Candle making and Hurricane on the way!

We are only a few hours away from Hurricane Irene hitting us. It has been raining for several hours now and the roads were already starting to flood. We took a drive to Costco and got a few bits and pieces for dinner tonight....hoping the power stays on long enough to cook it!!! Then went and brought a new dinner set. We have had our eye on it for a few weeks now and decided to just buy it! I will take some pics and post them once it has...

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Another quake & boys start school

Well today off a little shaky! At 1:07am we were woken to another earthquake. It lasted about 25 seconds and was enough to frighten the crap out of me! I had lots of trouble sleeping after, just waiting for a bigger one to hit. It turned out to be 4.5 on the richter scale. After finally falling asleep tyhe alarm clock went off! Time to get up and get the boys ready for their first day of school! They were suppose to start yesterday but...

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All Shook Up ~ literally!

This morning started really great. A sleep in all round, although I read a few more chapters of my book waiting for the boys to wake. It is the last day of school holidays. We went out this morning and did some shopping for bits and pieces. The boys needed new soccer boots ready for their 2nd lot of training tomorrow night and I grabbed some picture hooks. I had not long finished hanging the last picture on the wall and went to check...

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Home, Sweet Home

Wow what a busy week it has been! We arrived at the house at about 9:30am. I already had the keys as the landlord had left them for us previously  Entered the house and found some of the owners stuff still here! So i whisked around, collected everything up and put it in the garage. I will give him a call on Monday so he can come over and collect it all! The furniture was due to arrive between 11 and 1. They called me at about 1pm to say they were about 10 mins away. No problem. Then the heavens opened and dumped a crap load...

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A weekend of shopping and "Hazzards"!

So I will start this blog from Friday 12th July, until today (Sunday) and call it my weekender! I had been to look at a Pre school for Mitchell during the week (which he will be starting at in 2 weeks time!!) and decided the little bugger was going to start toilet training weather he liked it or not! So he got up in the morning and I declared a no nappy day! Yep it was a declaration as it felt like WW3 had hit the Holloway den! After...

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The house is ours!!!! Time to finally settle in the States :)

So we have had the official go ahead from the powers to be and have signed a lease for the house! Col has been and looked through and is pretty pleased with the result of my finding! We are so super happy and excited to finally move out of this hotel and start our life in Virginia :) Here are a few pics of the inside!!!!! He has also finished his 1st course so time to be a family again :) We have busy looking around the local area...

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I have found us a HOME!!!!!!

4th August 2011 After what seems like months of searching I am sure I have found our new home :) The landlord is a the local vet and seems really lovely. He is keen to have a military family rent his house and it is PERFECT for us!! I have taken a copy of the lease to start the ball rolling. of course Col has not seen it yet, but the owner has agreed to meet us there on Saturday so he can look through :) So about the house!!!...

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Fredericksburg Agriculture Show

Sat 1st August 2011 We headed out for a suprise day for the kids today! We took them to the local Fair! It was cheap to get in and for $18 the kids got an unlimited ride band. There was quite a few rides so well worth the money :) It was a super hot day again so we took cover under ever shady spot available and just sweltered in the heat while the kids had a ball! It was 2nd ride in that the boys went on some spinning ride and decided...

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