Our little abode

Here we are. That's us in the bottom unit. Our little veranda with something they call grass. It's not really grass, but I guess they don't really know any better.













The girls bedroom. Great for both of them. Soon we hope to get Kaylee a bed and Makenzie will upgrade to the crib, but Kaylee isn't ready for the bed yet. Maybe after Christmas.








This is the girls closet. It's HUGE. So much bigger than ours. Not fair, but it's nice to have the extra storage for all or our blankets, luggage, maternity clothes and anything else that doesn't seem to have a place anywhere else.

























This is the master suite. It's pretty much just a bed, but it's nice to be back in my own. I'm sure you can all understand that.










Here is our bathroom. Closet on the right and shower on the left.



This is our closet. Justis said that he finally feels like an adult. I asked him why and he said because he finally has a walk in closet. I thought it was so funny that that's all it took.






This is my laundry room. It's so nice not to have my washer in my kitchen/family room and to have my dryer next to my washer. Every time I do laundry the song comes to mind
"Reunited and it feels so good...."

You can all sing the song in your heads. You know you are.





Here is the computer/sewing room. It's not much right now, but it's nice to have a room for this kind of stuff. And there is a huge closet for storage.















Door out to our veranda.




















This is the hall/girls bathroom. It's a very nice sized bathroom.



Look how cute their shower curtain is. Frogs. There is a tumbler with a frog in it that Kaylee loves to play with when brushing her teeth or getting her hair done.











Here is our hall way that Kaylee loves to run up and down.















This is our family room-view from the kitchen.








This is the view from the front door.







Here is my dinning room with a pretty chandiler that will have a table under it in 4-6 weeks. That was 2 weeks ago so we are hoping for the 4 weeks and excited to get our first table. Yippee!!








What's behind door #1 and door #2??

You guess it, the HUGE food pantry.

Talk about space.

















Check out all that space. Have you ever seen such a wonderful sight??









Here is our kitchen. It's really great. I can still watch t.v. with Justis while I do the dishes. Our sink it just behind that counter right there and looks out into the family room.

Sweet Home Contintued...

So here we are, at the beginning of a new adventure. We've had a few in our 4 years of marriage, but none quite as big as this. Moving out of state was a scarey thought. I told myself that I have to be strong, I've got two little girls that I'm taking care of and thank goodness for that. They have saved me. It's been a really great experience so far. Let me give you a little glimpse of what it's been like.
We live about 2 hrs from the pan handle of Florida. Right in the Gulf of Mexico.(I hope you all remember your geography) So little did I know, but we have moved right into Hurricane Central. It's been pretty crazy. The first weekend that Justis was gone we had tropical storm Fay come through and dump a huge amount, I mean HUGE amount of rain. I thought I liked storms, but that was back in Utah. We don't really get stroms. Those are just little showers compared to what I seen out here. Anyway. Fay left us with flood watches and tornado watches that first weekend. For once in my life I wished I live on the top floor so that I wouldn't have to deal with the flooding. But thankfully we didn't have any problems. But the tornado, now that's another story. So I thought that tornados only hit the mid west states where it's just flat as far as the eye can see. Boy was I wrong. We get them here too thanks to the storms. So Monday night a week or so ago, my neighbor comes knocking on my door telling me that there is a tornado WARNING. Now that's different than a WATCH for all you who don't know. It means there has been one spotted and it's on it's way. So holy cow, I'm freaking out about now. So we knock on the neighbor's door across the hall from me and we go crowding in to her apt because she has more inside walls than we did. There were 3 of us girls, my two babies, 3 dogs, and a cat that were prepared to squish into a bathroom. It was intense. But luckily the tornado passed us on the far side of town. Phew!!!
Once Fay passed then came Gustav. By the way, those of you who know me well know that the Food Network was one of my favorite channels. Well that still is, but the Weather Channel is flying up the list. You could say that I've become OCD. But I don't care, it's comforting to have it. Anyway. Gustav came and went with little to no problems for us and now we are watching out for Hanna, Ike, and Josephine. What a party!!! It definitely makes your blood pump, being in these kind of situations, but we are doing really well. I'm learning to really take advantage of the sunny days and get out with the girls and enjoy the ones we have to stay in. The weather is really a great subject to talk about.

"Sweet Home Alabama"

Hi all- we are back online. It's been a few weeks since my last post but much has gone on. We've made a huge trip across the country and are still here to tell about it. I have so much to tell, but no time right now. So for all of you faithful blogger friends, I will post more as soon as I find a spare minute in my day(which as you mothers know is asking the impossible.) But I will do since there is no try.

Elephant baths, Scrapbooking, and Friends...

So at the beginning of the summer my mom, sister and I had such great plans to do so much before I move. We were going to finish projects, read books, scrapbook, get pedicures, go here, go there you get the picture. Well suddenly it's the middle of July, the summer is half gone, and have we haven't even done half of those things. So we sat down and planned out the rest of the summer weeks we have together. It's going by so fast. Anyway.
For all of you scrapbookers out there how do you do it with kids. I have been at it for 2 days now and do you want to know how many pages I've finished-3. Yep that is a 3. It's so hard to get anything done when you have one that is fighting with her cousin over toys or they are both hungry, then once you think you've got them down for naps you remember that you have the baby that likes to take little cat naps and then she just wants to be held all the time. Sigh!! I'm going to give it another go tomorrow so we'll see how that goes.
And last but not least, I've tried to see friends as much as possible this summer since I'll be gone for a while, but that isn't always easy. Some friends have to go and have their baby's two weeks early(j/k Tiffany- he's so cute), and you just can't all seem to get on the same page. But I guess we are trying and that's what counts and thank goodness for the blogging world. I'd lose track of everyone if it weren't for that. So thanks to all you wonderful bloggers and for pretty much insisting that I make a blog. It's been fun so far.

We did make it to the Zoo the other day which was a lot of fun. It's so rewarding and fun to see your kids faces when the see the animals and how the move and how big they are. We were fortunate enough to see the elephants get a bath. It was so much fun. There were 3 elephants. One was 48 yrs old and an elephants life expectancy is 42 mind you, one that was in it's 30's and the other was like 28. The 28 yr old was also pregnant and let me tell you what ladies, we thought we had it bad being prego for 9 months, well I'm thinkin that sounds pretty good compared to the elephants who are pregnant for like 22 months. OMG!!! I can't/don't even want to imagine.. She was so fun to watch because she loved the water. She came right over and ran straight for the stream coming from a fire hose. She would open her mouth and turn from side to side, fan out her ears to get behind them, and then she even got down on all fours to sit and enjoy. It was so fun to see. Kaylee was captivated by it. She squealed and giggle and just stood on my lap watching this whole thing. It was so great.