One side of our house

Our dining room...these are the awesome placemats and napkins that Rebekah Butterfield made us! She is very talented! Thanks Rebekah, they look great with all of our kitchen stuff!

It opens up on the left from the bar room, which you can't see in this picture, and I am standing in the doorway which opens up to the kitchen on the other side. It's very big and open!

Nick's office...it's never clean and this is the cleanest it will probably ever be! This is where he spends all his time studying to be the amazing pilot that he is!!! (Of course we have our Sooner pride all throughout our house! Boomer!)More office...the door across is the guest room and in between the doors is the guest bathroom

Guest room. Very plain...Nick won't let me hang anything in there, considering we will only live here less than a year. (I am still trying to convince him!)More of the guest room...Beretta likes to follow me around when I take pictures.
Guest bathroom.
More guest bathroom.

New town, new job!

Ok, so pictures of the house soon! I have been busy busy lately! Nick and I have only been in Jacksonville a little over 2 weeks and already this is week 2 of work! We had exactly one week to get the house finished decorated and all the boxes unpacked before we started work....And, we did it! Our house is a home! But, onward we go and work, work, work it is! Who does that? Take a break...get settled, breathe before you start a new job...not me! Plus, I am going to school online! Actually, I am supposed to be finishing an assignment right now...must get back to it, but I will post pictures by the end of the week!

P.S.- People keep asking what my job is, I am the Assistant Director at the Sylvan Learning Center here in Jacksonville Florida. I am going to school to get my credentials to teach, so working with kids was an easy fit.

Younger for 2 more weeks!

It was Nick's 26 birthday this week! That means I get to be younger than him for 2 weeks before I also turn 26! I revel in these two weeks every year!!!

For Nick's birthday, we took a break from unpacking our house and went to the beach for a few hours... I am mad at myself for not taking a photo of Nick, he got so splotchy from not properly applying sun screen! He looked like he had hives on his chest and back! After the beach, I spent a couple of hours in the kitchen whipping up Nick a homemade birthday dinner!

Manicotti, tomato basil soup, asparagus, garlic bread and wine...yum yum! (Yes, Nick has quite a beard in this picture...he has been on strike from shaving!)
Then ice-cream cake for dessert...no, sadly I didn't make that. The cake is from Brewsters Icecream, an awesome ice-cream chain in Florida that is so delicious!
The next night, we had some Mexican food! We cracked open the bottle of Tequila Nick's dad got us...they were some of the best margaritas I have ever had! Thanks Pete!

Another day in the state of Florida

A lesson of cause and effect:

Movers were almost 10 hours late to pick up our stuff

due to the tardiness of the movers, we were not able to clean our house until way later

because it took so long cleaning, we were not able to leave the day we planned

however, I had a job interview the next day

therefore I had to drive to JAX on 4 hours of sleep to make it to my interview on time

Outcome=I still rocked the interview and got the job with little sleep and a horse voice

Lesson learned=expect the unexpected when the Military is moving you…the end

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Beretta in our new Florida room in our house in Jacksonville! We had to put her in her kennel in the Florida room while the movers were unloading our boxes, because she did not like the movers! Look at that poor face!

Out of her kennel, B is loving her new backyard!

This is our backyard in our new house. There are 2 lime trees and the middle tree, we think is not actually a lime tree but a nectarine tree of some sort...when it is in full bloom, we will find out! But the two outside trees are full of ready to squeeze limes!

Our beautiful limes! They are no small limes either! They are big and green and plentiful!

The move...

Our entire driveway was covered in boxes!
This is what our house in Milton looked like just before the movers loaded the truck!

My Puppy obsession!

Last night in between the movers packing and Nick and I cleaning, we decided to take a break and go see our friends the Butterfields. They just got a new yellow lab puppy named Henry! He is soooo cute!It is too bad we are moving, cause Beretta loved Henry!

Moving day!

This is my first experience having the Navy move us. The other two moves Nick and I have done, we moved ourselves because we were able to make a lot of money. However, for this move, we were not going to be able to make very much money, and so we opted to let the military move us. It has been nice having someone else pack our stuff. Next they are going to load our stuff, drive our stuff to our new house and even unload everything! That is what I call awesome!!! ...Until today...

Today Nick and I woke up early for movers that never showed! We were told they would be here sometime between 7 and 10 AM, and by 3PM they still weren't here!!! By that time, I had already gone to the doctor, the dentist, cleaned the light fixtures, and had lunch with our friends the Semke's! (By the way, they brought us Publics subs for lunch...wow! If you haven't tried them, you should, they are fantastic!!!) So after about 20 phone calls (literally, it got annoying), they told us, the movers were on their way. The movers FINALLY got here at 4PM! 4PM!!!! We are leaving tomorrow morning and still have to clean and shampoo the carpets! We can't clean until they get the boxes out of our house. Seriously, it is a maze in here! Beretta has had a hard time getting around the boxes. We are crammed and therefore can not do very much, but there is still so much to do! So, needless to say, we will be getting a LATE start tomorrow!

As I type this, Nick and I are sitting on our lawn chairs watching the movers sweat while they lift and load our heavy stuff! Heehee! Thank goodness it isn't me! I guess for that it is worth it! However, they did box up my phone yesterday! Yep, that's right, my cell phone! I couldn't find my cell phone and asked Nick to call it. So, we walked around the house listening for it, and sure enough, one of the boxes that the movers had packed, was ringing! I was told they would pack everything, unless told otherwise, but I still was surprised they would pack a working cell phone that was not only turned on, but that had been ringing all day!