Daddy's First Day of School

Daddy's First Day of School

Well the day we have all been waiting for has arrived. This whole fiasco started one year ago on July 17th 2008 while we were in North Carolina!

Daddy officially started school on 8/11/08. I realize I am a bit behind on posts, again. Well, what can I say, perfection is a thing I aspire to, but unfortunately it hasn't happened yet :-).


Daddy, Kenzi and Cam. Of course my kids are hams what can I say, they'd rather pull a face than look pretty, I guess it makes life interesting huh. Daddy is ready for school, backpack and all. We were saying good bye, he is doing night school because unfortunately we didn't make enough money to live on by selling our house so daddy will have to work at some point.


Okay, how sappy am I? I take pictures of the whole event, but I thought you'd all enjoy it. Well actually I think there's a couple of proud parents that want to see this momentus occasion so Here's to them.

Kenzi and Cam follow him out, reaffirming that at some point they get to come and study at the Law School Library with him, right daddy?





Loading up the car, getting ready for the 45min to 1 hour commute to D.C.
Yes, we only live 30 miles away but when you live near D.C. EVERYTHING takes forever, well, mostly driving and getting phone service ;-)


Oh wait, no, after 4 times of standing in 2-3 hour lines to get license plates we FINALLY got them. Can you imagine getting up to the desk and having them say, I'm sorry we need one more paper, then the next time, I'm sorry you are leasing your car, your dealer must mail you power of attorney, AHHHHHHHH! Oh, would you like a side of my left arm with that ma'am? Okay, okay I'm kidding, back to the topic at hand, gee I can't seem to stay on track. Well, get used to it, if you've ever had a conversation with me your pretty used to the jibber jabber..hee hee..


I bet you can't guess what this is. Yep, the ritual of getting the monkeys to stop showing off in the trees long enough to give Daddy a kiss goodbye.

Kenzi was trying to show Daddy all her tricks before he left, he finally had to pull her out of the tree to say goodbye.

Bye Daddy, see you at 10pm!!!

Off daddy goes to school! Yeah, I know, he leaves me with the BIG huge Dodge Ram 3500 to drive around. You might not think that's a big deal, but if you haven't been to the D.C. area, don't mock!!

I thought about going to the grocery store 2 miles away from here tonight, yeah, THOUGHT about it. I'm still thinking....... Kenzi doesn't even want to. My driving is fine, traffic on the other hand, not so.

Last time I drove, I just about turned up the wrong side of the road....Ooops! So it seems I either get up the courage to drive that beast around the city or I become a recluse....what's the vote on that one :-D

Here is a photo from February when we came out here but I thought you'd want to see the front of the school. So, here it is, the George Washington Law School sign. So pretty!

And so the end of another episode of the GWU family adventure blog. Until next time, stay safe, be good and smile once in awhile!

Home Sweet Home

Home Sweet Home!

I'm sorry it's been two weeks since my last post but it took Verizon, two weeks to get us phone service, t.v. service and of course Internet service!

I was using wireless service and it is slower than 28k dial up so obviously posting pictures was out of the question. So.........drum roll please......the moment you've all been waiting for......Pictures of our new home!!!

It's a cute house, not big, but big enough to fit us...almost, except for Tandi's kitchen supplies. Obviously because I publish recipes for a living anything less than a large kitchen just won't fit, but in reality, things are good. A small kitchen is nothing to complain about in the grand scheme of things. Okay, enough rambling, let's get to the photos.


Here is Kenzi in her NEW room! She was adamant this whole time that she was going to get the BIGGEST room. Yes, we had a little argument about the fact that mommy and daddy would get the biggest room, she agreed, but then stated that she would get the next biggest.

Well, you know what they say about the best laid plans.......the smaller room was painted pink. Kenzi instantly fell in love with the pink room and gave up her original idea of having the BIGGEST room. Whew!! Dodged a bullet on that one.


Okay, here is Kenzi's room today. yes, we are pretty much moved in, everything has been put away. She didn't make her bed but I'd have to say, this is pretty clean for her so that's good.

All her school books are on the shelf, ready for school to start in a couple weeks.









Here is Cam standing in his new room, this was the day before we moved in. The colors in the room worked perfect with his comforter so we were pretty excited. The kids were running through the house, thrilled that we finally had a place to live after a full month in hotels.





Here is Cam's room fully decorated, well sort of. Yes, the room is a mess, what else is new. This kid is a walking tornado, so if the room looks anything less than ready to be condemned by the health department, it's all good!

He does have a full bed, we figured when family comes to visit they can stay in his room. Plus he is growing like a weed, in the 75th percentile for his age so choosing a full bed was probably good, I think he'll grow out of a twin by the time he's a teenager. Don't ask me where he got the size from, it certainly was NOT me, well, Dave doesn' have it either but the genes are hidden in there somewhere :-)




Here is the living room, I think I did a good job decorating it. This is all new furniture, it was tons of fun to shop for it. You can see not all the pictures have been hung on the walls yet but it's only been two weeks and Dave is now in study hibernation so who knows if it will happen :-)



I know the men are probably bored to tears, so if you aren't interested in talk about the house and furniture, sorry but the ladies are hee hee.

Okay it's not decorated perfectly but it's cute. We found a couch to match the chairs Dad made which was really cool! One stupid thing about the house, NO LIGHTS! Not a single one in any bedroom or living area. So we had to buy floor lamps. But they add a nice touch anyway :-)




On to the dining room, it fits the table alright, but who knows where I'm going to put the hutch to hide all the rest of my kitchen junk in here. We'll have to figure something out because I've got to get that kitchen finished. I'm still fishing through boxes whenever I want to make something. Continually searching for pans, spices etc....







On to the much talked about kitchen. You will notice the island, we had to buy that to fit some of my stuff in and let me tell you, it didn't fit 1 m illionth of the stuff I'd hoped it would fit.
Okay so the kitchen isn't clean either, we just had dinner, but I figured if I didn't get a picture now whose to say it would be clean next time I thought of it. Plus what's a clean kitchen anyway. Any good chef never has a clean kitchen anyway, or better yet, anyone with children never has a clean kitchen. The minute lunch is done and cleaned up the kids are hungry again anyway. So, there's our lovely, tiny, semi-clean kitchen.

My favorite part of the whole house!!

This is the screened sun porch. I LOVE this. We have eaten breakfast out here and have had lunch out here as well.

You can here the birds chirping and all the bugs, don't ask me what kind I have no idea because we don't have them in Utah but they make noise.


It is so peaceful and quiet, you can see all the trees in the back, it is so beautiful!!


Here are a couple photos of the backyard. We do have grass, but interestingly in Virginia, you don't water the lawn. If you don't get enough rain to keep it green, it kind of goes brown. Weird I know but they generally have enough rain to keep it pretty green.

You can see in the left photo the forest behind the house. It is really pretty and gives awesome privacy. There are homes behind us but we have about 100ft of forest, there are deer, squirrels, birds and loud bugs back there.

Well, that is the tour of our new home. I know you may be wondering, what about the master bedroom. Well, I ordered BEAUTIFUL furniture for it, but it won't be here for another 2-3 weeks. So we are on a mattress on the floor with clothes in plastic bins so I will spare you the pictures of that mess, well organized mess anyway :-)

Maybe when my furniture comes I will email it to you.

Tommorrow I will post Dave's First Day of School pictures.