Where are we?

Well, here is your first clue...We have been in San Antonio, Texas staying with Tim's parents for the past little while until our apartment in Virginia will be available this Friday. We've had fun playing tourists and trains, but we'll continue on our cross country trip this Tuesday or Wednesday...

Everything really is bigger in Texas

Tim's dad set up the biggest train track yet in the living room of their new house. It is actually a triple track with three different trains running at the same time! The picture is dark, but we're sitting in the middle.
And on the way down, we stopped in Phoenix to spend a day with Makayla and Will (I can't bare to not see them). I make cookies with Makayla and Tim make her sandwich into a peanut butter and jelly-fish-shaped sandwich!

My Family

It was a wonderful vacation, and we had a great time. Here is the family we spent the week with...Thanks for everything mom and dad! Here are some other random pictures I may or may not have posted...

Crazy Kids

It's obvious, but my favorite part of family vacations is seeing my nieces and nephews. Here are some pictures of them.Me and Will

Makayla (bottom right is her with a gigantic dog...she loves dogs)

Kate. I know I have a lot of pictures with her, but she was always up to something. The middle pictures are her showing off her "sad face" and her "happy face."

Jonas. He pretty much just enjoyed the trip no matter what we did.

I'm a lucky aunt!

Zoos are More Fun with Kids!

It's true. Last year I wanted to go to the Zoo for my 22nd birthday. I don't have any kids yet, but it turns out, zoos are even more fun with them! It was Kate's first time, and I am just amazed that she is always looking at pictures of animals and even knows what sounds they make, but she has never seen them in actual size. That's got to be a pretty crazy experience for any child (even though she's only 2). She got even more excited when she saw the elephant peeing- I guess it's good to see that they do that too.After our fun filled day, we took a ride on the train.
Tim's favorite was the bear.
The girls love their grandpa. This was a regular occurance throughout the week. So sweet!

Utah's Olympic Park

During our stay, we visited Olympic Park in Park City. We got to see the ski jumpers practice, then we all went on this huge zipline down the ski slope. It seemed so scary first, but ended up being a lot of fun and not scary at all! We also went on a metal alpine slide thing (newer than the regular Alpine slide) that went so fast! Tim said he didn't brake at all down the slope, but I was afraid of flying off the side and down the mountain, so I did.This is us getting off of the ski jump...

We May Not Be Homeless Forever!

After a LOT of work from a LOT of people, we have a place to live once we get to DC. It's called Fairfield Crossing, and it might be kind of old, but I feel so much better having this elephant out of our way. Here's my story...
Tim was in charge of finding an apartment this time and has been looking for a few weeks. We found some places we liked, but none had availability. He eventually called Fairfield Crossing and they had a one bedroom opening up August 1st which is actually priced at a deal at the time. Tim told the leasing agent we were interested, and the agent sent Tim an application to fill out and overnight with the deposit check. The application took a little work to get all of our information, and some things happened and we ended up mailing a day late priority rather than overnight. I called the leasing agent the morning after it was mailed to tell him our situation, but he told me someone else was interested and whoever got the information to him first would get the apartment. I went into panic mode and woke Tim up (it was still only about 8 am). We discussed our options, so he called Scott (his brother who lives there) to see if he could write a temporary deposit and take it over during his lunch break, but Scott didn't have a checkbook, so Tim called his mom and found out Scott could get a cashier's check from his bank, called Scott back, etc., etc. In the mean time, I printed and filled out another application (those things have to have a lot of information on them), then we drove to a copy center, which ended up being closed at 9:30 am, so we drove somewhere else, and faxed our information, while Scott made a few errands on his lunch break so we could get the apartment. The agent ended up understanding our situation, and he was really helpful. He has to go to extra work because we require a co-signer due to the fact that we don't have jobs yet, so it's been a lot of work to get this apartment, but I am so glad! We really appreciate Tim's family and their help so we could get this apartment. I think it will a good place to live. At least it has a dishwasher!

4th of July and Midway

Our first full day in Midway was the 4th of July, so we went to the pancake breakfast in the park. The rest of the day was spent swimming at Uncle John's and then having dinner and fireworks there with cousins. Mindy's family arrived just in time for dinner, so it was fun to see the little girls play together, especially with their second cousins. I wasn't thinking, so I didn't have my camera with me, but luckily, Kristen and Mindy both have pictures. Kate really liked the fireworks we did in the street (we found out when she was thankful for them in her prayer that night), but both girls were scared of the ones put on by the city.Here are some picture of us playing outside of our condo in Midway. The mountains were so beautiful, and it was cool enough for us to love playing outside a lot of the evenings.

Kate and Makayla had a lot of fun trying to figure out all of the games. The top middle picture in this collage is Makayla with badmitten birdies against her eyes, and the second line has Kate with her eyes closed so we can't see her.