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Hooray!!! We finally have the internet hooked up! We can be such procrastinators. Actually (and my mom can vouch for this) we're just too busy to breathe. On top of moving, and both of us working full time, we now have entered softball/T-ball season, so life has gotten even crazier. Evan and Alli have practice Monday night, Drew has practice Tuesday night, church is Wednesday night, Drew has practice again on Thursday, and they all 3 have practice on Saturday. Aaaahhh!!! is all I can say. I love watching them play, though, and they love it, so we can't make them quit, and I'm told that this is everyone's life these days, so I guess I can suck it up like the rest of the world. So, we finally are starting to feel like we're sleeping at home and not in some vacation house. It's amazing what a new house will do for motivation. My house has stayed spotless for almost a month now, and laundry has not backed up once. Those of you who live near me know what a miracle this is. I just love keeping it clean because it's so pretty. Can you tell I'm a little proud of it? We still have several bare walls, but we plan on being here a good long time, so fully decorated walls will come. The kids are doing great sleeping in their own bedrooms, and since they get the entire upstairs, I've only seen 2 or 3 toys in the living room the entire month! We were just all right on top of each other at the other house that everything bled over into everything else. Daisy is also enjoying her new, huge space with no visible cage. The invisible one is much less forgiving, though. I would recommend an invisible fence to anyone, but I recommend it with a huge warning that nobody gave us. It's absolutely horrible the first time the dog hits the line. The people that lived here before us love their dogs and everything, but they were fine with letting them get shocked. Andy and I almost gave it up after about the second time it happened to Daisy. In fact, we took it off of her and decided she could just live in the garage. But then, the next day she escaped, which motivated us to try it again. We put the collar on her and she completely froze. She wouldn't move at all. I pushed her over to her dog house and her food to show her she was safe, and then she wouldn't move from there. She's totally used to it now and it's great to have, but it was rough for a couple of days. Anyways, with all the pictures this is going to end up being a really long post, but it's long overdue, so here are some pictures of the new place.

Here is the breakfast area. We're getting new granite countertops Monday, so I'll post pictures of the rest of the kitchen later.

Here's the dining room.

Here's one angle of the living room.

And another angle of the living room (Yes, that's Remember the Titans).

This is a shot of the upstairs from the downstairs. The recessed lights you see are over the couch, and then the rest of the living room is open to the upstairs, which is great for the kids to be up there in their own space and I can still hear everything they're doing.

This is the kids' playroom, which was painted by the previous owner.

Drew's room, also pained by the previous owner. The colored polka-dots go all around the room, which is bigger than it looks, but because of the slanted ceiling it just looked like a long tunnel in the picture, so I got a little closer.

And Evan's room, which looks a little sterile in the picture. The first owners didn't have any boys, so this was an office. No fancy painting in here. :( He's up there sleeping in the top bunk, otherwise I would've made the bed all nice and neat.

Here's Alli's room. That's her also sound asleep in the bed, and this was already painted this way as well. Nice, huh?

And last but not least is our bedroom. It was hard to get a good picture of the whole thing, and it's over twice the size of our old bedroom, so we still have a good bit of space to fill.

So, that's it. We love it. On top of everything is only about a mile from Wal-Mart (which I may have already mentioned). I'm glad the whole moving part is over. I have some pictures of that, too, but I figured this was enough for now. Oh, and I can't forget the kids at Easter! Here they are all nice and pretty: