Our Florida Apartment

Maybe this will help some of you to come visit us! We love visitors and now is the time to take advantage. I love to keep a little journal of the apartments we live in. It’s always fun to look back and remember the great memories! I’m sure some of you are laughing because you will see our same furniture that we’ve had… and we’ve just moved it all around. Oh don’t you know IKEA furniture. Actually no, I am a little sick of it. Ok maybe just our couch…being prego I get so uncomfortable on our little couch it is so frustrating. I am in the process of trying to ship some of our stuff in Utah out here… hopefully that will happen soon. We got pretty lucky to find this place... Jeff was ready to go home when a realtor came to him and said "oh come on- just come look- it's on an island". So of course he had to check it out.

Jeff and I live on an island called Brickell Key II. It's pretty cool- you take a short bridge over to it and it has a small market, a couple of restaurants, 1 hotel, and the rest high rise condominiums! It's awesome.

Here is the night view from our apartment

Every day I get to walk out to this right outside our apartment… yes it makes me happy J

This walkway is about a mile around the island- I do it about twice a day to get my little doggie out and we love it!

Here is the entrance to the island

This is the outside of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. It is such a beautiful hotel! It also has a great restaurant inside that we like to take our guests to!

This is our private beach… no just kidding- I wish! This is the Mandarin’s beach. But whose to say we can’t just sneak in and use it?! Yes very easily done J

And here is the Mandarin’s pool

There are so many parks and grassy areas where moms will play with their kids and dogs- I can’t wait to bring our little girl here! Funny story- I took willie here one night to play with the other dogs… and there were some ladies doing yoga just a few feet over. Well they had balls, and cones and all the yoga stuff that I don’t understand. Well Willie sees these fun toys and just starts going after them and grabbing them with his mouth and running around like a mad man! Oh my gosh pretty embarrassing but hilarious. The ladies were yelling “get your dog!!” and I said “you’ve got to admit- this is pretty funny!” oh don’t we love our dogs that act like 2 year olds.

Here is the view from our apartment in the day

Our porch

Front room (what you see right when you walk in)

Master bath

Kitchen

The 2^nd bedroom- nothing neat right now- but this is soon to be the nursery

2^nd bath

Where the magic happens