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!

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!!!!!)