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Saturday, April 11, 2009

In short: We're moving!

In long: About a month ago Nathan and I decided we would start looking up apartments in Abbotsford in anticipation of Mr. B getting accepted to Columbia Bible College in their Worship Arts Program. He found an ad on craigslist for an apartment that was 8 minutes (driving) away from the school and made an appointment to go look at it. I was very reluctant because i DID NOT want to live in that particular city. I thought Abbotsford started at castle fun park, because I'd never actually been IN the city, but when Nathan told me that castle fun park was actually almost Chilliwack I felt a little better and was more open to the idea. SOOOO, we went to check this place out. It was old and ugly, but the apartment we saw had potential. My mom randomly phoned Richard and Heather Clark and they met us out there and told us a little about that area. We went to their house for hot chocolate (we don't drink coffee haha) and Richard pulled out a map and told us areas where we should look at. It was so incredibly helpful and encouraging. He told us that we probably didn't want to live in the area we had visited and that there were TONS of apartments around the school. He took us out to the college to show us exactly where it was and he was right, there WERE tons of apartments around. So thanks to him we began to look in that area and that is how we came across Dahlstrom Manor. It's an older building but it is clean, there's a security guard which makes me feel better, the manager was super nice, and best of all it is literally right across from the school. We went with my family to look at the apartment that was available and we really liked it. It's smaller than what we have now, but there's plenty of storage and I could really see us making a home there. That particular apartment became available April 1st and we weren't ready to move then so she said we could move into a third floor one in May that looked just like it so we signed some stuff and waited to see if we'd be approved. The next day we found out we were and we went again to sign some more papers to make it official!! BUT when we got there she said she made a mistake and the third floor apartment was already rented, buuuuut there was another 2nd floor apartment that was way nicer (her words) that is available. So we looked at that and sure enough it was WAY nicer, and it faces the mountains and I will be able to see Nathan walking across the street to school from my living room window haha. So we move in on May 2nd and we are so so so so excited!! Nathan will be commuting to Annacis Island for a couple months which he is okay with, and I work in langley so I only have to drive for like 20 minutes. We are going to continue to go to gracepoint (in the whiterock area) because we love our church so much and we aren't willing to give it up. We think it's worth the drive. Our worship pastor dude has been super encouraging to both of us. He went to Columbia as well and has been mentoring Nathan and kind of helping to prepare him for this journey. He actually wants Nathan to be a kind of assistant to him at the church, he has to pass that through the board first though. We're just really encouraged and feel like we are definitely on the right path. It feels good.





The living room and dining area. These pictures are from a different apartment building but is still part of the Mainstreet Group, so the apartments look similar. 
                                                       

                            The Bathroom (obviously haha) Ours looks a little newer though. 


                                                           Our apartment building

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