First Home

 Recently, M and I have been reminiscing the time we spent in our first little apartment in Birmingham.  I don't know why really... perhaps with the holidays coming around, we always tend to get a tad nostalgic.  From an outsider's perspective, there wouldn't be much to miss about that place.  It was an 800 sq. foot one bedroom apartment in an apartment complex with 1 too many Samford students.  To top it all off, about a month after we moved in, we realized that we lived a couple hundred feet away from a water treatment plant, that oddly enough only smelled in the cold.  But it was our first home, where M and I started our married life together.  And while I wouldn't trade our life now for anything else, it's fun to remember those days :)

That apartment is where:

Even though the tree leaned a little :)

We celebrated our first married Christmas

We brought Lexi home!

We celebrated our first Birmingham snow

We watched Lexi and Geoff fall asleep together NUMEROUS times

Heath and Russ came to surprise me for my 23rd birthday

We discovered a love of cooking together

Matthew spent countless hours writing his dissertation defense over our little kitchen table :)

We miss you 417 Oaks Drive!