Our house in San Diego...

Yep this is what happens when I don't write with pictures the first time! So you are bombarded with pictures from me. So I've been busy unpacking and I was talking to my friend Jenn in Norfolk on the phone and she wanted to see pictures of our house... so here they are, I'll try and explain from first to last what they are and realize I'm unpacking and have 4 kids...
Kids Bathroom
Laundry Room
We call this the red room, for the obvious reason it's the guest room and the room with some of our extra stuff in the closet!
Top of stairs you look to your right you see the masterbedroom and if you look there's a closet on the right we have a bunch of stuff in there
This is looking from the bathroom into the masterbedroom, the first door on the right is where the toilet is (for privacy you know) Then the next door is to the walk in closet, but on the left is a full size closet too!) It's a long walk to the bathroom if you didn't notice!
My stamp room, but it doesn't look like this now but it's still not organized I took this the other day
This is the downstairs bathroom next to my stamp room
Upstairs hallway looking to your left if you were going up the stairs, the door on the right is the bathroom, and then the next is Maddie and Eliza's room, straight down is Jonas and Wyatt's room, and across from the girls room is the laundry room
Maddie and Eliza's room and we're so glad it is purple!
Jonas and Wyatt's room, I love the stripes!
Here is the front of the house
This is the formal living room, which we call the toy room, and you'll notice the VERY HIGH ceilings and the front door
This is our family room which is where we spend a lot of time and it looks right into the kitchen which is nice too
Here's the kitchen, it's nice and open and big too

Here are the stairs going up if you look you'll see there's a little hallway (bottom right) they call that the butlers pantry area, but we call it the place to store games and crafts!
So there you have it, the place we now call home. Obviously I still have some unpacking to do, but the major stuff is done. We do really like this house a lot. I'm still trying to get used to all the noises that happen at night when the kids are asleep... you know what I mean I'm sure like the sound the ice maker on the fridge makes, etc. And getting used to walking in the house at night without worrying about tripping over anything... I still turn on a light! So I hope you enjoyed the tour of the home... and got an idea of it, sorry it's in an all mixed up order!

pictures as promised

I thought I should post a picture of our car from our trip so you see how much we took with us, but thankfully we get paid for the pounds we move! So our trip went like this if I remember correctly...We drove all night and made our first stop in Oklhoma, and I took some photos at a rest area while there, and thought the sign on the trash can was quite amusing. Then Our next stop was in Albequerque, NM (might have misspelled that!), then we stopped in Phoenix, and then arrived at our destination of San Diego. While driving through the desert I took a picture of the tempeture gauge in our car that tells us how hot it is outside... and yes it really was that hot, we had our AC going strong!

Tagged...

My friend Heidi tagged me, doesn't she know I'm still unpacking! But because she's such a good friend and I miss her I will do this... I guess the rules are I have to list 3 of my joys, 3 of my fears, and 3 of my goals 3 current obsessions and 3 random surprising facts about me..
and then I get to TAG 5 of my friends... so here it goes:
3 Joys:
My kids (especially when they are ALL getting along!)
Time spent with my husband
A clean house!

3 fears
Getting in a serious car accident
Ants, spiders, bugs! They gross me out!
Having someone break into our home while we're there

3 Goals
Exercise every day to get in shape and stay in shape (started doing this already, but am getting serious about it as of last week!)
Get my scrapbook room organized to scrapbook more
Become a better journaler again, I used to be good at it, and haven't been, so I've started again

3 current obsessions
reading blogs
reading in general I've read several books lately, and have really gotten into the twilight series by Stephanie Myers! (thanks a lot Jenn!)
Red vines... I love those things!

3 Random surprising facts about me:
I crack my knuckles and back a lot... it annoys Josh because I have to at least pop my back before I lay down or I can't go to sleep. He claims I will someday break my back. (I tell him at least he'll be there to take care of me when that happens right!?)
I like to eat twinkies by eating the top off first, lick out the cream and then at the bottom. =)
I love mt.dew but only from the can, I don't like it from a bottle or the fountain I just don't think it tastes as good.
Okay so many have already been tagged... so hopefully I can get some new folks!
So here I'm tagging
Jenna (my sisterinlaw!)
My Mom (Toni)
Gina
Jenn (because you need to be tagged two times)
Suzanne

One week..

Its been a week since we moved into our new place here in San Diego. We just got the internet hooked up..but it's good that I haven't had it hooked up so I didn't have anything to keep me from unpacking. I'm still upacking. I will hopefully get some pictures posted soon of our trip across the country, our new place, and the 4th of July. Josh is just here for the weekend and has to go back to Virginia. (big frowny face) He will be back in two weeks. So until then it's me alone with the 4 kids, but we've been managing okay. I'll write more later... my brownies are done.

Goodbyes and Updates

I'm going to try and make this brief as I have to get the car packed and then pick up Josh from the airport here in Ft.Wayne. We got an offer on the hosue,and after negotiations and inspections we will be ready to close at the end of June! It has kept us busy making phone calls, signing papers, resigning, faxing, etc. Thankfully I've been able to fax things at my Mom's work. (thanks Mom!)
We have had a good time here visiting my parents. We visited the zoo and science central, and even went to Chuck E. Cheese yesterday.We saw Josh's grandparents, Aunt Deb, and Great Aunt Sue while here. We also got a visit in with my friends Josh and Melissa, Juanita, and Roger and Judy (all people I knew from High School). And got to go to the park with friends Michelle and Anna from church I knew growing up and from Ball State. It's fun to see friends all grown up! The time we spent here really flew by, especially this week.
We are scheduled to move into our house in San Diego on June 27th. I'm excited to get there and unpacked. We have a long drive ahead of us. Here are some pictures the first one was taken a few days ago here at my Mom's of Wyatt, I think he looks like he's getting so big already! The others are from before we left Norfolk me and my some of the wonderful friends I made there (some of my other good friends have moved away before me so aren't in this picture),(Jonas with his Kindergarden teacher), the girls at the beach at their friend Emily's birthday party, pic of the kids on our porch,our moving truck as it drove away, Wyatt and Great Grandpa Hensley, The kids on my friends Josh and Melissa's hammock with own of their daughters Nora, Jonas on the horse at the zoo, Eliza at Science Central. Sorry they are random, but at least you get pictures! Enjoy!

Road Trippin'

We're officially on the road to spend a little time in Indiana. Somewhere a big semi-truck has almost all our our worldly possessions on it. That's a little scary to watch a complete stranger drive off with everything you own, but trust that they'll do their job in getting it to where it needs to go safely. I felt sad to leave our home of 4 years, I didn't think I'd care to leave a house. I felt a bit silly crying as I looked around at our home of 4 years. It was our first home we ever owned and we put a lot of love into making that our own, with help from family and others we don't know in getting it to where it is now. A lot of stuff happend there, Two of our children were brought home from the hospital in that house, we had a lot of firsts too. First climbs of stairs, first steps, first lost teeth. Lots of gatherings with friends, late night scrapbook nights, birthday parties, first days of school. Walking around my house for probably the last time I had all these thoughts going around in my head of all the stuff that happend there. I will miss Virginia, my home and all of my friends. We have hopes of an offer possibly coming next week, if not we'll rent our house and then of course I'm sure I'll see it again, if we sell it when we ever go back it will be someone else's house. So that's the update... I'll post pictures later... maybe I'll try and post some at my parents house. Until then we're living out of the suitcases.

flying by...

Our time in Norfolk is quickly diminishing. We will be getting packed on Thursday and all then they load the truck on Friday. So you can imagine that I haven't been dilly dallying these past few weeks, we've been very very busy. We're also still trying to sell our house, which we are now faced with if we don't sell soon we're going to rent it. We don't really want to do this, but we don't have a choice unfortunately!
At the beginning of the month we celebrated my friend Jenn's birthday with a karaoke and dance dance revolution at our friend Nicole's house, it was also an optional Sleepover which I did! We were up until the wee hours of the morning doing American Idol Karoke on the Playstation 2 (soo much fun!) and the theme was New Kids on the Block since Jenn is and always will be their biggest fan! So we decorated with New Kids stuff that our friend Jenna found on e-bay, it was so much fun! The other baby in the picture with Wyatt is my friend Nicole's son Gabriel. (she and I were both pregnant at the same time) He's definately a LOT heftier than Wyatt. Isn't it a sweet photo though? They look like they are holding hands, soo cute!
We had Maddie's birthday party on May 17th with her friends from school and a few church friends, then the next day on Sunday we blessed Wyatt. My parents, and my Grandma, and Josh's Mom were all able to come. It was such a sweet blessing of Wyatt, and he did fairly well. (only cried a little bit during!) My parents spent a few days with us, and we had fun going to the zoo and the childrens museum. Wyatt surprised us all by rolling over (both ways!) this week, and he just turned 4 months! Maddie had her last day of preschool, and the day after turned 5! Wow!So here's some phots and hopefully if I can get it going the video of Wyatt rolling over. Eliza is still busy being 2, and the funny thing she's been doing lately is she'll say "your funny Mommy," and I will then say, No, Eliza your funny, and then she says NOOO your funny and starts giggling, and we go back and forth for a minute. It's funnier in person, you'll have to trust me on this! Jonas is ready for summer vacation, and has a school concert Tuesday evening, so that should be fun! And some friends are throwing a little goodbye party for us at their house, so I'm sure I'll post pictures of that, I will miss all of my friends here.

3 months old, loose tooth, and no toothand goofy sunglasses pictures

Signed, sealed, delivered... almost...

Wow.. a lot has been going on! Wyatt is 3 months old! Jonas lost his first tooth, and then he lost his second tooth today! Josh and I (and Wyatt) took a quick trip Weds.-Saturday to San Diego last week,(thanks Jenn for watching the older 3 kids!) and found a great home to rent in a nice area. Josh's favorite part is the 3 car garage, which is nice since we own 4 cars and a utility trailer! Josh officially got his orders, we also officially have our pack and move date set for June 5th to pack and June 6th. In the military depending on your home size that's how they pack you, I can recall a time when we were packed and moved the same day, but we are officially too big for that. =) I of course will post pictures soon!