So We Don't Forget - Our 1st Apartment

This week's topic, at Lynnette's "So We Don't Forget", is to tell you about our first home after we were married. Click on the button to join in!

Morgan and I were married in 1999. Both of us were still living with our parents, so we looked around at apartments in the area we were both working, which was in NW Houston. Neither one of us made much money back then. He was working as a technical writer for a company that wrote manuals for Compaq Computers. I was working for Universal Computer Systems, which was a company that provided computers and software to car dealerships. So, we found this nice apartment complex that we both loved. Our apartment was brand new and had never been lived in before. It was at the high end of our range, but we picked it anyways and signed a year lease.

Here's a picture of Mom and I outside the little porch of our apartment.

Let me tell you, for this apartment to have been brand new, it sure did have a lot of problems! Before we even moved in, there was a leak in the wall between our apartment and the neighbors, and the carpet in our closet got all wet and moldy. Ugh!

Then, one time we had a really hard, blowing rain, and this whole dining area leaked and the carpet was soaked. So, they had to come clean that up.

This is a picture my Mom took when we were moving our stuff in. That little table was my Mom's and she gave it to us because she wanted a new one.

Here's a picture of me in our tiny kitchen.

We had barely any furniture. Just a bed frame. In fact, it's only been in the last few years that we finally bought a bedroom set of furniture! I remember picking out this comforter at Target though. I thought it was so pretty and simple.

Here's our kitchen.

And our living room. My Mom made the pillows on the couch.

Notice the white spots on the ceiling? Yep, another leak they had to come fix!

It was only 3 months after we were married and living here, that I got pregnant with Madison. So, she was going to be due exactly when our lease was due to be up! During the end of my pregnancy, I had major swelling and for the last couple of weeks, the Dr. put me on bed rest. I remember just laying on that couch, hanging out with my feet propped up.

One night, the A/C went out on us, in the middle of August's 100 degree weather, with me 9 months pregnant! They were like, "we'll send someone out sometime tomorrow!" I remember not being too happy about that!!

So, since our lease was up and Madison decided to show up a week early (the day after my Birthday), one of the days that I was in the hospital with her, Morgan was out moving our stuff out of our apartment and into our house that we decided to rent from his Mom, trying to get everything ready before we came home from the hospital! Poor guy......he must've been exhausted, being a new Daddy and trying to get everything ready for us girls.

The house we rented just happened to be the house he grew up in. But, his Mom moved out and we needed a place to move into, so we lived there for a year until we bought our first house in Baytown. It was weird coming home with a baby to a whole new place. In fact, I think all the cleaning Mom and I were doing on my Birthday, trying to get everything ready at the new house was probably what sent me into labor. I remember standing up in a chair in the kitchen, putting dishes up (yes, I was supposed to be on bed rest!), and feeling these weird pains. I would stop for a minute, be like "Ouch!" and then I'd keep on going. I didn't even realize those were contractions! LOL!!

The next morning, I woke up and we headed to the hospital around 8am. I was already 7cm! I guess I had really been in labor since the day before and just didn't know it.

So, despite it's little problems, I have lots of memories from our first little apartment. It really was a nice place and it was just right down the road from the hospital that I delivered Madison at, which worked out great!