Our new home AGAIN in Tampa

Let the unpacking begin...







Chris doing some cleaning, such a sweet guy to help around the house


Chris setting up my work desk

Spare bedroom/office and bathroom







Laundry room


Living room/kitchen/dining room







Master Bedroom





Master Bathroom





YAY, we love it here!!!

Tampa

We are now in Tampa, FL and I have been horrible at blogging. Things were a little crazy the past couple of months, but I will try to do better. If you have a facebook, you can catch me on there a little more often. :)

Moving where...

First of the year, we get to move to Tampa, Florida...YEAH take us away from Michigan!!! I know we just got to Michigan, but Chris's job is actually taking him to Tampa and we couldn't be more thrilled.

Our Trip to DC

Earlier this month, we had a chance to go to DC. Chris went there on business for work and I got to tag along. We had so much fun. We were able to meet up with a couple of our friends that were in the same program as Chris in Texas who ended up moving to Virginia (right outside of DC). It was great being able to catch up with them and they were pros at all the site seeing so that was great. Taught us how to use the metro - more confusing than you know.

Getting started on our trip to DC...yes we drove, it was a fun roadtrip though, only about 10 hours with stops and all the crazy traffic.


Some crazy, big pumpkins we saw while driving through Pennsylvania. One took up the bed of the truck and then two others took up a trailor.


Our first metro ride with our friends Kent and Jena.



All the neat things we got to see














Downtown Alexandria, Virginia



Dinner with our friends Kent and Jena at Glory Days Grill



Yum, the cheesecake factory - dessert with our friends Kent, Jena, and Jessica


On our trip here, we were able to pick up a few more keychains to add to the places we have been...Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and DC - we now have 19 different states (including DC even though that isn't a state).

Finally some pictures of our new place!

Graduation Day

Chris graduated with his masters degree today and I couldn't be happier or more proud of him. It is a nice feeling knowing for the first time in our lives he will not have any more homework.








Us with some of our friends in the fellows program






Went to lunch afterwards to celebrate at McAlister's Deli and got some of the famous sweet tea for the last time. :(



Congratulations Chris!!!

Watermelon Festival

This past weekend we went to the watermelon festival in Hope Arkansas and it was pretty fun, but really hot and kind of interesting. Lots of...well, let's just say "countryish" people. :)I cannot believe I didn't get pictures of the watermelon slices, but they were 1/4 of a watermelon...huge! In fact, I really didn't get pictures of much, it must have been the heat exhaustion getting to us. Anyway, I did get pictures of the best part...so funny. Chris and I got to see our first ever lawn mower races...lol! It was great.

Here is a picture of a huge lawn mower just outside the races - we just thought it looked crazy!


Lawn Mower Racing :)


This place was completely silent except for some cheering so all the noise you hear in the video is the lawn mowers. They were so loud. We ended up not watching too long because us and our friends ears were starting to hurt. Our hearing was a little impaired for like an hour afterwards.