Welcome to Denver!!!

Well we made it to Denver without any truck/weather problems! The car made it first with me and my mom and we got our apt keys and took a good look at the apt before the boys pulled in. I will say that I wasn't in the best of moods when we arrived, and I noticed a lot of nick-picky things "wrong" with the apt. It had new paint and flooring, but it looks like they painted before they fixed the walls/floors and there was dirt, paint chips, and dead bugs all over the floor. I think a normal person would have been like "oh well" but I nearly had a breakdown. Again, I think it was more because I had driven since 6 o'clock over two states.Jeff, me and my parents loaded ALL our stuff into the apt on Friday afternoon. It's pretty crazy to think back on it, especially since we had a bed, desk, big couch, TV, and hope chest to bring in on top of all the many, many boxes. We slept well that night as you can imagine. And what joy did we wake up to the next morning...SNOW! Yep, not a blizzard but our balcony had a thin layer of cold snow, and I mean COLD. I didn't think the leaves had fallen quite yet and here we are turning up the heat in the middle of Oct.
Well the next couple days we managed to find a table & chairs, two bookshelves, five lamps, firewood, and a TV stand on craigslist. Thankfully my parents helped us out with that, they are the ones that found the great deals, and had the big car to haul everything in and their wisdom as to the actual worth of some of the items we looked at. Brian (brother), Sam and Simon helped us a lot on Sat unpacking almost all our clothes and also putting our kitchen table together. I feel so blessed to have such a great family, always willing to help you out. I really don't think we could have done it without them!
ANYWAY...I LOVE the apt now. We wrote down all the things that needed to be fixed and guess what, the maintenance guys came the following Monday to fix everything! We even ended up getting a new W/D unit because the old one was off balance! Needless to say I didn't need to have gotten so worked up because the apt managers really want us to be happy, and they even sent the cleaning crew back to finish up the "not so clean" windows and walls.

We went to our ward on Sunday and felt VERY welcomed. Actually, we felt so welcome that I found it a little bit overbearing on top of all the other changes that had happened over the last 48hrs, but in the end Relief Society made me feel right at home.
We are quite happy with our place and have found we enjoy all the room, especially the TWO walk in closets and TWO bathrooms, no more waiting for the shower! Anyone have any advice to how to decorate a fireplace without a mantle?