update: Housewarming Moved!

Updates?! Who has time for updates?? Jen and I are still busy with ZERO-G flights and unpacking boxes! This past weekend, Jen planed flowers and got the yard looking good while I went to Miami for our annual Flight Attendant refresher course. We both had fun!

We have moved our Housewarming to February 11 in the late afternoon. Don't wait for an invitation to come your way--just put it on the calendar and let us know you'll be here!

the Remodeling begins...

"I noticed the wallpaper in the guest bathroom was starting to peel in one corner."

And so begins our first round of home improvements! We've already ripped out the ugly shower doors, one of the medicine cabinets, the mirror, and about half of the wall paper*. Not bad for our first night!

* Does anyone know how to get off the other half of the wall paper that wasn't so easy??

Bonus Episode: Disneyland

And you thought Christmas was over! Alice and Tom gave us a uniqe present this year: a trip to Disneyland in California - WOW!!! We spent three nights at the Disneyland Hotel and four *magical* days at Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure.


Big thrills were on the remodeled Space Mountain and Mr. Toad's Wild Ride (I'd never been on it!), and The Matterhorn (the world's first steel-tube coaster). It's A Small World was closed (no one cried) while they removed the holiday decorations. In California Adventure, the California Screamin' roller coaster looked like a large wooden coaster, but was realy a steel coaster with a loop! The Sun Wheel was a ferris wheel derivation with cabs that moved around as it spun--an experience you have to feel to understand.

Points of difference between Disneyland and the Walt Disney World parks:

• "land" is in California and was built first.
  
• "World" is in Florida and is waaaay bigger.
  
• The Haunted Mansion in CA was decorated in "the Nightmare Before Christmas" motif--never seen the movie, but it was much more interesting!
• The CA Tower of Terror was much shorter and didn't give the background story as much.
• While on the Pirates of the Carribean in Disnyeland, you float by an actual restaurant, the Blue Bayou, where we had dinner one night!

Big thanks to Alice and Tom for the most relaxing and "vacation" vacation we've had since our honeymoon! Of course, we have no more vacation time for the year, but it was worth it!

Cue the Halleluia Chorus

WE ARE IN OUR NEW HOUSE!!!

We closed on the new house Friday, January 6, 2006. Below is a picture of Jen on our back porch Saturday night--our first night in the house!

Thanks to everyone that made it possible for us to get our new house. We could not have dont this alone. Major appreciation goes out to our good friends Timber, Sniper, Paul, Susie, and Teresa for helping us move our stuff into the new place (see below).



The cats are adjusting nicely. The love having so much room to play. Azriel did hide under the covers during the entire move-in, but that is how she copes with change. Jack has already learned how to sit on the window sill on the back porch and listen to the birds!

We are excited to be in the new place, but don't have any weekends to use for unpacking and organizing. We'll make it work somehow :-)

The housewarming party is tentatively planned for Saturday, February 4, 2006. Fulmer Mortgage Company is hosting the party at our house as a "thank you" gift. What a great company!