Update

Fall Fun...we wanted to get into the fall spirit, so we decorated for the passing motorists!

This is the driveway, looking down from our house, across the road, you'll see our landlord's plantation....

This is la casa...to the left and back, is a cornfield...to the right of the picture is the garage and tree grove...or the wilderness, as michael calls it....when you come up the driveway, you can park in front of the deck (kitchen door) or go around, (where the van is) and the garage is around back...it's a curved driveway. The home boasts 4 bedrooms, 3 full baths, 2 living areas, 2 dining areas, a basement (cement, laundry) a sunroom and many nooks and crannies to store stuff. We have turned the formal dining area into a spare bedroom/office to accommodate us better.

...it's 'country' about 10 minutes from the city...we live in a suburb of Baltmore called Gambrills....out here there are towns every couple of miles...so if you go down the driveway and go left, you'll enter Crofton and right takes you to Davidsonville.....The kids go to school in crofton....Braedon's middle school, comprised of 6-8 grade contains 1200 kids...libby and Michael's has about the same. They each have between 30-35 kids per classroom. That's about all for now...will post halloween pics this weekend.....

WE HAVE ARRIVED!

We arrived in MD a week ago today, last Tues. evening and hit the ground running Wed. scheduling houses to look at. We found a wonderful realtor to show us rentals and give us her 'advice' on schools and neighborhoods, and anything else we asked about. She's born and raised, along with raised her own family in this area so she knows it very well....We've finally settled upon a 'farm' type house in Gambrills, MD...it's as country as you can get. It sits on an acre and has lots of great landscaping and room for the kids to run. 2 sides are bordered with corn fields and the third is a forest that stretches for quite a ways.

The area out here is lush and clean and beautiful...which wasn't what we were expecting....there's lots of hustle and bustle, but everything is tucked away behind lots of trees, there's nothing right off the interstates, other than trees. So it's very easy to lost because nothing is visible from the roads. The trees are beautiful, it's definately fall here on the East Coast. The drive here was awesome with all the fall colors....the most beautiful states, in my opinion were Ohio and Penn....the colors were bright and beautiful. Once we got here it proceeded to rain the next, well, up til Sunday. Yesterday was the first sunny, beautiful day we've had here. It's supposed to stay nice until the end of the week.

Right now, we are scheduled to move in Fri, if all goes well. It's been very frusterating to get everything accomplished because of all the hoops. The schools require 2 proofs of residency, well, when you've just moved try making that possible! Thankfully, I got copies of the kids' school stuff before I left, that was just an accident! Some schools will understand and work with you, these here not so much! Had we not had the info. with us, we would have had to wait to register them....this is where laws and such need to be reevaluated when military is involved. When the gov't is forcing us to move, the schools need to be a little more understanding of the situations. Then again, civilians rarely understand!

We are currently living in a one bedroom hotel room...stress and tension levels are high, no room for anyone to get away, the kids are being good thus far, but mom and dad have stress levels out the roof! It's coming together slowly, luckily Jason will be home for a month or two until he gets his polygraph test taken and his security clearance paperwork completed....it will be nice to have someone help me unpack! Pictures to come when we get a little settled!

We're in MD!

Hello...we arrived in MD Tuesday evening and after much driving around (there's lots of trees that block views from the interstate!) we found a hotel for the night I called realtors to set up appts for the following day to start looking for a permanent home. We were able to look at 5 houses and had decided on a quaint farm 'type' house in Gambrills, MD. When we went in yesterday, it had already been taken.....so, now it's back to the drawing board. We have a wonderful realtor who is being very patient with us...our stipulations are very minimal....Good schools for the kids and that's hard to come by...an elementary, middle and high school all in the same district! However, she understands, having been born, raised, and raised her sons here as well......we'll keep on looking, but it looks like we'll be in this tiny, one bedroom Candlewood Suites room for another week or so until we find something......many prayers are needed!