Our Temporary Apartment

Here are some Pictures of our apartment that we get to live in for the next 2 months. We are in the town of Steilacoom, WA. There are not any available house on post right now. So, we are in a furnished 2 bedroom, 1 bath apartment about 5 miles from post and 3/4 mile from the Puget sound. This apartment is nicer than I thought it would be at first. It is clean and spacious. I guess, I just thought it would be a lot smaller. It even has a dishwasher and microwave! The boys love it here and Joe enjoys BBQing out on the patio. The house we are going to get on Post won't be available for move in until Dec 18th. Yup, that is right, one week before Christmas. I am just excited that we are not living in a hotel any more and we will have a house for Christmas!!! It will be like Christmas just getting all of our stuff. We are not getting household goods delivered here, it would be too much since the place is furnished. Enjoy the Pics.

This is out hall going from the Living room towards the bedrooms.
This is our Living/Dining Room.

The Pantry/Hall Closet.

The "Love"ly master bedroom.

The Boys Bedroom

Free rides and Pirate smiles!

While unpacking suitcases Friday Joe gave Stew a ride in our big suitcase and then Stew decided to give Skoeb rides in his Lightening McQueen Suitcase. Fun was had by all!

The storage unit finally gets emptied

Thank you so much to Anjanette, Joe's Sister, who sat at our storage unit the other day while our stuff was being unpacked form storage and loaded on a truck for the drive to Seattle. I am thankful I have wonderful in-laws. Anj even took pictures so I could put them on my blog. By the looks of things Joe and I will be having a Gigantic yard sale after we get moved in. I hope the nice weather holds out. It will be a great way to meet our new neighbors. It is weird after not having much for the last year of our world travels. I feel like less is better. It is easy to know what you have, where it is and if it fits. I do think we will keep more than a couple of suitcases with us from now on. However, there was one thing found in our storage unit that we didn't pack. A SNAKE! Anj says the guy holding the snake in the picture is about 5' 10" if that give you an idea how long the sucker was. Once they put it in a box she said it was about 2 inches wide and 2 1/2 - 3 feet long! YIKES! I hope this guys doesn't have friends. Snakes are not welcome at our house. The good news is that there were no snake skins, or rodent droppings to indicate he was in there for a long time feeding on mice. It still gives me the hee-bee-gee-bees. Does any one know what type of snake this is?

Sad Day

Ok, so I mentioned that Stew bravely waved bye to the truck with our stuff on it. Here is a picture of the truck all loaded down. Then after we walked away Stew couldn't be brave much longer. He broke down. He cried and cried. Joe and I had to talk to him about how everything was going to meet us at our new house. He then told us he was ready to get on the plane. He wanted the plane now. Thursday we went to the library and I showed him the globe and again explained where we were, where our new house would be, where Gram-mama and Gramps lived and where Grammie and Pa lived. He seemed to understand better. He kept waving at the globe saying "Hi Grammie, Hi Pa, Hi Gramps, Hi Grand-mama, I see you soon." I think the globe helped. He seemed to perk up and feel better. Wednesday when we went over to Tiffany and Jeff's house for lunch Kyle, Skoebie and Stew decided to pull up some chairs and watch Cars. They were so funny all sitting there with their legs crossed just the same, until I got the camera out of course.

The Big Move

As every Military family must endure throughout their brave career... the movers came and packed up our stuff. This past Tuesday we had three nice Korean men come and pack up just about everything we had here in Korea to send it to Seattle. It went quite smoothly. They loaded up our piano, our family of bicycles, our clothes, and everything else we had collected while here. Stew got pretty upset when the movers put his bike on the truck. As you can see in the first picture above he is trying to convince the driver to leave his bike. I also had to include this cute picture of Skoeben watching the movers in his diaper. Then when they were all done Stew and Papa got to bravely wave good bye to all our belongings (that we had here). Of course there will still be a pick up in Idaho for all of that stuff too. Thank goodness we won't be there for that one. Thank you in advance to the Idaho crew who will be doing the job for us.