Omitted Beauty...

Though I didn't get a picture of it..we also have a beautiful SS dishwasher that matches all the other ones!! I'll get a picture later....

Home Pics...The Before Version

Well I know people have been wanting to see some home pics and truly people I am touched that anybody other than my mom would care!! Anyway, here are just a few I just took actually 5 minutes ago...isn't techonology awesome!! Anyway, a very short explanation on why this is a townhome for those who had heard or thought that we would not want to live in one. We came to MD with the firm idea that we would rent a SFH or a townhome if we had to....because we had no idea how long the military would allow us to stay here and so it seemed a smarter move to just rent a place for as long as we were here.....well our realtor was WONDERFUL and showed us as many rentals as she could find in our price range...which if anybody in the finance dept. of the military is reading this...it's a tad bit LOW people!!!! I digress.....and these wonderful homes that we had discussed and poured over many a night in Korea turned out to be absolute horrors!! I mean, pictures can make something look good if you take it in the right light and only take the decent parts but what you can't see from a picture is all the other rooms where they stashed the dead bodies and/or the guns where they shot their next door neighbor!! (Totally sarcastic, but hey they looked like it could be possible!!) and then we found a TH that we thought if we're just renting a TH would be okay and so it was great and we tried to get it immediately and the owners had accepted a lease on it not 2 hours before....this same scenario went on for two days...Find a home you like, call the owner, get ridiculously disappointed when they are all rented. Okay this is so not brief, but then again is any story I tell brief..exactly!! Hey you clicked onto my blog, not deal!! ;) Bottom line..we figured "Hey if the rental market is so booming that the day they're put on the market so to say that they're gone..why not buy a home that we can customize to ourselves and our family and then hopefully be able to rent it in a few years...maybe to even a military family such as ourselves who needed a place some years ago as well!! So we live in a community named Russet with pools,libraries,daycare,schools,etc. Oh that etc. right there should be the shopping center that is a walkable distance away (which is good since MD is being a beast about letting me get my license here) with Target,two grocery stores,Kohl's,Panera Bread,Furniture Stores,Chick-Fil-A,Wal-Mart,Sam's----must I go on...no need to torture any more of my friends in Korea!! So hopefully our loan will go through next week and this home will officially be ours to do what we wish with it!! The pictures that you see inside are what were updated when we moved in...how about them SS appliances and though the picture isn't great, that fan is beautiful!! Okay, done!! ;)

When You're In a Hotel for a Week....

We gotta find something to do when we're in a hotel for a week solid and in and out of a Barnum and Bailey sized car with 5 people shoved in there....so we stick our feet in familiar items around the room and see what gets stuck!!

It Was Saved For Us!!

"Maryland hasn't had such a large snowstorm in years..." was what we heard when 1 day after we "move into" our new home (we are renting it for one month while the loan goes through)and the power is cut off for 3 days because of the wonderful customer service at BG&E not getting the point across that there was another person occupying this home after the previous tenant moved out. So this is what our front view looked like out our beautiful, might I add, bay window and then you can see the buildup on the little patio set out on the back. Here's to cold nights and dying by a kerosene heater...hey whatcha gonna do!!??

What Makes Me Tickled??

Nothing special, just a funny sign that I thought was perfect for some of us women that have no idea what part of the car is making the sound much less how to describe the sound!!

Brockbridge Here We Come.....How Many Friends Did You Make??

Destinee on her first day of school in a new country and state...what a trooper for my shy little girl...much less that this school has some things that could be very much improved by a little budget money...but much to our (Chris and I) happiness her teacher is as cute as pumpkin pie and I think will be the best thing that the school has going for it!! Destinee's job for the first day...job coming via Mom's request..was to make one friend and she came home and told me how she had made 40,000 friends that day and how they all chased her around on the playground....I proceeded to ask with a worried look if that was a good thing and as if I had asked her if there were skies in the sky she very disgustedly told me "YES Mom....*sigh*. Okay, just remembering very sad times on the playground being chased and it was not the happiest experience of my life!!

Suits on the Loose

Just my cutesy little men in their Korean $25.00 five piece suits....oh yeah!!!!! Get some before you leave Korea Ladies!!!! The Koreans did "screw up" in their normal fashion a tad and didn't get us the matching ones on one set of them that we ordered but at least they are still pinstripes and inevitably still very cute....whatdya think??

All Hail The Irish!!

Yeah who cares that I'm not Irish...'cause goodness knows I'd love to talk like them and visit their country..for all the wonderful "drink choices..." just kidding!! But anyway, in true hair blog addicted MOM style...we went all out..besides what fun would it be to get pinched on your 3rd day in a new school...not so much I do not think so we made sure that my girl was DECKED OUT and the other children would be "Green with Envy!!" If you can't tell by the "I look like I'm sitting on the toilet pose (who knows where that came from by the way) those pants are green as well!! Oh yeah...ROSS is my favorite!! Where else can you get a tacky, bright pair of green pants to embarrass your child with for less than $5!!

WATCH OUT...Here they come!!

Will update tonight.....be on the lookout for updates galore!! ;)