Packers, Movers, Clearing, OH MY!!

Hi Everyone!
I hope this note finds everyone doing well. We have arrived safe & sounds in Virginia. We are at home in full swing to move. Thank you to Emily who gave up her bedroom last night so we could have a decent night sleep! John is studying for his finial and I am attempting to get our house ready for the packers on Tuesday. I believe a lot of this move has to do with attitude! We are thrilled with our new duty station, our new hometown, and our house! On the other hand, I ( We) have a checklist that just is not going to be completely done. We have decided to not take a UHAL and let the packer do most everything. I will of course pack a few basics. We clear ( leave) Fort Lee on Friday! John and I are stopping in Nashville on our journey out west! Early thank you to Aunt Linda and Uncle Joe who are meeting us at their cabin for a day or two as we head west!

Cheers!

Our New House!

Hi everyone!
We bought a house! The house closes at the end of March!
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

Travel

Hello everyone!
As always, John and I are on an adventure. Due to weather, our schedule has changed. We are flying from Richmond to Dallas tonight. Tomorrow, we fly out of Dallas to Denver. We are then driving to Colorado Springs to meet Kathleen. We will be able to still to start house hunting at 9AM Friday.

We are going to drive back to Denver Saturday evening. We are going to stay with Emily on Saturday night. We fly home Sunday at 6AM so John has time to study. John's exam starts Monday.

We are fine and eating dinner in the Richmond Airport as I type. Sleep is so overrated!

M & J
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

T is for Tuesday!

Hello Everyone! I hope this post finds each of you doing well. The past week has been super busy. I had planned on mom helping get the house ready to PSC but instead I have had the crud-bug. I just have to laugh because it is so typical for me to get sick during PCS timing.  Thankfully, mom has been helping around the house by cooking & walking the dogs to just name a few. Yesterday, I was well enough to get out of the house! John had the day off so we all went to meet our family friend Camille. We had a wonderful lunch and a fascinating tour of Fort Monroe.   Today, I was able to sleep until 10:00AM and now we (Mom, Richard and I) are off to do a long list of errands.  John and I head to Colorado on Thursday night to spend the weekend.  The goal is to find a house! We arrive home on Sunday night and the movers arrive on Tuesday

Happy Saturday!

Hello!
Thank you to everyone for all of the birthday calls, emails, texts etc yesterday! I had a great birthday! My day at the spa was lots of fun. I had a massage, manicure & pedicure. John and I went out to an early dinner to Cheesecake Factory. I picked Cheesecake Factory. Mom had a chocolate cake delivered to the house yesterday which was awesome. I was really surprised! I plan to share the cake with friends.

It is a beautiful day here! The sun is out and it is near 50 degrees! It is a lazy weekend at the Taylor house.
John is out washing the truck and I just returned from taking a walk with our dogs. This is our last slow weekend until we are settled in Colorado. We are looking forward to Mom and Richard arriving in town on Friday.

House Hunting

Hi Ho! Off to Colorado we go! John and I have been house hunting online for the past week. We have currently created a list of houses for our realtor. We plan to fly to Colorado the third weekend of February. Instead of shop til you drop, the theme is view houses until we drop! The goal is to put an offer on a house before we clear ( leave) Virginia. Ms. Ester from Hopewell Animal  Hospital will be watching the dogs.