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Archive for May, 2007

home again, home again…

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

Its so nice to be back in my home state!
Today we went to Roanoke because we desperately needed a baby gate to block off the kitchen. I also needed to exchange some things at Target, and I decided we should go to the zoo, too! So, we did all that and had a [...]

BIG update!

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

Here goes…
The move was terrible. We were unprepared and it was absolutely exhausting for us and all of our family. We’re very lucky that they haven’t all disowned us after schlepping our stuff cross country in our unorganized state.
The house is amazing! I LOVE my new home! It feels wonderful and [...]

What kind of luck is this?

Friday, May 18th, 2007

We – as a family – either have amazingly good luck, or amazingly bad luck.  I’ll let each of you decide:
-we were totally not ready for our move.  not nearly enough packing had been done previous to my parents arriving to help us this week.  At the last minute, the closing on our house in [...]

update from the road back

Monday, May 14th, 2007

(I wrote this earlier today on the way from Amarillo to Kansas City…)
First of all, the wedding was beautiful!  Susan and Don are very happy with each other and seem like such a great match!  Killy did a great job carrying his pillow down the aisle, but Ellie got about two pews into the church [...]

adventures in Arizona

Saturday, May 12th, 2007

I’ll just start off by saying that Arizona is one of the most beautiful places on earth!  The scenery here is absolutely amazing.
Yesterday (Thursday) we got up early, crossed New Mexico fairly quickly, and then made our first big stop of the day at the Painted Dessert and Petrified Forest National Park.  It was incredible.  [...]

on the road, part 2

Saturday, May 12th, 2007

(and this was originally written Thursday May 10th, about midday)
Update from the road! We all slept like rocks last night at the hotel. Both kids slept through the night – that is a big first! We were all worn out from our exciting day of traveling! Today should be even more [...]

on the road!

Saturday, May 12th, 2007

(this was originally written May 9th, but I can’t figure out how to change the timestamp to a past date)
We had a good day of traveling today! We left a little before 5am this morning, and arrived at the Blue Swallow Motel in Tucumcari, New Mexico at about 5:30 pm. Tomorrow we’re going [...]