And Then it Was Ours :)!

While writing this one, my mind went blank. It didn't feel like I was remembering much other than seeing the house... and then I remembered, that is about all we did, haha. With our busy day the day before, and the fact that we needed to get to bed on time, to be up and at the house when our furniture arrived the next day, we pretty much took care of the house in between meals, haha :)...

Considering when we went to bed, I'll not tell you when we woke up, haha ;). After brunch, we made a quick trip to Walmart, and then we were on the way to our new home! Abbi was so cute at Walmart :). Daddy took Abbi, Andrew and I in, and there was a tiny baby ahead of us in line. Abbi told me, "Oh, Bri! Look at the little baby! It's so sweet! It is little. I think it was born today, it hasn't grown'd yet!" :)...

The whole story of how we were led to this house is a wonderful reminder of how God works, but I'm waiting to share that until another post :). But, for a sneak peak into what all it involved, I'll tell you that Miss Julie met us at the door with, "We are so blessed to be renting to fellow believers" :).

The drive to the house is beautiful the last several minutes, even before you get to the neighborhood...

The house is gorgeous! And extremely big :)...

Our van fits right in with the house, doesn't it ;)? Very large :).
I'll share the inside pictures when we get to the part where we 
actually have stuff in it ;).

As soon as Abbi and Emmi made it to the back of the house and saw this sight...

What do you think they did? ;) Emmi was especially thrilled that the "swing set" she was promised had a slide attached... but she hasn't used it as much as we thought she would after she had been begging us for weeks if it had a slide as well.

Miss Julie took us through the house, gave us the keys, and left us to explore farther (after talking about driving laws and how I am old enough to start driving here in VA, as well. WHY?! Haha. I can't get away from it!). This was, for all of us except for Daddy, our first in-person look at the house, and so it was very exciting :). As I mentioned before, I'll share more pictures in a few days, but we love it :)...

We surveyed the house a little more thoroughly, let the little ones burn off some energy (the house has a setup to where they can run from the kitchen, to the living room, to the hall way, to the family room, back to the kitchen, and begin again... and that is what they do ;).), and headed out to Walmart (ten minutes away from the house- as are Daddy's store and Hobby Lobby. All the basics covered ;). Haha!). We picked up some snacks, cleaning supplies, chocolate ;), and sugar for Daddy's coffee ;). All the basics covered ;).

We got back to the house, and got a couple hours of cleaning done, but we didn't make quite as much head way as we had hoped. Part of that may have been due to the way the electricity worked at first ;). Mommy was steam cleaning, and the steam cleaner would turn off for no reason, whatsoever. I started vacuuming the baseboards, using a different outlet plug, but I had the same problem- at the same time. I would be vacuuming, trying to cover as much area as possible before the next five-sixty second break, and then there would be complete silence... (except for maybe a "WHAT in the WORLD?" or two, heeheehee ;).)... then we would be left standing there with the vacuum or steam cleaner, doing nothing until it decided to turn back on. I considered going to Mommy and just laughing at the ridiculousness of this situation, but leaving the vacuum could have lost me a whole vacuuming session ;). Mommy eventually called out "I think we know why only two rooms in this house have carpet!!!". We finally got Daddy, who went in the garage, came back, and called up "Tell me if it does it again!". I think he reset it or something, but needless to say, we should have gotten him sooner ;). The rest of the cleaning went fairly smoothly, with few surprises- one surprise being we found lots of change! Haha.

We would have liked to have done more that night while the house was still empty, but we were too hungry. We left for our "traditional", according to Tori, moving-in-pizza night, eager to get to bed and make it back the next morning to continue making this house our home :)...