Our new house

Here are some pictures of our new house. We are renting, as we will only be here a total of 6 months. We really love the place. It is very spacious and I love the layout. We also have a view of the 10th hole of a golf course from our backyard. I actually found a golf ball in our backyard while playing with Alaina!
We are in a really great location, 4 minutes from a Harris Teeter, about 5-10 minutes from Wal-Mart and about 20 minutes from several malls and military bases.
Needless to say, we should enjoy the next few months. Even more so when Allen is home and not on the ship.

I'm still alive!

I have really been slacking on my posts lately. I have been pretty busy with welcoming Allen home, packing up and moving back to Virginia, and setting up our new house. We are now living in Suffolk, Virginia. We are mostly all settled in, we just have a garage full of boxes to go through. But the inside of the house is done and looks pretty great if I do say so myself. Allen is back at work on the ship, already working long hours, even having to stay overnight on the ship.

We live in a great area, Alaina and I were able to go to the movies less than a mile from our house to see Planet 51. It was a lot of fun and Alaina really liked it.

We are very excited about the holidays, and very very excited that Allen is home to celebrate with us. We have our Christmas tree up already, and Alaina knows that we get to eat lots of turkey tomorrow.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving. I wish I could be home with my family, I miss them so much. But we will be home for Christmas, so we are looking forward to that!

SIU! SIU!

Saturday, Alaina, me, Mom, Dad, Chrisy, Shawn, and even Sophie and Ella went to the SIU Homecoming parade. It was a beautiful perfect sunny day and the parade was really fun. We caught lots of candy and Alaina even got to meet one of her favorite characters, Super Why! It was a really good time.

Curious George!

Just like her Daddy, Alaina loves Curious George. Lucky for us, he just started his very first live show tour! We were able to go see it! It was a really good show, the stage characters looked and sounded exactly like the ones in the cartoon. It was a musical, so there was lots of singing and dancing. And the man in the yellow hat stood right next to us! Alaina and I had so much fun!

How's the weather?

It's Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs! Alaina went to see her first movie ever! She loves this book and could not wait to see this movie. She was so excited, she was giddy and giggling all day. She loved the movie, as did I. It was so much fun.

Another baby!!

This afternoon Jon and Kristin added another baby girl to their family. Amelia Violet was born at 3:55pm CST, 6lbs 11oz, and 19 in. long. I have only seen this picture so far, but she looks pretty darn adorable! Congratulations Jon and Kristin!

Chrisy is a mama and Shawn is a daddy

Well Sophie and Ella have arrived. They made their long awaited first appearance August 26th. Ella was born at 5:10pm and Sophie was born at 5:11pm. They are doing pretty good, especially since they were born at 34 weeks. They didn't even have to be on oxygen. Chrisy is doing well, just hurting from the c-section. Ella and Sophie are completely adorable and so cute and tiny. And as Alaina accurately put it, Chrisy is a mama and Shawn is a daddy.