We made it and we found a house!

YAY! After quite a bit of stress and SOME unsuccessful searching we did find a beautiful home to stay in while we are stationed at Fort Hood, Texas.
We were able to get the electric and water turned on the same day we moved in - thank goodness!
That just leaves...phone, dish, internet and are stuff! All of that will be taken care of by the end of the week.
Devon has some time off work to get things in order at home - thank goodness! I couldn't do all of this without him!
A little about the house. It's a 4 bedroom/2 bath home. We have an extra bedroom that we have NO idea what we will do with...I am sure we will find something though. The floors in the living room, kitchen and breakfast nook are tile...not looking forward to cleaning inbetween, but they are beautiful! A little bit of paint in some of the rooms is needed - the master is bright yellow and two of the small bedrooms are a bright blue - but other than that the house is in very good condition. The back yard is larger than our previous one and has a 6 foot wooden privacy fence. YAY for the boys!

More pictures to come when we have our furniture and do some decorating. :)

Indiana to Louisiana to Texas

After a flight delay of 2.5 hours Friday, I arrived back in Indy from Dallas, TX a little after 6 pm. Devon picked me up and we met Mom and Gary for dinner -El Jaripeo! :)
From there we visited the Erekson's and as tired as I was I think I made sense at least part of the conversation. As we left their place after 10 pm, Devon and I knew we would miss the Erekson's a lot! We don't think we got to spend enough time with you guys!
We finally arrived home that night. This was the first time I had seen the house since all of our things were packed up and loaded and hulled off to some mover's head quarters for an undetermined duration of time.
The place was echoing, but I was glad to see the boys and they were glad to see me. :) We had a lot of work to do to prep for our road trip the next day though. We had a few things to pack that we were planning to take with us. It ended up being very late before we actually got to bed.
We woke up at an early enough hour Saturday morning and met my Dad for breakfast at IHOP. Just enough breakfast to make you want to take a morning nap.....and then we got into separate vehicles to drive over 1000 miles over a 2-day span.
We drove about 11 hours to Bastrop, Louisiana where Dev's Dad and some extended family lives. We had a few stops, but all in all we made really good time. If only Scout hadn't got sick THREE times on the way down.... Poor boy! I did get to see an alligator which apparently is a frequent site through Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana, but I don't frequently see it - so it was pretty cool.
It was great to see Dev's Dad and Grandparents and Aunt and Uncle and cousins and second cousins ....and their dogs. :) It really was and they fed us well too! We left there late in the morning Sunday and travelled about 6 or 7 hours the rest of the way to Ft. Hood, Texas. We checked into our hotel room. We still had some daylight though so I showed Dev the neighborhoods I had liked when I drove down the previous weekend. He agreed that they looked pretty good. We headed back for the night and made a game plan for the next day.
The house hunting was not all that thrilling Monday morning, but we did end up finding to prospective houses! Hopefully everything goes smoothly this week and we are able to find a house and move in by next week! We have to move fast!
Look for some new pics of the dogs on the road trip in the next couple of days and hopefully some pics of a new house!
We'll keep you posted!

Onward to Texas!

So I get to fly into Indianapolis today - should arrive by 4 providing flights aren't delayed by Tornado season here in Texas. I won't be in Indiana 24 hours before Devon and I start are trek to Texas.

We'll be stopping in Bastrop Louisiana for Saturday night. Devon's family lives there and we will get to spend some quality time with them! I haven't yet met some of the new members of the family and I am looking forward to it!

Sunday, we will make the rest of the way to Fort Hood, Texas which is in the middle of Texas...a little over the hour north of Austin and about an hour South of Waco...something like that.

We'll spend our first few nights in a hotel taking some time to look for a house to rent.

I have Monday off but have to be in Dallas again Tuesday - only until Friday...no more of this two weeks straight bunk for a little while. I am hoping they decide they don't need more for the 4th week in Dallas. We'll see about that!

Devon has been Super-Husband without me the past two weeks for sure! He has taken care of so much to make sure our move goes smooth. He plans to continue is Super-Husbandness while I am back in Dallas for 4 days - he'll continue looking for a place to rent if we don't find a place Monday or taking care of all of the paperwork etc if we do find a place on Monday.

Hopefully we find a great place - hopefully the dogs, Devon and I adapt quickly to Texas! We'll keep you posted!