St. Louis

This is where we are calling home for the next 4 months. I have really enjoyed St. Louis so far. We don't actually live in the city of St. Louis but in a town right outside called St. Charles. We live in a great apartment complex called Sun Lake Apartments. Here are a few pictures of our lovely apartment. This is a picture of our living room. Now don't judge us for the ugliness of the couches...we did NOT pick them out.
Now my favorite thing about the arm chair and couch is that they really don't match but they tried to blend them together by putting the pillows from the armchair with the couch. I guess I can't complain too much...at least we have somewhere to sit. :o)

This is a picture of our kitchen table. I love it!

This is our kitchen.

My favorite thing about the kitchen is that it has lots of counter space (compared to our apartment in Rexburg) and it has a DISHWASHER!!! I love not having to do dishes by hand! I am dreading having to go back to Rexburg in the fall and not having a dishwasher...so I guess I will enjoy it while I can!

This is my laundry room. I have my very own washer and dryer. There is no saving quarters so I can wash the laundry, I can wash the laundry whenever I want to!!! I am being way too spoiled and probably will complain when we go back to Rexburg and start saving quarters and doing wash only when necessary! But I do love my apartment for the summer. It is beginning to feel like home and I am grateful to have such a wonderful place to stay in and not have to pay very much for it! Thankgoodness for blessings!!

This is a picture of my dishtowel. Yes that is the burn marks of the oven!! I was cooking pizza one night and had just finished cooking the chicken. I took the chicken off of the burner and turned it off. I then lifted the dishcloth from the pizza dough and put it on top of the burner...bad mistake! All of a sudden the kitchen was smokey and I look down and see that the smoke was coming from my dishcloth!! So I took it outside to our patio and let it sit out there for the rest of the night. As you can tell from the picture I definitely cannot use this dishcloth again, although Ben did suggest that I could just cut that part out of the dishcloth and keep on using it!

This is a picture of the St. Louis temple. I went there today with a few of the other wives. We have started the "Platinum Wives Club". We get together usually once a day and do something together. Well today was temple day. The St. Louis temple is about 20 minutes away from us. What a great blessing that is. I am just sad that Ben and I will probably never get to go together. The St. Louis temple is a small temple. They don't open until 9 in the morning, which doesn't give Ben and me enough time to go in the morning. But hopefully our Bishop works something out so that we can have a "special" early session for all of us to go to.

For my last bit of exciting news...

We are going to the Rascal Flatts concert in June.!!!! I am so excited because both Ben and I LOVE them and we have been wanting to go to their concert for a while. So Ben decided to take a few hours off of work to take me to go and see my favorite singing group! I am so excited and can hardly wait to FINALLY go to their concert!
Life is great here in St. Louis. Ben is doing excellent at selling and I am so proud of him. My job has got to be one of the greatest jobs ever. I am in the inventory manager and I can go in whenever I want, there are no set hours, and I work with one of the greatest girls ever. So life is definitely good here in St. Louis!