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!

Pie Baking

Here is a slightly belated post of our Thanksgiving Pumpkin Pie Baking Day!

Nana teaching Leah how to make pie crust

ALL the cans of pumpkin!

Jenny and Mom making the filling

A lively games of jacks!

My "mini me" and I enjoying the day!
(Do you see the resemblance?)

Virginia!

We went to a parade of boats on the York River.

Some of the boats were decorated really uniquely.

Here's Jenny at Virginia Beach

The rest of the gang!

It was 68 degrees out and we were freezing! The wind from the ocean was frigid!

The boardwalk was decorated for Christmas!

The beach had huge light displays, you can see them in the background on the right.

It snowed on our way home! The Smokey Mountains are gorgeous when they are covered in snow. However, driving a 12 passenger van through the snow is not fun!

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!