Another picture of our kitchen finished.

This is another picture of our kitchen.

This is our awesome kitchen.

This is our kitchen after we primed it and will had cut in the edges. We also had pretty much everything moved into the kitchen because I was too anxious to wait until it was painted.

This is our guest bathroom before we painted.

This is our living room before we painted it. It
s really big and there is tons of space.

This is our home. Our driveway is actually the one where the Penske truck is parked but we parked in the neighbor's parking space to unload. While we were unloading our truck, Will spotted some small frogs in our bushes outside the front of our house!! It was pretty cool.

August 12, 2008

Hey eveyone out in Utah!!!
We are about six days into our official being citizens of the state of Michigan and we are loving it. It's so beautiful back here. I have never seen so many lakes and big, huge green trees all over in one place before. We look out our back balcony and it 's like looking into a huge swamp or marsh. The first day we got here, I got attacked by mosquitoes and had about 20 bites. My legs were all swollen up. But today they are doing much better. We moved all of our stuff into our garage and began painting our house. We painted with a traditional tan color and did a couple accent walls. Yesterday we were able to finally start moving some of our furniture into our house and now it feels like home. Will went for a job interview our third day here and got the job. Unfortunatley, the job was not at all what they said it was. His first day on the job, they trained hiim for two hours and sent him in a van with a bunch of other guys down into the ghetto of Detroit. I knew all day that something wasn't right when he wouldn't tell me anything about his job. He got home Saturday night and then told me the whole story. YIKES!!! No more jobs like that one. So now he is looking online and in the classifieds to find one. I got a packet from school that has the reading I need to have finished for orientation. I am really really excited to start school. Well, we are going to continute painting today and get everything else all moved in. I will attach some before pictures of our house and then later tonight when we get it all decorated I will attach the after pictures. We love you all and miss you tons but can't wait 'till you all can come visit us !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Corn Fields, Corn Fields, and wait.... More Corn Fields

Hey all!!!
Today is the second day of our trip back to Michigan. We started off this morning at 6:30 leaving Brighton, Colorado. As we headed East, we soon entered into Nebraska and so the Corn Fields began. Neither Will nor I have ever seen so many fields of CORN!!! It's everywhere. Now I truly understand why they are nicknamed Cornhuskers. They don't waste one ounce of their land, they plant corn on everything. We made quite a few pit stops today because I was getting bored and treats and music were the only things keeping me awake. I decided that I really like Nebraska. It's so so green and there are tons of pretty trees and ponds. All the people at the gas stations were really nice too. We started into Lincoln, Nebraska and the roads started to get busier. Half n hour later we were in Omaha and the freeway went from two lanes to four lanes stopped traffic. It was kind of scary to me because there was so much road construction and traffic and I was just trying my best to stay right behind Will. We decided to stick in the middle lane and just go slow until we got out of the city. We crossed into Iowa and I was so amazed at how pretty this place is. For not having any "mountains" it's pretty darn cool. We saw huge homes built on like acres of land with beautiful driveways and corn planted all around the home. We drove about 4-5 hours across Iowa, past Des Moines and ended up in a little town called Califax. We got a hotel room at the Comfort Inn, ate McDonald's for dinner, went swimming and now are getting ready to get some zzzz's for the night. Today was awesome. We decided that Iowa would be a pretty cool place to live if we ever wanted to be farmers and grow corn and live far away from any shopping malls, which is something that will probably never happen. Take care everyone and we miss you all. All our love!!!!!

1 Day and We're Already POOPED!!!

Ha Ha. We r really tired but we drove for twelve hours so I guess we should be. Today we left M-town around 6 am and headed for Michigan. I have to be honest, I never thought leaving that little town wouldd be so hard but it was. I told myself I wasn't going to cry but as we headed out of town we saw Dale Dotson at Bill's getting gas and he started honking and waving his hat and whistling for us as we drove away and I realized there is no place quite like M-town. Anyways, we gased up the Penske Truck at Ernies, dropped off some stuff at Katy n Kyles and got on the freeway. We made it as far as Richfield before we decided we needed a bathroom stop. We bought some small two-way radios and they have been so important out here on the freeway. Our next stop was in Green River. We ate lunch at Arby's. Then we drove for what seemed like forever. We starting going through the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and it's so so beautiful. We attempted to make a pit stop in Vail, which is where snowboarder Shawn White rides a lot, but we got off the exit, couldn't find a parking spot at the gas station for Sunshine (the nickname I gave to Will in the Penske), drove through the whole town and eventually found an on ramp. We went through the Johnson Tunnel. It started raining bad and I freaked out a little because the Yukon hydroplanes so easily. We eventually began descending into Denver, merged onto 76 and decided to keep going since we didn't feel that tired. We got more gas at a Love's gas station, turned around and went back 10 miles to find one of the only hotels within 30 minutes in Brighton, Colorado, and checked in. We ate at the Village Inn and are now getting ready for bed and we are exhausted but have a long ride tomorrow. We love and miss everyone so much but we are keeping positive because we know this is an adventure we are meant to take.