Photo of the outside

Well, here's the outside of the house. It's on 1.3 acres so you can't see the back yard from this photo. Obviously. LOL

photo of my beauty

Just had to share this photo of Jess.

Photos

Ok, here are some inside photos. They should be self explanatory. LOL

might be getting a "job"

Well, Jess starts pre-school in 2 wks & I'm very torn about it. LOL How could it be that she is old enough for pre-school?!? Anyway, the place I'm taking her said they have some openings for teachers/assistants & I think I'm going to try to get one. It's only going to be 10hr/wk but hey, it's something right? It might actually pay for the tuition & gas to get us there which would be great! So, I'm hoping they'll call me back today about it. I have taken some pictures, but Russ doesn't have his computer set up to upload pictures right now & for some unknow reason, my computer freaks out when I have more than one usb port in use. So, you'll have to wait just a little while longer. LOL

Finally "settled" in

Well, we moved into our new house on July 24. The only help we had were my parents that drove in from Arkansas. However, the day they got in, my mother had a kidney stone attack. So, needless to say she had to go to the ER that night & was on the couch the rest of the time they were here. Russ decided to go ahead & hire some people to move the heavy stuff, so that was done on Mon. We also moved some of the boxes on Mon as well. It took us about 4 days to get EVERYTHING moved. My poor dad was such a help. Because we moved during the week, we just didn't have any other help. Well, when we moved in, we already knew that the left side of the kitchen sink leaked & there were various other things that needed to be fixed. However, we didn't know that our hot/cold water upstairs were switched. Needless to say, Russ had a cold shower our first night here because he didn't realize they were switched & thought something was wrong w/the hot water heater LOL We have really nice neighbors...finally! They invited us over for dinner our second night here which was really nice. Jessica is doing great. She's always saying that she loves her new house. We still have to drive by our old house to get to certain places in town & she's always saying...No, I don't want to go back to the house. She thinks we're going back to the old house. LOL So, to say she hasn't had any problem transitioning would be an understatement. She has a MUCH bigger room, so thankfully most of her toys fit in there. I've got all the "important" boxes unpacked, but just going slow on the other ones. It still doesn't really feel like "home", but it's growing on me. ;) I don't have any pictures yet, but will post as soon as I do.