Stuff, stuff and more stuff!

Our stuff finally arrived!!

It is so nice to have our stuff but I totally forgot how much stuff we actually have! We have a lot of stuff and not a lot of room to put all of it. This house is nice but a little small.

Here has what we have been up to over the past few weeks...

We have been super busy - David getting all our stuff unpacked and organized, the kids with school and I started a new job. It is really weird to not work at Dell. I was there almost 11 years and I find myself actually missing it. Well just a little.... :)

Emily got her "L's" - her learners permit. She has to drive for 100 hours with these magnetic L stickers on the car - then she graduates to her "P" - provisional plates. She will have to drive for a long time with them... They have strong rules for new drivers here. She is not too happy about that but I sure am!

Mother's Day is the same day here as in the States, but Father's Day is not. It was Father's day here a few weeks ago and the girls and I got David a new iPod touch. He will be able to plug it into the car radio and listen to KASE 101... He misses country music more than you can imagine. Actually I do too!





The girls are on two week holiday from school and so all David brought them into the City on Tuesday. They rode the City Cat (water ferry) in and met me after work. We went for dinner along the river and then watched a laser light show that was going on that night. It was a lot of fun and something new for the girls.

Allie had a great surprise this week... She got mail! She never gets mail so she was SUPER excited
to find a package from the US with stuff in it for her! Ethan and Austin each sent her a card that they made for her. They drew cute little animals on them (kangaroos and koalas) and wrote that hey missed her. It was so sweet - so sweet that the rest of us (David included) got a little choked up over it.

Thanks Ethan and Austin for your sweet cards - we loved them. And thank you Lisa for the handmade sun glass case. I will think of you every time I get my sunnies out! We miss and love you guys lots!

Hopefully I will find more time to post things now that life is feeling more normal. We miss all our family & friends, but we are loving it here. It is really a new adventure!