Riding the School Bus

With a new home and New school we have decided to let Aubrey ride the bus. It was a hard decision because again Aubrey was one of the first ones on and one of the last ones off. But, what made me say ok, was that the bus picks her up and drops her off basically right in front of our house. She also rides the bus with her new friend/neighbor Regan. But what really pushed me over the top was that picking her up from school I seriously only beat the bus by maybe 5 to 10 min., I have never seen a car rider lone so long. And not forgetting driving Aubrey to and from school everyday was really eating up my gas money. School is 10 min. away.

Waiting for the bus with her new friend Regan

Aubrey really does like to ride the bus. We live in a cul-de-sac and we have a "warning" before the bus comes. The bus passes by our house and then turns around before picking them up. Aubrey loves to look out the window and shout when the bus comes.

Our New HOME

Well , where do I begin. I have been promising to post photo's of our new home on our blog and I am finally getting around to doing it.

It only took us a week to find the place I don't know what the problem was ..... OK we were a little on the picky side. But over all we are VERY happy where we ended up. Our home was built in 2001, which means that everything is still fairly new. I have to admit it is nice having a more updated kitchen and bathrooms.

The house is a 3 bed, 2 1/2 bath with a large bonus room over the garage. We have big plans for that particular room.

We have decided to separate Aubrey and Brigham for several reasons. One, because one room was painted a light purple and Aubrey claimed it as her room, and the other room was blue. But mainly because Aubrey is 5 now and we think it is about time she had a little more privacy. We are also wanting to but the 2 boys together and have McKay start sleeping in the other room.. Boy, has that backfired. These past 2 nights he has gone from his port-a-crib right next to us, to... in bed with us. The poor thing is spoiled half to death. He will only sleep if you are holding him or lying right next to him. I am serious! As soon as we lay him down he wakes up and starts to cry. For the record we do have to admit He has also been sick and he has lost a lot of his baby fat. So all these night feeding hopefully will bring him back up on his weight.

We have gone to our "potential" ward only once.
Not last Sunday but the week before we were all
sick with the flu. We didn't think that we would make
the greatest first impression by coughing and sneezing
on everybody.

I say our "potential" ward because technically we are
in another ward's boundaries. We live a stone throw
away from the Johnston/ wake County line. We live
on the Johnston county side but the ward boundaries end
at Wake county. Well that's fine and all but the Garner ward
The one we are trying to attend is 15 min. away. The other ward
which we are assigned to is 35. They have announced the purchase
of land for a new building that we will be attending when it is
complete. So we are hoping for a wavier. We'll see how it goes.


Our life here in North Carolina is going great so far. Aubrey loves her new school, and her new friends. We have two 5 year old's as neighbors. One on each side of us. The previous owners left their play set for us so I hardly see my children.

It is starting to get cold at night ( down to the high 30's) and the leaves are changing color.

In reality it would have been more ideal for us (the business) to Stay in Florida until next year. But we decided just to go ahead and move before the holidays and we are so glad we did.

The last picture is of Daddy and Bebo enjoying a pickle on the back porch

FHE

We had a great time putting this puzzle together for FHE

Our House was in a crazy limbo state for a little to long.

Have you ever wondered where coconuts really come from?

Steven brought us home a treat the last time he came home from Miami. He brought us a coconut that he had to climb the tree to get. We have bought coconuts from the store before , but they have always been removed from their "outer shell". Boy it was a interesting learning experience trying to get to the coconut milk and meat. I'll tell you one thing if we where ever on a deserted island I hope I would have sharper knives to work with. Mine are pretty cheap. (they didn't make the move).

The "shell" around the coconut nut itself is extremely fiberious, I hope from the photos you can see. This is definitely an outside job. We found that out about 1/4 of way into the project. Oh well, we had a blast though. Thank you Daddy!!!!

Alive in North Carolina

Just wanted all to know that we made it safe and sound to North Carolina. The kids traveled great and the drive went by so quick. We are staying with some wonderful friends the Holts who have so wonderfully allowed us to stay while we are looking for our next home.

I will keep you posted

our love to all!!