Life As We Know It

So finally another blog post!! Sorry for those who've been wondering what in the world we've been up. If you don't know the last month or so here is what we've been up to:

• DAN FINISHED SCHOOL!!!!
  
• Packing up our apartment in Provo, UT (I do miss that apartment probably because all the extra love I put into plus it was the longest we had lived in one place) Then packing a truck with all of those items, cleaning our apartment and then heading off into the wild blue (not really just North Carolina :)
• We stopped in at Aurora, CO and spent time with Dan's two sisters, Dorothy and Elizabeth and their wonderful families. Dan's sister Dorothy and her husband, Jason, own and run a Baskin Robbins so we were able to get free DELICIOUS ice cream!! Pretty awesome! It was so great to see everyone there!
• We then heading south to Flower Mound, TX. And spent time with Dan's brother Will's family. They took us out on a double date to celebrate Dan graduating. Then treated our family to a day at a Renaissance Fair (pictures to come). We had fun with them and enjoyed a long break from driving when we realized that Dan's parents' home would still have some work being done, due to a tornado that slowed the repairs.
• Drove over the Mississippi River. This was my first time ever crossing it (not counting our honeymoon in FL. I don't count that because we flew and I didn't get to really see the states) It was fun because when we arrived in Mississippi they had a State Welcome Center with free cookies (and coffee :) and I was so surprised. I had never heard of a State welcome Center before! I enjoyed seeing completely new landscape.
• We crossed over to Alabama.
• We crossed over to Georgia and stayed at a dinky (and slightly shady) hotel just East of Atlanta.
• We ARRIVED in Holly Springs, NC. We then spent several days with Dan's brother Ben and his family while the big house (Dan's parents' home) was being finished.
• After a couple of days of unpacking we headed out to Washington DC. Another thing I had never done! We spent three days up there (pictures soon to come for this as well)

We now need to get settled in and find Dan a job. We've done some fun house browsing and went and saw a few with a Realtor called Jon Netherton. It was good because he showed us a huge range of housing situations. The first one was a house that was a foreclosure and was in terrible condition and would need LOTS of work and the last one was a brand new home ( in fact it is still in the process of being built) that was a cookie cutter that we didn't like. Some had garages, some didn't. Some had nice lawns, others didn't. It was lots of fun and was a learning experience. It will still be months until we can get into a house but figured 'why not look around' in the mean time!