Tour of Our New Apartment

Here's a little tour of where we'll be living for at least the next year. Our apartment was built in the 1940s and has a very "old Hollywood/vintage" feel.

 Front Entry

 Living Room

 View from living room into dining/kitchen.

Dining Room, eventually we will be getting a table.

            View from dining room into living room                 View from kitchen into dining room

          Kitchen                    Door where the milkman would deliver milk                   Back door

 Hallway

 Room #1: Mackenzie's Room

 I have a couple more projects I'm finishing that will go in her room (a mobile and wall hangings)

Room #2: Our Room

AND our favorite....a bright purple/pink bathroom. It's not as sick in person. It's the original tile so I guess that's cool.

Like I mentioned earlier, our apartment was built in the 1940s and has a lot of original detailing that we love. Here are just a few pictures to show the character of our apartment.

Every room has this really pretty detailing on the walls and beautiful crown molding. 

Built-in bookshelf in the hallway

We have loved this apartment so far. We're super close to everything I could ever need (Target, Costco, H&M, library, The Grove, the Temple etc.) and we're close enough to Matt's work for him to ride his bike. Plus we're also only about 10 miles away from Venice Beach. So people come visit us already!

Matt's New Job

For those who have been wondering here are some pictures of what Matt does all day...

or something like that



*For you non-Die Hard fans (like me)...the building Matt works in was used in the first Die Hard movie. As you can see Matt was pretty excited when he showed up for his first day of work.  Also apparently a lot of filming goes on around where we live....like Modern Family. I'm still waiting to run into Phil Dunphy.

For the Grandparents

DISCLAIMER: This post will probably only be interesting to family and most likely only Grandparents which is fine since I'm pretty sure they are the only people who visit our blog.

So Matt and I have turned into those parents who spend their Sunday evening taking pictures of their baby but when you have a baby as cute as ours can you blame us?

The Many Faces of Kenzie

After posting these pictures on Matt's facebook page

he wanted me to show that Kenzie does actually smile and doesn't only give intense glares (as you can see she gets her glare from her dad).

Pictures of our new place coming shortly

To Matt

For the past year Matt has been wanting me to start a blog. He wanted to share all the cool places we lived and visited (Rochester, Seattle, Vancouver & Victoria, Chicago, Costa Rica, Denver and Provo). I kept putting it off because I felt a little dumb posting a million pictures of just Matt and I. So now that we have a much cuter addition and since we're moving away from family I caved.

So here you go Matt. I might just count this as your anniversary gift :)

New York, New York

The view from Matt's hotel

Two weeks after Mackenzie was born Matt had to leave for training in New York (he left right after Kenzie's baby blessing...I was a mess). So to make life more bearable for both of us I took my 5 week old baby to New York for a week. *It was my birthday present from Matt's dad*

Mackenzie was a dream. She slept the entire flight there and back and every time we rode the subway she was out. I was a little worried about her hearing because of how well she slept through all the subway noise.

Here are some pictures from our trip:

View of Manhattan from Liberty Island

Ferry to Liberty Island


Central Park

Every time we went out this is how Mackenzie would always end up; asleep with her face buried in Matt's arm.

Walking the Brooklyn Bridge

After eating pizza in Brooklyn

New York from the Top of the Rock

She loved looking at the lights of the city

Rockefeller Plaza

Steps at St. Patrick's Cathedral

Radio City Hall

Time Square

Park by Matt's office

Smelly Subway

Wall Street

George Washington statue on Wall Street

Matt and Kenzie on the subway