We're here at last!!!

Well, we drove into Austin, Texas on Thursday afternoon after a very long 23 hour road trip. It was crazy! The next day we attended my cousin's sweet baby girl's funeral. It was a special, but difficult experience and I was touched by the faith and spirit that were present at that meeting. We love you Jordan and Marlo and we loved Maddie. You are constantly in our prayers! The day after we began accumulating things that we needed for our new house. We made trips to Costco, Sears, Best Buy, Pier 1, IKEA, Urgent care (Norah's horrible ear infection), and HEB (the local grocery store. It's the only chain of grocery stores in TX... there are a million around). We had a great day and spent it with my parents, Carli and Justin (they were here for the funeral). They were great sports! Then we spent our first night in our house. We were planning on staying there on Thursday night when we got there, but I forgot to turn on the power, water, and gas... real smart, huh? It made being inside the house for longer that 5 minutes unbearable in this heat. My kind father out us up in a hotel for the next two night until we could get the place liveable. Also, the people left the place disgusting so we had to have a professional cleaning service come and sanitize it! Now it's clean, thank goodness. So far we've really enjoyed Texas and are happy with our house. I'll keep you posted with pictures once I start the decorating transformation. I'll also try to update a little more often now that things are starting to calm down a little bit.