Georgia and finally....home??

The few days we spent with Phillips family were SO nice. The bug that hit Brian really took over so he slept most of the days and nights we were there :) But Kyler was in heaven. Little kids to play with....all the time!!! This is great! Morgan was so wonderful with him, she'd just hold his hand where ever he went and played with him so well.

It was so fun to see Phillip and Jamie and their kids. We are excited to be able to spend some time with them while we are out here. I can not believe how much the kids have grown.

The first day we were there it was almost 70 degrees, so we all headed out to the back yard. Kyler and Morgan played golf, and Ethan taught Kyler all about dirt and rocks.

And then the rain started....We stayed in all the next day, but that didn't keep the kids from having a great time.

We set off for our new home in North Carolina on Saturday, it was still raining, and rained clear till Sunday. Kyler did pretty well on this 3 1/2 hour drive, in this pic he has his hands over his ears and is pressing and releasing to hear the change in sound. He was getting a kick out of it. I thought it was pretty cute.

Wahooo!! Almost there!

The whole drive there I was nervous. Nervous to meet the people I'd been emailing at the apartment complex for over 3 months now. Nervous to see our new place. Nervous that everything would be how it should....what if we show up and it's a dump...what if we get there and we have no furniture...what if they have no idea who we are....ahhhhh! Needless to say I worried. And I guess I had good reason. We got there and the people were great, they gave us our keys, we opened our door....no furniture. Yup, just a big empty apartment. We went back to the office only to find that our furniture order had never been faxed. FRUSTRATION!!!! So they put us in their Model apartment, which was full of REALLY nice stuff, all of which Kyler couldn't touch, no doors, no kitchen stuff, I almost would have preferred to stay in a hotel. They promised us our furniture would be delivered first thing Monday morning, but guess what happened Sunday night.

It snowed.

To put it in the words of our apartment manager "we haven't seen this much snow sense I was a little kid". A whole whopping 3 inches. The whole city closes down. Schools were closed for 2 days....yes 2 DAYS! Brian didn't have to go into work on Monday, and our furniture still wasn't delivered. One more day trying to survive in a place that wasn't ours.

Since we were in an apartment without any cookware or microwave or any other kitchen items we had to eat out alot. It got old fast. As we were leaving the hostess told us "you guys be careful, the roads are dangerous". This was during the first part of the snow storm, the snow was barely sticking and the roads were still clear. Everyone was driving really slow and being careful. It would be great if drivers in Utah would settle down when it snowed. I think in Utah we don't tell people to "be careful" we tell eachother "good luck". There are enough crazy drivers that you are lucky to get through a snowstorm without some idiot crashing into you.

Things slowly returned to normal in the city by Tuesday afternoon, which is when we got our furniture finally. I spent today grocery shopping and unloading suit cases, finally making a home cooked meal, and trying to help Kyler get adjusted. Poor kid, he really need life to just be normal for a while.

Overall I like our place, the furniture etc is all nice, our walls are bare, but at least it's a place for us to call our own for a while. I'll post some pics of our place when we get it more put together. Remember, we have an extra bedroom if anyone wants to come stay!!!

P.S Rachel Seppie...they have a Ross and a TJ Max...I'm tell'n ya your meant to visit this place!