I'm Back!

After a long week of being without an internet connection, I'm back, with only slight withdrawal symptoms!  First item of business:  find pictures of my cousin's new baby girl, Maddy, on their blog.  How cute is she?!?!

Congratulations, Doug and Shannon!  We love you guys and we're so glad you get to experience the beautiful miracle of adoption, too!

Next up, because I am a total loser, was to find out how to watch the season finale of this on the internet (since TV was also not hooked up):

In my defense, I do not usually watch "The Bachelor" or "The Bachelorette," but I happened to catch the season premier and got hooked.  I can't help that I really like DeAnna and secretly want to be friends with her!

I was a little surprised by this ending, but hey, they seem happy!

After a really bad week, we are finally moved in to the new house.  We have moved MANY times, but this move tops them all as the worst, most horrible move ever.  

I have three theories about why: 

1) We didn't have as much help as we had thought we'd have.  Note to self: moving 4th of July weekend is not a good idea. 

2) We have experienced being moved by a professional moving company and are now spoiled.

3) We have been married ten years and have four kids.  Not like when we moved to Texas fresh out of college and everything we owned fit into a horse trailer.  This move (along with a recent viewing of the movie "Into the Wild") has convinced me that we have WAY too much stuff.  There is an ongoing de-junking going on right now as we put away boxes of stuff and later in the summer we will be having a huge yard sale.

We are LOVING our new house and fenced-in yard!  There is still a lot to do, but we are really happy to be here.  It is fun to finally be able to paint and hang things on the walls without being worried about a landlord's wrath.  I'll have to post pictures of the rooms when we get them done.  Just a warning: there will be lots of COLOR!  I just survived a dreary Washington winter in a house where EVERY wall was the same shade of beige.  

And finally, we have to give a shout out to our best friends in the entire universe, Filipe and Joei, who spent their holiday weekend helping us.  We couldn't have done it without you guys!  We love you!

Stay tuned for pictures.... just as soon as I find the box with the computer and camera cords....