Playing puppies

We had the tables on their sides to glue cardboard on the bottom so they wouldn't scratch the floors and the girls climbed in and pretended to be puppies! Silly, funny girls!

We have a house!!!

Back of our house

Front of our house

We celebrated at a yummy Italian restraunt!

We signed the papers now it is officially our house! :-D

IPC El Paso

You car barely see her pretty face paint, but it looked really cute:-)

Gabriella got her face painted by this scary looking clown...she was scared at first, but warmed up when she really wanted to get her face painted!

She really wanted to ride the car again!

We distracted her for a few minutes on the carosel...she liked it ok, but not as much as the car!

She was not happy when her turn was over!

Adelynn loves the little car!

We went to Incredible Pizza with a friend and their daughter. It was lots of fun for the girls!

Last Sunday at Wayside

Micahel and Belva -Belva is the children's ministry director, she is always smiling! She can always get Mike to be the nurse on call at Wayside events:-p

John Gordon and Michael - John said the salvation prayer with Mike a little over 3 years ago

Adelynn LOVES this boat. So do all the other kids in this room...sometimes the boat causes a ruckus and has to go to time out;-p

Gabriella with some of her sunday school friends and her wonderful teachers in the second hour Tom and Bonnie. The first hour the kids were in bible hour so we missed pictures with her other wonderful teachers Dennis and Kim, but they all have a special place in our hearts:-)

Jen and Kim

Kurt, Ben, Luke, and Michael

Maddie, Pierson, Evan, Noah, Hannah and Adelynn.

Our last Sunday at Wayside...we will miss all of our friends who have become our extended family, but know we will see each of you again:-)

The floor project

Here is the stacks of wood flooring before it went in...

Here is our living room now:-) (Part of it anyway)

This is the living room after we ripped out the carpet.

This is what the living room looked like before we ripped up the carpet.

The guys like that they could break dance on the slippery floor!

Well I had a bright idea to rip up the brand new carpet and put in wood laminate floors! It turned out to be a bigger project than I thought, so some guys from the navigators group at Ft. Bliss came to help!

El Paso

Sisters eating strawberries at the fire place

Gabriella was so tired she fell asleep with a dvd on her face:-p

Adelynn's room

We got the girls new ride on toys and took them for a walk with them. They love their new toys and ride them all around the house.

Adelynn's first night in a toddler bed. She want straight to sleep and has done well ever since. She loves that she can get out and play with all her toys in the morning!

This just doesn't give justice to how massive this truck is!

Gabriella is wondering how all our stuff really fit on the truck!

One week later the moving truck arrived! Adelynn is looking at the amazingly huge truck in front of our house.

The girls needed something to do and we didn't have swim suits so they played on a new slip n slide in our beautiful back yard.

Our first dinner in our new house! NOTE: we have only the stuff we brought in our car! We borrowed a table and chairs and cookware from the Army and the previous homeowners left their refridgerator, washer and dryer. It was fun not having stuff for a week!

Billy HATES El Paso!.....poor Billy:-( Actually, after he dried off and explored his new house he seems happier here than he was in San Antonio. He is even getting fat again!

This was Billy introduction to El Paso! I was at Walmart getting him cat food and this is what happened! (He WAS sticky from the Benedryl).

The homeowners handing over our new house! They gave us a tour, introduced us to the neighbors and then they were off to their new adventure in Colorado! They lived in this house for 15 years...since it was brand new and are moving in with one of their sons after retiring from the Army. Good luck to them and we thank them for a beautiful house:-)

STAIRS!!!!!




This wide load was in front of us and we thought it was funny. Do you know what this is? We don't...a bellybutton on the road?

The morning we left for El Paso was very eventful. We planned to wake up at 2:00 in the morning and be on the road by 2:30. We didn't think this plan through too well, because we forgot we would still need to drug the cat for taking him with us, finish loading up the car and worrying about all the things that might get left behind. We also didn't have a full tank of gas and wanted to get "breakfast" for on the road! Again, not well thought through! Giving a cat Benedryl with out a syringe is interesting. Billy was foaming at the mouth and not happy about the process of being given medicine. We were worried that since most of the medicine spilled he wouldn't sleep during the trip so we went to Walmart and picked up Benedryl tablets. Michael thought cats took pills like dogs do. So he put the tablet in Billy's mouth, held his mouth closed and blew in his nose...this works for a dog to swallow their pill in case you didn't know...Billy had no part of this endevor either though! But Mike held his mouth closed long enough for some of the pill to dissolve and we all hoped this would work. It worked and we were off - it was now 4:40am. The girls stayed awake for about the first hour or two of the trip and then slept for about 2 hours. We got out and stretched our legs and then got back in the car and were off for another 2 hours while the girls played (talked) and slept some more and then stopped again. It rained for a bit and we were all anxious to get into town to our new house. We stopped just outside El Paso to get some lunch and then arrived at our new house! The girls were trilled to see stairs in their new house!

Saying good-bye to San Antonio

Our last dinner out together before the move. We went to Maggiano's! YUM!

The girls playing rock band!

Miss Courtney gave Gabriella a very special going away present full of things she could play quietly in the car with on the long drive. We love you Hohimers:-)

Adelynn and Luke had a blast hanging out together.

Our small group at Brit and Michelle's. We grew very close to all these wonderful people and they will always have an extra special place in all our hearts.

More cousins to say good bye to. We went to eat dinner at La Fogata.

Our ABF (church) group at our farewell party. We miss them already.

Good bye cousin (he lives at the beach we went to and came to see us our last night there).

Hanging out at Brit and Michelle's house for a going away.