Hello Charlottesville!

Well first of all, I started blogging. My reasons are two fold: 1) it's the easiest way for me to document our lives and keep friends and family updated. 2) it's my way of scrapbooking all of our pictures, since I'm so bad at being creative and cutting paper and whatever else you do when you scrapbook! Also, it seems like lots of pictures but I think its a little more interesting to look at and more fun to do lots of pictures!
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After 33 hours of driving, a flat tire on the U-haul and 2400 miles on the odometer, we finally made it to our destination! 

This is what 7 hours of Nebraska looked like, gorgeous!

Here we are waiting for the tire! 

Still waiting for the tire...

Yay! Feeling happy to be back on the road... 

We took a short detour to visit Brett's Aunt Pam and Uncle Bob in beautiful Morehead, Kentucky. We got to sleep over at their house, which was a blast, and spend quality time with their cousin Jenny Lynn and her family. We love Bob and Pam & Family!! We will for sure spend Thanksgiving there one of these years!

They took us on the prettiest hike ever...

Brett claimed he did this to "try and impress me." 

  

The cousins! We just adore her and her little family!! The plate their holding says "Grandma's House: The place cousins go to become BEST FRIENDS" --So True.

Six hours later, we arrived at our town home on Arlington Blvd, which we absolutely love! The unpacking began immediately and thanks to Brett's fam we got it all done and the house put together super fast. 

The boys having not-so-great-but-very-helpful attitudes! (For the record, Riley is holding up his ring finger)

Us girls (and Kellie, Brett's mom who was photographer-decorator-unpacker-and-excited helper) having helpful-AND-excited attitudes...

Exhausted after a super busy fun-filled weekend

Home Sweet Home! :) 

 After the unpacking, we spent the weekend visiting Monticello (Thomas Jefferson's house) and touring around Charlottesville.

Cool, way old tree at Monticello

Here we are... The house is about 250 years old and still in great shape!

The Girls

On a separate semi-related note, this slug was in my kitchen the second day we were there. Lets just say, I'm not used to having these guys around because I'VE NEVER SEEN ONE IN MY LIFE! We decided to name him Bob the Slug and I made sure Kellie and Court didn't take their eyes off of him while I ran for help. Brave JR came to the rescue and put him back into his natural habitat outside, he was not harmed.

Lunching at the Downtown Mall

Unfortunately, the fun came to an end and the fam had to leave :(... Driving back from the airport, Brett and I laughed nervously thinking that both our families are now a couple thousand miles away and we are basically alone! Crazy scary but super exciting! 

I couldn't be more proud of my husby for getting into such an awesome law school and working so hard for our little family now and for our future family. I can't imagine being in Virginia without my best friend!! These three years are going to be busy but I have a feeling it's gonna fly by!! Gulp!