Home Sweet Home

We made it! Jim and I have been spending the past week starting to get settled in our new home. We arrived last Friday and the work began. Jim's been spending lots of time turning our backyard pond into a pool (it's actually blue now!) and I have been spending lots of time cleaning the house from top to bottom (unfortunately, the renters were less than tidy...plus we had new wood floors finished before we got here, so there was floor dust EVERYWHERE!) But it is looking fabulous now! We are almost box-free and have our bedroom and one guest bedroom (we're about to need it...more on that later!) lookin' good. The office and other guest bedroom are quite another story...but at least we have confined the homeless stuff to certain spaces.



Ok, sorry it's through the screen (didn't want to disturb our visitors, of course) but here is a picture of our BLUE pool! Uhh, by the way, what do you do about ducks living in your pool?  

Last weekend there was a fun little festival in Norfolk called Harborfest. There were "tall ships" (exactly what they sound like) and military vessels from around the world all in the harbor. Plus, we got to see all the other festival things you would ever want - like booths of things you would never buy at a festival (hot tubs!?), quality entertainment (our favorite was the professional yo-yo man) and of course all the fried candy bars you could ever want! We skipped the candy bars, but had a good time wandering around and touring some of the ships!



We're on a boat!

Lots of boats!

This week I had my first solo errand-running adventure! I just am not used to getting on the interstate (or highways, or any big roads for that matter....) to go anywhere except out of town. Now I get on them just to go to Target!! Geez! I am thinking I may have to have a post-it with exit number reminders for all of the important places (Chick-fil-A, Target, dog parks, etc.). Anyway, my trip probably was twice as long as it should have been with all of my wrong turns and shopping center confusion. Not to mention that the "blinds specialists" at Lowe's took 4 employees over an hour to put in my blinds order (I don't think they had ever done it before). Luckily, there was a Marshall's right across from Lowe's so I could have a little retail therapy after all the blinds confusion (I tried to make it just for house stuff, I promise!)

Last night, Jim's friend, Abby, was in town so we had a fun dinner with her and her boyfriend. Our other newly married couple friends who also just moved from PC, Nicky and Levi, and another Navy friend, Edwin also got to come. It is so nice to have people we (ok, actually Jim) know here in town! I am especially excited to have a girlfriend to go shopping and decorate with, because Jim is less than excited about our frequent Bed, Bath, & Beyond trips, and Nicky is having the same trouble with Levi...weird, right?

Up next on our fun radar is the Dave Matthews Band concert tomorrow night! More importantly, Tiffany & Kris are coming to go with us AND will be our very first house guests! I am so so excited to be living close enough for a weekend trip. This will be the closest my sister and I have lived in over 10 years! More on the concert next week...for now I've got some furniture rearranging to do while jamming to DMB in preparation for tomorrow! Yay!