Howdy All!

We have been here a week now and are absolutely LOVING the change of scenery! :-)
The weather and beautiful beach that is a football field or two from our house is just too cool!

We still don't have internet at the house yet... waiting for the DSL box to come via UPS, so no pictures today.... :-(

Going back a little...

We met all of our neighbors throughout the day last Friday... one offered beer or a bottle of wine while we unloaded the UHaul!
Across the road is another Marine Corps family... they have two grade school kids, but they are very friendly! The wife, Jenny, invited me to play Bunco at the Officer's Club this coming Wednesday, so I am excited about that! I'll be taking a few of my girl friends that I met at Quantico, so that'll be fun!

The front loading washer and dryer that we bought last week are working GREAT! We are so proud that we saved about $1000 by buying them at the Navy Exchange's Scratch and Dent store!

Our house is about 1300 sq ft - a mansion to us - since we had about 950 sq ft at our apartment in Virginia! It is 2 bedroom 2 bath - the second bath has a stand up shower and is in with the laundry room... The house has wood floors in the formal dining room and living room and a humongous kitchen! We have been grilling a lot for our friends - so happy to have the grill back in use! I meant to count the windows before I came to the library, but I'm going to guess we have atleast 25! They all have nice blinds on them too, which we mostly keep open!
Since we live so close to the air field it's like having a private air show everyday between the hours of 7 am and 10 pm! I am personally loving it!!! :-)

We will post pictures of the inside once we get internet at home!

We now have DVR and think it's the coolest thing! We recorded "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader" and were SO happy to be able to fast forward through all of the hemming and hawing that the player goes through before they answer... sorry if you like the show... we found it to be tooooo much like Who Wants to Be a Millionaire... and way to slow! YaY for DVR!

I haven't heard anything yet a about being accepted to the Master's in Special Education at FSU, but I'm hoping it's in the mail that is being forwarded from Virginia... I am considered a temporary Florida resident, so I won't have to pay $600 more per credit hour for being an out of stater! WHOOP!

GREAT NEWS!
Florida has reciprocity with Texas, so after sending the state my certificate, all I have to do now is get a teaching position in Florida and they will issue me a Florida Professional Certificate for Math grades 5 - 9 - WHOOP! No tests! The county we live in has a job fair on May 5th, so hopefully I will have good luck there and snag myself a math teaching position! :-)

It looks like Nolan will start flight school in August or so, but we don't know that for certain really. Time will tell... for the time being he will have a temporary job working with Enlisted Marines, when they check in to Pensacola... He's also hoping to work on some other Marine related classes/training while he's waiting to start flight school... more on that when we know more.

Well, more news and pictures soon! Have a great weekend!
We will be dog sitting the Ladwig's dog, Puddles, and checking out more of the beaches and such! Yay fun!

~ Peace ~