Our address

Our address is 130 - H Tide Mill Lane, Hampton Va. 23666. We are moving in today, and we hope to get all of our stuff out of the truck by the end of the day. We will probably still stay at the base hotel a few days until we get most of everything put away.

We are in Virgina Now

Sorry, I have not updated our status!! We got to Virgina Monday November 17th very late. We had to take back roads through the mountains from London Kentucky to Virgina. Lets just say it took longer than we thought!!!!! We are currently staying at the base hotel right now; while Keith does his in-processing and checks on our off base housing. Luke keeps asking us to go to his new home, and we keep telling him soon. We are pretty much adjusted to the two hour time difference from Arizona to Virgina, but we feel like the days and nights are really long. We will let you know when we move in somewhere. Just so you all know the daytime high is in the 40's with a wind chill of 25 so it feels like its in the 20s. I dont want to hear anyone complain its cold!!!

Currently on our Big Adventure

Ok, we got into Nashville Tennessee around 2am and boy were we ready for bed!!! So, it spit rain in Oklahoma the whole time, and it slowly progressed as we drove through Arkansas. From Arkansas to Nashville it rained even more, and we had to slow it down so we could see the road. Today, November 15th we are going to drive to Knoxville Tennessee and then make a slight detour to London Kentuky to visit my Grandmothers grave. We will spend most of the day in Tennesse and then drive to Virgina.on Sunday. I was worried Luke would have a hard time with driving in the car for so many hours. He is use to being in the car for 6 hours at then most, as we made many trips to California from Arizona. He is doing so good, I think he has been doing better than us adults!!!
Thats all for now!

We started our Big Adventure

We left Arizona late afternoon on Wednesday November 12th and we drove to gallup New Mexico. After a good night sleep we headed off through the rest of New Mexico, the top part of Texas, and stopped in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Friday we left Oklahoma and went through Arkansas and spent the night in Nashville Tennessee. There will be more to come later!! We will keep everyone posted on our journey to Virgina!

Luke's Halloween costume

Ok, we been so busy and I have not really had much access to the internet that I did not get a chance to put up Luke's pictures from Halloween. If you cant tell he is a train engineer. We couldn't of found a better costume for him. He went trick-or-treating to about 10 houses and got a little scard.

Keith comes home today!

Keith arrives at Orange County airport at 8:30pm today. We will stay in California until Sunday, and then we will be heading home to Arizona. We will spend three days in Arizona, and then we will be off for our long journey across the US to Virgina. We will let everyone know when we get there and our new address. We will miss everyone and wish you all well until we see you again. We love you!

We found a place to live

We found a place 2 miles from the base in Hampton. I was so happy about this since we only have one vehicle at the moment. Through this whole process I told Keith that I didn't really want to live on base, because I wanted some kind of normal life. As time has gone on we have talked about it, and base housing would not be so bad! I was all for it knowing we would not get into base housing, because there is usually a waiting list. To our surprise they are tearing down all the base housing at Langley to rebuild new housing accommodations. Lucky for me!!!!

New words

Luke has had an explosion of words from spending time around his older cousins and watching baby sign and time Dvds this summer. Now, if he hears a word he is trying to say it. I have reminded everyone to choose your words carefully. I have said shoot a couple of times when I have dropped things and now, Luke has said it when something falls or he drops it. I am happy he is talking and communicating with us and letting us know what he wants. In March his Dr. had him and his hearing tested to see if there was a problem. His hearing came back normal and he tested high on the charts, because his nonverbal communication was so high. I was worried because all the children his age and a little younger were saying so many things and Luke was not. He would say things and then regress and not say them ever again. They had suggested to teach Luke sign laugage to help him communicate what he wanted better. I have to say thanks to my nieces and nephew and baby sign and time DVDs for helping Luke talk better!