in storage. My brother Will wants this couch really, really bad and has come to visit it a few times since we moved it to Provo. The center part folds down into a little table with drink holders, perfect for eating breakfast on Saturday morning while watching HGTV.

This is our little kitchen table we found second hand on Craigslist. It's been perfect for us. This is where Ben and I braved the adventure of Courtney learning to cook.

My little kitchen. This is the oven where last February I blew up Ben's birthday cake (who knew cake could do that? Apparently if you use self-rising flour it does....it was like a chocolate volcano inside my oven) and had to make another cake after a quick run to the store to get regular flour and oven cleaner. Luckily the second cake went much better.

I really have no great memories of the bathroom, other than I love the shower curtain. For the first year we lived here our shower curtain was plastic and the color of a band-aid. I finally decided against being quite so frugal and bought this one from Bed, Bath and Beyond. Turns out, I still had enough money from wedding gift cards that I didn't actually pay for the shower curtain. And to think I let the band-aid curtain bug me for a whole year.

Lastly, our little bedroom. That completes the tour of the Hugo apartment. Mostly I wanted to post this for my own memory of this little place. It's had it's annoying little quirks, like the fact that sometimes we can hear exactly what is going on above/below us (the first year we lived here the people below us fought a lot, Ben and I knew way too much about their personal lives), and that the only heating/air conditioning unit is in the front room and requires a system of strategically placed fans to get cold/warmth to the bedroom, but we've loved it. It's been a wonderful home.