Packing
On a rainy Monday morning, April 15th, we met our movers at our POD storage unit to begin the process of unpacking and repacking our belonging for our PCS (permanent change of station) from Hawaii to Fort Campbell. We hadn't seen our belonging in a year and a half and it was fun to see it all again momentarily before it got re-packed. It was a smooth day and our movers worked hard and were very friendly. We were really pleased with them!
Jay hung out with us at our POD that day. He was supposed to go to a friends house but the poor family all got the stomach bug the day before!! So he tagged along and actually behaved himself VERY well. He played on our couches until they were packed and made a fort with a piece of cardboard. He even brought that cardboard home with us for our last two days in Hawaii! I'm not sure why we buy kids toys....
All in all the packing went as smoothly and quickly as we could have hoped for. If all our belonging arrive at Fort Campbell in one piece, I would say that this was a WONDERFUL move!
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| If you look really closely... Jay is under the "box tent" on the couch! |
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| Mommy and Jay took a trip to a nearby store and got some Chocolate!! |
House Hunting
On April 17th, we said our last aloha to Hawaii. We boarded an overnight flight to Salt Lake City and then on to St. Louis, MO. Jay did a great job sleeping a total of 6 hours out of the 8 hours total flight time. He is a good little traveler!
In St. Louis, we met my family with our car that had been stored at their house. After eating lunch with them, we drove the 6 hours to Ft. Campbell, KY. The next day we began our house hunt in and around Clarksville, TN. We had a list of houses we were very interested but when we got to our Realtor's office we learned that half of them were already sold. So, we looked at the remainder of the houses on our list that day. We went home disappointed, especially after learning the one house we actually liked was an estate sale. To be approved our offer would have to go through 7 parties!! It could be a lengthy process and we needed to find a house in the next 2 days. It wasn't an option for us.
We re-grouped that night and came up with another list of houses we wanted to see. The next day, we got at it. To our great joy, we found our future home!!
Our new house is a 3 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath house with a basement and a 3 car detached garage. It sits on a 1.6 acre lot! We are very happy with it. We have plans to remodel the kitchen and paint a few rooms but all in all....it's PERFECT!
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| Our first place!! |
Travel
Besides our flight and drive to Fort Campbell we've also been around MO visiting family. Last week, we saw Alisha's family in Columbia. This week we are with James' parents near Kansas City and later this week, we will visit James' brother and sister in Wichita, KS. We are a little sick of living out of suitcases but we are loving the time with family. We also better stick with it a while longer because we have a lot of travel left before we will be settled in our new home!
James and I will head to ITALY next week!!
When we get back my little sister will get married!!
So many exciting things are happening so stay posted for pictures of Italy and a beautiful wedding among other things!
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| Getting ready to get on the plane at the Honolulu Airport! |
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| Freezing in Clarksville....he didn't even take off his hat to have lunch! |
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| Shopping at Trader Joe's in St. Louis |
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| Enjoying Stephen's Lake Park with daddy in Columbia! |
