Yes. I am finally posting on our blog. We are finally home. The five of us arrived in North Carolina late Monday night. We had a long day of traveling with a stop in Denver for a few hours. This being the kids' first time on a plane we were interested to see how they would behave, but they did remarkably well. Both plane rides were extremely turbulant, so they think that flying is always like that. I guess they will be surprised next time we fly if it is smooth sailing.
What have we been up to???
Tuesday: Dusty headed back to work.. The kids and I stayed at home and unpacked all day.
Wednesday: The kids and I went grocery shopping. Lex loved hearing all of the "locals" talk with their accents and kept trying to imitate them.
Thursday: Took the kids to lunch and both Dust and I went to the DMV to get our North Carolina driver's licenses. They make you take the NC written driving test. It was hard and had a lot of questions specific to NC. Needless to say, we both failed a test that we waited 2 hours to take. I read the entire driver's manual that night.
Friday (today): I went back to the DMV alone with all 3 kids in tow. Passed with flying colors. Now I have to wait for them to mail me my driver's license. I hope my picture turned out good! We took the kids to see "G Force" tonight. This was their reward for helping me move the millions of moving boxes from the backyard to the garage so that they could be hauled off by the moving company on Monday.
Plans for Saturday: Nothing! We are so excited to be together in our new home that we are going to do nothing. Isn't that exciting!!
Plans for Sunday: We are going to introduce ourselves to our new ward and show them all what a good time they have been missing until we showed up.
On a side note, the reason the kids got rewarded for helping me haul boxes was because we had to battle some HUGE spiders and some lizards. That's right, lizards. I screamed and yelled for Jacob to come and help me. Then Emma wanted to see and left the back door open. Don't worry, the lizard didn't come inside. I called Dusty freaking out and he just laughed. He asked at work and they said that the lizards are common and they are not poisonous (phew). I guess they eat the bugs. The big spiders on the other hand have me freaked out. They had really long legs which made them look huge. And they ran really fast. I smashed them with my shoe but they were gross. It had rained on the boxes and I think that had just found a dark, wet spot to rest. I am going to call a pest control company to get the house sprayed though. I just can't handle things like that.
Dusty is leaving on Sunday for a business trip. He will be gone until Friday and most likely back on Saturday. This is something I am going to have to get used to. I knew this was part of the job but it is still an adjustment. That is why I am so excited to go to church and meet people. Most of you know I am social, so I guess I will try to convince some "sucker" in my new ward to be my friend.
I have to go now. Dusty and I are going to watch a movie together. I will post pics just as soon as Dusty gives me my camera back (he was using it for work until his came in).
Bye everyone,
I miss you.
