Sunday, July 26, 2009

The Nest



While Layne has been here and there training for this whole "teaching" thing, I have been nesting and looking for a job; only one of these endeavors has been successful.

The story of our nest goes like this -

While we were out here in Denver several months ago for induction, we literaly stumbled upon a for-rent sign. Two hours later we signed on the dotted line. It was a good feeling to have a specific destination for the GPS when we pulled out of Lexington, SC. Our first night here consisted of $40 pizza (I didn't ask for the price I was just hungry), an almost parking ticket for our trailer, and four very worn out people as we unloaded almost every earthly possession we own in 2 hours in the dark. We all (by all I mean me, Layne and our fathers) slept soundly on my creatively made 3 beds with the works.

We tackled the big stuff in the morning, ie the box springs, bookcases and bed frame with some almost causalities.

Who knew it was trash day? Not us.

The garbage man had my antique wrought iron bed frame in his truck and was going for the bookcases when Mr. David, using any spanish he knew, tried to convince the garbage man that it was not trash but just move in day. I have to pause and acknowledge the tragedy that could have been....


The good news is that everything was in by lunch and the nesting began.



The wonderful trailer and truck that brought all of our things across the country.


Day 1

Day 12






We love our kitchen and our living room but I think the best room of our house is...





We love our bathroom... come visit and you can shower with the crisp breeze of the rockies!

The nesting continues and I guess the job search does too.

Be on the look out for our nested bedroom, man room and closet.

I hope you all enjoyed my inaugural blog post.

- l & k and sophie

o yeah and speaking of Sophie, she has become nocturnal. Sleeps all day - annoys the crap out of us at night. We have begun to return the favor waking her up when we see her sleeping.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Week One in the Rockies



I hope you enjoyed our photo journal cross-country. If you didn't enjoy it, but you did see it, I apologize. If you didn't enjoy, but haven't seen it yet and think that you may enjoy it at least marginally, please scroll down.

Last week schedule:
Arrived - Tuesday night
Unpacked trailer - Wednesday
Started teacher training, again - Thursday.

Things have been hectic, to say the least. We finally got connected to the world wide interweb yesterday, and we also got our tv connected to this wire that sends all sorts of different images and sounds into the tube. In this one picture show, 25 men are all out-cologning each other to get with this one girl. The weird thing is, they all "get with" her, but only one of them will be allowed to get with her after the moving picture crew stops filming.

On another frequency, people look you right in the eye and tell you what kinds of things are going on in other parts of the world. It's kind of like reading a newspaper, except less relevant and a lot slower.

Katie went to the rodeo in Wyoming today. I've never been to Wyoming, and I had no idea it was just a hop skip and a jump from Denver. Apparantly, at a rodeo men get on the backs of really angry bulls, and then try to hold on as long as possible. People who do this get hurt pretty often.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Home on the range

Brown v. Brown of Education

For some reason, Indiana and Illinois did not make the blog update.
The nifty iPhone machines let us down. We stopped overnight in
Warrenton, west of St Louis. Thank you holiday inn express for the
cinnamon rolls. The coffee, on the other hand, was toxic.

Sophie the cat has been expressing her feelings about the trip through
scent. Our first walmart run in Denver will be to get eggs, milk, and
febreeze.

Katie is currently driving us accross Kansas, which means that mr.
Madden will be navigating aka sleeping.

Monday, July 13, 2009

The sun shines bright

Good ol rocky top

The beautiful state of Tennessee welcomes us. Sophie the cat is
unimpressed.

Georgia on my mind