North Carolina

~ daily rain storms VERY WARM ,OH SO COOL

~70 + degrees (for the last 3 days)

~fire ants EVERYWHERE

~sandy soil (fire ant love this stuff)

~ found a rug doctor and it worked VERY well

~ bought a newish grey hide-a-bed couch for $80

~excessively large house with far too many rooms to know what to do with! HELP??

~spent far too much money in 1 week

~miss my family

~ happy dogs

~ We have our relationship back(ish)

~ pretty and green

TRIP

well San Angelo Texas is now something of the past! Daniel graduated on Friday the 19th and it was so so nice, he looked very handsome! My grandma flew down from Utah to be here for the graduation, thank you thank you! My sister, mom and 3 boys came over also, their support in this endeavor in our life is so wonderful and very needed! One of the speakers said something that rang very true, he said lots of "you might be a fire fighter if...." "every shirt in your wardrobe says you are!" Oh so true!
Kael was just loving every second of Daniel time! And Daniel loved every second of our family time :) Saturday morning we finished loading up and started our trek, we drove about 8+ hours to Monroe, Louisiana. The drive the first day went well I jotted down some facts about each place...

"Smile for Louisiana!" Daniel drove the majority of the time.We misssed the Louisiana sign but it still states it!
LOUISIANA (Saturday)

~in our fancy hotel room there was a lizard on the wall in our room, sweet and oh so freaky. Daniel escorted it outside!

~At the pool a woman was topless walking by the pool, wow!!!

~there was mold under the ac unit, adn it was the black bad kind... (I complained and she said, "thanks for letting me know I'll have someone take care of it!" ) what no discount??? ah

~ I was given a deposit refund check before we left Texas and we decided to find a bank(wells fargo) on the way. I asked a woman in LA if they happened to have Wells Fargo's here and she said..."what's wells fargo?" "it's a bank!" "I never heard of that" "awesome thanks anyway" (no tv I guess) Now I'm on the east with a check and my bank doesn't exist here... great!

~ Lots of swampy wetland, very green and gorgious!

MISSISSIPPI (SUNDAY)

us crossing the Mississippi river, so cool

~very lush and green

~clean well taken care of highways

~humidity starts, it sprinkled a little this day

~Sunday drive.... radio only offered gospel (aamen) 27 channels

Teddi's typical spot!

Smile for Mississipi

the pictures got a little switched up!
ALABAMA (SUNDAY)

Very large 5+ foot snake, I took the dogs on a walk and we were greeted with this, Teddi found it.

~ nice roads

~daniel and I were fighting through lots of this state

~lots of trees
~a woman behind the counter when I was buying a collectable she said she wants to collect... "bails" (which is bells with no accent)

Teddi got a little bored with the back seat

so so cool, pretty pretty

Sylus happily sleeping

Smile for Alabama

GEORGIA (Sunday)

~hand soap spilled all over me and the bag that was housing it

~watched a lady blow a tire, we pulled over to help her and she got out of the car lets just say a little/lot scantilly clad... whoa

~no taco bells or any mexican fast food since texas

~churches everywhere... one called "church in the NOW"

~found a taco bell on the border of Georgia
~7 hours of sleep without any interuptions from the dogs, woo hoo

Atlanta, GA

SOUTH CAROLINA (Monday)

~ greener than Alabama

~fatty fatty dunkin donuts discovery

~chilly 58 degree morning

~granite for the roads, sparkly pretty

~looks lots like Oregon without the mountains

~flat, dryer but with swamps... WHAT?

~Cop car is a NEW MUSTANG

~cops were everywhere

okay so we didn't stop in south Carolina, we now are in Goldsboro, NC our NEW home sweet home! I guess we were so excited to get here, we forgot to take pictures!

It's prettyish here I'll update once we get into our house. It's wednesday and we have been in the same hotel since monday and yet we signed a lease for a house on Tuesday, and were supposed to get the keys this morning and it's almost 4 whatever. I want to just move in, ugh!!!!

ReCaP RAP up

Well my time here in Texas is coming to an end! Which

SURPRISINGLY

makes me

SAD

I'm not to the point of Texas Pride and I have no intentions of waving the Texas flag anywhere!

but I will miss it.

I love.... about this place

the sunsets

amazing warm weather late at night, great for walking

my sister only 3 hours away

kaeson

mikael

traegen

my sweet mom, who listens to my woes

comfortable, safe neighborhood

the stars in the very large TEXAS sky

my friends I have made at work

the support we have gotten

my grandma who flew here to support daniel on his graduation day

I DON'T LOVE...

the bugs

our heating source in the house

the goat heads in the grass

my windows in this house not opening

daniel not living with me

making friends and then moving

I have had a really fine time here, I really am going to miss my nephews, I see them about every week, and now ( I don't want to think about it) they love us and we love them. this will be the hardest part. but we are stoked to go to North Carolina and make it our home, we have found a house (hopefully) there it's kinda big, we'll have to start filling it with kids or something we'll see. It is 3 bedroom, 2 bath, den, living room and dining room, fireplace, central air, 2 acres, large fenced yard, and great neighborhood it looks like. We are strating our move on Saturday, it's a 3 day drive, literally the same hours it took to drive from Idaho to Texas, we shaved Teddi and he looks awesome and oh so much cooler. I plan to have the internet when I get there, oh things will be different. ahhh