Moving

On the road again..

Saying good-bye to the Davis Family

It was just a *little* tight in all of our cars!

A small town in West Virginia.

It was so picturesque!

Another little town...

These little towns kept popping up in the middle of nowhere,

Mom and I think they may be mining towns!

The white line on the middle of the mountain is a road. There were no guard rails and no shoulder at all. No wonder Nana was so worried about us driving through West Virginia! Those are the roads she used to have to take!

New Home

Well, interesting bit of information from our new neighbors...

If we hear helicopters, machine guns, or large explosions (that will make our windows rattle)

in the middle of the night...

DON'T WORRY

It's just Camp Peary

(the military training center down the road)

It took us 10 minutes to convince Mom that we weren't kidding!

And another 10 minutes to convince her that it is no big deal,

they probably won't miss their target (we hope!)

Home

"My home is not a place, it is people"
Lois McMaster Bujold

"Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home."
John Howard Payne

"The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes."
Harold B. Lee

New House

This dashing place will be our home for approximately the next 12 months.
It has 4 bedrooms, two bathrooms, and space enough for all of us!
It also boasts a half-acre lot!

We're Home!

We are home

We have a house in VA

We love the Williamsburg area

We are packing, going to the dentist / orthodontist, and packing!

Pictures to follow!

Pictures!

Pictures!

I didn't get any pictures of IL (because I was sleeping), or Indiana because I didn't feel like it.

Here's Kentucky!

Pretty state, easy roads to drive, not much else to say...

Then we passed into West Virginia!

Pretty state, mountainous state.

We say prime examples of Appalachia (sorry Connor, no washing machines in the front yard)

Here is an under exposed picture of a cute town in WV.

FINALLY -----VIRGINIA!

(I don't have a picture of a welcome sign because we were on a backroad and it was dark, so the sign was small and there was no way to get a good picture of it)

BUT- Here is a picture of the Williamsburg welcome sign.

The area is lovely and the main interstate is beautiful.

(It looks kind of like the stretch of Hwy. 44 between Eureka and Fenton, but not as hilly as Antire Hill)

More picture coming soon! Including the beach

(it's going to be 70 degrees here tomorrow so we are going to the beach!!!!!)

Here!

We are here in Williamsburg! We arrived at 10:30 AM, then drove around looking at different houses until 4:00 PM (when our condo was ready!) We are all VERY ready to eat dinner and get to bed. We have another 4+ hours of looking at houses to figure out which one we want to see with the realtor on Wednesday/Thursday. Out of the 7 houses we saw, there are 3 we want to see with the realtor. We have 16 more houses to look at tomorrow!

I will try to upload pictures later!

Signing out ~ The Mulhearns

Travel

Saturday---

6:00 AM CST - Left Home

We drove through Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, finally into Virginia.

7:00 PM CST - Denny's in Salem VA

8:00 PM CST - Comfort Inn Salem VA

9:00 PM CST - Left Comfort Inn because of bed bugs (EWWWWWWWW!)

10:30 PM CST - Found hotel room in Charlottesville VA. No bugs.

11:30 PM CST - Sleep

The good news is A) I drove through Kentucky and part of West Virginia (YEAH!) B) The mountain roads aren't as treacherous as they were in 1972 (No one got car sick!)! C) We only have 1 1/2 hours to Williamsburg!

See ya later!

A Packing We Will Go, A Packing We Will Go...

AHHHHHHH! Everything is CRAZY around here! There are bins everywhere!
AND we are trying to get ready for Thanksgiving!
AND we are packing for our house hunting trip!
Here is my room...
Brilliant me drug all of my (HEAVY) bins of books right in front of my dresser drawers. So getting clothes out is my weight lifting exercise each day!

Here is the empty back closet (all the bins are now stacked in the living room/craft room-see below)

This is our living room and school room stuff, basically boxed and waiting for Brian to haul it to the sides of the room.

This is our luggage for our trip to Williamsburg ("The Burg" as the local call it)
I do feel a bit sorry for the person who is planning on going snorkeling (see the bright pink bag in front). Last time I checked, the temperature there was 52 F, so snorkeling will have to wait.

Now, I have a question for all of you!
There are two last minute packers in our house (one who never has time to pack until last minute. The other one claims to prefer packing this way, but really just puts it off until the last possible moment, then this person packs when both parents ask where his or her bag is every time they see this child. This person then gets stuck with his or her luggage under his or her feet the entire ride because Dad has already closed the luggage rack and there is no more room in the car ;)
So leave a comment and guess who are to last minute packers are!