How Do You Spell That?

After living on "I" Street, not like your eye, just the letter I, we swore we would try and avoid living on any street that someone would have to ask How Do You Spell That? Well after having to spell "WYE" for the gazillionth time today I got to thinking, what makes somebody name a street something so odd people don't know what it is? So I went exploring on the good ole internet and it didn't take long to find out that a Wye Oak is: The oldest white oak in the United States that stood for more than 450 years near Easton, MD. Hereis a link if you care to read more: http://www.nal.usda.gov/speccoll/images1/wye.html

Settling In

We are finally starting to get settled. We have painted our bedroom and most of the living room. Here are a few pictures of the place with sod and some paint. Enjoy.

Master Bedroom

Part of the basement we are using as a family room

Front of the house, the water company has to come raise our meter so they dug it up but haven't been back in over a week and with the many days over 100 degrees it is a challenge to keep the sod alive so someday the yard will look better I hope

Living room, the little TV is temporary, we are looking at getting a flat screen for over the fireplace

Back Yard

BUNCO!!!!

So I ventured out to the ESC tonight to try out their bunco game. It was a good time since I haven't been out with the girls in FOREVER, but I don't think it will ever be the same. There was no throwing of the Fuzzy dice, no bagged candy taken home from the potluck table, no caramel but nothing to dip in it, no REALLY cool table markers, no mom's going into labor, no BUNCO screaming contest with the OSC, and most of all no really great friends that I miss so much.

Terrarium

When we moved in we found out we had our very own no maintenace terrarium complete with wildlife attached to our house and ready for the children's viewing eyes. It is actually our egress window in the basement but it has plant life and frogs. But the best part is that we don't even have to feed them or clean the cage! The little frog seen here trying to escape has succeeded because he is no longer available for viewings.

Sleepy Baby

Also while in transition during our move we decided that we were not going to put the crib up when we moved into our new place so Kamdyn was thrown into her toddler bed the first night we spent here with no warning. We had the pack-n-play ready just in case we weren't quite ready ourselves. But as you can see she had no problem sleeping in it, other than falling out about an hour after she had fallen asleep. But we just picked her up and put her back in and she slept til morning. Whewww

15 Years, 6 Days, 2 Kids, and probably 80 pounds together

At this very spot in the Capital Building in Madison Wisconsin 15 years ago Tom and I got married. A lot has happened since then...We had 2 kids, gained a bunch of weight that is harder to get rid of than it was to find, and moved 9 times. While we were in transition during our most recent move we had some free time in Wisconsin so we took the kids up town to see where we got married and it just happened to be 6 days after our 15th wedding anniversary. Bailey even went up to the observation deck and was very brave.