Our first day of our new life.....

In the above picture are the kids sporting their new sunglasses--can't be here without them!

Below is Julia at lunch today--we ate outside on picnic benches and she was completely engrossed by all the birds that were surrounding us. Many of these we haven't seen before.


This particular bird kept coming closer and closer to Julia's leg--to steal food. The kids had a hay day tossing crumbs (not so much in Marcus's case, he threw whole french fries). So our question is: Papa, what kind of bird is this? Julia swears we've never seen one back home. (I believe she's going to be an avid bird watcher while we're here--she LOVES them!)


Walking around post--we are carless at the moment (however we're renting a minivan tomorrow and going car hunting for Ryan).



Beautiful trees! On top of that--they have gorgeous flowers on top of them! Orange! Just had to take a picture....


Again, just exploring more of post on foot...(I spy with my little eye mountains up ahead)


Yep, visible from post....Evie Andy looks so cute with her heart-shaped princess sunglasses!



Anyway, we're here...we made it all in one piece. Only lost Marcus at the airport once (and I about had a heart attack too). He and the other kiddos did EXTREMELY well on the plane rides. Hardly any fussing and crying. What absolute troopers! We're adjusting to the time change well I think (however, Jacob did pass out tonight at 5pm--before dinner. But you do the math and figure out what time his body was telling it was). :)

Some other good news it that we found out today that there is a duplex opening up for us next month! On post! (that's what we were really exploring today while walking around post...where our new home is). While we walked the one mile to get there, we passed the commissary, px, AWESOME playgrounds, ect. We are sooooo excited! We are going to explore some other places off post, but I think we'll stick with on post (at least for the first year).

I know it's kind of a short post...but I'm exhausted and I'll have so many more pictures to share tomorrow (when we actually get OFF post and explore a bit). We love you all and miss you. Thanks for all of your support for us. :)