Jonathan's company moved him to Fort Lauderdale in July of 2012, but I didn't move down from South Carolina until November of that year. While it wasn't fun to live apart after we had just been engaged, and were trying to plan a wedding - we knew that it was the best thing for our family and our future. Our plan was that I would move down to Fort Lauderdale by January regardless of if I found a job, but luckily I found a position and my company moved me down here!
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When Jonathan first moved down here his company found him an apartment for 6 months. This allowed us to look for a place to live and not have to find something immediately. Since we didn't know the area we decided we wanted to live close to work, needed at least 2 bedrooms, and that was about it. We found a place on SE 17th Street and were only 2 miles from my work and about 1 mile from his. Although there were some annoying parts of living there, we stayed for the first year and resigned the lease to stay another year.
A few months into our 2nd years lease, we found out we were expecting a baby. We knew the apartment was way to small for a family of 3 and broke our lease to move to a townhouse in Plantation. We LOVE our townhouse and I don't know how we lived in our cramped apartment for the first year. We now live about 20 minutes from work, but are a lot closer to many of the activities we like in the area. It is definitely a shorter drive to hang out with family, go to our doctor/dentist, and we are really close to the BB&T Center where there are tons of things going on.
Fort Lauderdale will always have a special place in my heart because this is where we became a family. Jonathan and I lived here when we got married, found out we were expecting and welcomed Jillian Harper into this world. I know we will not live here forever, but Fort Lauderdale will always live in our hearts.
We have made some great friends and had a lot of fun times with family over the past couple of years. We have started a new tradition of monthly game nights, and look forward to continuing this in the years to come. Jonathan and I have also made it to a few sporting events - professional hockey, football and baseball games. Maybe 2015 will be the year we make it to a Heat basketball game!
I had trouble picking only a few pictures - so here are a bunch from the past couple of years in Fort Lauderdale!
If you missed my previous Where I've Lived posts you can read them here:
I am sure that a lot will change over during the time that we live in Fort Lauderdale - and I'll make sure to update this post every now and then with the exciting things that are going on around here!
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