Update

Hi everyone! Just wanted to let you know that we have made it safe and sound to Del Rio. I was planning to take some pictures of the house to post, but we're just not ready for that yet. While we've unloaded quite a few boxes, we're still not "settled" yet. We have realized since our arrival just how lucky we are to have been assigned the house that we have. It's a 4 bedroom 2 bath house. That means that both girls will have a room of their own and we'll have a guest bedroom. There's a kitchen and a dining room, a living room and an actual laundry room. We can see the base pool from our back yard (mostly just the top of the slides, but Maddy knows what's behind that brick wall... LoL). Also throughout the neighborhood there are lots of little playground areas. We can pretty much walk anywhere on base that we want/need to go to. Our house was built in the 1950's, but has been recently renovated, so that's a HUGE plus!!! All the rooms have ceiling fans (which we saw online is not the case for all the houses), and Nash has a fenced in yard!! The yard is lacking shade, but he can find shade if he needs it... Just doesn't have the covered patio that our house in Abilene had.

Maddy has moved up to a "big girl bed" which sometimes proves to be a good thing, but other times I wonder if she was ready for it yet. I think so much has changed for her these last couple of weeks that no matter what bed she was in, she'd still be out of sorts.

Bryan got us all set up with the insurance here... They have asked that I make an appointment to verify my pregnancy (AS IF there's a question at this point!!), so I go on Friday morning for that, and hope to have a new doctor lined up ASAP!! :)

We FINALLY have Internet... It was installed yesterday morning.

We're still working on the TV situation. The DirectTV guy came out this morning and said that the only way to install would be on the rooftop, but since we're renting, we had to run that by the landlord, and they said no. They suggested that we put it in the side yard, so we've called them to come back out and take a look at that. If that doesn't look like a feasible option, we'll call the cable company and go that route. At this point, I don't care what happens... I just know that Maddy is bored out of her poor little mind watching the same few DVD's over and over and over and... Well, you get the point!!

We've met quite a few of the people from Bryan's class. It looks like most of them are married. There's a wife that is due with their first child 3 days before I'm due with Amelia. That should be interesting!! :)

We've been trying to take Maddy to the pool everyday since we got here just to get her out in the fresh air. We bought her one of those swim suits with the floats built in before we left Abilene, but didn't get a chance to try it until we were here. She LOVES it!! I was a little worried because she was less than thrilled when we first tried it on her, but now that she sees how free she can be in the water, she's in heaven!! That child has NO FEAR!! Wonder where she got that from?!?! The first day she had a hard time keeping her feet under her, so we had to keep pulling her face out of the water. Day two it seemed to just CLICK... Now, she can doggy paddle with the best of them!! Here's a quick video to show you how much fun she's having at the pool:





I guess that's about it for now. I tried not giving Maddy any allergy medicine last night to see how she'd do today since we're in a different area, and she was sneezing all morning, so I gave her some Benedryl a little while ago. She promptly crawled onto the love seat and conked out. She's been asleep for an hour and a half already. I should probably get off here and do something productive...

Talk to everyone later, and I'll try to post pictures or a video soon of our house!

Love you guys!! :)