Finally Moved In

Were finally in! Sorry I haven't been able to post any blogs in a while but we didn't have internet access at our new house until today. We have moved everything into our new house except for a few things that are still at the old house. Our new house is starting to look like home more every day. Our new house is alot smaller then our last one but it feels like home and the neighborhood is alot quieter and the neighbors are so friendly. We have a great landlord, she's so easy to work with. I have a "Girls Nite" party this Saturday so my goal is to have the house ready by then. The last minute touches will be hanging the pictures and putting up my figurines and Kings stuff. I think one of the major parts of the move for me was moving our fish "Lightening". I was so worried that he might not survive the move. He's doing good and I think he likes his new home. The worse part of the move was that I sprained my right foot last Thursday. I was trying to take the short cut and wear flip flops during the move that day since it was a hassle taking my shoes off and on everytime I brought something into the new house. We have light carpet so there is no shoes allowed in the house. I know that I should have worn tennis shoes but I was just being lazy. We have been moving stuff since Sunday so by Thursday I was pretty tired. My mistake that night was putting a heat pad on it instead of ice. The heat made my foot throb even more. I was almost in tears just thinking that it was the sprain getting worse. The thought of having heat on instead of ice didn't even cross my mind until Greg said I should but an ice pack and after that the throbbing stopoped. I slept with a ice pack on for the next few days and also Greg had me roll my foot on a small basketball to work it out and that helped out alot. I almost was at the point of going to the hospital but I didn't want to pay that high copay for them to tell me that it's bruised or sprained and for me to just not walk on it. On Saturday my mom brought me some old crutches that my grandpa had that I used around the house. As of today I can walk on my foot so I'm alot better but I'm still limping. If I put pressure in the wrong place then I get this pain that goes up my leg. I wasn't able to bowl last Friday and possibly not tomorrow but hopefully by this Friday. Will see.

Sparkles and Sweets have done really well in the move. They adjusted to the new home really good. They both have been outside. Sparkles likes that we have a sliding screen door in the kitchen that leads to the backyard, she likes to just lay on the hardwood floor and feel the outside breeze. I like it too. So far since we've lived here we haven't had to run the A/C, thank god it hasn't been to hot. The weather during our entire move was perfect, one day it rained a little but that didn't stop us.

Below are pictures of our new house.

Moving

So we got the keys this morning to our new house. We briefly did a walk thru and I took a bunch of pictures of dings and stuff we saw. Brandon chose his bedroom, it turned out that the 2 smaller bedrooms that he had to choose from were the same size just one would get less sun then the other. He chose the one that would get less sun, since right now his room gets alot of sun and it's so hot in his room. Especially on those 100 degrees weather days. Once we did the walk through we headed back to our current house and loaded up Greg's truck and Highlander to start moving stuff. My mom came about an hour later after we got the keys. She helped us back and unload several loads. She helped me line all the shelves in the house which was a huge help. Thanks Mom!! After that she headed home. Greg and I went to get lunch at Jimboys and then we went to the furniture store to look at dining sets. Alot of the ones they had on the showroom floor were to tall, when I sat in the chairs my feet didn't even touch the ground. We found a couple that we liked, so at least we have an idea of what that store had. I plan to go look at Beck's this week, my mom said that they have a clearance sale. Hopefully will choose something soon so we have a dining table. Right now were using Kristy's patio table. Brandon is still packing, he has so much stuff that it's going to take him a few more days. It's just hard because he has school and he may not have alot of time. So he might have to wait and do more packing on Saturday. I have to work tomorrow so I won't be moving any stuff until Tuesday. But Monday night I can get things ready for Tuesday morning. John and his dad are coming tomorrow night to pick up the pool table. I forgot to take pics of the house before we moved in, I will take pics on Tuesday to show our progress of us moving in. Check back in the next few days to see pics.

In the Bay

Saturday, we went to the bay for the day. We left at 9:30am and headed to El Cerrito. Arrived around 11. Then went to eat lunch at Katana-ya, it's a noodle house. Brandon loves to eat Ramen so Jill recommended that we try there. The food was pretty good. Greg ran into a friend that he grew up with. He always runs into someone that he knows. After that we went to the dollar japanese store got a few things. We went to my hair appt at 1pm. While I was getting my hair re-dyed and cut by Teri, Greg took Brandon to Pinocle rock. Brandon loves rock climbing so he had a great time. I really like my hair color and hair cut, Teri did an excellent job as always. 2 hours later they came back to pick me up and we went to Ikea. We got our rug that we have been looking for and a spatula for my mom. Once we left Ikea we went to the Bone Room, which is a place in Berkeley that sells different types of animal bones and other stuff. Brandon got 3 mexican jumping beans which kept him up last night. ha ha After there we went to pick up Zachary's and we brought it back to Greg's mom and step dad's house. Brandon had a great time there as he loves the outdoors. She has a really nice big yard. Don showed Brandon how to use an Bow and Arrow for the first time, he really liked that as well. I will post the pics. After dinner we drove back to Greg's grandma's house and picked up his truck and we headed back home. Finally got home shortly before 10. We all got ready for bed and prepared for the move the next day......

First Blog

So here is my first blog using "Blogger". I plan on updating this as often as possible and adding photos of things that happen during the day. So please check back as often as possible to see and read about "Life of a Dolphin".