Wednesday, May 21, 2008

We won't be homeless!

So it's done. We went to Richmond on Saturday, and after seeing half a dozen places right around St. Mary's Hospital, we found the place where we'll live:

They said the truck would only be an extra 50 bucks a month. So we went for it. It won't be that bad of a deal, we figure the forest creatures will take care of any trash that we have.
We didn't actually take a picture of the place we'll be living in. It'll be a two bedroom townhouse, and the people are bending over backwards to make it work - we wanted hardwood floors, and they said we could have a place renovated to make the kitchen bigger before moving in, and we said "of course!" Then they got back to us and said they couldn't renovate the particular unit we had chosen. So we picked a different one. They said they couldn't do that one either. Turns out only certain ones on one side of the road could be renovated for extra kitchen space, and only one was available, and it was carpeted. We hem hawed over it for a bit, then they called us back with good news. The girl we had been talking to had talked to the manager and said "This is a young family, she's a nurse, he's a med student, and they want to sign a year long contract and will pay rent on time every month." The manager looked at her and replied, "Rip up the carpet." That made us happy, but made me somewhat leery. What kind of people do they rent to? What are our neighbors going to be like? Oh well, it's about a half a mile from Jodi's work, so it will be great in that respect.

It's crazy how fast time is going by - we are planning on moving on the 14 of June, and that's mere weeks away. And we just realized that Abby's birthday is only a week away. Where did May go? Forget May, what in the world happened to April? At least Abby knows what's up. She's learning to show different numbers of fingers - it still taked her time to do it, but she gets really excited when she does. This is how old she is now -


See how excited she gets?
And she knows how old she'll be soon:


It's funny because if you ask her how old she is, she says, "Abby's three tomorrow." Well kiddo, not quite that soon, but it is coming up :)

Not much else to say, but here's a few random videos for your enjoyment. Sorry for the short clips - I recently discovered that our video camera can't do more than 10 seconds of video at a time on the card :( So we'll have to be on the lookout for a good deal.

A few short clips from strawberry picking:




Here's Abby being crazy:




2 comments:

Julie said...

Wahoo!!! Thats great news. Moving on up. Congrats guys!

Devo said...

The new place sounds great! It is too bad that the car will not be included, though. I wanted to say congrats on your new jalopy! I mean, come on, when in life do you get to use the word "jalopy" anymore? Is that even how you spell it?

Again, Congrats!

Love,

-- Dev