Our new place

As previously stated, we are in PA and we are slowly getting our house organized and put together. Today we attended our new ward for the first time and it was great to meet so many nice people. Lauren has a really fun primary class that is full of lots of other 5 year old girls. She is going to make lots of friends and have fun. RS was packed full today and I don't know if it is always that full in there but it was nice to have a lot of sisters there. Our ward is the only one that meets in this bldg. so it isn't a very large building but the ward is supposed to be a very strong ward. But this bldg. has the smallest chapel I have ever seen - it only has 5 rows of benches! It looks like a stunted chapel! They have rows and rows of padded seats that go all the way to the back of the cultural hall to fit all the members. Since we are still working on the inside of the house I will include some pict. of the outside of the house so you can see how green it is.
There are so many trees here too. We are so used to wide open corn fields and rolling hill in IA that it really bothers me to drive down the highway and only see huge trees on both sides of the roads! I am sure we will get used to it though.

View of the front of our house

Front of the house and the side yard

A pict. of our neighborhood park taken from our front yard! It is great to have it so close!

From our deck looking right

From our deck looking left

Tree in our front yard

Looking out from our front door

Back/side yard

We are very excited to use our yard. But it sure is A LOT of grass to mow. We bought a new pool last night for the girls so if we can get a day without any rain then I am sure we will be swimming soon.

NYC

Okay - we are here in PA and slowly getting our house put together! Luckily we have had Dave around all week to help. I have a few pict. and I will post them soon but I don't like any of the pict. inside the house because it is messy in all the pict! Hopefully we will find a place for everything soon.



I need some help though. Dave has a conference in NYC in a week and when it is over I am thinking of meeting him there with the girls and spending a couple of days in the city. Since Dave hasn't been in 10 years and I haven't ever been I am wanting advice on what to do with two small children (remember, we will just go for a couple of days)?!?! Any suggestions from those of you who have been would be greatly appreciated. If you can think of a great place to stay too I am open to those suggestions also!





Thanks for the help!

This is where we put Liddy while we were moving boxes into our basement. I have no idea why the pict. is coming up sideways - sorry!

We are on our way

Well, the time has come to say goodby to Iowa and move our house to Pennsylvania! It has been a very busy last month so it will be good to finally be in PA and in our new home. In the last month we have flown to PA to find a home - Flown to AZ to visit family - Driven to Utah to visit more family - Driven back to AZ for a final visit - And flown back to IA! I forgot the camera for the Utah portion of our trip but I have lots from AZ and now I can't find the cord to download them so that will just have to wait until we arrive in PA and have the internet up and running. Fortunately we shouldn't be without it for long - that was the first thing Dave set up for the new place! We are very sad to leave behind our good friends and home in Iowa - we have LOVED the last six years here. But we are excited to start the next phase of life. Dave drove one of our cars out to PA this weekend and he just kept calling me saying how beautiful PA is. He says we are going to have a lot of beautiful places to camp and explore with the girls. So the movers come tomorrow to pack us up and hopefully we will be on our way Thurs!