Getting Settled

I have spent the last couple days trying to get settled and trying to get the house Christmasy with just the few things we brought and the Christmas tree we bought at Wally's. Oh, I love the command hooks, gives us a place to hang our stockings in this temporary apartment. We are getting there....wow, I forgot how much money it would cost to get the essentials for the house to eat, clean, wash clothes, etc.......yikes it adds up quickly.

I have been searching the classifieds and found a few places to look at hopefully in the next couple days....two are houses for rent and one is a duplex. One is in Kennewick, one in West Richland, and the other in Richland. Hopefully we can get it all worked out so that after Christmas we can get a more permanent place to live.

The boys are surprisingly not bored. I brought a few toys with us and including their DS's they have been mostly relaxing and getting used to things. Unfortunately our Wii decided to eat a game the first time we tried to put one in and would not let it go...grrr. But after about an hour on the phone with Ninetendo, we ended up with not having to pay for the repair and they will expedite the shipping of our Wii back to them if I sent it UPS today since they are out of WA we could have a much better chance to have it by Christmas. Of course today of all days is the coldest...... -1 this morning..brrr......and with only one vehicle right now we all had to take David to work then we all (me and 5 kiddos) went to ship the Wii out. So this morning, all the kiddos had on two shirts, two pants, two pairs of socks, winter coats, gloves, hand warmers, etc.....Benjamin still managed to take off his shoes and mittens in the car (silly boy). They were all very well behaved (of course they were working towards their candy bribe :) ) With any luck we will have it back by Christmas.

I thought I would share a couple pretty pictures from our trip here. The mountains were just beautiful. Too bad the weather wasn't better, we might have been able to enjoy them more.


Here are some cute pics of the kiddos enjoying the pools where they had a chance to swim. Funny thing......at the motel 6 in Clarkston, they had to walk outside to get to the indoor pool, BRRRRRRrrrr.

Hope everyone has a great day!!!