Update in bullets......forgive me

• LM loves his school --teachers are great and G. cries everytime we leave him there.  She would stay all day too if she could which is why she will go to 2 yr preschool there next year while he's in 4K....yeah Mommy :)
• Daddy adjusting well to boat life.  He has to wear the aquaflage uniform for those of you who don't know what that is just picture a giant grayish / navy blueberry that looks like the army/ USMC camo....except nowhere near as cool looking.....I'm just sayin'.  No idea when / if the carrier will deploy and right now his carrier's name is mud to everyone so I try not to tell anyone where he works so I don't get glares.  Very diferent from being affiliated w/ a squadron but kind of liking my anonymity.
• We have been blessed to reconnect with old friends, make a few new ones and still have yet to see some of them here in VA but working on that. 
• Loving it here although we seem to bring the rain and wind whereever we go so we may as well just go back to WA according to the locals ;)
• Our dogs are getting old :  plain and simple.....I'm sad, they're having a hard time with the stairs, tired a lot, but still lots of spirit left in those old eyes so they're not going anywhere yet.  Beau having the hardest time, falling up and down the stairs quite a bit...each time he does my heart breaks a little.  I'm gonna be a wreck for months when the day comes. 
• Miss G saying so many new things, she loves to dance on the table (not a good sign ;) , has learned to go limp when being disciplined, has stareoffs w/ Mommy frequently and gives daddy this pouty look:

• We are looking forward to many new and exciting things in the time to come but I'll now continue my update in pics of our new digs, Christmas and fun around VA Beach.

Christmas Town at Busch Gardens: it was COLD

Santa Claus came to town

silly monkeys

Christmas Eve

playing dress up

Kids on New Year's Eve

G. loving on Beau

These two boys sleeping in the tent in the playroom

pooped out after a day of play

Fall in VA

LM's pumpkin he made at school

Once we finally made it we were happy as clams seeing Jen and Clif.  The kids took right up with them and have grown quite fond of and quite attached to them I must say.  Mommy and Daddy are pretty fond of them ourselves after missing them for 6 years :)  But here are a few pics of our fun times in VB  so far.  Throw in a little Thanksgiving , Halloween and you got yourself some fun ;)

We played on the beach IN OCTOBER in VA

My absolute favorite pic of the fall

Hey sis , I'll take you for a ride on my big green tractor which also happens to be his favorite song

Miss G after trying to eat a dandelion

the loot from halloween

Beau and LM looking at the flood of the noreaster wondering when we can get out--stuck for 2 days

the table setting at Jen and Clif's for Thanksgiving

Mommy and the kids @ Regent University's Christmas Tree lighting

going to pick out our tree

our first gingerbread house

Buzz Lightyear making Christmas cookies

Miss G is "tutu" cute

of course we have to make airplane cookies

Yummy

More of our life the past few months in pictures as the monkeys permit and a little update on what's going on with us and no, I am not pregnant so don't ask......not for a long time , if ever.... ha ha

pics of our trip across.....

last hurrah at the horse farm with friends before we left

silly faces in the snow in WY

the ice on our van that didn't melt for 4 daysGrayson , KY

 first day of school for LM

I know, I know, I know

There are no excuses....laziness...or I wish it could be laziness.  Maybe no sleep running around like a chicken w/ my head cut off, living in a trailer for 5 weeks, going through a noreaster and being stuck in said trailer for 2 days, unpacking a home, Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, family visits, snow , lots of rain and freezing temps and......okay, so all those don't qualify so no, I just was so lazy I didn't do it.  Everytime I sat down to write I just didn't have the energy or heart.  I've lost weight in this stressful process is the good thing about all of this and the two story house up and down about a zillion times a day has something to do with it too.  So I'll sum it up later........or a little now....kids are sleeping.
~Trip across the country:
A wonderful , first of the season snowstorm with record breaking low temps and snowfall followed us clear across the country.  Kids had fun in snow, dogs had fun in snow, mommy didn't have fun cleaning up but had fun watching all have fun in snow....daddy and mommy COLD, so cold in fact that our septic tank in our camper froze for 3 days.  To quote daddy : "Good news, (in freezing Montana) got septic hooked up, bad news , the poop is frozen" . So we trekked on, through WA, ID, MT, WY (for second time I loved MT and WY) (oh and in MT we stopped in a little place called deer lodge, which apparently is a nice quaint little town w/ a huge meth problem.  All over the town the buildings and signs said "don't do meth" it was scary!! And in WY everything was frozen but we had a nice dinner out , played in the snow some and kept our little heater pumping in the camper.  Then on to SD (which let me add is the most boring, windy state ever) Two nights in SD b/c it's so stinkin vast and to boot it was so cloudy , rainy , snowy I missed Mt Rushmore right before it got dark....Daddy and LM saw it but I didn't so I literally drove right past Mt. Rushmore.  Then on to Nebraska where we stopped and spent a day at the Children's museum and snow finally stopped for a little while.  Then we went through ST. Louis, MO, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana all of which I have not much to say about b/c we were plowing through at that point.  Stopped in Kentucky (lexington) and stayed at the Kentucky Horse park campground and it was absolutely beautiful..loved seeing all the horses, etc.  Then thru WV, VA and here we are in VBeach..... Daddy and I did have a three day conversation/ argument that spanned several states on wheteher Lady Gaga or Britney Spears sang the sond papparazzi....I won that one!
Pics to follow of the trip......they are on daddy's pc.