Random News

I was recently told that I need to blog more. My blogging usually consists of more photo's than words, but lately I have been forgetting my camera and so I guess I will just have to write about what is new. Right now our life is just kind of random, but here it goes.

We finally got internet, cable, and phone. The internet didn't work for three days after we had it installed, but now we have everything except we can't access our e-mail or any other settings. I can't tell you how much time has been wasted sitting on hold and listening to bad music and annoying announcements. Now we are having problems with our phone and after many more minutes on hold, they are just going to send another technician out to fix it. Add that to the four technicians that have come to the house to "look" at the leak we had in the basement which filled a big Rubbermaid tub every 3 days, and I can tell you that I am over it. They fixed the leak by putting new pipes in.

We went to our new ward. We feel like the Grandpa & Grandma of the ward. There are so many young military couples and probably 50% of the congregation is under age 8. We have met many people from Idaho that are in our ward. We've had quite a few "it's a small world" moments also. People here seem pretty friendly. The kids are getting to know other kids during the youth activities.

I guess the BIG NEWS of the week is that we closed on our house in Virginia Beach. We did okay considering the market that we we were up against. We are just so relieved to be done with the whole process. It was kind of sad Thursday night when we went to the house to get a few items that were left. It was sad, but it also didn't seem like our house without furnishings. It was empty and it echoed. We were lucky that we got to visit with a few friends during our very short trip. It's only been three weeks, but it was like we'd been gone for much longer.

The kids are doing good. Nellysa turned 16 and got a set of wheels. She hopes that she'll get 4 wheels next time. She and Kelby have both been riding their bikes and they both have a pretty good case of road rash. Kelby was also informed by the friendly base police that he has to wear a helmet while riding on base. Now, I'm sure that his Mom didn't tell him anything like that every time that he went to ride.

Well, I think that is about it for random news. Hopefully I'll remember my camera so you don't have to get a library card to read these long books that I end up writing.

Oh, one other thing YEA PHELPS!!!

New House

Well, here are some pictures of our new house. We have been here two weeks now, but were without internet until the other day. These pics are taken before we got our household goods.

We live in Maryland on an Army base. The house is a large 4 bedroom house w/ a two car garage. I have a front porch and I love sitting out there especially during rain storms. It smells so good (fresh air & rain). I will get a picture of the front of the house soon.

This is the living room on the main floor. The house sits on a slope, so from the front it looks like a one story house, but from the back, it is two story. The living room wall on the right is all windows.

This is the kitchen. The dining room is on the left and has windows surrounding it. I have not figured out what to do with all of these cupboards.The front door is on the right of this stairwell. It goes down, turns, and goes down some more.

This is the family room at the bottom of the stairs. The patio doors go out to a nice covered patio.

The hallway downstairs. The two doors on the right are bedrooms, the door at the end of the hall is the bathroom, around the corner is a laundry room, and the door on the left is the storage room. This is the storage room. Behind me is more storage area that goes back under the stairs.

The view along the right side of the house.The back of the house.

The view out back.
There are groundhogs here and they are huge. We also had a bunch of vultures that would sit in that dead tree on the right side of the last picture. It was really erie. I think we are going to enjoy living here.