Greetings from VA

Well we have arrived in the great state of VA. I love it here and am so sad that we are only here for 6 months and half of a month is already gone. =( The people here on post are so nice while we in processed and are so helpful. We put our name on a housing list like 5 months ago but once we got here they said there were no available houses and recommended we try these "luxury" apartments. Luxury obviously means different things to different people but the apartments are nice and I am glad to finally be somewhere stable and not living in a suitcase.

Monday our movers came. We have not had our stuff since the last week of June so we were so excited to see our furniture and the rest of our clothes. However we did lose 2 boxes that held some pretty important things and they broke a few big items like the knob from our washing machine and Clayton's exersaucer...oh well it looks like we will be filling a report with the Army for some new stuff.

VA is a haven for history and we are eating it up. So far we have visited a living history exhibit at Violet Bank House : the headquarters for Gen. Lee during the battle of Petersburg, Petersburg national Battlefield: so big we did not see it all and we took a tour from a CRAPPY guide...learned nothing but the battlefield is awesome. Tonight we took a walking tour of the Blanford Church cemetery in honor of the soldiers who died in the Battle of the Crater.

Jason started class Tuesday so Clayton and I have spent our days putting the apt. together and figuring out what this town has to offer us. There seem to be several things that will be really cool once we get in the routine.

Speaking of routine....Clayton does not have one right now and it is killing us. He is being a monster, not sleeping through the night, whining and having crazy temper issues. But is can say cookie (tutie) and something that sounds like badumpa dumpa? He now has 12 teeth and has not gained an ounce!

Trip to GA

So we finally made it to GA from TX. We left Fort Hood on Monday around 12 eastern time and arrived in GA around 9 Tuesday morning (central time). Clayton did amazing! He slept most of the time and thought it was a treat to run around gas station parking lots and eat while riding...normally both no nos. Jason and I however were not so content we decided that since we were tired we wshould drink some energy drinks slash coffee....well that backfired into us having to pee every 5 or so exits. Also we checked the forecast and it said there was a 30% chance of rain-LIARS!!!!! It rained through the WHOLE state of Louisiana. We had a ton of stuff in the back of the truck but luckily the trash bags we tied around them held great and nothing got wet.

Since we arrived in GA we have been spending time in South Georgia with Jason's side of the family. Let me tell you it only takes a few days for a child to get off of a schedule and I'm afraid we will never get him back on! But he is having a blast. Swimming, playing and running in so much free space....I just realized I sound like I am talking about a dog, his new favorite thing to do is ride the golf cart.

Our big plans for the 4Th include going to the lake with J's dad and family and watching fireworks from an island where we will dock the boats, I am so excited. It will be hot and the gnats are horrible but I am looking forward to it and Clayton will get to experience some new things that should be fun to watch him do.

There is still no news on the house in VA but I am hopeful that everything will work out and our worst case scenario is not a bad situation at all so we are having fun and spending some MUCH needed time with our families and not worrying about the next stretch of the road on this journey to VA.

I am hoping to get some pictures uploaded soon! OK guys I will post after the trip to the lake. I hope everyone has great 4Th!