Title is random but so true. :) This weather is absolutely breath-taking. I cannot wait for the neighborhood pools to open this weekend! Usually my family joins Douglass Hills for the summer months but supposedly 19 is the oldest you can be on your family's pool membership and since this summer I am 20 I will have to get my own pool membership. I am not sure how much it costs and if it is even going to be worth paying because of all the wedding stuff and the fact that come August Alex and I will be living in an apartment complex that has a pool. I'll have to look into it. :) And since I mentioned it, Alex and I signed a lease on a 2 Bedroom/2 Bathroom apartment last week! We knew we were going to live in Old Louisville but it was just up in the air whether or not we were going to rent an apartment, condo, townhouse or actual house. We looked at a few places and found this super fun house that would have been a blast to live in but it was really too much house and because it was so old the utility bill would have been outrageous. So we kept looking. In the end it was between a 2 Bedroom/ 1 Bathroom apartment off of Brook and Oak and the apartment at the Bellamy which we ended up choosing in the end. The Bellamy is apartment living for University of Louisville students only. They kind of do resemble dorms which Alex didn't like but there were just so many more reasons why we chose to live there instead. They come fully furnished which was a big plus even though his parents own a furniture and appliance store. It wouldn't have been hard to furnish an apartment but it would have been a big pain moving. Also the reason we are moving to Old Louisville is to plant a church called The Avenue which specifically is targeting University students. There are some crazy facts about religion or lack there-of on campus and there are many families from The Avenue moving to Old Louisville so that we can be a part of the community. Our pastor, Ben Hardman states our mission perfectly. "When Christ (Jesus) moves into a community that community changes from the inside out." When Jesus came to earth and dwelt among people, the world was changed for the better. Ben tells people that he wants a bunch of little Jesus's running around Old Louisville and serving the community. I just love it! :) Well anyways, we were doing the whole pros/cons thing between the places and we ultimately felt God's call for us to go to the Bellamy, not because it is nicer and has cool amenities but because that is where students are. The guys at our church can't just get a group to go play basketball at the complex's court... or play sand volleyball whenever they want to because it is a gated community but residents can let anyone they wish in through the gate and honestly, I think that from the launch team (which almost everyone is older than Alex and I), we are the only ones that can actually live at the Bellamy because we are students. We have that "in" that noone else has and hopefully we will be able to minister to and serve our neighbors while we are living there. If you are wanting our new address (starting July 31), please just message or e-mail me and I will get it to you!!
I was going to update a little more, but I have things to do today... Oh well!
I decided that I am not going to really be keeping up with the blog anymore. I was doing so good at keeping up with it on a regular basis, but I don't feel like it is something that needs a lot of my time right now. Perhaps I will come back to it on a more frequent basis but for now just look for random updates... I'm not sure when the next one will be!
- briana -
